The GOP Says It's Fighting Antisemitism In Colleges. Some Students Call BS.
2 weeks, 5 days ago

The GOP Says It's Fighting Antisemitism In Colleges. Some Students Call BS.

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING Students and activists from multiple faiths are sounding the alarm over the Trump administration and lawmakers’ efforts to silence dissent on college campuses over issues like Palestinian rights — accusing officials of using allegations of antisemitism as a pretext to crush free speech and exert control over the country’s higher education system. At Wednesday’s hearing, Sen. Josh Hawley repeatedly questioned why the government should not enact Trump’s pledge to deport foreign students who commit “an act of violence against a Jewish student.” “Well, that’s already the law,” civil liberties attorney Jenin Younes posted on X. “It is reprehensible that MAGA senators who have aligned themselves with white nationalists and antisemites like Elon Musk are putting on this hearing to crack down on the movement for Palestinian rights and for our civil liberties writ large under the guise of fighting antisemitism,” Jewish progressive group IfNotNow said Wednesday. Lokman Vural Elibol/Anadolu via Getty Images Protecting education and open dialogue is vital to “the ability of Jewish students to succeed and thrive,” Tufts University student Meirav Solomon testified at the Senate hearing on Wednesday.

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What the assault on Columbia University is really about
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3 days, 2 hours ago

What the assault on Columbia University is really about

Al Jazeera  

The right is trying to take ideological control over US higher education under the guise of fighting anti-Semitism. The campaign to silence Jewish voices critical of Israel led University of Haifa scholars Itamar Mann and Lihi Yona to warn, in an article for UCLA Law Review, that legal frameworks like the IHRA definition are being used to “discipline Jewish identity” …

President’s move to target campus antisemitism may or may not be genuine, but the costs are too high
5 days, 2 hours ago

President’s move to target campus antisemitism may or may not be genuine, but the costs are too high

LA Times  

To the editor: To anyone who believes the Trump administration is interested in eradicating antisemitism on college campuses, remember this: After the white supremacists protesting in Charlottesville, Va., in 2017 chanted, “Jews will not replace us,” President Trump remarked that there are “some very fine people on both sides.” This so-called effort to combat antisemitism is a smokescreen. To the …

UCLA task force found ‘serious instances of racism’ against students protesting on behalf of Palestinians
5 days, 2 hours ago

UCLA task force found ‘serious instances of racism’ against students protesting on behalf of Palestinians

LA Times  

To the editor: It is disturbing to see that the L.A. Times coverage of the Justice Department’s allegations of antisemitism at the University of California notes only in the last paragraph that there have been accusations of “anti-Muslim, anti-Arab and anti-Palestinian bias at UCLA and other UC campuses since 2023”. In fact, UCLA established a task force on anti-Palestinian, anti-Muslim …

Weaponizing antisemitism makes students 'less safe,' says drafter of definition
6 days, 2 hours ago

Weaponizing antisemitism makes students 'less safe,' says drafter of definition

NPR  

Weaponizing antisemitism makes students 'less safe,' says drafter of definition toggle caption Stefan Jeremiah/AP The Trump administration is taking a hardline approach to what it alleges is a failure to protect students from antisemitism on college campuses. Kenneth Stern, director of the Center for the Study of Hate at Bard College and the lead drafter of the International Holocaust Remembrance …

Trump’s Department of Education is making it harder for me to teach Jewish Studies.
1 week ago

Trump’s Department of Education is making it harder for me to teach Jewish Studies.

