A weekly roundup of the highlights, and lowlights, of campus antizionism and antisemitism.
I’m your host, Andrew Pessin. For more about me and my work, visit www.andrewpessin.com. For all the details on this week’s stories, and loads more stories, follow me on X: @AndrewPessin.
Each week I mention that I’m offering just a (small) selection of the available stories for the week. Just to make sure we’re all aware of the scope of the situation, this week I’ll post my lists going back to about August 1, so you can see what we’re dealing with. Keep in mind that these weeks include some 4-5 summer weeks, when things are a bit slower for campus affairs. I expect things will be ramping up significantly as we hit the two year anniversary of the Oct 7 massacre.
Sit back, grab a beer or brew, and relax, because here, in all its glory, it is:
Campus Anti-zionism-antisemitism Roundup
Lafayette College running long one-sided anti-Israel film series
https://safejewish.com/groups_dashboard?tab=1&groupEmailShare=1758845566946x203352768681082880
Columbia: Jewish students employed as graduate workers by Columbia University have filed a federal complaint against their campus labor union — Student Workers of Columbia, an affiliate of United Auto Workers (UAW) — alleging that its bosses devote more energy and resources to pursuing “radical policy proposals” than improving occupational conditions. The National Right to Work Foundation (NRTW), a nonprofit organization which fights for worker mobility and freedom of representation that is providing the students legal counsel free of charge, announced the action on Monday. In a release shared with The Algemeiner, it said the students, who have formed the advocacy group Graduate Researchers Against Discrimination and Suppression (GRADS), are subjected to abuses which magnify problems inherent in compulsory union membership — chiefly that they may be forced to accept as representatives of their interests union bosses who act in “bad faith” and hold offensive beliefs.
At Columbia University, this issue has manifested in UAW’s unrelenting effort to inveigle school officials into adopting the boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel and other measures, including abolishing relationships with the New York City Police Department (NYPD) and Tel Aviv University. “These and similar actions constitute bad faith bargaining … and violate the duty of fair representation that respondent union owes to all represented graduate students,” state the charges, which GRAFS filed at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).
https://www.algemeiner.com/2025/09/25/jewish-columbia-university-graduate-employees-file-complaint-against-anti-israel-union/
In a landmark ruling, a California court has decreed that Jewish public school students and their parents can
sue their school district for allowing the use of biased, hostile antisemitic materials in the classroom.
Particularly since Hamas’s October 7, 2023 atrocities in Israel, “Jewish parents have been waging battle
against antisemitic “instructional materials” and instructors that expose their children to harm and hatred,”
said Lori Lowenthal Marcus, the legal director for The Deborah Project (“TDP”), a public interest law firm
that represents Jews facing discrimination in education. “This is the first judicial decision addressing claims
that the use of biased material violates the law. Now it’s clear: indoctrinating kids that Jews are evil
oppressors discriminates against Jews; districts can be held to account and forced to stop doing it.”
This breakthrough ruling was issued in a lawsuit brought by The Deborah Project against the Berkeley
Unified School District (“BUSD”) on behalf of a minor student, A.F. It seeks to bar the use of unvetted,
discriminatory and false materials about the history of the Middle East and the current conflict between the
terrorist government of Gaza and its ideological allies, and the Jewish State of Israel. The Superior Court of
California, Alameda County—ground zero for so much of the antisemitic and anti-Western instructional
materials inflicted on public schoolchildren in Berkeley, throughout California, and across the U.S.—found
that BUSD, its administrators and agents had a legal duty to allow parents see the materials being used, and
that “the very teaching of those materials” can alone constitute illegal discrimination
Philadelphia school district: nearly two years after parents and community members first sounded the alarm about Ismael Jimenez, Director of Social Studies Curriculum, he remains in his position -- continuing to poison this District with antisemitic, hateful, and violent rhetoric.The latest example is appalling even by Jimenez’s own standards: he posted a video clip depicting a neo-Nazi speaking before towering images of Adolf Hitler and other Nazi leaders, using this to liken the assassination of Charlie Kirk to Nazi martyrdom. This is not an abstract reference. It is Nazi propaganda imagery, deliberately invoked to mock Kirk’s murder and to trivialize the Holocaust. That a senior curriculum director would think it acceptable to share Nazi imagery in connection with the real-world assassination of an American citizen is indefensible. And yet, this is fully consistent with Jimenez’s long and disturbing pattern. The District has tolerated his repeated promotion of antisemitism, his open glorification of violence, and his demeaning of Jewish pain. By doing nothing, you have emboldened him.
https://safejewish.com/groups_dashboard?tab=1&groupEmailShare=1758845765446x201260018747834370
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Kenmore West High School (NY) - antisemitic graffiti reading “a swastika a day keeps the Jews away” was spotted in the boy’s bathroom on the eve of Rosh Hashanah.
https://x.com/StopAntisemites/status/1971206312059871653
Duke: dozens of anti-Israel students participate in die-in to protest Gaza war, demand divestment, chanting “Duke admin you can’t hide! You’re supporting genocide!” and “5, 6, 7, 8, Israel is a terrorist state!” Students also chanted “from the river to the sea Palestine will be free.”
MIT professor withdraws from grant from Israel after student BDS pressure
https://theintercept.com/2025/09/22/mit-israeli-military-funding-grant-protests/
Syracuse U: On the first night of Rosh Hashanah, Jewish students at Syracuse University were subjected to an appalling hate crime. Brothers of the Zeta Beta Tau fraternity gathered for a holiday dinner when a student barged in, threw pork onto the floor to desecrate their religious meal, and fled with an accomplice. In fact two students
are being charged with hate crimes, one for driving, the other for entering
https://x.com/Betar_USA/status/1970728048052846909
https://x.com/StopAntisemites/status/1971009494063686128
UCLA: judge orders Trump admin to restore $500M in frozen funding
UC Berkeley/Northwestern: Casey Goonan - member of the “Free Palestine” cult - has been sentenced to nearly twenty years in prison after setting a UC Berkeley. police car on fire as well as attempts on several federal buildings. Goonan acknowledged these attacks were inspired by Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023 attack on Israel and he called on others to attack property on Bay Area college campuses in support of “Palestine”. Goonan graduated from Northwestern University in 2022 with a doctorate in African American studies and is described in online bios as a “scholar-activist” and “abolitionist.” Goonan’s writings describe the United States as a “god-awful fascist hell hole” where social injustices are “concealed under the blinders of white supremacist American reason.”
https://x.com/StopAntisemites/status/1970708966725283901
U of Massachusetts Amherst: Chanting “shame” and “shut it down,” as well as pounding on the walls inside the Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts, student activists on Monday demanded that Raytheon Technologies and similar defense industry contractors be banned from campus due to what they claim is their role in the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. The hourlong action by about 25 students involved with the campus chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine began on the Haigis Mall and then extended into Isenberg’s business innovation hub, where a Palestinian flag was hung on the door to the Irwin M. “Mike” and Rona Chase Career Center, with another draped over a nearby staircase. The students issued a series of demands, including that Raytheon be prohibited from participating in upcoming career fairs.
https://gazettenet.com/2025/09/23/shut-it-down-raytheon-protest-hits-umass/
Canada: U of Waterloo chooses not to renew collaboration with Israel’s Technion after student pro-BDS referendum a few months back
https://x.com/politics_w_sami/status/1970512383412994501
Canada, Toronto Metropolitan U: SJP organized a walkout at Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU) to oppose the treatment of a reported pro-Palestinian protester by an on-campus security guard. Video of the alleged incident that occurred last Friday shows the student allegedly being lifted and slammed to the floor, while another guard assists in pinning her down while she’s being handcuffed. The person arrested by TMU security was one of several individuals who were asked to leave the Dais Democracy Forum event by security due to “disruptive behaviour. One person was arrested at the walkout for criminal harassment.
https://www.torontotoday.ca/local/education/tmu-student-walkout-protester-arrested-11258955
Canada, Concordia: student handbook not only devoted to anti-Israelism, but calendar makes no mention of Christmas, Canada, Chanukah, only Nakba, Cuban Revolution, the Oka Crisis (a land dispute with native americans)
https://x.com/Tablesalt13/status/1970988171799429317
Canada, Concordia U: Almost a year after the Concordia University student strike for Palestine in November 2024, the Fine Arts Student Alliance (FASA) has officially become the first student association at the university to vote for a strike for Palestine this fall. The strike is set to happen from Oct. 6 to Oct. 7, with FASA students voting 53 in favour to 1 at the association’s general assembly (GA) on Sept. 23.
https://thelinknewspaper.ca/article/fasa-first-student-association-to-vote-to-strike-for-palestine
France: Historians Withdraw from Jewish History Colloquium in Paris over Israeli Participation
Five academics withdrew their participation from a Colloquium on the History of French Jews at the Musée d’Art et d’Histoire du Judaïsme (MAHJ) in Paris because of the war in Gaza. The museum deplored this argument as an “unprecedented boycott.” The Colloquium, “Jewish Histories of Paris (Middle Ages and Modern Era),” took place on September 15-16, 2025. The Colloquium intended to bring together 25 French and Israeli historians. One of the intended participants was a doctoral student from the Department of Medieval History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The five researchers who declined to participate cited the fact that the Hebrew University of Jerusalem funded the student. Some researchers argued that participation in the Colloquium ”amounted to support for the Israeli government.” Others referred to the war in Gaza to question the organizational involvement.
Scotland: A student who was slashed in the face at a pro-Palestine demonstration claimed university security staff knew his attacker was carrying a knife and failed to intervene. Ben Law was assaulted by Thomas McKenzie at George Square in Edinburgh earlier this year. McKenzie shouted racist slurs and performed Nazi salutes towards the crowd before he was challenged about his behaviour. The 37-year-old then pulled a “box cutter” blade from his pocket and slashed Mr Law across the face. Earlier today, McKenzie was jailed for 22 months for the attack at Edinburgh Sheriff Court.
https://www.gbnews.com/news/edinburgh-news-university-security-let-down-student-palestine-rally
New Zealand: Victoria University of Wellington’s Academic Board has overwhelmingly voted to endorse SJP campaign of boycott, divestment and other non-violent means to pressure Israel to comply with international humanitarian law and respect Palestinian human rights. Hundreds of students and staff poured into the Hunter Council Chambers in solidarity with Palestine. The motion directs the University to sever ties and not build future ones with institutions complicit in Israel’s violations of Palestinian human rights and breaches of international humanitarian law. This includes any research and academic collaborations with institutions known to be involved in military technologies or doctrines.
https://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=174273
Australia: U of Sydney lecturer no longer employed there after tweeting that he wanted “Zionists executed like we executed Nazis”, not clear if fired or quit
https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/politics/university-of-sydney-refuses-to-say-whether-it-sacked-lecturer-fahad-ali-after-he-tweeted-he-wanted-zionists-executed/news-story/98de2841a540244b2788a99efa4c5dda
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Harvard: President Donald Trump’s administration escalated its campaign against Harvard University on Friday, placing new restrictions on the Ivy League school’s ability to access federal funds for student aid, citing concerns about the “financial position” of the oldest and richest university in the United States.The Department of Education said it had placed Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Harvard on “heightened cash monitoring” status, a shift from the typical practice that will force it to use its own funds to disburse federal student aid before drawing down funds from the department. The Education Department is also seeking to have Harvard post a letter of credit for $36 million to ensure its financial obligations are met.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-education-dept-raises-financial-responsibility-concerns-about-harvard-2025-09-19/
SUNY Binghamton Center for Israel Studies sponsors three-session anti-Israel series
https://www.bupipedream.com/news/center-of-israel-studies-holds-gaza-beyond-the-strip-roundtable/169906/
U of Maryland: The student government at University of Maryland, College Park voted 25 to 1 earlier this week to call upon the public school to “formally and publicly acknowledge the ongoing situation in Gaza as a genocide” and to “issue a public statement urging for an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza.” The resolution also stated that the public school ought to “establish and fund comprehensive support programs for Palestinian students and scholars affected by the ongoing violence.”
https://www.clevelandjewishnews.com/jns/university-of-maryland-student-government-urges-school-to-call-for-ceasefire-in-gaza/article_8e4a071b-1c82-5f24-ad6d-75f1beb9fa1a.html
U of Missouri: judge rules SJP must be permitted to participate in homecoming parade as long as it follows parade rules
Columbia: university promotes Khalidi’s course at pro-Hamas People’s Forum featuring writings by terrorist PFLP member
https://freebeacon.com/campus/columbia-promotes-course-at-pro-hamas-peoples-forum-featuring-pflp-terrorists-teachings/
University leaders among those endorsing US “Jewish” letter condemning Trump’s pressure on universities, accusing him of using antisemitism to attack universities: Notable signatories of the new letter include Michael Roth, the Jewish president of Wesleyan University, who has stood out for sharply and publicly criticizing the Trump administration at a time when other university leaders have sought to make deals to restore federal funding. Many others to sign their names are also academics, including Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of UC Berkeley’s law school, and David N. Myers, a professor at the University of California-Los Angeles and president of the progressive Zionist group New Israel Fund.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/university-leaders-endorse-us-jewish-letter-decrying-trumps-campus-antisemitism-wars/amp/
National Education Association has created a subcommittee that will be doing a three-day hunger strike for Palestine, scheduled (of course) for Oct 8-10
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U of Connecticut: student senate rejects BDS by wide margin: reject Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) referendum questions against Israel on its election ballot. The students convinced the Senators that the questions violated bylaws of neutrality and promoted a biased, hateful agenda.
https://standwithus.com/news/bds-resolution-defeated-by-university-of-connecticut-student-senate/
U of California: anti-Israel protestors do loud protest outside hotel where UC Regents were staying during their meeting, “No sleep for genocide!”, demanding divestment etc – finally cleared with threats of police
Canada, McGill U: professor removed from disciplinary committee after posting pro-Hamas comments, calling for full “military and economic support” for Hamas and Hezbollah
France: According to a recent survey conducted by Ifop for the Representative Council of French Jewish Institutions (CRIF), 31% of young people aged 18 to 24 believe it is legitimate to target French Jews in the name of the ongoing conflict in Gaza.
https://eurojewcong.org/news/communities-news/france/according-to-a-crif-survey-31-of-18-to-24-year-olds-believe-it-is-legitimate-to-attack-french-jews-in-the-context-of-the-gaza-conflict/
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Columbia: An immigration judge in Louisiana has ordered pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil deported to Syria or Algeria for failing to disclose certain information on his green card application.
https://x.com/JewishWarrior13/status/1968435814083244192
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/17/mahmoud-khalil-immigration-deportation-order-00569769
Fairleigh Dickinson U (NJ): prof sues the university for antisemitic discrimination, alleges it’s allowed antisemitism to run rampant after Oct 7 massacre
https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/2025/09/17/fairleigh-dickinson-university-discrimination-lawsuit-adjunct-professor/86181433007/?gnt-cfr=1&gca-cat=pp&gca-ds=override
MIT: Brandeis Center submits amended complaint to ongoing antisemitism lawsuit there bringing forth a new victim of antisemitism there: A Massachusetts Institute of Technology researcher endured anti-Semitic harassment for months until he was ultimately fired “because he is Jewish and Israeli,” according to a lawsuit against the elite university. During the fall 2024 semester, students working alongside the Israeli postdoctoral associate, referred to in the complaint as “John Doe,” “began tormenting and shunning him based on his Jewish and Israeli identity,” and treated him “like a pariah, spewing anti-Semitic slurs and refusing to acknowledge his presence,” according to the complaint filed Wednesday. Doe’s supervising professor never intervened. Instead, he “repeatedly vilified [Doe] in front of students for being Israeli and Jewish,” kicked him out of the lab, gave him menial tasks, and eventually terminated his contract. A new crop of students joined Doe’s research lab in fall 2024 and quickly began harassing him for being Jewish and Israeli. “Students spoke of creating a covert plan to destroy his relationship with his Jewish partner to prevent more Jewish babies,” made remarks like, “Zionists control the world,” and introduced him as “a postdoc from Palestine,” the suit alleges. One student, according to the suit, “collected data on Jews and Israelis on campus,” maintained a list with their personal information, and grilled Doe about other Jews at MIT. She also asked if Doe’s wife was Jewish before adding, “Her nose looks Jewish so she is probably Jewish.”
Doe’s supervising professor, meanwhile, told the entire research group Doe was “an example of someone who cannot see the suffering of Palestinians,” In November 2024, the professor announced he would be terminating Doe’s contract. He later said students had told him they couldn’t stand the presence of “his kind” in the lab and admitted it was because Doe was Jewish.
https://brandeiscenter.com/new-victim-comes-forward-in-existing-anti-semitism-lawsuit-against-mit/
Dartmouth: swastika drawn outside Jewish student’s dorm room
U of Missouri: former head of SJP there charged with assault of another student (probably over Israel though the article doesn’t confirm)
https://abc17news.com/news/crime/2025/09/17/former-head-of-mu-student-palestine-group-charged-with-assault/
Ohio State U: The American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio is suing Ohio State University after a student who posted statements on social media about Israel and Palestine was removed from the school. The ACLU alleges that the First Amendment rights of Guy Christensen, a pro-Palestinian social media figure, were violated and that he was engaging in “protected political speech.” In May 2025, Christensen posted videos to social media recanting a previous condemnation of the shooting of two Israeli embassy staffers in Washington, D.C. and “forcefully and graphically” denouncing Democratic Rep. Ritchie Torres of New York for his “support for Zionism and associations with pro-Israel political entities.” Christensen said that the shooting victims were “war criminals,” and targeted for Zionism, not because of their Jewish identities, according to the lawsuit.
