A Nine-Day Roundup
It may be summer but the campus tsunami continues
[Be sure to check out my new novel, Bright College Years, about how college used to be before they all went crazy … ]
As some of you know I spent way too much time monitoring the situation for Jews, especially concerning Israel, on campuses. In case you want to get a sense of how the world looks from my perspective, here are some of the stories I’m tracking just over the past nine days. Some non-campus stories get in there if they catch my attention, but it’s mostly campus-focused. Occasional bits of good news (from the pro-Israel perspective), but a lot of bad news. And this is just the tip of the iceberg, stories that happened to cross my radar. Lots more stuff going on, I’m sure, that I miss. This might give you a sense of what it feels like to be a Jewish student or professor who does not hate Israel on a campus that mostly does (esp if you follow any of the links and get the details).
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Tues Jun 25
Amherst College trustees unanimously reject divestment
https://www.amherst.edu/about/president-college-leadership/trustees/statements/node/913002
U Penn: profs attempted lawsuit against Penn to prevent complying with subpoenas for antisem investigation is dismissed – concluding that they lack standing to bring the suit -- good news
https://x.com/EYakoby/status/1805271539237175737
https://x.com/kcjohnson9/status/1805279097444053394
UCLA ‘Cultural Affairs’ Instagram page claiming Zionists were the aggressors yesterday in LA, and claiming that the ‘civil war’ is heating up and its affiliates should get guns
https://x.com/camhigby/status/1805271596673945706
Rep. Comer threatens to subpoena National SJP for documents re its financial operations for House Oversight Committee
https://www.foxbaltimore.com/station/share/comer-threatens-subpoena-to-palestinian-group-with-ties-to-student-protests-the-house-oversight-committee-he-wrote-has-substantial-evidence-connecting-american-muslims-for-palestine-amp-to-students-for-justice-in-palestine-sjp
UMass Amherst: pro-Hamas group begins pro-communism summer camp, running every week thru the summer, promoting Mao and Stalin and Palestinian terrorists
National Education Association upcoming meeting, first week in July, has several antisemitic ‘new business’ items on its agenda, including aligning with BDS and denying that anti-Zionism is antisemitism … StandWithUs urges them to reject the resolutions
https://www.sdjewishworld.com/2024/06/24/standwithus-urges-national-education-assn-to-reject-anti-israel-resolutions/
Wayne State U: 60 faith leaders incl rabbis urging Board of Governors to meet with pro-Hamas students, which they’ve been avoiding by holding meetings virtually
Dartmouth president says encampments violate the academic mission and violate free speech
https://jewishinsider.com/2024/06/dartmouth-president-says-campus-encampments-go-against-academic-mission/
Northwestern: Utah Congressman demands NW sever partnership ties with Al-Jazeera, considered an asset for terrorist groups
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/elite-universitys-disturbing-hamas-connections-probed-lawmakers
Youtube shuts down Samidoun channel
https://x.com/CampusJewHate/status/1805301526392717797
Episcopalian Assembly/Bishops reject resolutions calling Israelis ‘apartheid’ and Palestinians ‘indigenous’, and condemn Oct 7
https://livingchurch.org/news/news-episcopal-church/bishops-reject-apartheid-label-for-israeli-government/
Canada: new chair of Human Rights Commission compares Israel to nazis
Australia: City of Sydney backs boycott
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/city-of-sydney-backs-boycott-of-israel-adding-pressure-for-ceasefire-20240624-p5joe4.html
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Mon June 24
**Federal lawsuit filed against UNRWA for its role in Oct 7
https://x.com/ArutzSheva_En/status/1805119082385027219
**Los Angeles: police clash with pro-Hamas protestors who surrounded a synagogue chanting ‘intifada!’ … beating a jewish woman … ‘hunting down Jews’ … spraying bear spray at people
--worth noting: they were ostensibly ‘protesting’ an israel real estate fair going on at the synagogue
https://x.com/TodayisAmerica/status/1804964388128104769
https://x.com/camhigby/status/1804954755095240898
https://x.com/omriceren/status/1805044460704698543
https://x.com/JewishWarrior13/status/1805008226057908575
https://x.com/CampusJewHate/status/1805020415896461420
https://x.com/hoffman_bruce/status/1805048062760702047
National SJP running a ‘summer school’ 6 weeks, virtual, starting next week … planning for next year’s outrages on campus … only permitting undergrads/grad students who can ‘vouched for’ to attend