Slate  

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Last week, the U.S. Department of Education sent a letter to 60 institutions of higher education across the United States, warning them of potential enforcement actions if they do not address what the department calls “the relentless antisemitic eruptions …

Trump campaigned as a protector of free speech. Critics say his actions as president threaten it
1 week, 6 days ago

Trump campaigned as a protector of free speech. Critics say his actions as president threaten it

Associated Press  

DENVER — When President Donald Trump gave his joint address to Congress last week, he boasted that in his first few weeks back in the White House he had “brought free speech back to America.” But First Amendment advocates say they’ve never seen freedom of speech under attack the way it has been in Trump’s second term. Trump’s Republican administration …

Arrests of Columbia pro-Palestine activists will not save Israel’s image
2 weeks ago

Arrests of Columbia pro-Palestine activists will not save Israel’s image

Al Jazeera  

In April 2024, students across the United States were mobilising to demand an end to their universities’ complicity in the genocide in Gaza. This month, Trump’s government, guided by his newly formed multi-agency Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism, announced the cancellation of roughly $400m in federal grants to Columbia University over what it deemed a “failure to protect Jewish students …

UCLA launches effort to fight antisemitism as Trump says more pro-Palestinian activist arrests ahead
2 weeks, 1 day ago

UCLA launches effort to fight antisemitism as Trump says more pro-Palestinian activist arrests ahead

LA Times  

The Trump administration on Monday sent letters to 60 colleges and universities — 10 of them in California — warning of “potential enforcement” against them, days after canceling $400 million in federal funding to Columbia University and accusing it of ignoring antisemitism allegations. “We will find, apprehend, and deport these terrorist sympathizers from our country — never to return again.” …

Trump admin detains pro-Palestinian campus protest leader
2 weeks, 2 days ago

Trump admin detains pro-Palestinian campus protest leader

New Indian Express  

NEW YORK: Immigration officers have arrested a leader of the protests at Columbia University against Israel's war in Gaza, authorities said Sunday, after US President Donald Trump vowed to deport foreign pro-Palestinian student demonstrators. Mahmoud Khalil, one of the most prominent faces of the university's protest movement that erupted in response to Israel's conduct of the war, was arrested on …

US detains pro-Palestinian campus protest leader: union
2 weeks, 2 days ago

US detains pro-Palestinian campus protest leader: union

Raw Story  

A leader of protests at Columbia University against Israel's war in Gaza was arrested by immigration officers, a campus union said Sunday, after US President Donald Trump vowed to deport foreign pro-Palestinian student demonstrators. Mahmoud Khalil, one of the most prominent faces in the campus's protest movement that erupted in response to Israel's conduct of the war, was arrested Saturday, …

Trump vowed to leverage federal money to fight antisemitism. He’s starting at Columbia
3 weeks ago

Trump vowed to leverage federal money to fight antisemitism. He’s starting at Columbia

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — Columbia University has become the first target in President Donald Trump’scampaign to cut federal money to colleges accused of tolerating antisemitism amid the Israel-Hamas war. Education Secretary Linda McMahon, confirmed Monday by the Senate, said in the announcement that Columbia appears to have failed in its duty to protect Jewish students from discrimination, raising “very serious questions about …

Trump threatens to cut funding for schools that hold 'illegal protests'
3 weeks ago

Trump threatens to cut funding for schools that hold 'illegal protests'

Firstpost  

Trump has repeatedly threatened to turn the US education system upside down, including by defunding the entire Department of Education and returning all control over the curriculum to individual states US President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he will cut funding for schools that allow “illegal protests,” his latest threat to turn off the flow of federal money to the …

Letters to the Editor: Readers debate Trump’s order on campus antisemitism
1 month, 1 week ago

Letters to the Editor: Readers debate Trump’s order on campus antisemitism

LA Times  

To the editor: I certainly don’t agree with most of President Trump’s executive orders, but the one on antisemitism on college campuses is spot-on. Op-ed article writers David N. Myers and Salam Al-Marayati downplay the amount of antisemitism expressed. Protests that supported Hamas began just after the group killed about 1,200 people in Israel and took many hostages on Oct. …

Opinion: Trump’s antisemitism executive order mistakes dissent for bigotry
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Opinion: Trump’s antisemitism executive order mistakes dissent for bigotry

LA Times  

A Jan. 29 White House executive order on antisemitism is intended to combat one of the longest, most lethal and societally entrenched forms of group-based hatred in the world. It calls for the mobilization of “all available and appropriate legal tools” to confront “an unprecedented wave of vile anti-Semitic discrimination, vandalism, and violence against our citizens, especially in our schools …

