Columbia University Students launch Pro - Israel Initiative to Counter "Apartheid Week"→
/Rudy Rochman, president of the school’s chapter of Students Supporting Israel (SSI) and organizer of the program, said it aims to “empower Jewish and pro-Israel students to feel proud of their history, culture, identity and values.”
Read MoreThe violent uprising waiting to happen in America if this organization gets its way
/When lecturers on US campuses are calling for a revolution in the United States, we need to be concerned.
Read MoreNew York Arab student leader praises murder of Israeli / David Rosenberg→
/Nerdeen Kiswani, president of Students for Justice in Palestine's NYC branch hails deadly terror attack as 'biggest F you' to Israel.
A leader of one of the largest anti-Israel activist networks in the United States publicly praised the murder of four Israeli Jews in a terror attack in Jerusalem, hailing the killings as “the biggest ‘F you’” to Israel.
Nerdeen Kiswani, president of the New York City chapter of the Students for Justice in Palestine took to Facebook to praise the slaughter of four IDF cadets on Sunday by an Arab terrorist from the Jabel Mukaber neighborhood in Jerusalem.
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'No Jews Allowed' Accompanies Swastika- Like Symbols Found in Stanford Campus Area→
/Swastika-like symbols were discovered at five separate locations on the Stanford University campus, San Francisco news website The Mercury News reported.
According to the report, graffiti was part of a spate of a total of 10 cases of antisemitic vandalism in the vicinity of the school, including in residential areas.
https://www.algemeiner.com/2017/01/06/no-jews-allowed-accompanies-swastika-like-symbols-found-on-stanford-campus/
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Columbia Unbecoming - Then and Now→
/When Algemeiner put Columbia University at the top of its list of the 40 worst Universities for Jewish students, Forward editor Laura E. Adkins doubted the list-makers’ methodology, invited students to chime in, and is now publishing vigorous debates. We write to enlarge and refocus the discussion.
It matters little if Columbia University is at the top, middle, or bottom of the list. It is also true that a university can support a robust Jewish life on campus -– with kosher food, Jewish holiday celebrations, a wonderful Hillel building —- while at the same time tolerating Jew hatred and student intimidation.
http://forward.com/scribe/358502/columbia-unbecoming-then-and-now/
Read More'Hate Spaces" Film Exposes Campus Intolerance→
/A new documentary, "Hate Spaces," exposes the epidemic of campus intolerance favoring Muslims and anti-Israel activists over Jews and Israel supporters when it comes to free speech, academic freedom, and protection from abuse.
The film is being released theatrically by Americans for Peace and Tolerance (APT), a Boston-based non-profit dedicated to raising public awareness about the increasingly hostile campus environment. "Hate Spaces" premiered Nov. 30 in New York, and will be screened at select locations around the country (contact info@peaceandtolerance.org for details). The film will also be available on DVD in early 2017 and eventually on YouTube. Click here to sign up for alerts.
The film's title refers to the concept of "safe spaces" that has been used to silence unpopular speech on universities around the United States.
www.israeltoday.co.il/NewsItem/tabid/178/nid/30736/Default.aspx
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Hen Mazzig on the UCL protest: "They were shouting 'intifada' - we were petrified
/They're telling me to hide behind a wall in the lobby of a campus building - until they can safely bring me in.
The baroque clocks of University College London (UCL) have just struck seven, and a CST security guard is frantically informing me that students are moving into another room - the third one this evening - since an angry mob have discovered the safe space where we're hiding.
Suddenly I'm rushed into the classroom where a dozen students are standing in utter shock, petrified over scenes that no student should see.
The student organiser, Liora, is telling me to stay in the room. If the mob sees me, we will be penned in on all sides.
Read MoreNY, California universities among 'hotspots' of anti-Israel, anti-Semitic activity
/The City University of New York in Brooklyn, Northwestern University and many of the schools in the University of California system are among the most hostile campuses for Jewish students, with high rates of anti-Semitic harassment and anti-Israel activity, researchers have found.