https://x.com/CampusJewHate/status/1804181980059439366
**U of Arizona regents about to consider a bill barring student groups from supporting foreign terror organizations!
The New School is laying off (ie not rehiring) its anti-zionist rabbi (people incl faculty are protesting)
Rice U SJP joins groups planning to protest Houston Pride Parade bc Chevron is a sponsor
Columbia: more texts discovered, one of the deans openly mocking the school’s Hillel head: ‘LMAO’
Columbia: man arrested for allegedly throwing rock at Jewish student at a rally, hitting him in face
Columbia SJP calling for accused Berkeley arsonist to be freed from jail, because ‘resistance is love’
Columbia’s subway station 116 street defaced with huge red disgusting anti-Israel graffiti
Queens College: video exposing the antisemitic rot there, including a vicious openly hating speaker brought to campus, a dean attended and didn’t disavow
https://x.com/V24Investigates/status/1804180711865250301
UCLA group fighting antisemitism produces film about the failure to enforce anti-masking rules and how that promotes antisemitic behavior there
https://x.com/JFrgatUCLA/status/1804786200768852001
Lafayette College reaches Title VI resolution re antisem
But the College nonetheless misapplied the legal standard, particularly with respect to harassment occurring on social media, and did not adequately discharge its obligation to take steps reasonably designed to assess the existence of, or redress any hostile environment affecting its campus … The College’s responses were not reasonably designed to redress any hostile environment. The College appears generally not to have addressed allegations of harassment occurring on social media unless the College considered the harassment to constitute a direct threat, not recognizing its Title VI obligation
U Mass Amherst apparently backs out of a commitment to bring divestment proposal to board of trustees at June meeting
DePaul U: fires newly hired microbiology prof who gave an assignment accusing Israel of genocide
Rutgers: Board of Governors meeting disrupted by pro-Hamas, including chanting ‘we don’t want no Birthright here’
https://x.com/thestustustudio/status/1804662040507609304
Brooklyn: Jewish family physically attacked at 5th grade graduation by Muslim family over Gaza
Jewish doctors launch group to combat antisem in medicine ‘it’s like Nazi Germany all over again’
Sen Rubio promoting his ‘anti-BDS’ federal legislation among senate colleagues
https://floridianpress.com/2024/06/rubio-resurfaces-debate-over-legislation-on-anti-israel-bds-movements/
**Student Intifada: Reports from Encampment Leaders … online sessions with leaders from Cal Poly, Minnesota, Tulane, UW Milwaukee, and Denver giving lots of details – online guy breaks it down in detail … worth reporting on, studying
https://x.com/thestustustudio/status/1804492198102110443
Nevada: settlement reached in school case where autistic child had a swastika carved into his back
https://x.com/LawfareProject/status/1804611183837634833
Canada: U of Toronto injunction hearing ongoing about removing the encampment, possible ruling issued as early as today … encampment is 50 days old
Canada: half the students at Canada’s newest law school sign letter justifying October 7 attack
https://x.com/davidfrum/status/1805187634462867796
UK: U of Cambridge pro-Hamas openly boast about spray-painting Cambridge buildings with red paint
https://x.com/EYakoby/status/1804535519969181768
UK: Oxford U puts up a fence around the pro-Hamas encampment, students angered – encampment has been up since May 6 and they’ve been in ‘ongoing dialogue’ with admin, but students are shocked at the move
https://x.com/thestustustudio/status/1804875600022081549
Ireland: U of Cork, Irish university trying to get Israeli company kicked out of international research project involving numerous countries
U of Palermo Academic Senate votes to restrict ties to Israeli universities
https://x.com/PACBI/status/1804460841795834014
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Fri June 21
**Columbia: NYC DA essentially drops all charges from those arrested occupying Hamilton Hall, citing ‘lack of evidence’ (total BS)
https://x.com/CampusJewHate/status/1803895418851320137
**Columbia’s ‘Apartheid Divest’ group openly supporting the arsons at Berkeley
https://x.com/gil_zussman/status/1803890784279711843
Columbia parents open letter to trustees
https://columbiaopenletter.org/