Trump is targeting antisemitism in schools. Experts fear other civil rights will be ignored
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Trump is targeting antisemitism in schools. Experts fear other civil rights will be ignored

Hindustan Times  

WASHINGTON — The federal office that enforces civil rights at schools across the U.S. has been ordered to target complaints of antisemitism above all else as it molds to President Donald Trump’s agenda, raising fears that other rights violations will go unpunished. Experts fear other civil rights will be ignored Trump’s new leader of the Education Department’s Office for Civil …

US Justice Department launches task force to combat antisemitism in schools and universities
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1 month, 3 weeks ago

US Justice Department launches task force to combat antisemitism in schools and universities

Firstpost  

The Education Department said it was opening investigations of antisemitic harassment at Columbia University, Northwestern University, Portland State University, University of California, Berkeley; and University of Minnesota-Twin Cities The U.S. Justice Department said it formed a multi-agency task force on Monday to fight antisemitism in schools and universities, while the Education Department announced it was investigating five universities for alleged …

Advocates warn Trump’s threat to deport pro-Palestine students harms all
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Advocates warn Trump’s threat to deport pro-Palestine students harms all

Al Jazeera  

Critics say Trump’s attempt to combat anti-Semitism on campus promotes fear and repression among immigrants. Dima Khalidi — the director of Palestine Legal, a group protecting the rights of Palestine advocates in the US — called Trump’s order last week “the latest in a growing list of dangerous, authoritarian measures aimed at enforcing an ideological strangulation on schools by attempting …

Trump administration opens antisemitism inquiries at 5 colleges including Columbia and Berkeley
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1 month, 3 weeks ago

Trump administration opens antisemitism inquiries at 5 colleges including Columbia and Berkeley

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is opening new investigations into allegations of antisemitism at five U.S. universities including Columbia and the University of California, Berkeley, the Education Department announced Monday. “Today, the Department is putting universities, colleges, and K-12 schools on notice: this administration will not tolerate continued institutional indifference to the wellbeing of Jewish students on American campuses,” said …

US forms task force to combat antisemitism schools and campuses
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1 month, 3 weeks ago

US forms task force to combat antisemitism schools and campuses

Firstpost  

The U.S. Justice Department formed a multiagency task force on Monday to fight antisemitism, with its first priority “rooting out” antisemitic harassment in schools and universities. The U.S. Justice Department formed a multi-agency task force on Monday to fight antisemitism, with its first priority ”rooting out” antisemitic harassment in schools and universities. WHY IT’S IMPORTANT The task force follows an …

Trump’s order on antisemitism and ‘Hamas sympathizers’ has California universities on alert
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1 month, 3 weeks ago

Trump’s order on antisemitism and ‘Hamas sympathizers’ has California universities on alert

LA Times  

An executive order from President Trump promoting a federal crackdown on campus antisemitism and his threats to cancel visas of pro-Palestinian international students have put California university leaders and activists on alert after many of the nation’s largest and most contentious protests unfolded at their schools. And a pro-Palestinian UCLA faculty representative described the threats in the order as “authoritarianism, …

Trumps signs executive order to cancel student visas if ‘
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Trumps signs executive order to cancel student visas if ‘

The Independent  

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The order also empowers colleges and universities to …

Trump executive order on antisemitism: College protesters aren’t the only ones threatened by this.
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Trump executive order on antisemitism: College protesters aren’t the only ones threatened by this.

Slate  

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. A White House fact sheet, obtained by reporters ahead of the order, proclaimed that “Immediate action will be taken by the Department of Justice to protect law and order, quell pro-Hamas vandalism and intimidation, and investigate and punish anti-Jewish …

Trump administration to cancel student visas of pro-Palestinian protesters: ‘Will find you, and will deport’
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Trump administration to cancel student visas of pro-Palestinian protesters: ‘Will find you, and will deport’

Live Mint  

US President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday to combat antisemitism and pledged to deport non-citizen college students and others who took part in pro-Palestinian protests. A fact sheet on the order promises "immediate action" by the Justice Department to prosecute "terroristic threats, arson, vandalism and violence against American Jews" and marshal all federal resources to combat what …

