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Tonight, Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at the elite Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut are hosting a Tu B'Shvat Seder for the community to rally around, but the student-protesters seem to have forgotten what Tu B’Shvat actually celebrates. The Israeli holiday of Tu B’Shvat — also
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The Cleveland, Ohio apparel shop “University Tees” struggled today with whether they should cancel an order placed by the University of Maryland “Students for Justice in Palestine” (SJP) club. The sweater design was posted by UMD SJP’s Instagram page a few days ago. The sweater has “Free Palestine” on
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A new institute dedicated to demonizing Israel has been founded by a collective of professors. But some pro-Israel academics have blown the whistle, with one vocal member likening the institute to a “terrorist think tank." The Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism (ICSZ) was founded in 2023 by
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A letter-writing campaign has commenced in an attempt to prevent an Oberlin College assistant professor from teaching his course titled “Jews and Power.” The Jewish woman who discovered the class says she “want[s] no part of what has become dangerous or violent towards” Berkman and worries about the hate-mob
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A Kent State professor who described the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel as a “miracle” and claimed Israelis “shall be defeated” is still slated to teach multiple classes next semester, Liberty Affair has uncovered. The professor, Imam Nader Taha, delivered a sermon at the Islamic Society of Akron and
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A tenured professor at the California College of the Arts (CCA) in San Francisco has filed a lawsuit against the school, alleging she was punished for expressing pro-Israel views and for refusing to conform to what she describes as its “pro-Hamas orthodoxy.” Professor Karen Fiss, who has taught fine art
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A professor at New York University (NYU) in Manhattan faces a Title VI discrimination complaint after canceling her final classes to protest Israel, urging her students to join her at a pro-Palestine rally instead of completing their coursework. Dr. Linda Luu, a Vietnamese scholar who teaches women’s studies, emailed
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Never before seen footage of the University of Michigan’s Middle Eastern (MENA) graduation ceremony in May reveals that the recently fired antisemitic professor chose to create a special graduation ceremony for Middle Eastern students after the October 7 attack on Israel. Rachel Dawson, former Director of the UMich Office
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A diversity official at the University of Michigan Ann-Arbor (UMich) has been terminated from her cushy position at the school after she was accused by two colleagues of antisemitism. The official — Rachel Dawson, who was the Executive Director of the University of Michigan's Diversity Center until last week
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More than 150 people marched through Lower Manhattan on Sunday, demanding that colleges take action on anti-Jew hatred and to demand accountability for previous incidents of campus hate crimes. The group behind the protest— Mothers Against Campus Antisemitism, or MACA for short — met at 11am by the Washington Square Arch.
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A coalition of activists, lawyers, parents and other concerned individuals will take to the streets this Sunday to demand action against the surge of antisemitic incidents on college campuses. Starting at 11 a.m. at New York University (NYU), the group will march through Manhattan, stopping at several campuses to
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A professor at Lusail University in Qatar who also runs a United Nations recognized NGO recently praised Hamas for their surge in popularity and “pragmatism” after October 7, 2023, when Hamas killed over 1,200 Israelis and kidnapped over 250 innocent civilians. The professor — Tarek Hamoud, who teaches political science