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Columbia President Will Testify Before Congress on Response to Campus Anti-Semitism – Washington Free Beacon

| March 13, 2024

Anti-Israel protest at Columbia (Spencer Platt/Getty Images) The president and board co-chairs of Columbia University will appear before Congress next month to discuss their response to rising campus anti-Semitism, the House Committee on Education and the Workforce announced. "Some of the worst cases of antisemitic assaults, harassment, and vandalism on campus have occurred at Columbia University," the committee's chairwoman, Rep

Columbia University president and board chairs to testify before House committee investigating anti-Semitism – Campus Reform

| March 13, 2024

Leaders of Columbia University will testify at a House Committee on Education and the Workforce hearing on April 17. The House committee announced on March 11 that Columbia University President Nemat (Minouche) Shafik along with Board of Trustees Co-Chairs Claire Shipman and David Greenwald will appear at the hearing, titled Columbia in Crisis: Columbia Universitys Response to Antisemitism.

House Presses MIT To Provide Records on Its Response to Campus Anti-Semitism – Washington Free Beacon

| March 13, 2024

Rep. Virginia Foxx (L) and MIT president Sally Kornbluth (Win McNamee, Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images) The House Committee on Education and the Workforce is pressing the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to provide internal documents regarding its response to campus anti-Semitism, which committee chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R., N.C.) panned as dangerously inadequate. Foxx's letter, sent Friday to MIT president Sally Kornbluth and MIT corporation chair Mark Gorenberg, marks an escalation in the committee's investigation into the university.

Is ‘Globalize the Intifada’ an Incitement to Violence? Columbia’s Anti-Semitism Task Force Won’t Say – Washington Free Beacon

| March 13, 2024

In a new report on Columbia University's protest policies, the Ivy League school's Task Force on Antisemitism declined to say whether calls for "intifada" violate school rules, saying that while some students "feel strongly" that the chant invokes genocide, others feel strongly that it does not. The report, released Monday, is the task force's first attempt to provide recommendations to Columbia's leaders regarding their response to rising campus anti-Semitism.

Israel’s ‘anti-Zionists’ brave police beatings, smears to demand end to war – Al Jazeera English

| March 13, 2024

Tel Aviv/West Jerusalem In 2015, Maya, a Jewish Israeli, travelled to Greece to help Syrian refugees. At the time, she was an exchange student in Germany and she had been deeply moved by the pictures she saw of desperate people arriving there in small boats. That was where she met Palestinians who had been born in Syria after their parents and grandparents fled there during the founding of her own country in 1948.

Political science professor Ron Hassner locks himself in his office to protest antisemitism on campus – Daily Californian

| March 13, 2024

Since Thursday evening, Chancellors Professor of Political Science Ron Hassner has locked himself in his office and is holding all classes on Zoom in protest of antisemitism on UC Berkeleys campus. Hassner, whose course WAR! quickly fills up each fall, said his sit-in protest was unrelated to the Israel-Hamas war.

New Jersey synagogue will allegedly auction off occupied Palestinian land – Yahoo News

| March 5, 2024

March 3 (UPI) -- Palestinian groups are calling for supporters to protest an event at a New Jersey synagogue marketing the sale of homes in the West Bank. A review of homes listed to be showcased in the real estate event by My Home In Israel Real Estate shows cottages in Efrat, a settlement in the West Bank.

Man with nail gun charged after confrontation with pro-Palestinian protesters near Toronto-area synagogue – CBC.ca

| March 5, 2024

Toronto Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share by Email Posted: March 03, 2024 Last Updated: 8 Hours Ago A man has been charged after a confrontation with pro-Palestinian demonstrators near a synagogue in Thornhill, Ont., Sunday morning, police said. York Regional Police said they were called to Clark Avenue West and South Promenade around 9:45 a.m.

CAIR-NJ, AMP-NJ Condemn Planned Sale of Occupied Palestinian Land at Teaneck Synagogue, Call for Federal … – Council on American-Islamic Relations

| March 5, 2024

The New Jersey chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-NJ), the nations largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, along with the New Jersey chapter of American Muslims for Palestine (AMP-NJ) today condemned a planned real estate event to allegedly sell illegally-occupied Palestinian land at a Teaneck synagogue. The groups also called for a federal probe into the planned event to prevent what may constitute illegal activity from occurring. The event, reportedly organized by My Home in Israel Real Estate, a group based in Occupied Palestine, is set to occur on March 10 at a local synagogue

Man charged following altercation near Thornhill synagogue: police – CP24

| March 5, 2024

A 27-year-old man has been arrested and charged after allegedly bringing a nail gun to a demonstration in Thornhill on Sunday, police say. It happened inthe area of Clark Avenue West and South Promenade. York Regional Police (YRP) said they were called to that area at about 9:45 a.m.after a victim reported being assaulted with a weapon by a male suspect.


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