Trump pledges to deport ‘Hamas sympathisers’ on college campuses
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1 month, 3 weeks ago

Trump pledges to deport ‘Hamas sympathisers’ on college campuses

Al Jazeera  

United States President Donald Trump has pledged to deport foreign university students involved in pro-Palestinian protests as part of a crackdown on alleged anti-Semitism, prompting an outcry from free speech and Muslim advocacy organisations. In an executive order signed on Wednesday, Trump said the federal government would use “all available and appropriate legal tools” to prosecute and remove perpetrators of …

Trump Signs Order To Deport Foreign Students Who Support Palestinian Freedom
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Trump Signs Order To Deport Foreign Students Who Support Palestinian Freedom

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday that would cancel visas and deport international students who have expressed support for Palestinians — the administration’s latest effort to both target immigrants and crack down on free speech, particularly on college campuses. The president said that he would also cancel the visas of students he considers “Hamas …

Donald Trump set to sign executive orders to combat antisemitism, cancel student visas of pro-Palestinian protesters
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1 month, 3 weeks ago

Donald Trump set to sign executive orders to combat antisemitism, cancel student visas of pro-Palestinian protesters

Live Mint  

US President Donald Trump is set to sign fresh barrage of executive orders in the coming days as he works to ‘reshape’ the Department of Education. Deportation of students According to a fact-sheet on the order that was shared by Reuters, the Justice Department will take “immediate action” to prosecute "terroristic threats, arson, vandalism and violence against American Jews" and …

Trump’s orders take aim at ‘critical race theory’ and antisemitism on college campuses
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Trump’s orders take aim at ‘critical race theory’ and antisemitism on college campuses

LA Times  

President Trump speaks in the East Room of the White House on Wednesday. President Trump is ordering U.S. schools to stop teaching what he views as “critical race theory” and other material dealing with race and sexuality or risk losing their federal money. His order on K-12 schools declares that federal money cannot be used on the “indoctrination” of children, …

UC resolves federal civil rights complaints of antisemitism, Islamophobia and anti-Arab bias
3 months ago

UC resolves federal civil rights complaints of antisemitism, Islamophobia and anti-Arab bias

LA Times  

The University of California has resolved nine federal civil rights complaints of antisemitism and bias against Muslim, Arab and pro-Palestinian students stemming from Israel-Hamas war protests at five UC campuses, the U.S. Department of Education announced Friday. Violence at the UCLA encampment against Jewish, Israeli American and pro-Palestinian protesters was “of particular concern,” the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights …

Thousands less pro-Palestine protests this semester after new speech rules and encampment crackdowns
3 months ago

Thousands less pro-Palestine protests this semester after new speech rules and encampment crackdowns

The Independent  

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The sharp decline in activity comes after universities …

Harvard Under Fire for Antisemitism, as College Officials Face Scrutiny
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Harvard Under Fire for Antisemitism, as College Officials Face Scrutiny

Hindustan Times  

A 325-page report by the House Education and Workforce Committee has shed light on the responses of Harvard, Northwestern and Columbia universities to the 2022 Israel-Hamas war. The investigation found that Harvard's officials struggled to craft supportive statements amid the turmoil caused by the terrorist attack and Israel's retaliatory response in Gaza. The report also highlighted discussions among administrators at …

Letters to the Editor: When do campus protests on Israel cross the line into antisemitism?
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Letters to the Editor: When do campus protests on Israel cross the line into antisemitism?