Canada, Concordia U: university distances itself from student handbook filled with anti-Israel propaganda, In an email to The Suburban, Concordia University spokesperson Vannina Maestracci wrote “the CSU is an independent student association, funded by student fee levies, which under Quebec law acts entirely independently from the university, so you would need to talk to the CSU itself about this.” When asked if the university would distance itself from the CSU, given that it represents the student body, and that its actions reflect badly on the university, Maestracci answered yes.
France: students at Panthéon-Sorbonne University in Paris created a group chat on Instagram that excluded several students, accusing them of being Zionists based on their Jewish-sounding names or surnames, French media reported. “If there are any other Zionists in this group besides those I’ve already kicked out, leave now — we don’t want you here,” wrote one of the students who created the group, placing a Palestinian flag in the middle. This latest antisemitic incident follows a similar episode last month, when a student created a poll in a WhatsApp group chat titled, “For or Against Jews?”
Italy, U of Pisa: University of Pisa, where dozens of pro-Palestinian activists stormed a lecture by Professor Rino Casella, whom they had branded a “Zionist.” The group disrupted the class, waved Palestinian flags, and shouted insults at Israel and those cooperating with it. When one of Casella’s students tried to push the protesters out, he was assaulted. Casella, who had initially tried to endure the disruption in silence, stepped in and was also beaten after being threatened for several minutes. He was later taken to the hospital, where he was diagnosed with head injuries and bruises on his arm. He believes he was targeted because he criticized the university’s recent decision to cut all ties with Israel. Flyers circulated against him in recent days described him as a “Zionist.” Casella stressed that he is not Jewish, but simply refusing to denounce Israel was enough for activists to accuse him of “genocide.”
Italy, Polytechnic University of Turin: where Israeli Professor Pini Zorea of the Braude College of Engineering in Karmiel was invited to teach a course. Protesters disrupted his lecture, accusing him of supporting Israeli “apartheid” through facial recognition technology. Zorea, filmed during the incident, tried to respond calmly. The discussion shifted to military issues, and he acknowledged having served in the Israel Defense Forces years ago, describing the IDF as “the purest army in the world.” The remark sparked uproar, and he was accused of justifying violence. To chants of “Free Palestine,” he replied that he too wanted to see Palestine free—but “free of Hamas.”
After learning of the exchange, the university rector, Stefano Cornietti, suspended Zorea. “As soon as I heard these unacceptable statements, I immediately ended the cooperation with the lecturer,” Cornietti said. “The Polytechnic has always strongly condemned all acts of violence in this war and protested against the ongoing slaughter of civilians in Gaza.”
--rem a few weeks ago a prof at U of Palermo urged all his followers to unfriend all Jews, “even the good ones”
Germany: sign in German town: “Jews have a house ban here – nothing personal nor antisemitic, but you can’t stay here”
https://x.com/StandWithUs/status/1968617613753283001
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Brown University: SJP reinstated, but on probation for the year; Still under probation, SJP remains unable to hold rallies or demonstrations for the remainder of the academic year, according to Clark and Doucet. But starting November, the group is permitted to hold general body meetings and can begin hosting teach-ins and speaker events.
https://www.browndailyherald.com/article/2025/09/sjp-reinstated-as-a-student-group-on-probation-following-external-investigation
Princeton: The Princeton Police Department has stepped up patrols of the town’s Jewish Center on Nassau Street. The shift comes in the wake of half a dozen reported incidents of graffiti around town beginning in mid-August that are being investigated as “bias intimidation incidents.”
The first incidents of graffiti were both reported on Aug. 15 in two separate public parks — one on Mountain Avenue and one on Snowden Lane. The former involved the defacement of two buildings which read “Death to the IDF,” referring to the Israel Defense Forces; “Global Intifada;” and “Feed Gaza.” In the latter, statements expressing similar sentiments — “Death to the IDF! Global Intifada” and “From the River to the Sea” — were painted in white on restroom doors.
U of Missouri: CAIR suing the school over its decision to bar SJP from participating in homecoming parade last year and again this year; the school cites safety concerns and adopted a new policy prohibiting any political groups from participating
University of California: Labor unions, faculties and students in the University of California education system, and the AAUP sued President Donald Trump’s administration on Tuesday over the freezing of federal funds and other actions that they say aim to stifle academic freedom. The lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, seeks to forbid the government from using financial threats against the system that it said were harmful and unlawful. It also aims to restore funding already suspended.
https://www.aaup.org/news/aaup-files-suit-university-california-case
U of Maryland: anti-israel students, who passed BDS in student govt last year, are angry the university didn’t comply, so are reintroducing ANOTHER BDS resolution to student govt this year – and key procedures are scheduled for the two days of Rosh Hashana
Swarthmore: SJP suspended indefinitely, no longer recognized, no funding, no events
Launch of new organization: International Jewish Advocacy Center (IJAC), a federation of like-minded groups dedicated to defending Jewish communities and advocating for Israel on the global stage. Together, these organizations will collaborate on legal, diplomatic, and grassroots initiatives to: Confront antisemitism worldwide. Provide accurate information and education about Israel. Support communities facing political, cultural, or legal challenges related to Jewish and Israeli identity.Build coordinated responses to efforts that delegitimize Israel or seek to undermine Jewish communal rights.
ADL-World Union of Jewish students survey: The vast majority of Jewish students around the world resort to hiding their Jewishness and support for Israel on university campuses to avoid becoming victims of antisemitism, according to a new survey conducted by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and the World Union of Jewish Students (WUJS). A striking 78 percent of Jewish students have opted to “conceal” their religious affiliation “at least once” over the past year, the study found, with Jewish women being more likely than men to do so. Meanwhile, 81 percent of those surveyed hid their support for Zionism
Canada, McGill U: anti-Israel students organizing a ‘strike for Palestine’ on Oct 7 anniversary; Jewish student protests: This isn’t a strike. It’s glorifying terror. This isn’t activism. It’s retraumatization. This isn’t safety. It’s complicity. The last time this happened, students were physically assulted and there were riot police on campus. Additionally, property was destroyed and vadnalized with antizionist, antisemitic grafiti
@mcgillu, needs to put a stop to this NOW
UK: Jewish charity CST launches 24/7 antisemitism hotline for Jewish students
https://www.thejc.com/community/cst-launches-campus-antisemitism-hotline-u8q28k3j
Scotland, U of Glasgow: their anti-israel group there proclaims it is going to “seize their demands” from the university “by any means necessary”
https://x.com/HeidiBachram/status/1968108866027258271
Sweden: Union of Swedish Jewish Students report finds “alarming” increasing antisemitism in country’s universities: 88% of Jewish students and staff say their sense of safety on campus has worsened since October 7. Half of the respondents report that they have experienced or witnessed antisemitic incidents at their universities, ranging from verbal abuse to social exclusion. Equally concerning, 50% state that they have considered avoiding campus altogether out of fear or discomfort.
https://eurojewcong.org/news/communities-news/sweden/union-of-swedish-jewish-students-report-reveals-increasing-levels-of-antisemitism-in-the-countrys-universities/
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George Washington U: Students for Justice in Palestine chapter is promoting an interview with convicted terrorist Georges Ibrahim Abdallah. Abdallah, leader of the Lebanese Armed Revolutionary Factions, was convicted in France for: -Complicity in the 1982 assassinations of U.S. Army Lt. Col. Charles R. Ray and Israeli diplomat Yacov Bar-Simantov in Paris. -Involvement in the 1984 attempted assassination of U.S. Consul General Robert O. Homme in Strasbourg. -Possession of illegal weapons, explosives, and false passports at the time of his arrest. In the same interview, Abdallah praised Elias Rodriguez — the alleged killer of two embassy staffers — and urged others in the West to mimic him.
https://x.com/thestustustudio/status/1967685674196201561
American Historical Assn: campaign to get an anti-Israel ‘solidarity with Gaza’ resolution on the agenda for upcoming January 2026 meeting
https://preview.mailerlite.io/emails/webview/488073/164975508978665161
U of Missouri: new homecoming parade policy bans political groups (SJP has been excluded from the parade for ‘safety’ reasons; they’ve sued the university for barring them from last year’s parade)
Academic Engagement Network: Holds ‘Antisemitism Symposium’ in Washington, DC for College Administrators, College administrators from across the US will amass in Washington, DC, this week for a three-day symposium on combating campus antisemitism, a sign of growing recognition that anti-Jewish hatred threatens not only Jewish students but all of higher education. The event will be attended by administrators representing dozens of institutions such as Harvard University, Barnard College, and George Washington University,
Deerfield high school (IL): A teacher at Deerfield High School used her social media — accounts followed by many of her students — to spread anti-Israel propaganda. She tied her identity as a teacher to those accounts, blurring the line between private opinion and professional authority. Parents spoke out. Students spoke out. Yet there was no discipline. Instead, she filed a lawsuit claiming her posts were “protected speech.” And now, the District 113 Board of Education is preparing to quietly settle — paying her with your tax dollars and hiding the fact a settlement even happened. Think about what that means. In one of the most Jewish school districts in America, a teacher may walk away with a paycheck for vilifying Israel — and by extension, Jewish families and students. The bill gets handed to you.
https://x.com/ChiJewishAllies/status/1967725474500743397
Canada, McGill U: Bnai Brith sponsoring a class action antisemitism lawsuit, soliciting students to join the lawsuit
https://mcgillclassaction.ca/
UK: Campaign Against Antisemitism looking for student ambassadors for UK universities, while StandWithUs launches Emerson Fellowships (students) at UK universities as well
https://x.com/antisemitism/status/1967893210119721317
https://x.com/RozRothstein/status/1967658012551852266
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MIT: MIT Police is investigating several incidents of hateful messages and images on campus over the last week, many of them celebrating violence. The university’s president says in two cases, they found hand-drawn swastikas as well as a sign wishing violence on a conservative non-profit.
https://www.boston25news.com/news/local/mit-police-investigating-after-string-hate-messages-found-campus/NKKACP3WG5AETEDJ5FHW3Z2XVM/
U of Louisville: Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) organized a picket in opposition to the University of Louisville’s partnerships with companies supporting Israel in Israel and Palestine’s ongoing military and political conflict. The Louisville Students for Justice in Palestine is a recognized student organization that fights for Palestinian liberation from the University of Louisville campus. This specific protest took place in front of the Speed School Career Fair, which hosted 82 companies today, at L&N Credit Union Stadium. Protesters called attention to attendees who supply to Israel, including GE Aerospace, Raytheon Technologies, Gulfstream Aerospace, and Toyota.
San Jose State U: anti-israel students silently disrupt jobs fair, holding signs condemning Lockheed for complicity in genocide etc
California state legislature passes controversial bill to fight antisemitism in K-12: During the process of negotiating AB 715, the California Teachers Association (CTA) emerged as a major obstacle and repeatedly acted in bad faith. This drew condemnation from Jewish organizations across the state, including StandWithUs. Numerous local chapters of CTA have promoted antisemitism, especially since the massacre on October 7. For example, the largest union within CTA – United Teachers of Los Angeles (UTLA) – demanded that Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) cut all ties with Echoes and Reflections, one of the leading Holocaust education providers in the United States.
UK: Britain has banned Israelis from The Royal College of Defence Studies in the upcoming year.
https://x.com/HenMazzig/status/1967236048104063229
Ireland: Trinity and other schools: 52 Palestinian students from Gaza successfully landed in Ireland to begin their studies upon successful visa and evacuation approval. Among them, 5 are set to start at Trinity, according to Trinity BDS. The four groups related to this effort are student activist organisations (including Trinity BDS, the UCD Students’ Union, among others), Irish Universities (including Trinity), the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) in Ireland and Palestine, and the Department of Justice (DOJ). In their official statement on Instagram, Trinity BDS called the entry a “Victory to the Students!”
https://universitytimes.ie/2025/09/111987-palestine-gaza-52-students-welcomed-trinity-bds-ucd-doj-dfa-university-sanctuary-scholarships-simon-harris/
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Friday Sept 12
**Queens College: An Israeli law professor was only minutes into her online lecture about the erosion of the rights of women and sexual minorities in her country on Monday when an eruption of hate and misogyny filled the screen. The Queens College event — which was happening over Zoom — was abruptly interrupted by what appeared to be a group of attendees who turned on their cameras and microphones and began yelling slurs, including “kill all the Jews” and “go back to Auschwitz.” Instead of faces on the screen, pornographic and disturbing images appeared, including pictures of dead bodies and video clips of male masturbation.
NOTE: she is a critic of the Gaza war, and appears to be very critical of much Israel, but targeted anyway
Lecture sponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies there
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/nyregion/antisemitic-slurs-queens-college-lecture.html
Brandeis U: “Jewish Deis Bund” organization already active at start of school, violating rules and harassing Jewish students. Released an article titled “This Is a Colonial Campus: Brandeis’ War Against Dissent” on Substack and other platforms, targeting a student by name and accusing them of “a war crime” for their service in the IDF. They shared screenshots revealing the full names of students involved in the Israeli Culture group chat, claiming they were engaging in “targeted harassment and doxxing” of Bund members. Set up a table at the Fall Involvement Fair to distribute anti-Israel materials. When their table was removed, they scattered mock hostage posters on the grass, depicting Gazan children with headlines designed to evoke bloodshed. The fair, hosted by the Department of Student Engagement, was meant for recognized student organizations, and the Bund is not one of them. Distributed pamphlets accusing “Zionist students” and the administration of attempting to “silence you.” These pamphlets made serious allegations, including stalking and threats against “Zionist students.” They even named a student who manages an Instagram page for Jewish Brandeis students, likely violating the doxxing rule again
https://safejewish.com/groups_dashboard?tab=1&groupEmailShare=1757642664856x357810785831616500
Washington state: mass ‘walk out for Palestine’ in schools scheduled to commemorate Oct 7; organizing group are not hiding their intent. Their Instagram accounts and flyers openly call for:- “One Palestine from the river to the sea” -- an eliminationist slogan rejecting Israel’s existence and the Jewish right to self-determination [2].- Branding Israel as a “genocidal state” -- echoing Hamas propaganda while erasing the reality of Hamas’s atrocities [2].- Describing October 7th as “resistance” and “heroism” -- glorifying the slaughter, rape, and kidnapping of Jews [2].- Sharing graphics of masked militants and flags associated with designated terrorist groups
https://safejewish.com/groups_dashboard?tab=1&groupEmailShare=1757641410639x980860661177253900
Canada: Carleton U hosting imam who openly praises Oct 7 and calls to eliminate Zionist profs at universities
https://x.com/DrCaseyBabb/status/1966250520412303420
Portugal: Israeli professor removed from conference 2nd World Congress on Migration, Ethnicity, Race & Health after refusing demand he issue a public statement acknowledging “illegal occupation and acts of genocide,” and called for ‘Israel’ to end the occupation.
https://en.royanews.tv/news/63061
Israelis/Jews being erased from world stage this past week:
Chess. Eurovision. Philharmonic. Tennis. Spain. Ireland. Belgium. Canada. More & more examples of erasure of ‘the Jew’, barred from an equal place in the family of nations - in sports, culture, every day life…after decades of systematic demonization, delegitimization, & double standards in & by the institutions, orgs, principles created & entrusted to uphold & protect post WWII int’l rules based order…so that “Never Again”. Normalizing openly declared genocidal intent - of a criminal Islamic regime in Iran, terror proxies, enablers & collaborators - for a ‘judenfrei’ world.
Belgium cancelling German orchestra bc of Israel conductor; Canada Davis cup won’t allow spectators to watch Israeli team play; several European countries announce they’ll withdraw from Eurovision if Israel participates; Spain harasses Israeli chess team, can’t play under Israeli flag, leaving Palestinian flag up, forcing them to different hotel, they finally withdraw
https://x.com/CotlerWunsh/status/1966452600124924343
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Thurs Sept 11
New survey by ADL/AEN: Much of the antisemitism on college campuses is fueled by faculty and staff — both on campus and within professional academic organizations. Seventy-three percent of the 209 Jewish faculty members polled from universities around the U.S. reported observing antisemitic activities or statements from faculty, administrators or staff on campuses, including calls to boycott Israel and doxxing campaigns. Forty-four percent said they were aware of an organized Faculty for Justice in Palestine chapter on their campus.
