UCLA faculty aligned with Faculty for Justice in Palestine are promoting academic boycotts and antisemitic rhetoric, creating a hostile environment for Jewish and Israeli students.
American universities have largely rejected demands to divest from Israel and entities at all linked to the Jewish state, delivering a succession of blows to the pro-Hamas protest movement.
'Since the mass exodus of Jews from the union after its antisemitic pro-BDS resolution in 2021, its delegate leadership is virtually Judenrein,' Jeffrey Lax, a Kingsborough Community College professor said.
Students for Justice in Palestine’s divestment proposal, the Board of Trustees ruled, 'did not meet the criteria' stipulated in the statement and had to be rejected.
The Mayor of Beverly Hills, who hosted the summit, announced that the October 7 Memorial, established in the city to honor those murdered and kidnapped, will become a permanent fixture.
Tassa's comments were in response to the former Pink Floyd frontman's statements regarding members of the band Radiohead, who have refused to comply with the BDS movement against Israel.
An investment network, JLens, published a study that found that adopting divestment — a core tenet of the boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement — may compromise Brown’s financial health.
'Calls for universities to divest from companies doing business in Israel are not only morally dangerous, but may also be financially dangerous,' said ADL chief Jonathan Greenblatt.
Chapman University trustee: 'We have a fiduciary responsibility to preserve and grow the endowment, which directly supports the mission of the university.'
Joseph Edelman, a New York hedge fund manager who served on Brown's governing board, called the decision to proceed with such a vote 'a stunning failure of moral leadership.'
U Michigan and The New School restore funding frozen by anti-Zionist factions who seized control of student government and threatened to force BDS policy by crippling school operations.
Anti-Zionist student leaders at U Michigan and The New School attempt to cripple university operations by halting funding to student groups until administrators agree to Israel boycott.
MSCI reportedly ranked four Israeli banks as 'severe-to-moderately' controversial for doing businesses in Judea and Samaria, on the basis of anti-Israel sources.
'The organization that has been setting the standards on academic freedom since 1915 just made a mockery of every single one of its own standards and is unleashing a tsunami of academic antisemitism,' higher education watchdog responds.
The outgoing chancellor also denounced rising antisemitism on the campus as 'deeply disturbing' and expressed support for the school’s Jewish Studies and Israel Studies fields.
Noah said that it was 'tragic' that music, which can be a means of creating understanding, has become a 'battleground,' with Jewish artists increasingly becoming targets.
"Harvard supports, upholds, and invests in Israeli apartheid, and the oppression of Palestinians,” undergraduate senior shouts at dean during convocation ceremony.