At Drexel University in Philadelphia and the University of California, Santa Cruz, pro-Palestinian protesters have demanded their universities cut ties the schools’ Hillel chapters. The Drexel protesters are also asking for the school to cut ties with the campus Chabad.
The Louis D. Brandeis Center filed a lawsuit against Harvard Wednesday, alleging that students and faculty celebrated Hamas’ terrorism daily, and that some professors spread “antisemitic propaganda” in class.
UCLA removed its police chief weeks after a violent attack on a pro-Palestinian encampment, during which officers failed to intervene.
The chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee apologized to the Jewish community for reaching an agreement that ended a Gaza solidarity encampment in exchange for the school calling for a ceasefire in Israel’s war against Hamas and considering an academic boycott of Israel. “It is clear to me that UWM should not have weighed in on deeply complex geopolitical and historical issues,” he said.
A Minnesota high school’s just-published yearbook includes a couple of notable news items for each month of the school year. One entry called out Israel for declaring war on Hamas on Oct. 8, without mention of the attack the preceding day. School officials and yearbook staff have apologized.
Yeshiva University will give an award to Sen. John Fetterman, Democrat of Pennsylvania, at its commencement ceremony next week. “During these challenging times,” the school said in a statement, “the leadership, service, and moral clarity of this American patriot and hero of Israel have been a beacon of hope.” | 