Brandeis Center Vice Chair Rachel Lerman testified before the @EdWorkforceCmte on the pervasive problem of anti-Semitism in K-12 education at a hearing, “From Playground to Classroom: The Spread of Antisemitism in K-12 Schools.”
https://x.com/brandeiscenter/status/1965840576743440488
U of Massachusetts Amherst: demands that upcoming Coalition of Women in German conference on their campus suspend its BDS enforcement – such a policy violates their discrimination/exclusion policies
Columbia:— the @Columbia encampment leader student of “You’re lucky I’m not going around murdering Zionists” infamy — took to X today to praise @charliekirk’s murder and incite violence. Called for “More! More!” and “Down with all fascists” James was never expelled. What is @Columbia waiting for?
https://x.com/shoshanaaufzien/status/1965912558969426319
https://freebeacon.com/america/more-more-columbia-encampment-organizer-khymani-james-who-fantasizes-about-murdering-zionists-celebrates-charlie-kirks-murder/
Barnard: student who leads Columbia SJP publicly wishes for the Prime Minister of Israel to be assassinated like Charlie Kirk was today. “Inshallah you’re next”
https://x.com/CampusJewHate/status/1965965978917015828
New York University NYU: Campus Safety is “vigorously” investigating the defacement of a Weinstein Hall door “with antisemitic graffiti” that took place Tuesday night, President Linda Mills and Campus Safety head Fountain Walker said in a universitywide memo Wednesday morning. Walker and Mills said that the university is “providing support to the victim” and has cleared the graffiti from the door. NYU’s Title VI Coordinator’s Office and the New York City Police Department are investigating the incident, which they called “a terrible violation of our community’s rules and norms.” This marks the second publicly addressed perpetration against Jewish students since the academic year has ramped up. On Aug. 31, a student’s mezuzah was stolen from their Weinstein Hall dorm door. “The targeting of a Jewish student is inexcusable raw hatred,” the administrators said in the memo. “NYU has a zero-tolerance policy towards antisemitism and other forms of hatred.”
https://nyunews.com/news/2025/09/10/weinstein-door-defaced-antisemitic-grafitti/
UC Berkeley: UC Berkeley has provided the personal information of roughly 160 students, staff and faculty to the federal government in a directive from the UC Office of the President. In an attempt to comply with an investigation into alleged campus antisemitism by the Department of Education, Office of Civil Rights, or OCR, UC Berkeley released the names of individuals and their “potential connection” to reports of alleged antisemitism, according to an email from campus spokesperson Janet Gilmore. Affected individuals received an email Sept. 4 from the campus Office of Legal Affairs notifying them that their names and information had been released. The message said the information had been disclosed over two weeks earlier.
ADL publishes backgrounder/report on Faculty for Justice in Palestine
https://www.adl.org/resources/backgrounder/faculty-and-staff-justice-palestine-fsjp
This morning Jewish students from *Hume Fogg High School* in Nashville were met with a gut punch when they arrived to school. The Muslim Student group declared today _Keffiyeh Day_ while promoting a map of Israel as Palestine. How did this happen and how will this be remedied? Imagine seeing your friends walking around in a Keffiyeh. So unsettling. So upsetting. *Please sign this letter to support our children there.*
https://app.ActivistMailer.com/KeffiyehDayHumeFogg
**Canada: Western U: the university just ran a masterclass in institutional gaslighting. Jewish students infiltrated pro-Palestinian chat groups on campus and uncovered a cesspool: - Tips on concealing knives at protests (”bring oranges as an excuse”) -Hitler memes celebrating “6 million” Holocaust victims - Threats to “pop some Israelis” and use rocks to “fix” Jewish students’ brains - Strategic antisemitism coaching (”If you get caught referring to them as Jews they’ll get you for antisemitism and ruin ur life... refer to them as Zionists”) When presented with timestamped evidence, Western University REFUSED to investigate because the Jewish complainants wouldn’t paint targets on their own backs and reveal their identities (citing safety fears). @WesternU had names, screenshots, a complete roadmap to campus pro-Palestinian Jew-hate. They chose to protect the perpetrators instead.
https://x.com/ShamirIdit/status/1965935755269652640
https://x.com/nationalpost/status/1965765473355923616
Canada: McGill U takes no action against prof who publicly stated “it’s time to give full military support to Hamas and Hezbollah”
UK: Leeds students reportedly posted images which appear to glorify a terror attack in Jerusalem, in which six people were murdered. https://thejc.com/news/uk/leeds-students-celebrate-jerusalem-terror-attack-with-post-about-legendary-machine-gun-iz5ml0h1 The posts reportedly feature a Carlo machine gun draped in a keffiyeh and Al-Aqsa Mosque with a giant gun. The celebration of a brutal attack by a proscribed terrorist organisation is not ‘political expression’ but extremist propaganda and it endangers Jewish people everywhere. Our latest polling shows that one in ten young people in Britain now hold a favourable view of Hamas. Posts like this illustrate that statistic and demonstrate that this dangerous extremism is pervasive. @UniversityLeeds must expel the students responsible for this post. Our lawyers are also reviewing this material. Those who glorify antisemitic terrorism in Britain must be held to account.
https://x.com/antisemitism/status/1965837681201438756
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Wed Sept 10
Harvard: new mandatory student training equates criticizing Hamas supporters with racism: dictates that calling someone a ‘terrorist sympathizer’ violates its anti-discrimination policy.
Northwestern U: longtime prof at Qatar campus previously worked for years at an organization found liable for funneling money to Hamas … and multiple faculty members there openly support Hamas, incl after Oct 7
https://freebeacon.com/campus/northwestern-universitys-new-president-was-force-behind-controversial-relationship-with-qatar/
Northwestern U: new president was the main force behind setting up the Qatar affiliation when he was previously president
Temple U: updates student conduct code to deal with antisemitism, using some ADL recommendations: Identity concealment rules were added to the policy, along with specific examples of bias: prohibiting students from wearing masks with intent to intimidate any person or group or for the purpose of evading identification while violating the law or university policy. The updated policy also provides specific examples of prohibited bias, specifically referring to antisemitism, Islamophobia, anti-Israeli, anti-Arab, anti-Asian and anti-Mexican discrimination and harassment.
Temple U: but JVP encouraged masks at a recent protest, in violation of the ban, claiming the masks were for their safety and ‘not to intimidate’
Union antisemitism running rampant on campuses: Experts told the US Congress on Tuesday that antisemitism runs rampant in campus labor unions, trapping Jews in exploitative and nonconsensual relationships with union bosses who spend their compulsory membership dues on political activities which promote hatred of their identity and the destruction of the Jewish homeland. Some egs: At MIT, “union officers” aided a riotous mob which illegally occupied a section of campus with a “Gaza Solidarity Encampment,” participating in the demonstration and even denying access to campus buildings. UE members at Stanford University, meanwhile, allegedly denied religious accommodations to Jewish students who requested exemption from union dues over that branch’s supporting the boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel. And Cornell University UE was accused of denying religious exemptions in several cases as well and followed up the rejection with an intrusive “questionnaire” which probed Jewish students for “legally-irrelevant information.”
Pennsylvania, Delaware: deep dive into CAIR’s affiliations not only with Philadelphia schools but other school districts in PA and Delaware
Sen. Cotton requests Education Dept look into CAIR’s relationship to K-12 schools
https://x.com/FreeBeacon/status/1965513363624206656
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Tues Sept 9
Columbia: allegation that the Qur’an is required reading for all first year students [I’m guessing it’s part of the ‘Contemp Civilizn’ course that many are required to take?]
https://x.com/Olivia_Reingold/status/1965169406289609039
Northwestern: A Middle East Forum investigation released today reveals that Northwestern University employs a professor at its Qatar campus who co-founded an organization that laundered money for Hamas to teach mandatory courses to American exchange students at the university’s Qatar campus. The report documents how Qatar’s $737 million investment in Northwestern since 2007 has led to systematic violations of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by creating a hostile environment for Jewish students.
U of North Carolina hit with load of anti-Israel graffiti spray painted in major places
https://www.dailytarheel.com/article/2025/09/university-south-building-paint-demonstration
U of Kentucky prof is under investigation for antisemitism and calling for violence: “The destruction of Israel is a global, moral imperative. Israel doesn’t have the right to exist.” (right) President Eli Capilouto. He quietly reassigned the professor to another post so he could collect his paycheck while under investigation.
https://x.com/NizNellie3/status/1965132976217346222
Santa Clara CA: Board of Education President embraces terror-aligned activists : On Monday September 8, Santa Clara County Board of Education President Maimona Afzal Berta took part in a webinar hosted by Arab Resource and Organizing Center- Action, the political advocacy arm of Arab Resource and Organizing Center (AROC). AROC is a convening organizer of the “People’s Conference for Palestine” alongside Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM) and the U.S. Palestinian Community Network (USPCN). Both PYM and USPCN have ties to the U.S. designated terror organization the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), and both groups expressed support for Hamas’ October 7 terror attack.
https://substack.com/home/post/p-173148817
2500+ actors, filmmakers, etc. pledge to boycott the Israeli film industry for its ‘complicity in genocide’
https://www.jpost.com/bds-threat/article-866820
https://www.algemeiner.com/2025/09/09/thousands-hollywood-figures-vow-boycott-israeli-film-institutions-complicit-genocide-apartheid/
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Mon Sept 8
Northwestern: revelations from president’s closed interview with Congress some weeks back: Northwestern University’s contract with Hamas-allied Qatar, where the school operates a satellite campus, includes a clause that effectively forbids students and faculty from criticizing the Qatari regime. In an echo of Qatar’s penal code, which criminalizes criticism of its government and flag and bans the posting of online content that the Qatari regime deems harmful, a Northwestern Qatar student was “arrested over a tweet,” according to the House interview. Schill confirmed in his House interview that anti-Semitism training offered at Northwestern’s main campus is not offered in Qatar. “I don’t know what the reason would be” for that disparity, Schill said. Since Northwestern opened its Qatar campus in 2008, Schill testified, Qatar has provided the school with $737 million. “Basically 90 percent” of that money “covers direct costs of the Qatar campus,” he said. The rest benefits Northwestern’s U.S. campus. When anti-Israel student radicals pitched tents on campus in violation of school rules last spring, Schill declined to “use force to remove the tents,” he said during the House interview, because Northwestern’s police force was too “tiny” and school administrators feared some encampment participants may have been armed.
https://x.com/FreeBeacon/status/1963970872072343980
U of Pittsburgh: On Aug. 21, T. Elon Dancy II, a professor in the School of Education, filed a lawsuit in federal court in Pittsburgh against Pitt and the school’s dean, Eboni M. Zamani-Gallaher. Dancy alleges that he was removed in October 2024 as the Helen S. Faison endowed chair and executive director of the Center for Urban Education — positions he had held since 2018 — because of his support for Palestinians and other related issues. [note: he’s still a professor there, was merely removed from those positions]
https://www.utimes.pitt.edu/news/professor-sues-pitt-over
Temple University: A group of more than 50 demonstrators, organized by the Temple Action Solidarity Coalition, gathered at the Bell Tower for a “Dis-Orientation Rally” at 4 p.m. Thursday. Protesters wore keffiyehs, masks, Temple merch, carried Palestinian flags and held signs that read “Temple funds genocide” … Organizers also demanded a complete disclosure of Temple investments and a subsequent divestment from Israel in accordance with the Boycott, Divest and Sanction movement. The rally occurred just one week after President John Fry announced Temple’s updated Student Conduct Code and changed the Policy on Preventing and Addressing Discrimination and Harassment to reflect the recommendations of the Anti-Defamation League’s Campus Antisemitism Report Card. Temple’s new code considers identity concealment, including face masks with intent to intimidate, a violation to its policies, and also the use of megaphones violated rules … The university announced the protest was not in compliance and is investigating
https://temple-news.com/temple-finds-protest-noncompliant-with-university-guidelines-potential-safety-hazard/
U of Connecticut: Student Govt dissolves a committee responsible for modifying a referendum calling for the University to divest from the military-industrial complex. The referendum will be put before the senate in its current form on Sept. 17. Committee was formed in February when the referendum was first put into consideration, consisted of opposed groups (JVP, SJP, but also Jewish groups) but was dysfunctional from the start, and didn’t propose any amendments.
https://dailycampus.com/2025/09/05/usg-senate-votes-to-dissolve-committee-on-divestment-referendum/
hundreds of academics call on the Internat’l Assn of Genocide Scholars to retract their ludicrous resolution last week labeling Israel’s actions as genocide – over 400 signatures as of Monday, 4x the number on the original petition, plus these folks are signing their names publicly unlike the anonymous original
https://x.com/EFischberger/status/1964331971833708568
https://x.com/IzaTabaro/status/1964924326630785277
Philadelphia SJP (incl Temple, Drexel, Penn, Swarthmore) lead protest: congregated at the Cecil B. Moore Plaza at 3 p.m. on Saturday, wearing keffiyehs and masks and toting signs that read “No Temple pride in silencing genocide,” “Glory to the resistance” and “Day & Zimmermann Out of Philly.”
The demonstrators began marching down Broad Street to the Day & Zimmermann building by Spring Garden at 3:30 p.m. They protested outside of the building, a corporate office for the ammunition manufacturer, for an hour, as they’ve done every Tuesday morning since June 3 with the goal of stopping weapons production in Philadelphia.
https://temple-news.com/demonstrators-march-down-broad-street-demanding-day-zimmermanns-departure/
“Anti-Zionist Jewish Front”: seems to be a new, more militant version of JVP, right now consisting of members of schools from DC area: Georgetown, George Washington U, American U
https://www.facebook.com/groups/656718683235049/posts/1106751554898424/?__cft__[0]=AZVZoTuDheuWFXL0kzhrTAEMpV7lxXkA66A4zq2Phl1O5XsVWotOIxa4T-6rLijFodN0lAnmA1BiEnueCGyDqCe6W60sZcK1Ki3w89y-3b3XZvABXVgAB_0nwq4aZUbrdMFfFAJ_yrrM4DnfY5n6qJtGggDIUyD9ZeDLkz5PWgQiL3EguRV-aBEch2cL2uyqXkv7BnmcUAJDZTrLqCtEQPSR&__tn__=%2CO%2CP-R
New York City mayoral candidate Mamdani protests ‘criminalization of solidarity for Palestinian rights,’ and vows to halt law enforcement against anti-Israel campus protests
https://www.israelhayom.com/2025/09/07/mamdani-calls-for-halting-enforcement-against-anti-israeli-campus-protests/
San Diego School District trains teachers via ‘Ethnic Studies’ curricula about the 9-11 World Trade Center attack but takes an Arab-Muslim centric approach, and essentially teaches that the main victims were Muslims … and the main person leading the trainer is openly anti-Israel
Brooklyn high school: displaying a massive Palestinian flag in the middle of a hallway in school, despite protests by Jewish teachers
https://x.com/EYakoby/status/1964394164411335129
U of Amsterdam: embattled Jewish students there, ostracized and marginalized, establish an antisemitism helpline
https://nltimes.nl/2025/09/05/jewish-students-amsterdam-university-start-anti-semitism-helpline
Canada: Concordia U student handbook for this year features on cover photos of anti-Israel demonstrators, and is filled with pro-Palestinian material throughout
https://x.com/DahliaKurtz/status/1963940817317339198
Montreal, Canada: article summarizing the many antisemitic incidents just in August
https://thecjn.ca/news/for-montreals-jewish-community-august-was-a-month-marked-by-hate-crimes-and-antisemitic-attacks/
--man dressed in a caftan and keffiyeh headwrap, filming people, as he boldly strolls through the streets threatening Jews: videotaped walking around a heavily Jewish west-end neighbourhood in the Saint-Laurent borough calling Jews and others “fucking pigs,” and “we will kill you,” that he was waiting “for the order of the king … There is one king, Allah.”
--the beating of a Jewish man in front of his children: The man was at a small neighbourhood park with his three daughters. His young girls can be seen in the video clinging to him and screaming in Yiddish. The assailant then stopped hitting the man and walked away, but not before picking up the victim’s kippah from the ground and chucking it into a puddle.
--an attack on Jewish marchers at the Aug. 10 Pride Parade, which until days earlier had banned Jewish groups from participating: On Aug. 10, Montreal police arrested a 35-year-old woman for assault with a weapon, after one or more balloons filled with what appeared to be urine were launched at a group of Jewish marchers at the Montreal Pride Parade.
--Then in the early hours of the morning on Aug. 22 and Aug. 25, a man travelled to the heavily Jewish community of Hampstead and set fire to the Israeli flags flying outside its town hall since October 2023, filming himself in the process and announcing that the flag wherever it would be found must be “reduced to ash.”
--On Aug. 20, a minor was arrested in Montreal for allegedly planning an attack on behalf of the Islamic State (ISIS), the young man had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State and was trying to obtain an AK-47 rifle style weapon,
--Also in court next month is the woman seen in another video that went viral, walking around at the November 2024 Quebec student strike making a Nazi salute and threatening Jewish students with “the final solution.”
