Vassar College’s student council approved a funding request from J Street U, a liberal pro-Israel group, after delaying it because of concerns that it would be supporting a racist ideology. The student council unanimously approved the request on Sunday. The funds allowed students to attend HaaretzQ — a conference focused on Israeli-Palestinian relations and hosted…
The Vassar College chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine, a pro-Palestinian student group, is being reviewed by the college administration after the group posted a Nazi propaganda cartoon on a social media site. The post on the Vassar SJP Tumblr page, which has since been removed, showed a Nazi propaganda poster depicting a many-armed…
Several alert readers are unhappy with my post last week on the nasty BDS debate at Vassar College. Among other things, I referred readers to a post by the conservative legal scholar William Jacobson on his LegalInsurrection.com blog, providing extensive documentation on the background to the clash. Critics claim I wrongly soft-pedaled the behavior of…
An ugly confrontation took place at Vassar College March 3 between pro-BDS activists and a group of students and professors who were about to embark on a college-sponsored trip to study water issues in Israel and Palestine. A college forum convened to discuss the tensions surrounding the trip – and more specifically, the protests against…
The Vassar Jewish Union has declared itself an “Open Hillel,” becoming the second organization to break from Hillel International over the parent group’s pro-Israel guidelines. “We believe that Hillel International’s goal to ‘inspire every Jewish college student to develop a meaningful and enduring relationship to Israel’ does not represent the diverse opinions of young American…
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