House Republicans on Tuesday called for the immediate resignation of Columbia University President Dr. Minouche Shafik, saying she has “lost complete control” of her campus amid growing pro-Palestinian protests.
A rhetoric scholar says Columbia University President Nemat Shafik fared much better than her predecessors at a hearing about how her school was handling antisemitism on campus.
Nemat “Minouche” Shafik, the president of Columbia University, took a firm stand against antisemitism Wednesday as she testified in front of a House committee. NBC’s Garrett Haake reports for TODAY.
US senator says Israeli prime minister is using antisemitism to distract attention from ‘extremist and racist government’ policiesBernie Sanders has hit back fiercely at Benjamin Netanyahu over the Israeli prime minister’s claim that US universities were being overrun by antisemitism on a scale comparable to the rise of Nazism in Germany.In a video posted on X, the progressive senator from Vermont – who is Jewish – accused Netanyahu of “insult[ing] the intelligence of the American people” by...
Members of Congress flocked to the Columbia University campus on Monday
The House is expected to vote Wednesday on the bipartisan Antisemitism Awareness Act, a vote that comes amid heightened concerns over antisemitism with Israel at war with Hamas and as pro-Palestinian protests have sprung up on college campuses across the country. Supporters of the legislation say it will help combat antisemitism on college campuses, but opponents say it overreaches and threatens to chill free speech. The bill would mandate that when the Department of Education enforces federal...
President Joe Biden warned on Sunday of an “alarming surge of Antisemitism”
The statement denouncing "calls for violence" comes as protests at New York's Columbia University continue.
The White House condemned “in the strongest terms” ongoing anti-Israel protests at colleges across the U.S., including at Columbia University in New York City, on Sunday, saying they have no place anywhere in the U.S. White House statement on anti-Israel protests at Columbia University: “While every American has the right to peaceful protect, calls for […]
US CAPITOL (ANDREW BERNARD / JNS) Columbia University’s president, its two board co-chairs and a co-chair of its antisemitism taskforce testified before the House Committee on Education and the Workforce on Wednesday about Jew-hatred on campus since Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack. Student groups and professors celebrated Hamas’s attack and have since held antisemitic and anti-Israel […]
House Approves 'Antisemitism Awareness Act' Aimed At Cracking Down On Campus Protests Late in the afternoon Wednesday the House approved a bill which seeks to crack down on antisemitism on college and university campuses following days of protests and unrest driven by pro-Palestinian activists. The Antisemitism Awareness Act has been approved in a 320-91 vote and will now head to the Senate. But the central question is: how and by what measure will federal authorities crack down on...
Bill to use language by International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance to define antisemitism, which critics say would chill speechThe US House of Representatives has voted to pass an antisemitism awareness bill, a controversial measure sponsored by a New York Republican amid controversy over pro-Palestinian protests on college campuses in Manhattan and across the US, as Israel’s war with Hamas drags on.The bill passed 320-91 with some bipartisan support. Continue reading