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JPost.com - Antisemitism - 09:38 May 16, 2024
Lawsuit filed against Haverford College claims violation of Jewish students' civil rights, alleging hostility, double standards, and failure to address antisemitic behavior.
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Haaretz - 07:01 May 13, 2024
A survey commissioned by Hillel, the Jewish campus life organization, also finds that a small minority of Jewish students are 'happy' about pro-Palestinians activism on campus. Two-thirds said protesters used language that was 'antisemitic, threatening or derogatory to Jewish people' -
JPost.com - Antisemitism - 23:02 May 12, 2024
As the homeland and protector of the Jewish people, Israel must take this proactive measure to combat the rising tide of hatred and prejudice.
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Haaretz - 07:31 May 07, 2024
Since October 7, the flagrantly anti-democratic, morally bankrupt political theology of Israel's right-wing Jewish radicals, a worldview that justifies the death, starvation, and hunger of Palestinians, is becoming more dominant. Jews in Israel and around the world must confront this desecration of our tradition -
Israel Hayom - 03:22 May 07, 2024
Amidst a wave of protests by pro-Palestinian students across the US, Jewish students have decided to launch a counterattack against displays of antisemitism. Liat (not her real name), a doctoral student at Harvard University, was one of the central activists on campus. Together with other students, she entered the anti-Israel lion's den on campus […] -
Haaretz - 03:01 May 06, 2024
Ane-Lise Bylov Jespersen, a 103-year-old nun from Denmark, was officially thanked by Israel's ambassador to Denmark. When Bylov Jespersen was 22, she saved the lives of two Jewish babies during the Nazi occupation of Denmark and took care of them until the end of the war -
Haaretz - 08:56 May 03, 2024
'Our standards of discourse have been poisoned," one Jewish student says. 'People think, because there's something terrible happening far away, it is OK to behave poorly here, and that strikes me as exactly the sort of anti-intellectualism that universities are supposed to combat, not embrace' -
Israel Hayom - 08:56 Apr 30, 2024
Columbia University is facing a class action lawsuit accusing the prestigious school of failing to keep Jewish students safe amid the wave of anti-Israel protests that have disrupted the Ivy League campus, according to the New York Post. Massive class action lawsuit just filed against @Columbia The plaintiffs are seeking relief for the […] -
JPost.com - Antisemitism - 16:12 Apr 28, 2024
The congresswoman noted that she had met a number of Jewish students who were participating in the encampment.
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Haaretz - 13:11 Apr 25, 2024
Fellow students proudly tell me they're 'with Hamas.' A Pro-Palestinian protester near campus pinned me to a wall. Being visibly Jewish at Columbia if you're pro-Israel means you're unprotected, abandoned and with no expectation of accountability from the university itself -
Haaretz - 13:56 Apr 21, 2024
After over 100 students were detained and many arrested at Columbia University last week, protests sprung up at universities across the country in solidarity with those arrested. University of Pennsylvania banned a protest group for harassing Jewish students and faculty -
JPost.com - Antisemitism - 00:41 Apr 20, 2024
Protests erupted at Columbia University over Israel divestment calls. Jewish students express discomfort amid arrests and chants, recalling past trauma. Campus tension intensifies.
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JPost.com - Arab Israeli Conflict - 01:15 Apr 17, 2024
There was some pushback from the centrist and right-wing Jewish officials present, who called on the United States to support whatever decision Israel makes.
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JPost.com - Antisemitism - 11:36 Apr 15, 2024
Protesters targeted Labour leader Keir Starmer's home, distressing his Jewish wife Victoria. Three face charges for breaching bail conditions in related protests.
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Israel Hayom - 11:15 Apr 15, 2024
The leaders of the two major Jewish lobbying groups of the two parties in the US issued a rare and united call to Congress overnight between Sunday and Monday demanding approval of the aid package to Israel, following Iran's massive missile attack. This is a step unprecedented in decades, if ever. In a joint […] -
Haaretz - 21:39 Mar 27, 2024
Lieberman, an Orthodox Jew, was the first Jewish candidate on the national ticket of a major party in 2000 when he was Al Gore's running mate -
JPost.com - Antisemitism - 17:09 Mar 27, 2024
Due to his Jewish background, controversy erupts over Aaron Taylor-Johnson's rumored James Bond casting. Fans split on boycott calls.
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JPost.com - Antisemitism - 16:44 Mar 24, 2024
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JPost.com - Antisemitism - 07:54 Mar 23, 2024
Nurses wearing pro-Palestinian stickers allegedly ejected a visibly 9-year-old Jewish boy from his bed, while he was receiving treatment for his rare blood disease.
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Haaretz - 15:21 Mar 21, 2024
'It's embarrassing, it's a waste of money, it's kind of scary, and it's not befitting a university,' said the head of the Jewish studies center U.C. Irvine, after he decided to stop holding lectures due to disruptions and harassment from pro-Palestinian protesters