Campus Antisemitism

Columbia hires prof. who supported Palestinian 'indigenous resistance' to lead cultural programs

Kahn is meant to “build and lead initiatives that cultivate curiosity, civic purpose, and meaningful dialogue - facilitating student engagement with faculty outside the classroom.”

 Columbia student demonstrators show support as others chain themselves to the gates of St. Paul’s Chapel at Columbia University to denounce the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil in New York City, US, April 2, 2025.
 TENTS ARE pitched outside the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, as students occupy parts of British campuses in support of Palestinians in Gaza, this week. Supporters of genocidal jihadist groups are spreading mayhem across the Western world, says the writer.

ADL survey of Jewish staff finds faculty driving campus antisemitism

 STUDENTS HOLD signs reading, ‘There are no universities left in Gaza’ and ‘Free Gaza’ at last year’s Harvard University Commencement Exercises in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Heritage Foundation is going after campus radicals and Islamist sympathizers who glorify Hamas, says the writer.

UC Berkeley shares information on dozens of students, staff with Trump administration

FRENCH PRESIDENT Emmanuel Macron at the Elysee Palace earlier this month: He has spoken disgracefully regarding Israel, the writer charges.

Will the West wake up from moral darkness and stand with Israel? - opinion


Jewish, LGBTQ+ Cornell students get violent threats from fake university president email account

The fake university president emails targeting the Jewish and LGBTQ communities with "vile antisemitic and homophobic language" first began on Thursday.

Cornell University sign

Extremism and antisemitism are becoming mainstream - opinion

The global surge in antisemitism is deeply concerning. How is it being allowed to happen?

EVYATAR DAVID, a 24-year-old hostage, is seen in a Hamas video released last month. While our hostages starve in tunnels, the world remains blind to their suffering, the writer charges.

Despite CUAD's activity in Columbia, students want to go back to being students - opinion

Columbia students overall want to get back to what we do best: being students. That is a good and healthy sign. 

A 'disorientation guide' handed out by CUAD at Columbia University

The rising stigma of being Jewish: How antisemitism resurfaces after Oct. 7 - opinion

What are the chances that Democratic presidential hopefuls J.B. Pritzker, Rahm Emanuel, or Josh Shapiro, all Jews, will succeed in winning their party’s backing?

THEN-US AMBASSADOR to Japan Rahm Emanuel delivers a speech last year.

Jewish education: The first line of defense for Jews worldwide - opinion

'Education has to be the first line of defense because without it, most Jews will be unable to stand up and be proud.'

STAR OF DAVID necklace: Inside or outside your shirt?

Northwestern president steps down after university faces Trump funding cuts, antisemitism claims

President Michael Schill said in a statement that it was the "right time" for new leadership to guide the university into the future.

Northwestern University president Michael Schill reacts during a House Education and the Workforce Committee hearing on pro-Palestinian protests on college campuses, on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., May 23, 2024.

Judge overturns Trump administration’s Harvard funding freeze tied to antisemitism allegations

US District Judge Allison Burroughs wrote that the Trump administration had used allegations of antisemitism at top US universities as a “smokescreen” for advancing its political agenda.

Here, people gather at Harvard to show their support for Palestinians in Gaza at a rally in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Federal judge reinstates Students for Justice in Palestine at University of Pittsburgh

The decision comes as the school year kicks off with multiple battles over the pro-Palestinian group’s presence on college campuses

A vigil organized by the Students for Justice in Palestine at the University of Maryland campus took place under court order on Oct. 7, 2024.

'In the shadow of swords:' Columbia returns to class after turmoil of antisemitism, Trump deal

Columbia entered the semester with new campus rules and federal settlement payments as activists promised continued protests and Jewish students reported intimidation.

Protestors rally in front of Columbia University for Al Jazeera reporters Anas Al Sharif, Mohammed Qreiqeh, Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal, freelance cameraman Momen Aliwa and freelance journalist Mohammed al-Khalidi, who were killed in Gaza City by an Israeli strike, in New York City, U.S., August

Columbia University students return under shadow of Trump antisemitism deal

Some within Columbia are concerned that a new antisemitism definition adopted by the university, which recognizes some criticism of Israel as discriminatory toward Jews, would chill academic freedom.

Thanassis Cambanis, holding microphone and fellow protesters rally near Columbia University's main campus gates in New York, Sept. 2, 2025, to lace into the school's new agreement with the Trump administration, as well as the decision to keep some doors closed for the start of the school year.

Anti-Israel LFI politician Rima Hassan named as Brussels Free U class patron

The ULB rector acknowledged that the decision to honor Hassan has sparked a "great deal of emotion, reactions, and even insults and threats."

 Rima Hassan, the then candidate for the European elections on the list of La France Insoumise (LFI), attends a pro-Palestinian protest in central Paris, France, May 29, 2024.