--October will also see the return to court of other high-profile cases, including that of Mahdi Ahmed Abdirazak, the 22-year-old accused in the overnight shooting at a Montreal Jewish school in November 2023, and of Samy Shaat, arrested for allegedly making threats of bodily harm or death, willfully promoting hatred against an identifiable group, and willfully promoting antisemitism, just days after the October 7 attacks on Israel
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Friday Sept 5
Northwestern U President, much condemned for his failure to address antisemitism, resigns
https://x.com/IsraelWarRoom/status/1963683476659482823
Northwestern: during closed House testimony Schill is asked if he was disturbed that the professor NU hired as part of the encampment deal had been hanging out with Sinwar in Gaza, and his response is: “I’ve never been to Gaza, but it’s a pretty small place, and that you are going to meet people and talk to people.”
https://x.com/rich_goldberg/status/1963797980601078092
Columbia Taps Radical Anti-Israel Prof Who Has Accused Jewish State of Ethnic Cleansing To Lead Initiative on ‘Meaningful Dialogue’
Columbia: Three members of Columbia University Apartheid Divest, a coalition of over 80 university student groups that Instagram banned earlier this year for promoting violence, protested Columbia Hillel’s club fair, distributing fliers urging Jewish students to “drop Hillel” because it “supports genocide.”
https://jewishinsider.com/2025/09/columbia-university-new-school-year-antisemitism-anti-israel-demonstrators/?utm_source=cio
Johns Hopkins medical school professor posts: “Israel is a terrorist state.” “Zionists are a scourge on humanity.” “Our greatest ally fights for the right to gang r*ape prisoners.”
https://x.com/NizNellie3/status/1963574538068717967
Adelphi U: after recently suspending SJP for violating rules, the university rules that a faculty member, who is also a member of Adelphi’s Bias Response Team and faculty appointments committee, created a hostile environment for Jews on campus. In addition to those social media posts specifically cited in Adelphi’s determination, this campaign includes denying the rape of Israeli women on October 7, 2023; blaming the Jewish state for crises such as American homeslessness and budget cuts to the L.A. Fire Department that hurt victims of the L.A. wildfires; promoting conspiracy theories blaming Israel for the United States’ TikTok ban; and describing Israel as the source of “all censorship and attacks on free speech.” Determined that these were not “criticisms of Israel” but attacks on Israel/Israelis.
https://brandeiscenter.com/adelphi-university-rules-faculty-member-created-hostile-environment-for-jews-on-campus/
New York City Schools: giving space to Woke Kindergarten - a program that glorifies “martyrs,” tells children to boycott Israel, and redefines violence as “resistance.” New York City classrooms must be safe havens for learning, not pipelines for hate. Yet Akiea Gross, the founder of Woke Kindergarten, is publicly advertising that she is “back in the kindergarten classroom in New York” [1]. This is not rumor or speculation - it is her own announcement, made in her words and images, openly promoted on social media.
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San Francisco Teachers Union: Jewish teacher loses lawsuit on appeal: sued his union for sending out a flyer celebrating the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas massacre and accusing Israel of genocide. The teacher, Lee Miller, said the image on the flyer resembled a terrorist.The flyer’s background featured an illustration of a person wearing a kaffiyeh as a face mask, which to Miller resembled a Hamas terrorist. Judge decides the teacher didn’t demonstrate he suffered adequate ‘emotional distress’ (teacher didn’t submit psychological evalns, medical records, etc.)
Texas for Palestine “Texas for Palestine” is threatening Jewish community centers and synagogues in Houston, Texas. They are giving out the names of Rabbis and phone numbers and trying to intimidate the Jewish community. They say they “need to do a better job making Zionists (Jews) unwelcome in ‘their space’.” This is incredibly dangerous and comes at the heels of the People’s Conference for Palestine this past weekend whose agenda stated they wanted to “ISOLATE AND EXPOSE ZIONISM (JEWS) BY MAKING IT IMPOSSIBLE TO RECOVER ITS IMAGE AFTER THIS GENOCIDE.”
https://x.com/anjewla90/status/1963847351136559485
Scottish Parliament votes to adopt BDS against Israel
https://x.com/PSCupdates/status/1963594561533403517
Thurs Sept 4
UC Berkeley: ‘Wanted’ posters put up for Jewish regents members Jay Sures, Richard Leib (Sures has had his house vandalized too in recent months, and recently lost a court case trying to get a restraining order against the head of the SJP there)
https://x.com/StopAntisemites/status/1963415336444674440
San Francisco State U: Professor Rama Ali Kased uses her academic position to promote eliminationist rhetoric, organize BDS activity, and collaborate with extremist networks. The Arab Resource and Organizing Center (AROC) - founded by Kased, an organization actively advancing BDS and lobbying against antisemitism protections in California while leveraging her SFSU affiliation. On August 29, 2025, Professor Kased again used her position as an SFSU professor to spread eliminationist rhetoric at the People’s Conference for Palestine, declaring: “It is not a matter of if, but when Israel falls... From the ashes of this genocide we will build liberation... From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.” These are not political opinions; they are calls for the eradication of the Jewish state and a direct assault on the identity and safety of Jewish students. Kased’s conduct is not new. She co-signed the College of Ethnic Studies Chair’s Council Statement on Gaza in December 2023, which formally endorsed BDS and urged CSU-wide boycotts of corporations and academic institutions tied to Israel. In October 2024, she appeared in the “Apartheid-Free Webinar on Divestment” alongside Omar Barghouti, co-founder of the BDS movement. As faculty advisor to Students for Gaza, she backed divestment campaigns on campus. She founded the Arab Resource and Organizing Center (AROC), which has led BDS drives in California and actively lobbied against AB 715, a bill designed to strengthen protections against antisemitism and ensure civil rights compliance in higher education. Rather than supporting legislation to safeguard all vulnerable minority students, she positioned herself as a leading detractor, attempting to derail the bill and preserve the hostile climate that Jewish students already face. By doing so, she aligned her academic title and organizational platform with efforts to block legal protections, compounding the danger for Jewish communities both at SFSU and statewide.
European Assn of Archeologists: members vote to boycott Israel, Israeli institutions, after backlash leadership overturns/rejects the motion, but then they publish members info by leaving out most Israeli affiliations
https://x.com/PACBI/status/1963283416515789189
UC Berkeley: StandWithUs campaigning for university to investigate SJP founder, prof Hatem Bazian, for antisemitic statements creating hostile environment for Jews
https://standwithus.com/news/standwithus-calls-on-uc-berkeley-to-investigate-and-address-antisemitism-by-hatem-bazian/
Harvard: judge rules Trump admin’s freezing of federal funds is illegal, violating Harvard’s 1st Amendment rights
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/government/politics-elections/2025/09/03/judge-rules-harvard-funding-freeze-illegal?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=1d3f23d651-BNU_20230517_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-1d3f23d651-236923398&mc_cid=1d3f23d651&mc_eid=34fe77a559
U of Massachusetts Amherst: Ahead of the upcoming Coalition of Women in German (WiG) annual academic conference at the @umass, which plans to exclude and boycott scholars receiving funding from “Israeli institutions,” the Brandeis Center is demanding that university leadership prevent this blatant and illegal national origin discrimination and flagrant violation of UMass policies. The conference, scheduled to be held on the UMass Amherst campus in full partnership with the University, prohibits anyone from relying on financial support from “Israeli institutions” to attend and participate. WiG makes clear that this includes not only funding from Israeli governmental agencies, but “all Israeli academic and cultural institutions.” In order to attend conferences and cover related expenses, though, Israeli scholars — like scholars worldwide — rely on the Israeli International Science Relations Fund, which is administered through Israeli universities.
The University of Massachusetts Amherst, a highly ranked public school, is reviewing an upcoming conference that it plans to host in November after learning that the organizer excludes scholars who receive funding from Israeli institutions.” Amherst would be condoning this vile discrimination if they proceed with hosting conference. Hoping there will be a FU article by end of week stating they have cancelled.
https://www.clevelandjewishnews.com/jns/umass-amherst-reviews-event-it-plans-to-host-after-learning-organizer-boycotts-israel/article_b6b173f1-16aa-50f4-a3df-da0afa396aed.html
Wed Sept 4
In response to ludicrous statement from “Internat’l Assn of Genocide Scholars,” numerous pro-Israel people sign up to join the group and become official “Genocide Scholars,” in response to which the group takes down its website, Users can no longer see who the members are, individual member pages have been deactivated, and its X account has been taken down. This includes myself, Cookie Monster, Emperor Palpatine, and Palestinian Hitler, among others.
https://x.com/EFischberger/status/1963233667418890294
Columbia: opening day anti-Israel folks walking around with sign “some of your classmates were IOF criminals committing genocide in Gaza” … Columbia announces investigation into several problematic incidents in the past few days, possibly including this one
https://x.com/CUJewsIsraelis/status/1962962437344280792
https://x.com/CUJewsIsraelis/status/1963064579832893698
NYU: mezuzah stolen from Jewish student’s dorm
https://x.com/JewishonCampus_/status/1963062252292210730
Sept 9: House Ed Committee to hold hearing on unions’ antisemitism
Proposed House Appropriations bill would cut off funding for campuses that fail to address antisemitism
Toronto: another “Palestine resources for teachers” document exposed, vile one-sided anti-Israel propaganda
https://x.com/DahliaKurtz/status/1962986159975629375
Toronto: MP’s office vandalized with anti-Israel and antisemitic graffit, incl ‘From the River to the Sea’
https://x.com/bnaibrithcanada/status/1963011990688797082
London: man rams his scooter into Orthodox Jews shouting antisemitic slurs – one Orthodox woman suffered broken arm and bruises, another was knocked to the ground with her 3 year old daughter – man arrested
https://matzav.com/man-rams-orthodox-jews-with-scooter-in-antisemitic-attacks-in-london/
Australia U of Sydney: 2 profs being sued by pro-Israel group for antisemitic social media (incl open support of Hamas terrorism) … a few months back a Jewish group put out a statement supporting the profs …
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/09/03/wxqu-s03.html
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Tues Sept 2
Member of Genocide Scholars Assn says the leadership pushed the anti-Israel through without discussion, not following procedures
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/member-of-genocide-association-says-groups-leadership-pushed-through-israel-condemnation-without-discussion/
Fresno CA school district just hired new Chief Information Officer, who, on Oct 20 2023, reposted Iranian propaganda from the Masaf Institute calling Israel a “terrorist state” and pushing genocide hashtags. Now she’s the voice of California’s 3rd-largest school district!
https://x.com/StopAntisemites/status/1962534556210278683
Netherlands: University Utrecht announces full boycott of all things Israeli
https://x.com/PACBI/status/1962853563043905771
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Mon Sept 1
International Assn of Genocide Scholars passes absurd resolution declaring Israel guilty of genocide and calling for various measures against Israel – replete with false facts, misrepresentations of the ICJ ruling, leaves out any acknowledgment of Hamas’s role in the destruction of Gaza (incl holding hostages and continuing to fight), demanding of Israel measures to afford “democracy in Gaza”!, etc.
https://genocidescholars.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/IAGS-Resolution-on-Gaza-FINAL.pdf
Columbia: former Columbia president Shafik, widely condemned for allowing antisemitism to fester on that campus, appointed as UK’s chief economic adviser
https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/international/artc-former-president-of-columbia-university-appointed-as-uk-chief-economic-adviser
ADL stats re anti-Israel incidents on campuses reveal that out of over 2K universities in the US, only 10 were responsible for 15% of the incidents: top were Columbia, UC Davis, UCLA, U Michigan, Harvard, Rutgers, Berkeley, U of Minnesota, Stanford, UNC Chapel Hill
https://x.com/ProfDBernstein/status/1961990662347215158
Stanford: graduate student in conflict with graduate student union, the latter is trying to get him fired because he refuses to pay dues to and join an organization whose values/tactics he rejects (incl progressive politics and BDS) – the problem of unions adopting positions that are irrelevant to their purposes
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/stanfords-graduate-student-union-tries-to-stifle-dissent-f7ff4072
UC Berkeley: engineering lecturer commits to hunger strike in solidarity with Gaza … Kao maintains he will strike until campus administration meets four demands, including campus’ acknowledgement of “Israel’s illegal occupation, apartheid, and genocide of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza,” as well as ownership over UC Berkeley’s role in creating technologies that have contributed to the war.
Pratt Institute (NYC): A student approached her professor with a simple and reasonable request: if he was going to teach about the Palestinians – he should also mention the hostages. Although he had told the class they could share anything they wanted to change in the curriculum, when she approached him privately – he flatly refused.
When he asked why she hadn’t raised it in front of everyone, she explained that she does not feel safe speaking publicly on this issue, after experiencing hatred since October 7th and after her cousin was murdered in the massacre. His response? Instead of listening, he told her “there is no antisemitism”, accused her of colonialism, and when she tried to explain that Judea and Samaria are historically Jewish regions – he lost his temper, stormed out of the room, and left her shocked and shaken.
The latest absurd libel, that there are ‘settler-colonialist determinants of health’, ie blame all Palestinian health problems on Israel (debunked by Elder of Ziyon, who shows with just minor research by a non-expert that excessive smoking is the major factor in poor Palestinian health outcomes)
https://www.rmmj.org.il/issues/66/2110/manuscript
European Union of Jewish Students: newly elected president vows to give Europe’s Jewish students a louder, unapologetic voice, to reclaim Jewish narratives, confront campus antisemitism, and empower smaller unions
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Fri Aug 29
Texas State U: silent on status of prof who incited/encouraged violent assault of three people (two Jewish) observing an anti-Israel meeting. Their assailants kicked, punched, and dragged them out of the event, titled “Strategic Lessons From the Palestinian Resistance,” after Texas State University assistant professor of philosophy Idris Atsu Robinson spotted them in the audience and invited the 60-80 anti-Israel partisans in attendance to decide their fates.
https://www.algemeiner.com/2025/08/28/texas-state-university-silent-status-professor-who-incited-violent-attack-jews-public-library/
U of Pittsburgh: judge rules SJP can end its suspension three weeks early in order to be able to recruit members at the start of the school year
https://www.publicsource.org/jpitt-palestine-club-can-resume-activities-judge-rules/
Beverly Hills school superintendent overrules Board’s recently passed resolution to display the Israel flag on campuses during Jewish American Heritage Month, citing safety concerns
Plano, Texas: school district being investigated for antisemitism by Attorney General after teachers allegedly let students walk out to protest Israel’s war in Gaza. The investigation focuses on allegations that students were given excused absences for participating in pro-Palestinian walkouts and taught pro-Palestinian lessons in school. In a letter sent to Plano ISD’s superintendent, Dr. Theresa Williams, Paxton said parents have reported anti-Israel and antisemitic discussions have occurred in classrooms
https://www.keranews.org/education/2025-08-28/plano-isd-antisemitism-pro-palestinian-antiwar-protest
United Federation of Teachers: several dozen Jewish activists protest the rampant antisemitism in the union outside the NYC headquarters (and many Jewish members have quit the union): The activists accused the UFT of a “pattern of silence and inaction that has eroded trust with Jewish teachers, students, and parents,” such as endorsing New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdan
United Methodist Church officially divests from Israel Bonds
https://x.com/BDSmovement/status/1961080568063398142
Canada McGill U: poli sci professor openly calls for people to ‘economically and militarily support Hamas and Hezbollah,’ and happens also to serve on the school’s disciplinary committee
https://www.montrealgazette.com/news/article1127490.html
Canada: elderly Jewish woman stabbed in a grocery store with a large kosher section – the man arrested has social media filled with antisemitism and Israel-hatred
A man has been charged after a Jewish woman in her 70s was stabbed Wednesday afternoon at a Loblaws grocery store in #Ottawa.
https://x.com/DrCaseyBabb/status/1961257451203817835
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Thurs Aug 28
U of Michigan: student groups hosted a conference - United Against Genocide, United Against Repression hosted by The People’s Coalition Michigan – featuring Rep Tlaib and Mahmoud Khalil and lots of anti-Israel goodness
https://www.facebook.com/groups/656718683235049/posts/1098186995754880/?__cft__[0]=AZVvvsEAlCQqWl3wne4rOdHRP5-gCiBAZZvWb8jtqDKUna857WSVRxIUFtFy1qCUGmQDW8VULnsHt3swV_flcLQhTB3bTuQO3S9Td4i8fp48t_MH2tMVD2vowxiODVJfWdzPjdbaDoaEWs4mN9QxJweaX0ag_C7CqLDJVWK9GydDR7vIxY1rAewoYg7gBjb-oKeiaTs_HlSLNCWsFG8nexTB&__tn__=%2CO%2CP-R
Virginia Commonwealth U: student newspaper declares Israel is committing genocide and so it will change its ‘style guide’ (I think to now refer to the ‘genocide’)
Bowdoin College to put on play about Oct 7 massacre in September, challenge NYC mayoral candidate Mamdani to come see it (he’s an alum)
U of Illinois Urbana-Ch: prof opens engineering class with 5 minute segment on sympathy for Gaza
https://www.facebook.com/groups/656718683235049/posts/1098534782386768/?__cft__[0]=AZXO-At_Vs1asXWG25sanFUgSYOlGYup4r-I56Dw1gAyL22sCZaOVD2IkqAZ9ezcLb9UZGPPt_bsHbsa9wAldoFEFLlwJO97IuHkuexXg7K_VuRRHqEmkjutY84HamYjXesXoXEV-b0pU46C2WM9r0geLJZojo4dcCHTvCMM-eL7JOzSPd5TpWTS5OzdnE7w722i8fZiBApa00wJWYvUo_ya0Q8_13YHwOm0pOoNZb6QVQ&__tn__=%2CO%2CP-R
Jewish Museum of Chicago emphasizing works by and community for anti-Zionist Jews
https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/article-865387
Massachusetts: Zionist Org of America files complaint with AG that that MA Teachers Assn discriminates against Jews
https://www.sdjewishworld.com/2025/08/26/zoa-massachusetts-teachers-association-discriminates-against-jews/
Combat Antisemitism Movement new app to report antisemitic incidents
Important new piece by AMCHA’s Tammi Rossman-Benjamin: The Other Antisemitism of “Liberated” Ethnic Studies: AB 715 — a bill that sets basic protections against antisemitism in K–12 curricula, particularly ethnic studies — passed the California Assembly unanimously in June and now heads to a Senate vote. The fiercest opposition comes from the UC Ethnic Studies Faculty Council and other advocates of the “liberated” ethnic studies movement, a narrow, extremist variant of the discipline whose published materials have trafficked in dangerous antisemitic tropes. In a recent Instagram post, the council escalated from policy debate to personal attack, dubbing the bill’s Jewish author the “2025 Top Genocide Denier” and a “Champion of Racism.” The tactic is familiar: deny antisemitism and discredit those who try to address it … Instead of listening, Trustee Gabriel Medina accused speakers of “propaganda” and “manipulative tactics,” claiming they only show up to “tell brown people who they are,” dismissing concerns as “lies,” and mocking emotional testimony. Trustee Joy Flynn invoked antisemitic tropes, referencing “the economic power historically held by the Jewish community.” This reflected a pattern familiar to Jews concerned by growing evidence of antisemitism in ethnic studies: Critics aren’t engaged; they’re smeared as racists or oppressors. That pattern appeared early, during the development of the state’s curriculum. One co-author, Cal State Northridge professor Theresa Montaño, later a founder of the Liberated Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum Consortium, responded to Jewish criticism by blaming a “very rich, very wealthy, very well-connected segment of the (Jewish) community” for derailing the curriculum. She claimed it proved “white privilege and white racism” in California. Far from being an unintended consequence, this dynamic is central to how “liberated” ethnic studies operates. The discipline, as promoted by its most vocal advocates, treats disagreement as oppression and uses ideological jargon to punish nonconformity. Every critique becomes proof of the discipline’s necessity, and every dissenter, a villain. To be clear, AB 101 doesn’t mandate a particular version of ethnic studies. But in practice, the approach that embraces antisemitism is the one rapidly gaining ground, because its architects are training the next generation of teachers, and few dare to challenge them.
