The Harvard University Dining Service capitulated to anti-Israel protestors and will cease to use water machines produced by the Israeli company SodaStream according to a report in the Harvard Crimson.
Few disputes fought out by student governments have been as acrimonious as the battles raging intermittently across this state on whether to push University of California regents and trustees of other universities to join an international campaign against Israel. This movement seeks to boycott Israeli companies and academics, demands divestment from companies doing business there and demands trade sanctions.
Somerville police in cooperation with the police force of Tufts University are investigating anti-Semitic graffiti that was discovered on the college campus on Saturday according to Somerville Patch.
Campus advocates of the anti-Semitic Boycott, Divestment and Santions (BDS) movement often attack Israel and the Jewish State in an insidious manner. Hiding behind mantra of “human rights” and “pursuing social justice,” students level a variety of false allegations going as far as to accuse Israel of being a genocidal enterprise like Nazi Germany under Hitler.
Once again anti-Semitism has roiled Wellesley College. The recent abrupt firingof the Hillel director and chaplain, and the relentless denigration of Israel by Muslim students and supportive faculty, have triggered concern about festering prejudice at the elite women’s college nestled within a sedate Boston suburb.
Anti-Israel protestors stormed an event at the University of Pittsburgh on November 24th requiring police intervention and leaving event organizers shaken.
From The Times of Israel
A recently uncovered internal document of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at Binghamton University SUNY sheds new light on the anti-Semitic bigotry of SJP groups across the country, as well as SJP’s ties to international campaigns to harm the Jewish state and the Jewish people.
Wellesley College has abruptly removed its Hillel director and Jewish chaplain as part of a restructuring, angering Jewish students who say they feel abandoned by the administration amid tension with a campus Palestinian group.
Local politicians are asking Brooklyn College to cancel a Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) event scheduled for Thursday evening, while civil rights and Arab-American groups believe the event should be allowed to go forward.
Filmmaker Ami Horowitz recently exposed the prevalence of anti-semitism on the campus of the liberal University of California-Berkeley. Berkeley has long been a liberal mecca, no pun intended, but the footage is deeply disturbing to the old era pro-Israel liberal Democrats, a segment of the party that has all but vanished.
Amid the heart-wrenching terrorist attacks that were committed in Jerusalem this week, we face the unfortunate fact that anti-Semitism has spread throughout the United States, specifically on university campuses.
A University of Chicago student describes the climate of anti-Semitism on campus.
Rutgers SJP holds a die-in to detract from a pro-Israel informational event.
Police at Northeastern University have launched an investigation after swastikas were drawn on two fliers posted on campus to publicize a lecture this week by an Israeli military official.
The Students for Justice in Palestine chapter on the campus of Loyola University was placed on probation for the remainder of the academic year, according to the Jewish Daily Forward.