*Columbia: 3 of the 4 deans with the derogatory texts are placed on leave pending investigation, announcement made by the 4th dean who actually participated
https://x.com/elianayjohnson/status/1803906533572374647
Columbia student (I believe among those just dropped charges re occupying Hamilton Hall) takes part in rally supporting jailed Berkeley arsonist, proclaiming ‘we must escalate’ and ‘not condemn the Palestinian resistance’
https://x.com/CampusJewHate/status/1803976756413501855
*U of Colorado Regents vote unanimously (9-0) for a resolution condemning the antisemitic tactics of a student group that protested outside Regents homes, plus condemns ‘Globalize the intifada’ and other hate speech toward Jews
https://x.com/CampusJewHate/status/1803908864649085294
*Stanford releases two reports, one about the antisemitism problem and one about islamophobia on the campus
https://x.com/tab_delete/status/1803838804358500581
*FIRE poll shows the pro-Hamas encampments did not move American public opinion at all re the Israeli-Pal’n conflict
https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/jun/20/anti-israel-college-encampments-fail-budge-public-/
Rutgers: pro-Hamas students will refuse to attend their disciplinary hearings re their encampment violations:
“Participating in these disciplinary processes only serves to legitimize the authority that the administration presumes to have over us to suppress popular movements and stifle student activism,” the student group said. “By refusing to engage in these biased proceedings, we are rejecting that the administration has the right to directly oppose the democratic will of the student body.”
U of Southern Cal: case dismissed against Zionist prof (Strauss) who was accused of various evil things due to a brief confrontation with pro-Hamas in the fall (I believe he said ‘I wish all of Hamas would get killed’ and they edited the video to make it sound like he was calling for genocide of Palestinians) – no consequences for the pro-Hamas students for maligning him
https://x.com/AFA_Alliance/status/1803772212547121216
U of California Santa Cruz pro-Hamas/divestment group Instagram posts ‘Hamas is calling on us to continue our encampments’ … specifically they post the Hamas message that ‘we call on our refugee people … in the diaspora .. to keep their camps as symbols of resistance and unity’ … plus ‘what keeps us safe? Militancy … numbers … studying police tactics to be able to respond to them’ (ie openly promoting violence)
https://x.com/AMCHAInitiative/status/1803933606425055253
Lafayette College reaches ‘resolution’ of Title VI antisem complaint – admits no wrongdoing but pledges to make some changes [blah blah]
*Pennsylvania senators introduce bill to penalize schools that adopt divestment or BDS
California: synagogue’s elementary school hit with neo-nazi protest outside, cops say ‘they have a right to protest’
https://x.com/stephsvox/status/1803962971246465502
Semester at Sea had an antisemitism problem on the past voyage [I’m an alum of the program]
Canada: McGill U: Bnai Brith and student plaintiff seek to block antisemitic motions of the Post Graduate Students Society
https://www.bnaibrith.ca/bnai-brith-student-plaintiff-seek-to-block-antisemitic-motions-at-mcgill/
Canada: pro-Hamas students call the president/admin ‘racist’ and demand their resignation
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/racist-york-university-pro-palestinian-232310669.html
NYC: Canary Mission report on anti-israel indoctrination in NYC K-12
https://canarymission.org/campaign/NYC_K12_Education_Anti_Israel
As antisem surges, some colleges face exodus of Jewish students: transfers from Columbia, Northwestern, Occidental (while Yeshiva U receives transfers)
Women’s Journalism group rescinds ‘courage’ award to Gaza reporter who’s pro-Hamas and openly antisemitic
https://freebeacon.com/media/womens-journalism-group-rescinds-courage-award-to-hamas-supporter/
Democratic Senator Murray seeks millions for antisemitic mosque whose leader called Jews despicable apes
https://freebeacon.com/democrats/dem-sen-patty-murray-seeks-millions-for-anti-semitic-mosque-whose-leader-called-jews-despicable-apes/
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Thurs June 20
UC Davis encampment ends after over a month with university not meeting their demands
UC Santa Cruz: pro-Hamas group social media campaign against chancellor: "We will not stop until UCSC's top zionist Cynthia Larive resigns in disgrace!" along with a "Compilation" video of "Chancellor of UCSC being booed at 2024 graduations."