Beverly Hills school district passes resolution to designate Oct 7 as a day of remembrance and to fly Israeli flag during Jewish-American heritage month
https://www.jns.org/california-school-district-passes-resolution-to-designate-oct-7-as-day-of-remembrance/
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Wed Aug 27
Yale: Yalies4Palestine, though banned by Yale in the spring, openly promoting a picnic they’re holding on campus – will Yale enforce its sanctions?
https://x.com/RabbiPoupko/status/1960507762095362211
Harvard: Trump openly says he demands $500M from Harvard and nothing less to settle with them
https://x.com/BenTelAviv/status/1960479350656262257
George Mason SJP: Police raided their leaders’ home last year and found: Guns Hamas & Hezbollah flags “Death to Jews” signs, leading to the chapter’s suspension -- Now they have been reinstated, and they’re back with a terrorist-style RECRUITMENT VIDEO, hiding behind a keffiyeh and voice modulator, vowing “resistance until Palestine is free from the river to the sea.” SJP’s recruitment video is scored with a song that praises former Hamas commander Mohammed Deif whose “stars illuminate our sky,” according to a translation provided to the Free Beacon. It also says an Israeli checkpoint officer’s “blood is permitted, all his blood is kosher.” The song’s producer, “Wasp nest,” is a reference to the Jenin Brigades, a terrorist group coalition that includes Hamas, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
https://x.com/JewsFightBack/status/1960169345444897262
https://freebeacon.com/campus/with-president-under-scrutiny-george-mason-reinstates-infamous-sjp-chapter-months-after-police-found-guns-and-terrorist-paraphernalia-in-leaders-home/
UC Berkeley: prof Hatem Bazian, a senior lecturer at UC Berkeley, co-founded Students for Justice in Palestine, a group that has become notorious for intimidating Jews on university campuses, as well as American Muslims for Palestine (AMP), a nonprofit he now chairs which has sponsored a series of anti-Israel protests following Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023 … promoted an antisemitic conspiracy theory in a lecture earlier this month at a California mosque: “Netanyahu says: ‘I want Jordan.’ He wants Greater Israel, he wants Jordan, he wants Lebanon, and he wants Egypt – the Pyramids – because he wants maybe, if tourists are coming, maybe he will charge people to go up to the Pyramids,” Bazian continued in remarks flagged by MEMRI. Bazian claimed that Netanyahu “wants Egypt and he wants Saudi Arabia, because the Mecca and Medina area – he says it is part of Greater Israel. He said this on the news, in an interview.”
U of Missouri: CAIR to file lawsuit against school president for denying SJP’s participation in homecoming parade (allegedly he based it on the behavior of students at other universities)
Jewish students are heading south: Atlantic article documenting the demographic shift away from the Ivies etc; more Jewish students at Southern Methodist U than at Harvard! Ramaz (Orthodox high school) typically sends a dozen students a year to Columbia, last year sent zero
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/08/jewish-college-ivy-league-south/684006/
New York governor signs bill requiring Title VI anti-discrimination coordinators on every New York college campus
Canada: A medical student at a Québec medical faculty allegedly acted as a moderator of a Discord group where applicants shared vile antisemitic, racist, misogynistic, and homophobic content.
https://x.com/LiorBibasMD/status/1960397772869525631
Italy University of Palermo: Italian professor causes chaos: “Cancel friendships with Jews, even with the “best’ of them” Professor Luca Nivarra caused a stir after claiming that “Jews lie and contribute to hiding the atrocities” in Gaza. The Minister of Academia condemned: “His statements not only insult the Jewish people but everyone who holds values of honor” The Professor published a post the hatful post on Facebook urging all his followers to “unfriend all of their Jewish ‘friends’ on Facebook, even the ‘best’ ones.”
https://x.com/streetwize/status/1960456300946710598
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Tues Aug 26
George Washington U: SJP gets additional suspension through spring 2027 (for campaign targeting a zionist professor), follows JVP and chooses to disaffiliate from the university, claiming this will allow them to be ‘more active in combatting zionism on campus’ [note: not helping Palestinians but attacking local Jews]
https://gwhatchet.com/2025/08/25/students-for-justice-in-palestine-disaffiliates-from-gw-amid-further-sanctions/?fbclid=IwY2xjawMZjPhleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETFackd0bGYwcGRZMUN4VDduAR786Dknx3kYKPxOk1JHYPgvi0QVCuBcKE_sM8KlC9f3QLjpUMo9aaICpbShfQ_aem_sZi-cRUK1dxaGmHRaKGNUQ
U of Virginia Jewish Studies hosting anti-Israel Peter Beinart to promote his new book ‘Being Jewish After Gaza’
https://www.facebook.com/groups/656718683235049/posts/1096770032563243/?__cft__[0]=AZX-LRXwunbkb-6ZevvAkYUgagZj-PvcQvmZYDir7B-6ZbmhRiu9I0MbJmJwUHA579ZKsExEkI1sMYSu9A7pEfECFS7fRf1MfrIxl5CoQJu5-GqMWtimJt6kzKInkBPC87sfLowMiqIKNUoaPi_9KaOmL8aZ4xbtcYBiAAdFIvQ8RWhulId7eq-SLQ1VVtc7Hi6m82KT0cytBAp10A9FLHZq&__tn__=%2CO%2CP-R
*Philadelphia: CAIR-Philadelphia partners with Philadelphia Schools for “inclusive schools;” offerings include workshop on “Jewish Power in America.”
Los Angeles school district: voting today on whether to renew the California Ethnic Studies Grant with UCLA’s Center X. While framed as an investment in “equitable education,” this program has been closely tied to (antisemitic) liberated ethnic studies frameworks that introduce ideological content hostile to Israel and marginalizing to Jewish and Israeli-American students.
House Education Committee is probing three medical schools for allegedly failing to address repeated acts of antisemitism that has left Jewish students full of “fear,” The Post has learned. The University of California’s programs in Los Angeles and San Francisco, and the University of Illinois College of Medicine have all come under fire for allowing an environment where Jewish students, faculty and patients routinely face hostility, House Education & Workforce Committee Chairman Tim Walberg (R-Mich) wrote in a letter to the deans of the three schools. At UCLA, a mandatory medical school seminar, “Structural Racism and Health Equity,” allegedly featured antisemitic tropes — including describing Jews as “oppressors” and images of “capitalists” with long looked noses.
Europe: Bnai Brith has a new report on antisemitism in European universities
Chile: They splattered blood-red paint on a synagogue. They plastered a picture of Netanyahu with a bullet hole in his forehead. They wrote: “You’re part of genocide.”
https://x.com/JewsFightBack/status/1960070270879989965
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Mon Aug 25
NYU: A Jewish nurse at New York University (NYU) Hospital at Long Island, is suing the hospital over a series of financial sanctions and harassment she experienced following posts expressing solidarity with Israel after October 7. She was called into a human resources meeting where she was told that using the word “terror” for Hamas could be offensive to Muslims, and was therefore required to change the posts. Days after the October 7 massacre, she posted a post on her private Instagram account with a Star of David and the Hamas symbol, with the caption: “Either you stand with Israel or with terror.” That same day, she also posted a photo of the kidnapped soldier Omer Neutra , who was her high school classmate. She said that the posts were an expression of personal pain for her. The kidnapping of a classmate turned the October 7 attack not only into a national disaster but also into a personal wound. About a month later, she was summoned for a disciplinary meeting with a human resources manager, following an “anonymous complaint.” She said she was shown a screenshot of the post and told that it was “saturated with prejudice and hatred” and that the very use of the word “terror” towards Hamas could be considered an offensive stance towards Muslims
https://x.com/streetwize/status/1959566500286578973
Harvard: graduate student union requested that the University guarantee academic freedom protections for graduate students’ teaching and research pursuits in a new contract proposal on Thursday, joining a growing roster of graduate unions that have requested similar provisions in recent years.
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/8/24/hgsu-academic-freedom-proposal/
New York passes antisemitism bill, headed to Governor for signing: The legislation requires all colleges and universities in New York to designate a Title VI Coordinator to oversee civil rights compliance and address complaints related to race, color, and national origin.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/rozic-and-stavisky-pass-bill-to-combat-antisemitism-on-college-campuses/ar-AA1GsjMu?apiversion=v2&noservercache=1&domshim=1&renderwebcomponents=1&wcseo=1&batchservertelemetry=1&noservertelemetry=1
Sen Cotton requests the IRS investigate the Palestinian Youth Movement for ties to terrorism
https://x.com/SenTomCotton/status/1958990056544477404
Canada: a preschool teacher at @PeelSchools, who openly shares antisemitic content and supports terror-linked groups. This is exactly how anti-Zionism fuels antisemitism: Takes every antisemitic trope — “Jews lie, steal, cheat, kill, rape” Slaps it on Israel and “Zionists” Pushes centuries-old hate under a different mask Would you trust your child’s education to a terror supporter? In particular shares an image of a Jewish star with evil acts listed at each point: Lie Kill Cheat Rape Steal Cry
https://x.com/canarymission/status/1959802942782931103
Canada: Ottawa Pride parade forced to be cancelled after anti-Israel ‘Queers for Palestine’ block the roads and demand it commit to BDS
UK: A Jewish patient who was scheduled for surgery at a London NHS hospital was shocked to discover that the surgeon who was about to treat her was wearing a pro-Palestinian badge
https://x.com/streetwize/status/1959904423041200398
Germany: In Frankfurt, Jews peacefully protesting in support of the hostages were splashed with red paint
https://x.com/ADL/status/1959684961554113023
Australia: Since National Union of Students announced the historic National Student Referendum for Palestine earlier this month, more than 20,000 students at university and TAFE campuses across Australia have registered to vote, to censure the Australian government for its complicity in the genocide, and to demand our institutions cut their ties with weapons companies. The referendum is Thursday of this week.
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Friday Aug 22
*House Education Committee to open investigation into antisemitism at the NEA: letter “gravely concerned about antisemitic content in the NEA’s 2025 handbook and the NEA Representative Assembly’s vote in July 2025 to ban materials by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL)”
CUNY: a state judge ruled that the school must provide records regarding its investment funds, bonds, and private equity holdings, as well as any purchase orders as part of contracts it may have with companies like Dell, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, and Northrup Grumman, to its anti-Israel student groups. This decision comes after CUNY refused to disclose its investment records to a representative for the student groups CUNY for Palestine and CUNY Law Students for Justice in Palestine in early 2024, despite having given earlier versions of the exact records to other student groups previously. The New York Civil Liberties Union challenged the school’s targeted refusal in November 2024.
AAUP: ADL, AEN running campaign to demand AAUP return to its actual mission and stop adopting anti-Israel positions
https://x.com/ADL/status/1958658131719770361
https://x.com/J_Insider/status/1958627418417086782
Cornell: a deep dive into its collaboration with Israeli tech, especially military tech, done by anti-Israel groups but ultimately showcasing just how advanced Israeli tech is
https://everythingispolitical.com/readings/cornell-complicity
Kansas State U: Kansas State University’s civil rights investigator, the man “protecting” students from discrimination. On October 7th, while Jews were being raped, burned alive, and kidnapped by Hamas, he called the massacre “resistance” and said “Fuck your fake outrage at Palestine”. He called the terrorist invasion a fight “against colonization, imperialism, capitalism, white supremacy.” He’s also a member of a secretive Marxist book club that called for the “complete and total destruction of Israel” and expressed “unwavering support for Hamas,” And Jewish students are expected to REPORT antisemitism to him? The fox isn’t guarding the henhouse, the fox IS the henhouse.
Note: he apparently was hired even AFTER all this social media activity
https://x.com/JewsFightBack/status/1958646303648620610
https://x.com/IsraelWarRoom/status/1958663707476537502
https://x.com/JewsFightBack/status/1958693159338455369
150 vacationing Israeli school kids, aged 8 to 16, were denied entry to a leisure park in the southern Pyrénées-Orientales, France, this Thursday. Despite the group’s reservation being made well in advance, the park’s manager blocked their arrival, citing “personal convictions.” He was later taken into police custody on charges of “discrimination based on religion in the context of offering or providing goods or services.” The 150 children were then taken to another site in France, escorted by the police to ensure their safety.
https://x.com/HenMazzig/status/1958677047452344469
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Thurs Aug 21
Haverford: Federal govt opens Title VI antisemitism investigation there
U of CA San Francisco: SJP chapters are hosting a screening of the film “Gaza: Doctors Under Attack” in Cole Hall on the UCSF campus. This film perpetuates false inflammatory information about the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza, a modern version of classical antisemitic “blood libel.” Even the BBC, which is well known for its strong criticism of the Israel government and its conduct of the war in Gaza, deemed this documentary extremely biased and non-factual and elected not to air it.
Even more concerning, the event will include a panel led by Dr. Jess Ghannam. Dr. Ghannam was an outspoken supporter of the illegal anti-Israel encampment outside UCSF’s Parnassus Hospital in May 2024, from which genocidal calls against Israel and Jews were chanted and heard by hospitalized Jewish patients. On two occasions, Dr. Ghannam gave a university-wide lecture in which he portrayed Israel as an entirely Arab state draped in the Palestinian flag, essentially erasing the existence of the Jewish nation. Dr. Ghannam also publicly supported the wearing of anti-Israel political symbols (in violation of UCSF policy) in clinical spaces in a NY Times article, dismissing Jewish concerns in his quoted statements. It is staggering that despite these and numerous other examples of behavior that is damaging to Jews and Israelis on campus, Dr. Ghannam is allowed to maintain his affiliated faculty position at the university. To make matters even worse, Dr. Ghannam will be joined on the panel by Dr. Mohammed Subeh, an emergency room physician at El Camino Hospital with no UCSF affiliation. Dr. Subeh has received national attention for his discriminatory and inflammatory social media posts in which he espouses exclusion of “Zionists”. Your institution would never tolerate such hostility towards any religious or ethnic group but continues to allow these proponents of unfettered hate towards Judaism to prosper.
https://safejewish.com/groups_dashboard?tab=1&groupEmailShare=1755746917539x597645373238935600
Center for Jewish History offering fellowship to active anti-Zionist activist who’s a member of CUNY4Palestine
https://safejewish.com/groups_dashboard?tab=1&groupEmailShare=1755746666826x323992775960821760
Unbelievable: Antisemitism in the Mental Health world, including that regulators are silent over book “Decolonizing Therapy,” published shortly after Oct 7, that demands that Zionism be treated as a mental illness:
Decolonizing Therapy identifies Zionism--a key component of the Jewish identity--as a root cause of mental illness, despite Zionism’s obvious absence in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). Mullan’s book on decolonial therapy features images that equate the Jewish identity with fascism, misogyny, rape culture, and genocidal tendencies (3). … The October 7 attacks and the response of others in the aftermath triggered profound trauma within the Jewish community. Yet instead of being met with compassion and care, many Jews were met with a stunning mix of silence, blame, exclusion, and even outright denial of both the atrocities of October 7 and their grief. These responses came not only from individuals but from institutions and society as a whole. In trauma psychology, this is known as traumatic invalidation--the extreme or repetitive dismissal of individuals’ core experiences, characteristics identified as important aspects of themselves, or reactions to themselves or to the world, particularly by significant people or institutions, such as the mental health practitioner. Decolonizing therapy is a perfect example of traumatic invalidation. It is a pseudo-science that is no more than another tool to deny Jewish identity. This ‘therapy’ compounds trauma under the guise of treatment. It does not heal; it harms (4). 75% of Jewish practitioners have been exposed to antisemitism (5). Since October 7, Jewish clinicians “with Zionist affiliations” have been blacklisted on social media. A Facebook group for Physician Moms removed Jews from the group. A doctor and untenured professor at University of California San Francisco Hospital tweeted that the university should investigate whether a new “Israeli” medical student (a Persian American Jew) committed genocide before coming to UCSF, and professor and the director of counseling at Villanova University taught her students that the “colonized mind” and Zionism are mental illnesses of the frontal lobe alongside fascism, “rape culture” and “genocidal tendencies.” A major mental health organization denied membership to a Jewish affinity group because its members were “privileged white supremacists” (6).
https://safejewish.com/groups_dashboard?tab=1&groupEmailShare=1755745647204x958853196920389600
New Zealand: Otago University student govt re-adopts BDS against Israel
https://www.critic.co.nz/news/article/11834/bds-is-back-students-overwhelmingly-endorse-postur
Punk rock concert where several acts go full tilt anti-Israel
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Wed Aug 20
JewBelong: A national campaign is putting up billboards in cities and near major universities this fall to highlight concerns about growing anti-Semitism on campus. The effort, organized by the New York-based nonprofit JewBelong, has been underway for weeks with displays already posted near several NCAA Division I universities. The campaign has so far reached locations near 13 schools, including the University of Florida, Penn State, the University of Michigan, Louisiana State University, and the University of Wisconsin–Madison. The newest signs are going up near the University of Oklahoma, with more planned in the coming weeks. The signs carry blunt messages such as “Being Jewish shouldn’t require campus security,” and “Jewish students don’t need your pity. Just your spine.” The displays are timed to remain in place through football season, when campuses see the highest visibility.
https://www.campusreform.org/article/targeted-billboards-go-near-college-campuses-part-campaign-anti-semitism/28469
UC Berkeley: new antisemitism lawsuit as Israel scholar of dance claims she was denied a job there because she is Israeli: The lawsuit describes pressure by graduate students in Cal’s Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies who objected to hosting an Israeli scholar, and what the department chair described as a politically “hot” situation within the department.
