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Fast Forward A USC student suffered anti-Zionist harassment. Now the Department of Education is hearing her case
A Title VI complaint alleged that the school failed to protect Ritch from harassment
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Culture A Pulitzer-winning novel drops the Netanyahus in an American college town
Joshua Cohen's 2021 novel won the 2022 Pulitzer for Fiction.
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Fast Forward Jewish student group analyzes a year of antisemitism, finds concentration in the Northeast
An analysis of antisemitic incidents on college campuses tracked by a Jewish student group last year and released Monday found reports of bigotry split between classical antisemitic tropes and forms of anti-Zionism. Most responses collected for the report, compiled by Jewish on Campus, an undergraduate student-run nonprofit organization that started in July 2020 as an…
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News A USC student tweeted ‘kill every motherf——ing Zionist.’ Zionist faculty are unhappy with USC’s response.
A group of University of Southern California faculty members are demanding the school take action against a Palestinian student who posted several antisemitic tweets, including one saying she wanted “to kill every motherf——-g Zionist.” In an open letter addressed to the university president, provost, and board chairman published Dec. 1, the faculty said a lack…
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News As faculties push petitions critical of Israel, professors push back
Chloe Levian, a senior at the University of California, Los Angeles, has only been back on campus a little over a week, but she has already added an additional stressor to her workload: handling anti-Zionism on campus. “Israel’s definitely a divisive topic here. The department statements have just made it very difficult to want to…
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Fast Forward Rutgers University apologizes for not communicating support for Palestinian community
The chancellor and provost of Rutgers University-New Brunswick issued an apology Thursday following a May 26 statement condemning the rise in antisemitic violence and hostile sentiments across America. A Wednesday statement from Chancellor Christopher J. Molloy and Provost Francine Conway said recent incidents were greatly concerning and a reminder of “what history has to teach…
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News Handbook used by universities to report campus antisemitism replaced by 13-page memo
The U.S. Department of Education is rescinding a 265-page handbook colleges and universities used to report campus antisemitism and other hate crimes, replacing it with a 13-page document. The handbook devotes almost three pages to its “basic” definition of hate crime; the new memo doesn’t explicitly define it at all, but refers the reader to…
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News Their beloved Chabad house destroyed, University of Delaware students vow to rebuild, bigger
Jewish students at the University of Delaware whose Chabad house went up in flames have made their fundraising and rebuilding goals more ambitious after an initial success. In less than a week, their GoFundMe raised more than $500,000 to rebuild what they called the “little blue house,” which was destroyed in a possible act of…
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