https://amchainitiative.org/#recent-incidents/view-incident-details4/66735e85b8facf0027ecede6/
Western Michigan U: pro-Hamas group frustrated that admin hasn’t capitulated to everything, plans to flood trustees meeting
1100 students from 120 universities sign pledge refusing to work at Amazon/Google over ties to Israel
NJ: Brunswick indept report finds no malice in yearbook case where Jews were swapped out in favor of Muslim students
https://www.ebnet.org/yearbookinvestigation?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR32J7zc01Wl6WKHSnWasJ6B_OE2HfaCaWWd1MFSKBRdvF8mL4iIAgphPUg_aem_ZmFrZWR1bW15MTZieXRlcw
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Wed Jun 19
**Canada: over 1000 people protest Toronto school board meeting where they were to vote on a curriculum making teaching historical facts about the Jews ‘islamophobic’
https://x.com/DanielBordmanOG/status/1803188646306259319
**Canada: Toronto school board votes to adopt the ‘anti-palestinian racism’ resolution – disgusting, turns affirming Jewish history in the land into ‘anti-palestinian racism’
https://x.com/gregbradyTO/status/1803248681404997946
--to clarify: it was a school board committee that now approved it, next to be voted on by the ‘board of trustees’ as a whole
https://www.cija.ca/tdsb_trustees_must_vote_no_chr_ignores_antisemitism
**Canada: McGill/Concordia ‘summer revolution camp’ promoted with images of terrorists ‘has launched’ despite the outcry/backlash
https://www.jpost.com/bds-threat/article-806736
**Yale: new ISGAP report on Yale hiding millions in Qatari funding
https://x.com/ISGAP1/status/1803183358312132772
**Columbia/Barnard: either a new federal lawsuit or amended lawsuit alleging massive antisemitic incidents, 45 plaintiffs and demanding money
https://x.com/StandWithUs/status/1803135893454106928
Columbia: Congress now demanding full text exchanges of admins who mocked Jewish students complaints, gives them a deadline
https://x.com/aaronsibarium/status/1802826348819350007
https://okcfox.com/news/nation-world/house-committee-gives-columbia-deadline-to-provide-texts-downplaying-campus-antisemitism-house-committee-on-education-and-the-workforce-rep-virginia-foxx-r-nc-gop-israel-palestine-protests-gaza-solidarity-encampments
**Portland teachers union votes to REMOVE the problematic links to pro-Palesitnian lesson plans, encouraging students to advocate for the Palestinians and referring to ‘Zionist bullies stole the land’ etc
New School: hires pro-BDS, pro-intifada, pro-encampment ‘campus rabbi’
https://x.com/thewebbie/status/1803043380609298844
UC Berkeley: man arrested for campus anti-Israel arsons has PhD in African American Studies (but white guy) from Northwestern … lots of details about him, has a history of far-left activism and violence … lives with his parents in $1M home
https://x.com/sfmcguire79/status/1803072600957980997
https://x.com/CollegeFix/status/1803223823833035094
ADL releases revised antisemitism report card for universities
Overall improvement: After the reassessment, there are still only two schools — Brandeis and Elon University — that received an “A.” Eighteen schools have now received a “B” (up from 17 in April); 32 schools received a “C” (up from 29); 24 schools received a “D” (no change); and nine schools received an “F” grade (down from 13). While there was a net improvement, three schools — Northwestern University, UCLA and the University of Michigan — were downgraded from a “D” to an “F” because of “lack of adequate administrative response” to campus antisemitism.
