“Jewish students have reported feeling afraid to walk down the hallways alone and are unable to focus on schoolwork,” according to the department.
The University of Texas at Austin suspended the Palestine Solidarity Committee, a registered student group at the campus and a chapter of the national Students for Justice in Palestine. The move follows several campus protests last week that saw nearly 60 people arrested for criminal trespass. The arrests occurred on Wednesday after law enforcement orders to disperse and leave the central tower area of the campus were ignored.
Jewish students are being welcomed at Catholic universities, which are being deemed a “better option for Jews than an Ivy League school.”
President Donald Trump has nominated the founder of a group that defends Jewish students against anti-Semitism to the post of assistant secretary for the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) in the U.S. Education Department.
TEL AVIV – The University of Texas’s Student Government passed a unanimous resolution in support of Jewish students in response to the wave of anti-Semitic incidents on campus and at Jewish institutions across the U.S.
TEL AVIV – A freshman at Stanford University condemned the academic institution for providing students who were adversely affected from the election of Donald Trump as U.S. president with a “vast network” of support while failing to protect Jewish students from anti-Semitic acts.
Hatred towards Israel in general and Jews in particular is so rampant on some UK universities they have effectively become no-go zones for Jewish students.
TEL AVIV – Pro-Palestinian student group Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) has been compiling lists of Jewish students and their dorm addresses on college campuses in the U.S., a Likud minister charged.
TEL AVIV – More than 150 professors at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, signed an open letter condemning the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions Movement (BDS) movement, The Jerusalem Post reported.
Dozens of police were deployed to an event at a London university last night, after anti-Israel protesters smashed windows, threw chairs, set off fire alarms and “assaulted” a speaker. No arrests were made. Over 100 students had turned up to hear Ami
Stanford University president John Hennessy is condemning the vandalism of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity house at the university, which was daubed with swastikas that were discovered on Sunday morning, the Stanford Review reports.
A “global education” workshop for high school students given by a Boston University group and reportedly compliant with the Common Core standards encourages Jewish students to empathize with Hamas and teaches that the United States’ use of military drones is terrorism.
