“This fact,” the court wrote, “is so unimaginable and so abhorrent to our constitutional guarantee of religious freedom that it bears repeating.” The university’s failure to act was abdication, not neutrality.” –– David E. Bernstein and David L. Bernstein
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Free Speech, Antisemitism and the Fight for America’s Campuses: David E. Bernstein and David L. Bernstein, JNS, July 8, 2025
Anti-Israel Campus Activism Is Becoming More Radical and Coordinated, New Report Finds: Combat Antisemitism Movement, June 11, 2025
How Labor Unions Feed Campus Antisemitism: Nathan McGrath, WSJ, July 8, 2025
Inside the New Group Giving Antisemitism Trainings at Harvard: Emily Wilder, Jewish Currents, July 2, 2025
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For Further Reference:
Montreal Colleges Dispute Findings of Government Investigation: The Canadian Press, CTV News, July 4, 2025 — A recent Quebec government investigation into the climate at two Montreal junior colleges may have had a chilling effect on teachers, according to the director general of one of the schools.
Faculty Are Source of US Campus Antisemitism, Yad Vashem Head Says: Eliav Breuer, Jerusalem Post, July 8, 2025 — US universities’ academic staff and administration are the cause of antisemitism on American campuses, as they are teaching their students that Israel must be annihilated, Yad Vashem’s chairperson, Dani Dayan, told the Knesset Immigration, Absorption, and Diaspora Affairs Committee on Tuesday.
WATCH: Palestinian Terrorist Influence on Campus: Phyllis Zimbler Miller, Miller Mosaic, June 29, 2025
Jewish Groups, Parents Worry About San Francisco District’s New Ethnic-Studies Program: Aaron Bandler, JNS, July 8, 2025 — Maria Su, the superintendent of the San Francisco Unified School District, announced on June 30 that the district, which serves about 50,000 students in 122 schools, plans to introduce a new ethnic studies curriculum for the next academic year.
Columbia President Shipman Privately Said School Needed to Add an ‘Arab’ Board Member—and Remove a Jewish One: Aaron Sibarium, Washington Free Beacon, July 1, 2025 — Before she became the acting president of Columbia University, Claire Shipman argued that the school needed to get an “Arab on our board” and suggested that a Jewish trustee should be removed over her pro-Israel advocacy, according to text messages obtained by the House Committee on Education and Workforce.