https://www.adl.org/resources/press-release/adl-issues-revised-report-card-grades-following-historic-antisemitic
ADL: Wikipedia moves to ban ADL as a ‘reliable source’
https://www.timesofisrael.com/wikipedia-moves-to-bar-adl-claiming-reliability-concerns-on-israel-and-antisemitim/
100 law school deans, including the deans of Stanford, Columbia, and Yale, have signed a letter defending democracy and rule of law.
https://x.com/sfmcguire79/status/1803105020042166567
Philadelphia: Mackenzie Scott gives $2M to group tied to Penn pro-Hamas encampment
two dozen American college students on a ‘take action for israel’ Israel trip right now
UK: London School of Economics encampment finally ends after a month, after legal action ordered them to dismantle
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/pro-palestine-students-end-lse-190034827.html
UK: Heathrow security accussed of harassing Jewish/Israeli passengers – all five security staff seen wearing palestinian pins
https://x.com/UKLFI/status/1803376333784768519
Canada: McGill U ends negotiations w/encampment will seek disciplinary action
https://x.com/Joshuaisonx/status/1803135574812836076
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Tues Jun 18
CUNY multiple campuses -- result of a Title VI case is in, CUNY failed to respond appropriately to antisemitism and reopening investigations there
CUNY Title VI resolution a sham – CUNY’s own DEI office will investigate, and it’s run by a pro BDS CAIR employee
https://x.com/_SAFECAMPUS/status/1802871072456679657
CUNY Title VI resolution re Hunter – StandWithUs press release about it – ‘pleased’ that the school will now have to investigate the incident it did a poor job of investigating originally
https://www.standwithus.com/post/press-release-department-of-education-ocr-resolves-swu-s-title-vi-complaint-against-hunter-college
U Mich Title VI resolved UMich didn't do enough re antisem
https://x.com/AndrewPessin/status/1802766732563529984
Berkeley: anti-israel group claims SECOND arson attack, on a construction site on campus – calling it operation campus flood
https://x.com/asabes10/status/1802696502889853259
Berkeley: cops have someone in custody for the arsons (unclear if a student, probably not)
https://x.com/asabes10/status/1802875630683345342
Cal State LA: police in riot gear clear the encampment yesterday (after all the drama last week), no arrests
https://www.dailynews.com/2024/06/17/police-clear-pro-palestine-encampment-at-cal-state-la-no-arrests-reported/
Stanford: honors thesis in Jewish studies goes to "a ritual performance grieving the Israeli occupation and destruction of Gaza, heightened since October 2023."
https://x.com/n_koss/status/1802851896689881351
California: state assembly passes bill to add antisemitism training to DEI trainings
Nevada: DEI Vice Chair of the Nevada Public Universities antisemitism, claiming Jews think they are superior because of the Holocaust
https://x.com/MarkGoldfeder/status/1802682482786967831
Canada: Bnai Brith campaign to stop the McGill U summer terrorism camp (it's unreal)
https://www.bnaibrith.ca/mcgill-hate-camp/
Australia: SJP pro-Hamas encampment finally packing down after 8 weeks: "For weeks the camp has been issued cease and desist letters, two students have been suspended, security has removed tents, and prevented the Palestine Action Group protest from entering university grounds on Sunday," – students vow to continue their actions
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-17/free-palestine-student-encampment-begins-to-pack-down-sydney/103988158
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Mon Jun 17
**Toronto School Board: serious shit going down there, vote to occur on Tues Jun 18 – about to pass outrageous rules about ‘anti-palestinian racism’ that will turn factual historical allegations (like ‘Jews are indigenous to israel’ and “there was never a country called Palestine’) into ‘APR’ – plus then allow each incident of APR also count as ‘islamophobia’ and ‘anti-Arab racism’, so counting it as three hate crimes (which will then skew hate crime statistics against the Jews)… school board is denying some 100 Jews who tried to register to speak, says they’re basing it on ‘community voice’ but denying the Jewish community a voice …
https://x.com/DahliaKurtz/status/1802331686044074267
**UK roundup: last few days have been ‘open days’ for prospective students, taken over by pro-Hamas everywhere – incidents at Bristol (where pro-Hamas takes over lectures to blame uni for complicity in genocide, apparently with approval from admins), Leeds encampment refusing to disband
https://x.com/nicolelampert/status/1802334790860910969
*UK: U of Edinburgh voting on divestment today
https://mondoweiss.net/2024/06/divestment-at-the-university-of-edinburgh-breaking-from-balfours-colonial-legacy/
Columbia: pathetic statement from dean of college about the busted rude text chain of their admins, claiming they ‘do not represent the views of any indiv’ – but wait, these were those indivs’ texts!