UCLA: its K-12 Ethnic Studies Certification program: Many of us have been warning about Ethnic Studies for years.... warning that Ethnic Studies is not about the study of different ethnic communities, warning that, as a discipline, it is inherently prejudicial, warning that it is a trojan horse to “teach Palestine”. And now one of the country’s leading teacher education programs is using this book, “Teaching Palestine,” as a resource for Ethnic Studies teacher certification. The levels of anti-Jewish bigotry will only increase in schools where this type of discriminatory, ahistorical nonsense is taught.
https://x.com/76brandy76/status/1958007595970535787
UCLA: Over 350 Jewish faculty and community members at UCLA have come together to oppose the Trump administration’s demand that the university pay a $1 billion fine over allegations of campus antisemitism. The “Jews in Defense of UC” letter also decries the government’s freezing of $584 million in research grant funding. [But Judea Pearl says these are just a fringe group not representing most Jewish constituents at the university.]
https://luskin.ucla.edu/zev-yaroslavsky-uclas-jewish-faculty-unite-against-trumps-1b-demand
https://x.com/yudapearl/status/1957953286419673274
**American Assn of University Profs: not only dropped their opposition to academic boycotts (in order to support boycotting Israel), but now openly adopts a foreign policy as its president says the organization believes no weapons should be sent to Israel, neither offensive NOR defensive
https://x.com/sfmcguire79/status/1957791099436593637
Canada: Toronto School District distributing a 5-page Palestine resource for teachers of elementary children — It teaches: Hаmаs isn’t a tеrror group, Israel is Palestine, Wikipedia’s a source, IDF is the IOF
https://x.com/DahliaKurtz/status/1957807514038465010
Canada: A new report from the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP) accuses Canadian universities of becoming hotbeds for anti-Israel and antisemitic activism, fueled by foreign state actors like Qatar. “[T]he report not only describes the historical context that allowed such radical ideologies and actions to manifest across campuses, but also provides an in-depth analysis of the organizations—both on and off campus—that enabled and supported them,” asserts ISGAP.
https://thehub.ca/2025/08/19/report-claims-qatar-terrorist-linked-groups-are-funding-antisemitism-on-canadian-campuses/
Canada: The College of Registered Psychotherapists, the regulating body of psychotherapy in Ontario, Canada runs a survey about new ‘equity-based standards’ motivated by ‘Therapists 4 Palestine’ which jumps on the ‘colonialism’ band wagon and includes ‘Palestine’ as an example of colonialism around the world. In the survey, Ontario T4P is encouraging respondents to select “somewhat agree” with the proposed draft, and to provide comments that both: > Affirm that in many ways these new standards help move the profession toward decolonizing practice (e.g., a much more robust power analysis than before), and > Request that as another step toward more culturally competent practice, the policy acknowledge colonialism’s enactment of ethnic cleansing and genocide on Turtle Island and abroad, including but not limited to in the Sudan, Palestine, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Ukraine.”
https://x.com/neveragainlive1/status/1957856862528782561
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Tues Aug 19
George Washington U: the school suspends Jewish Voice for Peace through May for violating multiple University policies in late April, a sanction that a member of JVP said is pushing the organization to disaffiliate from the University. The group’s latest suspension comes over a year after officials suspended the group through the fall 2024 semester and placed them on probation through spring 2025 for their involvement in spring 2024’s pro-Palestinian encampment. A member of the organization said JVP has decided to disaffiliate from GW after undergoing multiple conduct proceedings in recent years.
George Washington U: deep dive into the pending antisemitism lawsuit there – the university has moved to dismiss, the plaintiffs have declared they will not dismiss, all in light of the Dept of Justice finding the university violated Title VI with ‘deliberate indifference’
https://gwhatchet.com/2025/08/18/officials-move-to-dismiss-campus-antisemitism-lawsuit-awaits-plaintiffs-response/
UCLA: A new report from watchdog group Open The Books highlights that UCLA has received more than $4.3 billion in federal grants and contracts in less than four years while promoting expansive Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives and employing multiple anti-Israel faculty members. The findings come as the university faces a legal battle over frozen federal funding, following the Trump administration’s decision to freeze $584 million in federal grants to the university. The Aug. 13 report highlights a law professor who compared Israeli policy to Nazi Germany last year. One history professor mentioned in the report is listed on the advisory boards of both the U.S. Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel and Palestine Legal.
https://www.campusreform.org/article/ucla-raked-billions-feds-pushing-dei-anti-israel-ideology-report/28466
State Dept has terminated more than 6K student visas due to criminal activity or support for terrorism: “About 4,000 visas alone have been revoked because these visitors broke the law while visiting our country, including records of assault and DUIs.” Those who had their student visas yanked due to assault — roughly 800 students — either faced arrest or charges stemming from assault, according to the State Department official. Those whose visas were pulled due to support for terrorism — between 200 people to 300 people — engaged in behavior such as raising funds for the militant group Hamas.
Association of American Geographers wants to ‘wipe Israel off the map’: The Association of American Geographers became the latest professional association to face pressure to adopt a boycott of Israel after a recent member petition urged the association “to endorse the campaign for an academic boycott of Israeli academic institutions.”
https://jewishinsider.com/2025/08/association-american-geographers-israel-boycott-resolution/?utm_source=cio
Dallas high school hit with two Nazi flags
https://x.com/StandWithUs/status/1957756900600115219
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Mon Aug 18, 2025
[in the ‘things get so stupid’ category:]
Harvard: CA governor Newsom demands Harvard president resign if he signs a deal with Trump admin
https://www.algemeiner.com/2025/08/15/california-gov-gavin-newsom-demands-resignation-harvard-president-potential-trump-settlement/
Columbia: Within Our Lifetime holds rally outside Columbia gate waving Hezbollah flag, calling for the invasion of Israel
U of Oregon Law School: In February this year the University of Oregon received a complaint charging unlawful discrimination at the University Oregon Law Review. The Review rejected an article by an Israeli professor—who also teaches in the U.S.—because she is a faculty member at Tel Aviv University.. The editors’ sense of impunity was such that the discriminatory decision was put in writing. When another editor raised the alarm about the legality of the action, a high-ranking member of the law school administration was consulted and then approved the discrimination. Today, six months after the University received the complaint about this discrimination—which allegedly violated a slew of laws and regulations—no known adverse action has been taken against anyone involved, and the high-ranking official is still holding her prominent position at the law school. Moreover, in response to my most recent inquiry, the University’s Office of Investigations and Civil Rights Compliance informed me that the results of the investigation will be kept secret because “The outcome of the process implicates confidential employee information that we are typically prohibited from sharing.” Is that so? In 2016, when the University of Oregon opened an investigation into a blackface episode involving a law school professor (who in fact ineptly advocated for racial equality), the University released the full report of its investigations, issued public condemnations, and publicized its punitive actions against the professor—all while explaining that academic tenure protections prevented her firing. In sharp contrast, the University of Oregon is presently engaged in a pattern of stonewalling and refusals to address complaints of unlawful anti-Jewish and anti-Israeli harassment and discrimination on campus. This may be unsurprising, given that University of Oregon officials are often themselves the perpetrators of such acts. As already noted, a high ranking law school official authorized the discrimination at the University of Oregon Law Review; and this year no less than six university departments and centers joined to invite to campus a speaker who celebrated the October 7 attacks and denies Israel’s right to exist. When a complaint was filed about this officially-organized and sponsored event with an antisemitic speaker who endorses terrorism (when we cut through the speaker’s lip service to respectability), the University appointed an examiner who concluded that there was no reason to even open an investigation. Her conclusion relied on the claim that the Jewish and Israeli students who joined the complaint (and reported being ostracized and harassed in their classrooms and dormitories as a result of the university-created atmosphere on campus)—did not actually attend that speaker’s event … as if that should matter. (Indeed what Jewish or Israeli student would want to attend such event?) In the meantime, examples of unaddressed misdeeds by university officials and others continue to accumulate. Materials celebrating the October 7 attacks and calling for the elimination of the Jewish state are distributed on campus from University-owned and -operated office spaces. One such pamphlet decries efforts aimed at at a two-state solution, echoing the position of the terrorist organization Hamas and call for the violent eradication of Israel, are distributed to students from offices at the University of Oregon’s principal Student Center—despite repeated complaints about the matter.
https://reason.com/volokh/2025/08/15/follow-up-re-alleged-discrimination-at-the-university-of-oregon-law-review/
Indiana University: puts their SJP (‘Palestine Solidarity Committee’) on ‘cease and desist’ for ‘disorderly conduct’, essentially indefinitely suspending them
https://www.facebook.com/groups/656718683235049/posts/1090175796556000/?__cft__[0]=AZVjZrOVqZojhEOc0Eem1HEDKk_Mr3Sxi5ZeePOsLN7yl3BmUFUa5N_xmEqeDNYM3xoSszGQS6dhsoiCBYgN40RhpxLytH8RmQ0rdEofWfQdePIjDMndZhd6VdMhUpfBy5UozLyx5MMmOoyQif14g5NX7rKBnQb7ETis5hl4VIQTi-MU5ZhA2tc3uZUQgnTZzFgKdU2SELcJxG2EGiC-pSEa&__tn__=%2CO%2CP-R
U of Albany Law school prof calls for Israel’s elimination
https://www.facebook.com/reel/2266792870421388
NYU professor delivers 2 hour lecture on Israel’s ‘genocide’ and doesn’t mention Hamas once
Many institutions put on a ‘Teaching Palestine Today’ symposium, ‘On Zionism,’ featuring many anti-Israel academics (and no one supportive of Zionism) but also Sami Al-Arian, who pleaded guilty of conspiracy to provide services to Palestinian Islamic Jihad, a US-designated terror organization that specializes in suicide bombings: sponsored by various ‘middle east studies’ and similar departments from Harvard, Georgetown, George Mason, Rutgers, Brown, U of Chicago, CUNY, Columbia, George Washington U, NYU, etc.
https://x.com/realchrisrufo/status/1956406042184806432
Justice Dept to form a new two-year “Antisemitism Advisory Committee,” unclear how it relates to the already existing “Antisemitism Task Force” headed by Leo Terrell
https://www.jns.org/us-justice-department-announces-jew-hatred-advisory-committee/
Four leading Jewish organizations are encouraging university leaders to adopt a new set of recommendations, released on Monday, designed to curb the antisemitism, The guidelines — which call for increased safety measures as well as long-term structural reforms and build upon a four-page set of recommendations released last August — are a joint effort from the Anti-Defamation League, Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, Hillel International and Jewish Federations of North America. The recommendations urge university leaders to “consistently enforce” codes of conduct around protests; appoint a coordinator to address Title VI discrimination complaints; reject academic boycotts of Israel; conduct annual student and faculty surveys in regard to campus antisemitism; crackdown on online harassment (in addition to physical safety concerns); and hold faculty accountable for political coercion and identity-based discrimination.
https://jewishinsider.com/2025/08/jewish-groups-universities-reforms-antisemitism-students/
Federal judge dismissed a lawsuit filed against pro-Palestinian organizations that alleged they were fronts for the terrorist organization Hamas. In a ruling issued on Friday, found that the plaintiffs who filed the case against the pro-Palestine groups had not sufficiently demonstrated a clear link between the groups and Hamas’ attack on Israel on October 7, 2023.Top of FormBottom of FormTop of FormBottom of Form The plaintiffs in the case—consisting of seven Americans and two Israelis—were all victims of the Hamas attack that killed an estimated 1,200 people, including more than 700 Israeli civilians. They alleged that the pro-Palestinian groups—including National Students for Justice in Palestine, WESPAC Foundation, and Americans for Justice in Palestine Educational Foundation—provided material support to Hamas that directly led to injuries they suffered as a result of the October 7 attack. However, after examining all the evidence presented by the plaintiffs, Alston found they had not proven their claim that the organizations in question provide “ongoing, continuous, systematic, and material support for Hamas and its affiliates.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/lawsuit-pro-palestinian-groups-dismissed
National Education Assn (largest teachers union): last month voted to cut ties with ADL (got overturned), but The NEA has cultivated close ties with a teachers’ union in the West Bank whose leader has expressed support for terrorists. In fact, the NEA has even sent the group funds billed as humanitarian aid, even though the leader of that union has celebrated terrorists as martyrs and met with a top official from a U.S.-designated terror group. What deserves more attention is the relationship between the NEA and the General Union of Palestinian Teachers (GUPT). At least, one GUPT leader isn’t shy about his support for terror. GUPT general secretary Saed Erziqat posted on social media that they should be honored as “martyrs” and called for “continuous escalation” by Palestinians. Erziqat also revealed that he traveled to Syria to meet Talal Naji, the secretary-general of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, another U.S.-designated foreign terrorist organization. Erziqat supports the boycott, sanctions and divestment campaign against Israel. On Dec. 6, 2023, just shy of two months after the massacre in southern Israel on Oct. 7, an NEA executive launched a GoFundMe campaign to benefit Education International’s “Solidarity Fund for Gaza.” It raised $5,902 for the fund. The GoFundMe campaign indicates that EI will distribute the funds to its Palestinian affiliates, a trio of unions that includes GUPT. Under federal law, it is a criminal offense to knowingly provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization. As noted, the GUPT general secretary supports terrorist acts committed by the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade and Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
Iowa City council passes Israel boycott resolution 7-0, the first city in a Republican state to do so
https://en.royanews.tv/news/62259
Canada: U of Toronto prof on unhinged antisemitic social media rants: open endorsement of Hamas, denies Hamas rapes, calls all Israelis ‘fascist genocidaires’, accuses Israel of raping prisoners to death,
another U of Toronto prof (medical school) spreads anti-Israel propaganda and lies in newspaper columns, most recently lying about Gaza ‘genocide’ and ‘starvation’, claiming Israel blocks aid trucks,
Uruguay freezes its cooperation agreement with Hebrew University
https://www.aurora-israel.co.il/en/The-Israeli-Embassy-regrets-that-Uruguay-has-paused-the-agreement-with-the-Hebrew-University-of-Jerusalem./
Israel: Technion opens new program for international students fleeing campus antisemitism
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-864371
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UCLA: A court ruled Thursday that UC Regent Jay Sures must pay $150,624 of graduate student Dylan Kupsh’s legal fees after Sures unsuccessfully attempted to file a restraining order against him. Kupsh – along with around 50 other pro-Palestine protesters – demonstrated outside Sures’ Brentwood home in February, calling him “responsible for protecting UC investments in genocide and weapons manufacturing.” Lawyers representing Sures initially alleged that Kupsh was a “ringleader” among the protesters, but were unable to prove the claim in court. Stephen Fraser, a lawyer representing Sures, said the original lawsuit was an attempt to prevent Kupsh from returning to demonstrate outside Sures’ home. Protesters in February left red handprints on Sures’ garage and caution tape in his yard, and held a banner that read “Jonathan Sures you will pay, until you see your final day.”
