Campus Antisemitism

UCLA will pay nearly $6.5 million to the Jewish defendants and $320,000 to the UCLA Initiative to Combat Antisemitism.

Given its long history of bad faith, however, we shouldn’t take Columbia’s promises, or even its latest actions, as a guarantee that the school has learned its lesson.

The US Justice Department alleged that UCLA failed to prevent a hostile environment for its Jewish and Israeli students since the start of October 2023.

Separately, two Columbia janitors who claimed they were held hostage during a pro-Palestine protest in April 2024 have reached a settlement agreement with the university.

Maastricht is not the outlier. It is the European Columbia, an institution that traded enlightenment for tribalism, critical thinking for fashionable activism, and universal human rights for purges.

Columbia said it also agreed to settle investigations brought by the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission for $21 million

In a statement, the university said will pay a $200 million fine over three years to settle allegations that it failed to do enough to stop the harassment of Jewish students on campus.

She explained that the contact person will monitor current measures, advise the institutions, and coordinate universities' existing antisemitism representatives.

Both Harvard and the administration are seeking summary judgment, which would allow the court to decide the case without a trial.

51% of the Jewish teachers surveyed have experienced antisemitism in the workplace in the past year, and 78% of those teachers experienced abuse personally.

And as a lifelong New Yorker, I never thought I would see the day when the potential leadership of my city would defend terrorism, the very threat we, as Americans, are supposed to oppose.