https://x.com/elianayjohnson/status/1801694798581023071
Columbia: one of the deans changes his linkedin profile pic, after the report comes out, to a photo of himself in Israel
https://x.com/elianayjohnson/status/1801627974308880523
Columbia task force on antisem getting set to release a report documenting the many instances of antisem on campus – Haaretz has a preview to it
https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/2024-06-16/ty-article-magazine/.premium/columbia-task-force-reveals-full-extent-of-antisemitism-on-campus-since-oct-7/00000190-205f-d880-a7f5-b4df117d0000
Cal State LA SJP kicked off Instagram after promoting events using terrorist images
UCLA has not apologized to Chabad rabbi assaulted on its campus
https://freebeacon.com/campus/ucla-has-not-apologized-to-campus-rabbi-assaulted-on-camera/
U of Minnesota rescinds offer to anti-Zionist to head Holocaust Studies center
CUNY City College: Manhattan DA drops felony burglary charges against pro-Hamas protestors
https://x.com/ColumbiaSpec/status/1801626907655475619
New School defaced with red paint
https://x.com/ScooterCasterNY/status/1801707667242516820
Stanford: 400 pro-Hamas walk out of commencement address by president
https://x.com/thestustustudio/status/1802435364247982385
UC Davis: disabled jewish vet sues UC Davis for failure to protect him during encampment – was assaulted with an umbrella … the encampment also blocked the ADA required footpaths, made the campus unsafe for disabled people .. suit claims that the encampment violates the American with Disabilities Act
UC Irvine: Jewish student gets win – after the school’s negative publicity his punishment was essentially lifted and he’ll get his diploma, he was in trouble for swatting an antisemitic poster away from him at an encampment … but still fighting because the ‘warning’ on his record might cause him trouble when he sits for bar exam
NYC: head of elite private school Collegiate School steps down after complaints about handling of Oc 7
NYC: pro-Hamas groups planning to protest outside a synagogue and Jewish elementary school today; counterprotests being organized
https://x.com/_SAFECAMPUS/status/1802439615946637461
Portland State: tho the univ said they wouldn’t prosecute pro-Hamas who ransacked a library incl destroying rare books, they still dox the president posting her private address and photo of her house online, urging people to harass her
https://x.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1801717729067733459
Canada: McGill: backlash to their pro-Hamas’s group ‘summer camp’ for kids, advertised with masked people and machine guns – calls for group to be shut down
https://x.com/CIJAinfo/status/1801623989548208527
Canada: Simon Fraser U admin agrees to discuss divestment from Israel
https://the-peak.ca/2024/06/sfu-administration-to-discuss-divestment-from-israel/
Canada: U of Toronto encampment has/had signs praising ‘protocols of the elders of zion’
https://www.clevelandjewishnews.com/jns/a-tale-of-timidity-at-canada-s-biggest-university/article_b63d5668-3698-56da-87b5-fc98005b6c3e.html
UK: Aberdeen U ongoing encampment, university response to it is itself illegal acc to pro-israel activists
https://x.com/UKLFI/status/1802333821381067125