We asked Jewish students at US universities what they think about pro-Palestinian demonstrations. Our panel respondsI was in California for Passover when the encampment first came up. I was excited because I want to see an end to what Human Rights Watch calls a system of apartheid, which refers to the fact that there are over 65 laws discriminating against Palestinian citizens of Israel, roads in the West Bank are segregated, Israelis have civil law while Palestinians have military law, water...
Some student protesters at Columbia University have had to sue to regain access to their dorms. A lawyer for the students likened Columbia to a bad New York City landlord egregiously violating tenants’ rights. [ more › ]
Jewish students from major Canadian universities appeared on Parliament Hill Wednesday to raise the alarm about a rise in antisemitism on campuses amid the Israel-Hamas conflict.
A congressional education committee has chastised UCLA for its response to a pro-Palestinian encampment and the violent instigators who attacked it, calling on the university to turn over documents regarding an "inadequate response to antisemitism and failure to protect Jewish students." UCLA Chancellor Gene Block and his counterparts from Michigan and Yale are already set to testify at a May 23 hearing titled “Calling for Accountability: Stopping Antisemitic College Chaos.” Following violence...
This is a post I never thought I would need to write in 2024. I have been a law professor at the University of Ottawa for nearly 26 years and the principle that all students, regardless of race, gender, religion, or sexual orientation have the right to be safe and feel safe on campus and in classrooms has been inviolable and accepted as central to our academic mission. Indeed, over the years I have seen and supported colleagues’ efforts to ensure that we practice what we preach on inclusivity...
Republicans are launching a probe into the federal response to 'pro-Hamas' college protests that have 'failed' to prevent threats and violence against Jewish students.
There was pushing and shoving as students clashed with police outside a parking garage on the MIT campus.
There is a Zionist reporter in the crowd. Do not answer her questions.' These words echoed out of a public address system at the protest camp at University College London on Monday.
Colleges across California are suspending student protesters, a move that's evicted some from housing, barred others from final exams, and left scores navigating a high-stakes disciplinary process more commonly reserved for students accused of toting a gun to campus or raping a classmate in their dorm room. Some of those facing punishment, including 40 students at UC San Diego, were slapped with "interim suspension" notices following mass arrests at protest encampments. But many others who...
The student who filed the suit accuses the university of failing to protect Jewish students from antisemitic harassment in the months following the October 7th attack on Israel.
Jewish activists and college students on Wednesday testified before the House Judiciary Committee about antisemitism that has run rampant and unchecked on U.S. college campuses since the October 7th massacre in southern Israel by Hamas terrorists. Speakers included Rabbi Dr. Mark Goldfeder, the Director of the National Jewish Advocacy Center; Shabbos Kestenbaum, a Master’s student […]
A woman scheduled to graduate this month from UCLA sued the University of California Regents Monday, alleging the university did not protect her and other Jewish students and faculty members from what the suit labels “campus terrorists” during recent campus protests over Israel’s military efforts in Gaza. Liana Nitka’s Los Angeles Superior Court proposed class-action […]