According to a major new study at Brandeis University into anti-Semitism and anti-Israel sentiment on US campuses, these universities are “hotspots” for such activity.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/ny-california-universities-among-hotspots-of-anti-israel-anti-semitic-activity-on-campus/?utm_source=The+Times+of+Israel+Daily+Edition&utm_campaign=54816c62a4-2016_10_24&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_adb46cec92-54816c62a4-55026365
Read MoreJewish Students at U of Micigan ' Deeply Offended' by 'Apartheid Wall', Mock Israeli Checkpoints Erected on Campus During Rosh Hashanah
/Jewish students at the University of Michigan were “deeply offended” that an “apartheid wall” and mock Israeli checkpoints were allowed to be erected on campus during the high holiday of Rosh Hashanah, the student newspaper The Michigan Review reported on Wednesday.
https://www.algemeiner.com/2016/10/06/jewish-students-at-u-of-michigan-deeply-offended-by-apartheid-wall-mock-israeli-checkpoints-erected-on-campus-during-rosh-hashanah/
Read MoreAnti-Semitism on Campus Is Not Just Uncivil, It's Intolerant
/“Events like these are not welcome on our campus anymore.” —Head of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at University of California Davis addressing a group of more than 70 activists preparing to disrupt a Jewish student event about Israel.
Incivility: “Rude or unsociable speech or behavior”
Intolerance: “An unwillingness to accept views, beliefs, or behavior that differ from one’s own”
http://www.newsweek.com/anti-semitism-campus-not-just-uncivil-its-intolerant-503491
Read MoreIn the safe spaces on campus, no Jews allowed
/When Arielle Mokhtarzadeh arrived at University of California, Berkeley, to attend the annual Students of Color Conference, she had no way of knowing that she would be leaving as a victim of anti-Semitism.
The conference has maintained a reputation for 27 years as being a “safe space” where students of color, as well as white progressive allies, can discuss issues of structural and cultural inequality on college campuses.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2016/09/15/in-the-safe-spaces-on-campus-no-jews-allowed/
Read MoreAnother important victory against BDS→
/NEW YORK – Two months after the Graduate Student Union at New York University voted to join the Boycott Divest and Sanctions movement against Israel, the decision was repealed by the group’s parent union, the United Auto Workers.
The decision made this week was the result of some members of the NYU student union (GSOC) filing an official appeal against the April decision, claiming it violated the UAW constitution’s own bylaws.
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Landmark Anti-BDS Decision at McGill University
/McGill U Professor Calls Student Judicial Ban on BDS 'Huge', Says It Recognizes "Jewish Concerns Deserve Respect Like All Others"
A history professor and anti-BDS warrior at McGill University in Canada responded enthusiastically to a landmark decision taken on Wednesday by the legal arm of the institution’s student body to ban anti-Israel boycott, divestment and sanctions activities on campus.
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Heavy Backlash Forces Brown's University's Hillel to Pull Sponsorship of 'Nakba Day' Event
/Brown University’s Hillel has pulled its sponsorship of a Wednesday event commemorating the 1948 Palestinian Arab exodus from Israel — more commonly referred to as the “Nakba” — following heavy backlash, The Algemeiner has learned.
Read MoreMock Eviction Notices Accusing Israel of Host of Crimes Plastered Across Dorms of Connecticut College by Pro - Palestinian Student Group
/Students at Connecticut College were greeted with fake eviction notices Monday night in their residence halls, put up by an anti-Israel student organization accusing the Jewish state of a series of crimes, The Algemeiner has learned.
“My original reaction was shock, but this stunt was expected after last semester’s Birthright poster campaign,” Connor Wolfe, a Jewish student at Connecticut College who sits on the board of Hillel, told The Algemeiner, referencing a similar stunt last semester by Conn Students in Solidarity with Palestine (CSSP), in which the student group plastered posters across campus stating, “Taglit-Birthright is settler colonialism.”
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Vassar Alumnus Calls Defeat of BDS Resolution at College a 'Watershed Moment'
/The Thursday defeat of a Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement resolution at Vassar College is a major turning point at a school known for its widespread anti-Israelism, a key figure in a Vassar alumni group told The Algemeiner on Monday.
Read MoreLawyer in Discrimination Suit: President of CUNY College Pressured Jewish Faculty Member to Withdraw Antisemitism Complaint
/A lawyer representing a New York City professor in a suit against his university for alleged antisemitism told The Algemeiner her client was previously pressured by the school’s president to drop an internal complaint.
Read MoreAnti-Semitism on California Campuses
/The problem on campuses across the country is that pro-Palestinian activists, in their zeal to seek self-affirmation, statehood, and "social justice," have waged an extremely caustic cognitive war against Israel and Jews.
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