In the last few weeks of the academic year, the Jew Hatred on Campus campaign has taken the fight against campus anti-Semitism directly to the campuses.
In February, a Jewish college student was hospitalized after being punched in the face at a pro-Palestinian demonstration on a campus in upstate New York.
Campus:
On Thursday, April 23rd, courage, contempt and cowardice collided during a pro-Israel campus event called “iFest” that took place at the University of California, Irvine (UCI).
Campus:
A panel discussion at Pitzer College featuring Dr. Charles Jacobs, Nonie Darwish, Dr. Richard Cravatts, and Elliott Hamilton.
Campus:
On Tuesday evening, the undergraduate student government at UCLA unanimously voted for the Election Board to investigate charges that the LET’S ACT! Slate used illegal fundraising tactics in numerous campaigns, according to the Daily Bruin, UCLA’s campus newspaper.
The case of Dr. Andrew Pessin, a philosophy professor who criticized Hamas on Facebook only to come under attack by a hate campaign, continues to roil Connecticut College.
Twenty-three anti-Semitism watchdog groups from across the country have signed a letter to the president of Northwestern University expressing their concerns for Jewish students on campus after anti-Semitic graffiti was discovered on campus last week.
Campus:
This week I traveled to the Midwest to speak at Ohio State, home of the Buckeyes, to an audience of 130 students.
The Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity house on the Stanford University campus was vandalized Saturday night, marked by swastikas, insulting epithets, and personal slurs. A spokesman for the university’s public safety department is currently being investigated as a hate crime.
Campus:
David Horowitz, a conservative political activist, said that the “Muslim Student Association is a recruiting tool for the Muslim Brotherhood” at a talk on the negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program organized by The Stony Brook University College Republicans.
Campus:
Film screening of "Privileged Hatred: SJP" and panel featuring Nonie Darwish, Richard Cravatts,Charles Jacobs, and Elliott Hamilton.
The Amcha Initiative tracks the appearance of swastikas on American campuses.
On Monday, April 20, a group calling itself Palestine@MIT wrote a letter to “the MIT community” on Facebook demanding that MIT’s Undergraduate Association remove the Israeli Independence Day Carnival from its annual Springfest.
Below are the video and transcript to the panel discussion “Jew Hatred on Campus,” featuring an introduction by David Horowitz, which took place at the Freedom Center’s 2015 West Coast Retreat. The event was held March 6-8 in Palos Verdes, CA.
Campus:
In a letter to Todd Presner, director of UCLA’s Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, who invited noted anti-Israel activist Cornel West to join a panel honoring the late Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel. 21 organizations expressed their outrage that West had been invited.