UCLA suspended Students for Justice in Palestine at UCLA and Graduate Students for Justice in Palestine at UCLA – two student groups that attended the protest – a week after the incident. Chancellor Julio Frenk said in a campuswide email announcing the suspensions that members of SJP and Graduate SJP harassed Sures, prevented one of his family members from exiting their home and vandalized the area.
https://dailybruin.com/2025/08/14/uc-regent-jay-sures-required-to-pay-legal-fees-for-pro-palestine-ucla-student
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Thurs Aug 14
UCLA: federal judge orders Trump admin to partially restore some of the $500M of science research grants it suspended due to antisemitism
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-administration-restore-grants-ucla-1-billion-rcna224715
Canada: the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario (ETFO) passed a resolution to create a resource on “Anti-Palestinian Racism” (APR) for every teacher in the province – basically turning any criticism of Palestinians (ie terrorism) into ‘racism.’ This dangerous political framework has been used to brand core expressions of Jewish identity, including connection to Israel, as racism. The promulgation of APR within Ontario’s schools risks the further politicization of our classrooms, making Jewish students and teachers feel that they must hide their heritage, culture, and history to be accepted. Further, it treats Jewish concerns about bias as attempts to “deny” someone else’s narrative, creating hostility by pitting two marginalized groups against each other. [in short: the thing they constantly falsely accuse Jews of – ‘weaponizing antisemitism to stop criticism of Israel’ – they are doing openly and explicitly]
https://x.com/bnaibrithcanada/status/1955724994492948798
Canadian Journal of Occupational Therapy: features article called “Anti-Oppressive Occupational Therapy During the Genocide of Palestinians” calling on all Canadian and indeed all worldwide occupational therapists to unite in combating Israel’s supposed “genocide” of the Palestinians.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00084174251356348?forwardService=showFullText&tokenAccess=XBXFQVYHYDIYFIUDHTHY&tokenDomain=eprints&sfnsn=mo&fbclid=IwY2xjawMKoY1leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHogrDzy3WbQa7MUBuGk7V6DXllU1ey4g3FuV9E8rWQp-4YBi6Pp3Odz7CCdD_aem_lbuwP_CdjvocMZkcaKnv0g
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Wed Aug 13
George Washington U: @TheJusticeDept finds George Washington University in violation of federal civil rights law by acting deliberately indifferent to antisemitic discrimination. @CivilRights DoJ will seek immediate remediation with GWU for its civil rights violations: “Deliberately indifferent to antisemitic discrimination”
https://x.com/IsraelWarRoom/status/1955278729480913257
Dartmouth: partners with Israeli universities through new research program: The Dartmouth chapter of Kalaniyot will bring Israeli researchers to campus and foster international academic exchange. In addition to MIT, other Kalaniyot chapters include Columbia University, Harvard Medical School and the University of Pennsylvania.
https://www.thedartmouth.com/article/2025/08/weaverbell-dartmouth-partners-with-israeli-universities-through-new-research-program
U of Pittsburgh: Students for Justice in Palestine at Pitt is asking a federal judge to lift a six-month suspension that University of Pittsburgh officials say was imposed in March to sanction the group’s violation of university policies.
The suspension is set to expire on Sept. 18, but the club wants to be active when students arrive on campus next week. SJP, which is represented by the American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania, filed suit in April against the university and some of its administrators, contending that SJP’s First Amendment rights were violated by the suspension.
U of Pennsylvania: complicated legal issue, but federal judge dismisses Brandeis Center lawsuit against the Dept of Education over antisemitism at Penn – basically Brandeis Center was objecting to the manner in which the Office of Civil Rights dismissed an earlier complaint filed against Penn on procedural grounds
https://www.aol.com/news/judge-scraps-lawsuit-against-doe-223355754.html
Excellent op-ed, invoking a study to show that campus BDS drives campus antisemitism
Highland Park, Ill. Becomes first city in Ill. to adopt the IHRA defn
https://x.com/RozRothstein/status/1955338467506077848
Toronto film festival caves to anti-Israel pressure and drops film about Oct 7 because the filmmakers didn’t get “permission” from Hamas to use the footage terrorists filmed of themselves massacring Israelis.
https://x.com/IsraelWarRoom/status/1955538039268388991
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Tues Aug 12
Harvard: anti-Israel mob in Harvard Square assaults Jewish couple
https://x.com/realWillSussman/status/1955033357764661444
U of Washington: More than 30 anti-Israel demonstrators who occupied a University of Washington engineering building at the end of the spring semester —- causing more than $1 million worth of damage — are now being investigated by the university and local attorney’s office for potential criminal charges, Jewish Insider has learned.
The investigation comes after a recent report put a spotlight on a link between the radical student group that led the takeover and the U.S. designated terrorist group Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. “We have taken this incident very seriously, including having issued emergency suspensions for all students who were arrested in the building and working with the King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office on potential criminal charges,” a University of Washington spokesperson told JI on Wednesday, referring to the demonstration in May in which masked demonstrators blocked entrances and exits to the building and ignited fires in two dumpsters on a street outside.
Democratic Socialists of America convention passed a resolution on Sunday that supports the Palestinian right to resist and makes supporting Israel an expellable offence. The resolution, passed with a 56 to 43 percent vote at DSA’s biennial convention, also allocates resources to pro-Palestine organising and emphasises the Palestinian right to return “from the river to the sea”. One of DSA’s most influential members is New York State assemblyman Zohran Mamdani, who in June won the Democratic Primary for Mayor of New York City.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/largest-us-socialist-organisation-passes-resolution-supporting-palestinian-resistance
Canada: On July 31, Mark Kersten, an assistant professor of criminal justice at the University of the Fraser Valley, one of Canada’s lowest-ranking universities, published an opinion column entitled: “Genocide is a process, not an event” for The Globe and Mail, explaining that “a growing consensus… have all come to the same conclusion: What is happening in Gaza is a genocide.”
Norway’s sovereign wealth fund (world’s largest sovereign wealth fund) said on Monday that it was divesting from 11 Israeli companies and had terminated its contracts with external fund managers in Israel over concerns regarding the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and the West Bank.
Scotland: A group of Jewish academics working at universities across Scotland has called on their employers to divest from Israel and reject the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism.
The Scottish Universities Jewish Staff Network – which brings together Jewish staff and researchers in higher education across the country – made the call in an op-ed for Scottish daily The National. The group said the IHRA definition was being “weaponized” to stifle criticism of Israel amid its genocide in Gaza.“The Scottish Universities Jewish Staff Network have been advocating against the conflation of anti-Zionism with antisemitism, mindful of the risks to academic freedom and pluralism, the bread and butter of liberal civil society,” they wrote. “Right now, twenty-two months into the Gaza genocide, we can clearly see the disastrous harm of stifling criticism of Israel by the weaponization of the IHRA definition of antisemitism, at times without even adopting it as an official institutional policy.”
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/jewish-academics-in-scotland-urge-universities-to-divest-from-israel/3656393
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Monday Aug 11
Important essay on antisemitism and the future of the university (and Jews’ place at the university)
https://ideas.tikvah.org/mosaic/essays/a-college-guide-for-the-perplexed
Columbia: the school is filing an Unfair Labor Practice charge against SWC, its grad student union. SWC instigated the Butler Library takeover, illegally conditioned bargaining on the presence of Grant Miner (Hamilton occupier), and is insisting on first negotiating over non-contract issues such as student discipline. Once again, most of SWC’s problems are rooted in their failure to focus on labor issues over performative activism.
https://x.com/CUJewsIsraelis/status/1953903118682411168
Harvard: lawyers for the federal government on Friday moved to dismiss Harvard’s lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s attempts to prevent the University from hosting international students.
https://x.com/thecrimson/status/1953940773914681740
Harvard: Trump admin threatens to take over Harvard’s patents: “Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick sent a letter to Harvard President Alan Garber on Friday, telling him the administration planned to do a thorough review of all patents held by the university.” “‘We believe that Harvard has failed to live up to its obligations to the American taxpayer and is in breach of the statutory, regulatory, and contractual requirements tied to Harvard’s federally funded research programs and intellectual property arising therefrom, including patents,’ the letter says.”
https://x.com/sfmcguire79/status/1953953896021602333
UCLA: numerous reports suggesting the Trump admin is demanding a $1Billion settlement over antisemitism
Adelphi U puts SJP on probation for a year, citing the group’s social media activity as promoting a degree of hatred that would make any Jewish person feel “targeted” and “unsafe.” The group’s troubling online activity — which included calling for Israel to “burn” and keeping “these Zionists off our campus” — was first reported by an Adelphi University professor, Tuval Foguel, who filed a complaint through the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law. Adelphi administrators saw the situation as he did.
https://www.algemeiner.com/2025/08/08/adelphi-university-puts-students-justice-palestine-probation/
U of Nevada Las Vegas: Jewish student’s lawsuit against university and SJP still pending after 15 months, despite setbacks and losses
A recent letter to Congress accuses the United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers of America (UE) union of promoting anti-Semitism on college campuses. The National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation sent the letter to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce on July 30, alleging that the UE and its affiliates have created hostile environments for Jewish graduate students at universities including MIT, Stanford, and Cornell. The letter asserts the union supports the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel and uses compulsory dues to fund its activities. At MIT, following the October 2023 Hamas attacks on Israel, the UE affiliate supported campus protests favoring Hamas, the letter states. Five Jewish graduate students requested religious accommodations to avoid paying dues to the union, citing conflicts with their faith. At Stanford, three graduate students faced similar challenges. Their requests for accommodations were met with what the letter calls an “abusive” questionnaire, which the union dropped after legal pressure. At Cornell, Jewish students also faced repeated questionnaires and hostile communications, prompting some to file complaints, the letter contends.
Brooklyn: A Brooklyn woman who worked as a youth organizer for “Squad” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez was arrested Friday on charges she urged her 25,000 social media followers to “attack” a public high school because Jewish students attend it. Iman Abdul, 27, is accused of posting a screenshot on Thursday of the location of Leon M. Goldstein High School for the Sciences in Manhattan Beach on Google Maps and a chilling caption. “If anyone needs a public school in NYC to attack for whatever reason … Lexus driving Israhell (sic) loving Zionisits (sic) all attend here,” the since-deleted post read.
https://nypost.com/2025/08/09/us-news/hateful-call-to-attack-nyc-jewish-high-school-probed-by-nypd/
Chicago: concerned about antisemitism, Jewish parents trying to start a new Jewish high school
Canada: McGill U: Four unions at McGill University say the school is attacking free speech by trying to cut off funding for a student organization because of its support for a pro-Palestinian group. In January, McGill sent a notice of default to the Quebec Public Interest Research Group at McGill (QPIRG), a student-run organization focused on social and environmental justice. The letter demanded that the group stop providing support and resources to Students for Palestine’s Honour and Resistance, known as SPHR. The pro-Palestinian organization was one of the groups that started a months-long encampment on the university’s downtown campus last year. It is listed as one of QPIRG’s working groups, meaning it receives financial support from the organization and has access to its resources, including computers and meeting space. SPHR has “promoted intimidation, harassment, and protest activities that have resulted in vandalism and violence on our campus,” wrote Angela Campbell, McGill’s interim deputy provost of student life and learning, in the January letter. “SPHR has demonstrated itself as unable to distinguish between legitimate political advocacy that respects the rule of law and acts that breach the law and institutional policies.” The university moved to end its memorandum of agreement with QPIRG in May, which would cut off the vast majority of the group’s funding,
Montreal: religious Jewish man beaten up in front of his three kids by random stranger
https://x.com/HonestRepCanada/status/1953963790417989805
UK: SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies) expels leader of the anti-Israel group there (“Palestine Society”): Pro-Palestine student activist Haya Adam has been expelled after a disciplinary panel determined that she had breached the university’s code of conduct. Adam, 21, is the president of the Soas Palestine Society, and has been one of the most visible participants in a 15-month-long student encampment protesting the institution’s alleged complicity in Israel’s war on Gaza.The panel decision on Wednesday found that Adam breached the university’s code of conduct over her appearance in a video posted on 16 January to the student encampment’s Instagram page. In the video, which remains on Instagram, Adam criticises a Soas student union co-president, stating that her tenure had “only served institutional oppression”, and calling her a “careerist”. The university disciplinary panel ruled that the Instagram video constituted harassment … Haya has been on the frontline against the University’s campaign to brutalise and silence students, with multiple disciplinary actions taken against her and an open-ended suspension
Canada over the past few months: - Yesterday, a Jewish man was violently beaten in Montreal, in front of his young children. - The oldest synagogue in Victoria was defaced with “Jews are evil” and “Stop the Jews.” - An Ontario teacher called a Jewish girl “half human.” - Canada’s National Holocaust Monument in Ottawa was vandalized. - Jewish-owned businesses in Thornhill were attacked during Passover. - A kosher restaurant in Toronto was defaced with “F*ck Jews” and had its windows smashed. - A synagogue in Montreal was firebombed. - Two Jewish schools, in Montreal and Toronto, were shot at. - A synagogue in Vancouver was targeted with an incendiary device. - “Free Palestine” protesters in Montreal called for a “final solution” and gave Nazi salutes. - Hundreds of synagogues and Jewish sites received bomb threats.
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Fri Aug 8
Harvard: The Department of Homeland Security will not enforce its May 22 letter revoking Harvard’s certification to host international students, government lawyers wrote in a court document filed on Wednesday.
https://x.com/thecrimson/status/1953568588377239940
Philadelphia: yet ANOTHER lawsuit against a school district: FAMILIES FORCED TO FLEE PHILLY DUE TO OVERT HOSTILITY UNLEASHED TOWARDS JEWISH STUDENTS WHO ENTERED A MUSLIM-ONLY PRAYER SPACE MAINTAINED BY A PHILADELPHIA PUBLIC SCHOOL: On behalf of aggrieved families who were forced to flee the School District of Philadelphia because of the death threats and harassment directed at their school age children because they had entered what is maintained as a Muslim only Prayer space by a Philadelphia public school, The Deborah Project has filed a lawsuit in federal court claiming violations of both Constitutional and statutory rights and duties they were owed. “Parents of children who were repeatedly threatened by other students and whose names and social media accounts were shared with the entire world by others, including teachers, were terrified,” said Lori Lowenthal Marcus of The Deborah Project.“ The response of the Philadelphia School District was to ignore the parents’ pleas for safety and instead fan the flames of hostility directed at the three boys.” And what had the Plaintiff students done wrong? They entered what is labeled the “Quiet Room,” but which they found out was—by binding school policy—restricted to Muslims only. They were charged with and determined by the District to have committed harassment when the only thing the girls in the room said happened was that the boys entered the room during “girls time,” spoke Hebrew, and that one claimed to be a proud Zionist. But the rumors that spread were that the Boys yelled that they “hate Muslims,” performed “sexual activity on prayer rugs,” “pulled off the hijabs of Muslim girls,” and that they had “trashed the Prayer Room.”
--press release
US Dept of Ed opening Title VI investigation into Baltimore school districts for rampant antisemitism
https://x.com/EFischberger/status/1953470149639446903
Deep dive into graduate student unions supporting antisemitism
https://www.algemeiner.com/2025/08/07/graduate-student-unions-promoting-antisemitism-reform-group-says/
Ken Marcus: Deep dive into the antisemitism of teachers’ unions
https://thehill.com/opinion/education/5437179-antisemitism-teacher-unions-schools/amp/?fbclid=IwY2xjawMCuYtleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHtfSFjmGUdLrF6wkDKzgvsgu190j3a0Q8AJvhlLtiL6pcqeA6LQ8LfMIASa5_aem_AFbn91rCoqiz_clot5tRfg
San Francisco teacher wins his lawsuit against his teachers union, demanding refund of his dues since the union’s anti-Israel stance amounts to support of terrorism; union is appealing
300+ German academics sign petition declaring no collaboration with Israeli institutions
https://x.com/PACBI/status/1953468757319283197
New Zealand: Otago U student assn changes its mind and drops its BDS stance against Israel, citing ‘lack of information’
https://archive.ph/mCcWu
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Thurs Aug 7
Tikvah announces the Menorah Index, its guide to universities from the Jewish-Zionist perspective, to launch in September with profiles of various colleges – sign up now to join the mailing list
https://www.menorahindex.org/?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=email_mosaic&utm_campaign=daily-newsletter-paid&utm_content=08-07-25&_kx=RwC9IZxADYaFW-yw64qmgRfEPhS4MKWmOMchQljGk5o.L87CGh
U of Pittsburgh: anti-Israel groups there are protesting the Maccabi Games occurring on Pitt’s campus
U of Virginia: Some 16 Jewish Studies faculty at UVA are weaponizing the claim of genocide, a Hamas libel about Israel’s war on terror, in an attempt to bolster their argument against federal overreach The Jewish Studies profs urge UVA to reject the IHRA Definition. They’re dismissive of complaints about Anti-Semitism from students, families, and alumni The 16 are angry that alumni group The Jefferson Council has carefully and extensively documented Anti-Semitism at UVA since 10-7 and shared it widely on the internet
https://x.com/ProfDBernstein/status/1953291213638893890
U of Maryland: school settles CAIR lawsuit about “suppressing anti-Israel speech”, paying SJP $100K and allowing the group to return to good standing: UMD also recognized SJP as a student group in “good standing” and acknowledged it had hosted over 100 events since Oct. 7, 2023, all in compliance with university policies.
U of Pennsylvania: Penn renames major building as another major donor to the University of Pennsylvania yanked his support from the Ivy League institution over antisemitism concerns. Donor Stephen Levin is no longer making donations toward his $15 million pledge for naming rights to the Neural and Behavioral Sciences Building, the Daily Pennsylvanian reported. Although he yanked his support in November 2023, it is coming to light this week with the student newspaper article. “Penn has quietly removed the name of 1967 College graduate Stephen Levin from the behavioral sciences building he previously endowed after the longtime University donor halted his contributions over the administration’s handling of antisemitism on campus,” the newspaper reported Wednesday.
