UNSAFE AND UNHEARD
Jewish College Students Testify on Capitol Hill About Rampant Antisemitism on Campus: Hannah Sarisohn, Jerusalem Post, Mar. 1, 2024 — The House Committee on Education and the Workforce held a hearing Thursday with nine Jewish students from colleges and universities across the country who spoke about their experiences with antisemitism.
York University Students Disappointed, But ‘Kind Of Used To’ Jew-Hatred On Campus: Dave Gordon, JNS, Feb. 8, 2024 — In an already-tense campus atmosphere, a union that represents part-time and contract faculty and staff at York University in Toronto distributed a 19-page, anti-Israel “Toolkit on Teaching Palestine” to teaching assistants.
Sensationalizing Campus Antisemitism Isn’t Serving Jewish Students – Opinion: Michal Raucher/JTA, Jerusalem Post, Mar. 5, 2024 — Last semester I had almost 100 students in my course on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict at Rutgers University. The students represented the diversity of the Rutgers campus, a school with approximately 7,000 Jewish students and 7,000 Muslim and Arab students.
Universities Are Making Us Dumber: Sergiu Klainerman, Tablet, Feb. 26, 2024
Trials of the Ivy League: Michael Oren, Clarity with Michael Oren, Mar. 5, 2024
Should Schools Suspend Students for Chanting ‘From The River To The Sea’? A Federal Investigation in Minnesota Will Test the Issue.: Andrew Lappin, JTA, Jan. 31, 2024
Berkeley Lets Loose an Antisemitic Mob: Editorial Board, WSJ, Feb. 29, 2024
FOR FURTHER REFERENCE:
The Takeover: Neetu Arnold, Tablet, Feb. 26, 2024 — Something new and peculiar stands out about the wave of anti-Israel student activism that has rocked American university campuses since October: There is a visibly more radical element to these protests. Student activists almost seemed to take glee in Hamas’ massacre of innocent civilians—when they weren’t denying that it happened at all.
House Committee on Education & the Workforce: X, Feb. 29, 2024 — Campus administrators and faculty are ultimately responsible for stopping the spread of antisemitism. And in many cases, they are the ones starting it. Listen to @RutgersUstudent Joe J. Gindi’s account of the faculty rhetoric.
Columbia U Antisemitism Task Force Says Jews Experiencing ‘Isolation And Pain’ On Campus: Luke Tress, JTA, Mar. 5, 2024 — Jewish students at Columbia University are experiencing “isolation and pain” and the university isn’t doing enough to discipline unauthorized protests surrounding the Israel-Hamas war, according to a new report by the school’s antisemitism task force.
I’m Suing Harvard. Antisemitism Is Out of Control: Shabbos Kestenbaum, Newsweek, Mar. 5, 2024 — In Judaism, there is an idea of passing knowledge and traditions down “l’dor v’dor”—from generation to generation. As if called to fulfill my part, I learned that I was accepted to Harvard’s Divinity School while visiting the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Poland.
Ivy League DEI Plagiarists are Likely the Tip of a Vast Pyramid of Con Artists: Post Editorial Board, NY Post, Mar. 1, 2024 — Yet another Ivy League chief for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion stands exposed as an apparent plagiarist — further suggesting DEI is more of a racket than anything else.