LA Times  

Pro-Palestinian protesters demonstrate at an encampment on the UCLA campus on April 26. To the editor: The report by UCLA’s Task Force to Combat Antisemitism and Anti-Israeli Bias underlines the urgency of developing effective strategies for countering antisemitism on college campuses in the wake of the horrific Hamas attack against Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, and its aftermath. The Nexus …

UCLA students and faculty raise alarm on antisemitic and anti-Palestinian hate amid ongoing protests
5 months ago

UCLA students and faculty raise alarm on antisemitic and anti-Palestinian hate amid ongoing protests

LA Times  

To one group, UCLA has become a hotbed of antisemitism and anti-Israeli bias, a campus led by an administration that has not taken enough action to address pro-Palestinian demonstrations that violate university rules and veer into anti-Jewish tropes and slogans. UCLA’s Task Force to Combat Antisemitism and Anti-Israeli Bias this week publicly released a 93-page report submitted to the university’s …

Opinion: Can legitimate campus protest be distinguished from antisemitism? This guide aims to help
6 months, 1 week ago

Opinion: Can legitimate campus protest be distinguished from antisemitism? This guide aims to help

LA Times  

After one of the most tumultuous years in the modern history of the university, this new academic year brings a sense of trepidation and even dread for students, staff, faculty and administrators. Some students and faculty members at colleges across the country expressed support for the attack or refused to condemn it, leaving many Jews on campus feeling deeply vulnerable. …

As US colleges raise the stakes for protests, activists are weighing new strategies
6 months, 2 weeks ago

As US colleges raise the stakes for protests, activists are weighing new strategies

The Independent  

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As US colleges raise the stakes for protests, activists are weighing new strategies
6 months, 2 weeks ago

As US colleges raise the stakes for protests, activists are weighing new strategies

Associated Press  

University of Southern California law student Elizabeth Howell-Egan isn’t allowed on campus because of her role in last spring’s anti-war protests, but she is keeping up her activism. The stakes have gone up this fall for students protesting the war in Gaza, as U.S. colleges roll out new security measures and protest guidelines — all intended to avoid disruptions like …

Quashing dissent on campus is the norm
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Quashing dissent on campus is the norm

Salon  

With nearly 18 million students on U.S. college campuses this fall, defenders of the war on Gaza don’t want to hear any backtalk. Months ago, citing data from the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, ABC News reported that “25,000 buildings have been destroyed, 32 hospitals forced out of service, and three churches, 341 mosques and 100 universities and schools destroyed.” …

Jewish students at Columbia faced hostile environment during pro-Palestinian protests, report finds
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Jewish students at Columbia faced hostile environment during pro-Palestinian protests, report finds

Associated Press  

Jews and Israelis at Columbia University were ostracized from student groups, humiliated in classrooms and subjected to verbal abuse as pro-Palestinian demonstrations shook the campus last year, and their complaints were often downplayed or ignored by school officials and faculty, the university’s task force on antisemitism said in a report released Friday. The task force also offered a definition of …

After campus protests, California considers bills on genocide education, protest restrictions, DEI training
7 months, 1 week ago

After campus protests, California considers bills on genocide education, protest restrictions, DEI training

LA Times  

After a spring of tensions in schools and roiling college protests over the Israel-Hamas war, California legislators will take up three bills that would require lessons on the Holocaust and genocide in K-12 classrooms, restrict campus demonstrations and require antisemitism instruction at colleges that conduct diversity, equity and inclusion training. Holocaust and genocide education Senate Bill 1277 would require a …

US colleges revise rules on free speech in hopes of containing anti-war demonstrations
7 months, 1 week ago

US colleges revise rules on free speech in hopes of containing anti-war demonstrations

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — As students return to colleges across the United States, administrators are bracing for a resurgence in activism against the war in Gaza, and some schools are adopting rules to limit the kind of protests that swept campuses last spring. The University of Pennsylvania has outlined new “temporary guidelines” for student protests that include bans on encampments, overnight …

Antisemitism runs rampant in Philadelphia schools, Jewish group alleges in civil rights complaint
8 months ago

Antisemitism runs rampant in Philadelphia schools, Jewish group alleges in civil rights complaint

Associated Press  

The Philadelphia school district has failed to protect Jewish students from “a virulent wave of antisemitism” that swept through classrooms after Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7, according to a federal complaint filed Tuesday. A school district spokesperson declined to comment on an active investigation, but said in a statement Tuesday night that the district “seeks to create safe learning …

Antisemitism runs rampant in Philadelphia schools, Jewish group alleges in civil rights complaint
8 months ago

Antisemitism runs rampant in Philadelphia schools, Jewish group alleges in civil rights complaint