According to a letter obtained by the Daily Pennsylvanian, Levin had told former President Liz Magill: “Today Penn is far from the University I attended, along with my father and two of my sons.” “Furthermore, I want my name removed from the building and no longer want to be associated with Penn. Penn is an embarrassment not only to the Jewish community but also has lost its luster as a superb Ivy league school.” Levin told the student newspaper he never received a response from Magill.
https://www.thecollegefix.com/another-upenn-megadonor-yanked-support-over-antisemitism-concerns/
https://www.thedp.com/article/2025/08/stephen-levin-building-named-removed-donations
Stanford U: student newspaper sued the Trump Administration on Wednesday, arguing it has violated the free-speech rights of foreign students by threatening to deport them for writing stories that it considers “anti-American or anti-Israel.” The Stanford Daily and two unidentified students said in the lawsuit, filed in federal court in California against Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem,
https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-863482
San Francisco: The board of the San Francisco Unified School District, which educates more than 50,000 students at 122 public schools, decided to purchase a new ethnic-studies curriculum without fulfilling its legal obligation to provide the public with prior notice,
https://x.com/bandlersbanter/status/1953329130013065576
Medford MA: town passes ordinance divesting from companies that contribute to human rights violations, including Israel’s ongoing destruction of Gaza. The Medford City Council passed the Values-Aligned Local Investments Ordinance on Tuesday evening, making Massachusetts the third state — after Michigan and Maine — where a municipality has barred investments in companies that profit from a conflict many experts have now labeled a genocide.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/massachusetts-city-divest-israel_n_68928d2ae4b07e7958a0f2a2
UK: Bowing to BDS pressure, Royal Opera cuts its planned 2026 Tel Aviv production
https://x.com/Art4PalestineUK/status/1952301257009283361
Australia: Hundreds of university students across Australia have walked out of their classrooms and marched on the streets in solidarity with Palestinians — calling for the federal government to sanction Israel. The protests, described by organisers as the national student strikes, were held on Thursday afternoon and involved students from various universities in Melbourne, Sydney, Canberra, Adelaide, Brisbane and Wollongong.
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/australian-students-to-stage-walkout-in-support-of-palestinians-urge-sanctions-on-israel/108h0u4m3
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Wed Aug 6
Columbia: Mahmoud Khalil justifies Oct 7 on the New York Times’ Ezra Klein podcast
https://x.com/LishiBaker/status/1952816189677420911
Harvard: Mathias Risse, who runs the Harvard Carr Center for Human Rights, had a noteworthy academic year. Here are some of his accomplishments: • Interviewed Francesca Albanese — more accurately, provided her a platform to spread inflammatory claims, including that Israel had no right to self-defense after October 7th. • Interviewed Muhammad Shehada, whose organization, Euro-Med, has been linked to Hamas. Shehada has routinely vilified Israel and this week blamed Israel for the starvation of hostage Evyatar David. • Hosted a Palestinian guest speaker who laughed at an elderly Israeli female hostage. • Appears to have given a job offer to an anti-Israel propagandist, before his KSG bosses overruled him for not following the “vetting process.” • Wrote in The Crimson: “There is no justification for the large-scale attacks on Gaza.” • Co-sponsored an event with experts from Addammeer, later sanctioned by the US Dept of Treasury for being a “sham charity” with ties to Hamas and PFLP. • Interviewed prominent anti-Zionist Peter Beinart. Twice. During one of these interviews, Risse laughed at how Jews control the antisemitism industry. • Penned an op-ed defending the use of antisemitic chants, claiming that “slogans like “from the river to the sea” mean different things to different people, and legitimately so.” To quote
@DaraHorn ... yes and ‘Sieg Heil’ just means ‘Hail Victory’ to some people. • And last, but not least, authored an article dismissing the idea that antisemitism exists at Harvard (notably, he is neither Jewish nor a scholar of antisemitism).
https://x.com/ygrill/status/1952529200046624858
UCLA: A federal judge today ordered lawyers for the Trump administration to explain why last week’s suspension of about 300 UCLA grants by the National Science Foundation does not run afoul of that judge’s June order barring the agency from terminating additional grants. Hearing set for Aug 12.
https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2025/08/research-grants-california/
Georgetown’s branch in Qatar promoting virulent anti-Israelism
https://israel-academia-monitor.com/2025/08/06/8596/
A California school district which stands accused of refusing to address antisemitism has ruled that a teacher who allegedly showed her students antisemitic, discriminatory, and biased content violated policy when she screened an offensive video about the Holocaust in her classroom. The move, taken by the Santa Clara Unified School District (SCUSD), came without the prompting of the US Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights, with which two Jewish civil rights groups, StandWithUs (SWU) and the Bay Area Jewish Coalition (BAJC), filed a complaint against the district in April. Among other things, SWU and BAJC alleged that an SCUSD employee, Wilcox High School teacher Kauser Adenwala, screened a documentary produced in Turkey which compared the war in Gaza to the Holocaust. The graphic film at one point “displays a picture of a young Jewish child who was branded with a number by the Nazis during World War II and then suddenly shows an untraceable image of children with Arabic writing on their arms”
https://www.algemeiner.com/2025/08/05/california-school-district-rules-teacher-accused-antisemitism-violated-policy/
Dozens of US professors have become increasingly involved in a Turkish think tank founded by a former academic sentenced to prison for conspiring with terror groups, the Center for Islam and Global Affairs. The center was founded by Sami al-Arian, a former professor at the University of South Florida. In 2006, Al-Arian was sentenced to prison in the U.S. for 57 months after being found guilty of conspiring to aid terror group Palestinian Islamic Jihad. He was then deported. Academics have continued to participate in CIGA events despite the fact that the think tank has hosted senior leaders of Hamas and officials connected to other terror groups such as the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. Some egs: In the aftermath of the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks on Israel, Ohio State University law Professor John Quigley (pictured bottom) and Columbia University Professor Joseph Massad (pictured left) also hosted a CIGA panel on the “future of Zionism after the al-Aqsa flood.” Shortly after the attacks on Israel, Massad called them a “stunning victory.” Further, al-Arian hosted a “CIGA Ramadan” series in 2021 featuring Princeton Professor Richard Falk and Georgetown Professor Nader Hashemi. Both Falk and Hashemi have previously faced criticism for their pro-Hamas activism.
https://www.thecollegefix.com/u-s-professors-work-with-hamas-linked-think-tank-prompts-security-concerns/
FBI releases hate crime stats for 2024 and it’s bad: The FBI tracked 1,938 reported incidents of single-bias anti-Jewish hate crimes in 2024. This marks a 5.8% increase from 2023 and is the highest number ever recorded by the FBI since it began collecting data in 1991. Though Jews just make up about 2% of the U.S. population, they were the target of nearly 70% of all reported religion-based hate crimes in 2024, comprising roughly 1-in-6 of all reported hate crimes. Antisemitism and extremism are rising in the United States. And 2024 FBI data doesn’t show the full picture, with many incidents going unreported.
https://x.com/JewishonCampus_/status/1952807167339213059
UK: Community Security Trust publishes Antisemitic Incidents Report January-June 2025, and it’s bad: CST recorded 1,521 antisemitic incidents across the UK in the first half of 2025, a decrease from last year but the second-highest total ever reported to CST in the first six months of any year. In the six months leading up to 7 October 2023, CST recorded a monthly average of 161 antisemitic incidents per month. In the first six months of 2025, this monthly average stood at 254 incidents, a 58% increase from that earlier period.
https://cst.org.uk/research/cst-publications/antisemitic-incidents-report-january-june-2025
https://x.com/CST_UK/status/1953007021336215679
Dutch Holocaust scholar fears retribution, assault, and dismissal for standing up for Jewish students: Kluveld, a longtime critic of on-campus anti-Israel groups, told JNS in an interview that her attempt to film an antisemitic protest outside a classroom has apparently led to a concerted effort to push her out. Determined to document the event—which the researcher said involved sirens, drums and a megaphone, violating university rules prohibiting the disruption of educational activities—Kluveld began filming the rally. However, when Kluveld recorded the scene, the institute’s integral safety coordinator approached her alongside a demonstrator who demanded she immediately stop filming and delete the footage from her phone. She refused. “They also started chanting at me through that megaphone, coming very close to me, like 20 centimeters [8 inches] away. And they had a flag, poking me with it, letting it touch my head,” she said, adding: “But I simply didn’t leave and stood my ground.” Since then, Kluveld has faced more harassment from students and staff and was summoned by her employer for mediation, which she believes could be a “gentle form of euthanasia” ahead of her possible dismissal. “Now the claim has been made that no one at the faculty wants to work with me or has trust in me,” she said. “They’re never going to give me that trust because they never want to admit that they were wrong.”
https://www.jns.org/dutch-holocaust-scholar-fears-dismissal-after-defending-jewish-students/
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Columbia: Mahmoud Khalil’s pro-Hamas group (@ColumbiaBDS) just posted a Substack featuring Hamas spokesman Abu Obeida—and praising a terrorist who murdered a U.S. Army officer. More details from the post: “We [CUAD] disrupt, and we are not afraid to claim and embrace that very nature of our actions... A wrench must be thrown into this machine [Columbia University], by any means necessary.” “[T]he resistance humiliates the zionist state, as seen when the Al-Aqsa Flood breached the separation wall between Gaza and the rest of occupied Palestine.” “[W]e will never condemn armed resistance.” “Hamas spokesperson Abu Obeida... highlighted the breadth of the resistance.” “We will continue to support and justify resistance in all its forms until Palestine is free and the world is liberated from the chokehold of imperialism. Disruption until divestment, and revolution until victory.” “As [a course associate] prepares for another semester of teaching, we must continue to disrupt business as usual...” “May the courage and perseverance of the resistance serve as an inspiration to us all. We must continue the struggle in unwavering solidarity. Glory to the resistance!”
https://cuapartheiddivest.substack.com/p/drop-the-cha
https://x.com/ShaiDavidai/status/1952471297281434006
Northwestern U: The House Education and Workforce Committee will interview Northwestern University‘s president regarding allegations of antisemitism on the school’s Evanston campus. President Michael Schill’s interview will take place behind closed doors on Tuesday.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/house-education-workforce-committee-interview-northwestern-universitys-michael-schill-alleged-campus-antisemitism/17434480/
U of Maryland: board to vote Wednesday on whether to approve a $100K settlement over attempt to ban anti-Israel demonstrations on anniversary of Oct 7
Williams College: A Williams College student charged in a commencement day vandalism incident is asking Northern Berkshire District Court to agree to a community service plan. Liam Carey, 20, of Virginia, is scheduled to appear in court on Monday, Aug. 11, to answer to charges of vandalism, destruction of property less than $1,200, resisting arrest and trespass arising from the June 8 incident. Williamstown Police responded to the scene near the commencement grounds at about 7 a.m. to find that Carey had removed the American flag from a college-owned flag pole and replaced it with a Palestine flag. College officials told police that Carey had smashed a security box, cut a rope and tied one end of a rope on the flag pole to his wrist, according to an affidavit from Officer Brad Sacco.
Police also saw graffiti on nearby granite slabs at the entrance to the Williams Quad and on the stone pathway to Chapin Hall quad. The graffiti included statements like “They Killed our Childhood,” “Queer as in Free Palestine,” “[Explitive] All Colonizers” and “Williams Funds Genocide,” the affidavit reads.
**Detailed critique (by Sarah Lawrence prof Samuel Abrams) of recent Brandeis study which suggested that not so many profs are ‘anti-Israel’ (incl used far too narrow definition of ‘anti-Israel’: According to the Brandeis researchers, only faculty who endorse all or most of a small subset of extreme statements are labeled “hostile.” But this threshold is far too high to be meaningful.
Federal judge rules that attacks on the Star of David are a form of racial harassment: On Monday, a federal judge wrote that targeting the Star of David is “as racially motivated as the highly offensive racial slur, [the N-word],” while granting protection to a Jewish activist who was allegedly choked when an aggressor yanked an Israeli flag from around her neck. The ruling — which could be a watershed moment for the American Jewish community — appears to be the first successful use of an 1866 Civil Rights Act provision to address post-October 7 antisemitic violence. The United States District Court for the District of Columbia issued the preliminary injunction on August 4, 2025 in favor of Kimmara Sumrall, a Zionist activist, against Janine Ali, a member of the anti-Israel group CODEPINK. In a decision that could reshape how courts address antisemitic attacks, the judge found that “The Star of David—emblazoned upon the Israeli flag—symbolizes the Jewish race” and that Sumrall was likely to succeed in her lawsuit alleging racially motivated assault. The court issued a stay-away order requiring Ali to maintain at least three yards distance from Sumrall in public and prohibiting all contact, after finding that the attack constituted “direct evidence of racial discrimination.”
-- According to court documents, Sumrall was wearing an Israeli flag tied around her neck as a cape when Ali allegedly approached from behind and yanked it, causing Sumrall to be choked and her head jerked backward.The court’s most significant finding centered on the symbolic and racial significance of the attack. Rejecting Ali’s argument that her actions were merely “anti-Israel” rather than antisemitic—which the judge called “quite a stretch”—the court established that targeting Jewish symbols constitutes racial discrimination at the highest level of offensiveness.
Italian Society of International Law calls on all int’l, national and local entities to end ties with Israeli institutions that contribute to Israel’s “serious violations of international law & the maintenance of the illegal occupation of Palestinian territory.”
https://x.com/PACBI/status/1952667155901595802
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Columbia: anti-Israel prof Rashid Khalidi has announced he will no longer teach his signature fall course at Columbia, citing the university’s “capitulation” to the Trump administration. ➤ In an open letter published by The Guardian, Khalidi says the deal with Trump officials effectively criminalizes criticism of Israel and makes it impossible to teach honestly about the Middle East. “The IHRA definition deliberately, mendaciously and disingenuously conflates Jewishness with Israel, so that any criticism of Israel, or indeed description of Israeli policies, becomes a criticism of Jews.” ➤ Columbia has agreed to let an outside “compliance monitor” access faculty, classrooms, and disciplinary proceedings—measures Khalidi says transform the university into an “anti-university.” ➤ “The teaching, syllabi and scholarship of some of the most prominent academics… will be vetted by political appointees and outside firms,” he writes, calling it a “shameful capitulation.” Khalidi will instead launch a public lecture series on modern Middle East history, with proceeds going to Gaza’s destroyed universities.
https://x.com/DropSiteNews/status/1951300952104849551
UCLA: Trump admin freezes $339M in federal research grants over civil rights violations
https://x.com/yudapearl/status/1951344412560335304
Princeton suppresses a swastika in a grad student residence currently undergoing renovation – quietly removes it but makes no announcements
Cornell reportedly nears $100M deal with Trump admin over antisemitism
https://www.cornellsun.com/article/2025/08/cornell-reportedly-nears-up-to-100-million-settlement-with-trump-admin-to-restore-frozen-federal-funding
Harvard denies it is considering a $500M deal with the Trump admin
https://x.com/thecrimson/status/1952085827422450030
Harvard and others: deep dive into the antisemitism growing/rampant throughout the medical profession
Canada: Anti-Israel Student group calls for boycott of McGill summer course in Israel: SPHR McGill denounces university for relaunch of summer exchange program with Israeli university. They’ve started an email campaign to prevent Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers and Israeli students from coming to the university’s campus.
https://thelinknewspaper.ca/article/students-call-for-boycott-of-mcgill-summer-course-in-israel
Canada: Victoria BC synagogue hit with graffiti: “Jews are evil! Because Genocide is Evil! Stop Genocide, Stop the Jews! Jews are murdering thousands of Gentile children. In the future Pelestinians will get their revenge against you child-killing Jew monsters!
https://x.com/DahliaKurtz/status/1952115655743783234
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Friday Aug 1
Florida State University - female student attacks a Jewish peer at the gym wearing an IDF shirt, screaming “F*ck Israel, Free Palestine” and physically shoves him. Congressman Randy Fine writes: Under the Florida Law that I authored and passed in 2019, this Muslim terrorist must be immediately expelled. As a member of the U.S. House Education and Workforce Committee, I am personally calling @FloridaState to ensure it is done. He then reports that she has been suspended pending expulsion hearing
https://x.com/RepFine/status/1951040083043209627
https://x.com/RepFine/status/1951042561935818793
ADL Files Civil Rights Complaint Against Baltimore City Public Schools, Alleging Rampant Antisemitism
Canada: McGill U: new documentary says McGill used the anti-Israel encampment as an excuse to increase surveillance of students … McGill has sought at least three anti-protest injunctions, and has locked down its campus at least as many times, in the past year and a half. They have also increased the use of private security, and have coordinated with Montreal police to facilitate interventions by officers in riot gear on campus.
Vancouver Dyke March adopts BDS and excludes Zionists
https://x.com/bnaibrithcanada/status/1951006274495324437
Montreal Pride rejects participation by a Jewish LGBTQ group
https://x.com/HenMazzig/status/1950997915108786433
UK: A University of Oxford college is launching a unique funding scheme to support Jewish and/or Israeli students, with the aim of fostering greater understanding between people of different faiths and cultures.Starting this coming academic year, the £5k Tikvah (hope) Scholarships will be awarded to up to four participants by St Anne’s College in partnership with the Leg-Up Charity for Kids, an organisation which advances the education of young people in the UK. Open to Jewish undergraduates, or Israeli undergraduates of any or no faith, the funding is supported by donations from St Anne’s alumnae. Candidates must to demonstrate a clear plan to give back to Jewish or Israeli communities and priority will be given to those for whom the scholarship will make the most difference.
UK: U of Bristol: The University of Bristol fails to prevent anti-Israel open day disruptions, despite commitments that it would do so following similar incidents last year. Masked student protestors shouted ‘Free Palestine’ amid calls for institution to sever ties with companies allegedly linked to the arming of Israel.
https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/bristol-university-fails-to-prevent-repeated-open-day-anti-israel-disruptions/
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