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A recent listening session hosted by Columbia Universitys new Task Force on Antisemitism devolved into chaos, with a task force leader yelling at students who questioned the groups refusal to define antisemitism, according to sources at the university. Meanwhile, the school is preparing to spend up to $135,000 to hire someone to support the task force, which was propped up just weeks after Hamass October 7 attack on Israel
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admin | March 13, 2024
On October 8, 2022, Ye tweeted, Im a bit sleepy tonight but when I wake up Im going to death con 3 On JEWISH PEOPLE The funny thing is I actually cant be Anti Semitic because black people are actually Jews also You guys have toyed with me and tried to black ball anyone whoever opposes your agenda. A few hours later, my Journalism class, munching on bagels and stifling yawns, began to argue as Yes tweet was brought to our attention
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The University of Pennsylvania Faculty for Justice in Palestine group has filed a federal lawsuit against the Ivy League institution in an attempt to stop documents from being sent to a House of Representatives committee investigating campus anti-Semitism. According to The Daily Pennsylvanian, the lawsuit was filed by two professors with the Penn Faculty for Justice in Palestine group and alleged that the House Committee on Education and the Workforce investigation into anti-Semitism at the institution threatens academic freedom. This nation is seeing a new form of McCarthyism, in which accusations of anti-Semitism are substituted for the insinuations of Communist leanings which were the tool of oppression in the 1950s, the lawsuit states.
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admin | March 13, 2024
The Conservative governments criminalisation of opposition in Britain to Israels genocidal assault on the Palestinians in Gaza is escalating. Continuing to slander anti-Zionist views as antisemitism, Higher Education Minister Robert Halfon announced in February that an Expert Adviser on antisemitism in Higher Education will be appointed.
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admin | March 13, 2024
Anti-Israel protest at Columbia (Spencer Platt/Getty Images) The president and board co-chairs of Columbia University will appear before Congress next month to discuss their response to rising campus anti-Semitism, the House Committee on Education and the Workforce announced. "Some of the worst cases of antisemitic assaults, harassment, and vandalism on campus have occurred at Columbia University," the committee's chairwoman, Rep
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Leaders of Columbia University will testify at a House Committee on Education and the Workforce hearing on April 17. The House committee announced on March 11 that Columbia University President Nemat (Minouche) Shafik along with Board of Trustees Co-Chairs Claire Shipman and David Greenwald will appear at the hearing, titled Columbia in Crisis: Columbia Universitys Response to Antisemitism.
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Rep. Virginia Foxx (L) and MIT president Sally Kornbluth (Win McNamee, Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images) The House Committee on Education and the Workforce is pressing the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to provide internal documents regarding its response to campus anti-Semitism, which committee chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R., N.C.) panned as dangerously inadequate. Foxx's letter, sent Friday to MIT president Sally Kornbluth and MIT corporation chair Mark Gorenberg, marks an escalation in the committee's investigation into the university.
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admin | March 13, 2024
In a new report on Columbia University's protest policies, the Ivy League school's Task Force on Antisemitism declined to say whether calls for "intifada" violate school rules, saying that while some students "feel strongly" that the chant invokes genocide, others feel strongly that it does not. The report, released Monday, is the task force's first attempt to provide recommendations to Columbia's leaders regarding their response to rising campus anti-Semitism.
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admin | March 13, 2024
A former Israeli ambassador to the U.S. says President Bidens fluctuating support for Israel is causing American Jews to fear they may not be safe in the U.S. Will the US support Israel in its effort to end Hamas rule in Gaza?Dr
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Tel Aviv/West Jerusalem In 2015, Maya, a Jewish Israeli, travelled to Greece to help Syrian refugees. At the time, she was an exchange student in Germany and she had been deeply moved by the pictures she saw of desperate people arriving there in small boats. That was where she met Palestinians who had been born in Syria after their parents and grandparents fled there during the founding of her own country in 1948.
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