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The Philadelphia school district has …

Opinion: What’s behind the Anti-Defamation League’s troubling complaints against L.A.-area colleges
8 months, 1 week ago

Opinion: What’s behind the Anti-Defamation League’s troubling complaints against L.A.-area colleges

LA Times  

The Anti-Defamation League has gotten into the defamation business. It’s corrupting its widely cited hate crime data by putting Jewish peace rallies in the same category as antisemitic attacks, lumping liberal Jews calling for a cease-fire with Jew haters and prompting Wikipedia’s editors to warn that it “has repeatedly published false and misleading statements” on “topics of antisemitism and the …

After protests, UC Berkeley pledges to expand antisemitism education to all new students
9 months ago

After protests, UC Berkeley pledges to expand antisemitism education to all new students

LA Times  

UC Berkeley will expand antisemitism education to all incoming students beginning this fall, after pro-Palestinian protests over the Israel-Hamas war fueled anxieties among many Jewish campus members, Chancellor Carol Christ announced this week. The new programs will aim to counter the “deeply disturbing” rise in antisemitism at Berkeley and elsewhere since the Oct. 7 Hamas attack in southern Israel, Christ …

Keeping political activism free from antisemitism: The ethics of protest to the Israel-Hamas conflict
9 months ago

Keeping political activism free from antisemitism: The ethics of protest to the Israel-Hamas conflict

ABC  

In the wake of the atrocities of 7 October 2023, and the Israel-Hamas war that ensued, the West has witnessed a surge of fervent protests. The conflation of Jewishness with Zionism To be sure, it is certainly possible to criticise Israel without being antisemitic by focusing on policies and actions of the Israeli government rather than targeting Jewish people as …

Congress investigating UCLA over treatment of Jewish students amid pro-Palestinian protests
10 months, 1 week ago

Congress investigating UCLA over treatment of Jewish students amid pro-Palestinian protests

LA Times  

UCLA facility maintenance locksmith Adrian Banuelos cleans a part of campus on May 2 after two days of violent overnight protests. 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 …

Opinion: Today’s protests are tamer than the campus unrest of the 1960s. So why the harsh response?
10 months, 1 week ago

Opinion: Today’s protests are tamer than the campus unrest of the 1960s. So why the harsh response?

LA Times  

Critics of the recent student protests have often erred by comparing them to the mass demonstrations against the Vietnam War that rocked U.S. college campuses more than half a century ago. Today’s student movement against the Gaza War is far smaller and much less disruptive than the campus antiwar protests of the 1960s. The contrast makes it impossible to escape …

Editorial: House antisemitism bill would stymie free speech and wouldn’t make students safer
10 months, 1 week ago

Editorial: House antisemitism bill would stymie free speech and wouldn’t make students safer

LA Times  

President Biden speaks at the U.S. Not appropriate — in fact, arguably unconstitutional — is a bill overwhelmingly approved by the House that would have the Education Department use an expansive definition of antisemitism that could chill political speech. The problem with the Antisemitism Awareness Act is that it directs the Education Department to “take into consideration” the working definition …

Gaza solidarity encampments: We, as educators, need to protect our students
10 months, 1 week ago

Gaza solidarity encampments: We, as educators, need to protect our students

Al Jazeera  

We have a duty of care for our students who are being attacked for practising outside the classroom what they have learned inside of it. And when the police stormed the encampment at Washington University in St Louis, 65-year-old Professor Steve Tamari of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville was “body slammed and crushed by the weight of several St Louis County …

Jewish families say anti-Israel messaging in Bay Area classrooms is making schools unsafe
10 months, 2 weeks ago

Jewish families say anti-Israel messaging in Bay Area classrooms is making schools unsafe

LA Times  

Jewish families across the Bay Area are pushing back against what they describe as an overt anti-Israel bias in K-12 classrooms. “It often feels like I’m a triage nurse or ER doctor,” said Safrin, who sent two of her children to San Francisco public schools and overall had a positive experience. “There’s a heaviness that exists since Oct. 7 for …

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