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A new report said that at the 113 U.S. schools that Jews were most likely to attend, anti-Semitic incidents went up 40% from 2015 to 2016.

From the Louis Brandeis Center press release: Washington, D.C., March 9 – Kenneth L. Marcus, president of the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law made the following statement today commending the South Carolina House of Representatives for its overwhelming approval of H. 3643, a bill to combat rising campus anti-Semitism: “Anti-Semitism is on the rise […]

Editor’s Note: This column first appeared on Times of Israel. In early December, a bipartisan Congressional bill, H.R. 6421/S.10, the “Antisemitism Awareness Act,” took on a long-overdue task, namely, increasing “understanding of the parameters of contemporary anti-Jewish conduct and will assist the Department of Education in determining whether an investigation of anti-Semitism under title VI […]

Editor’s Note: The following post was published by the Louis B. Brandeis Center in their email newsletter. This has been an extraordinarily eventful year in the campaign against campus antisemitism, especially from our perspective at the Louis D. Brandeis Center. On the one hand, Jewish students face a worsening climate. This year, an AMCHA Initiative […]

A great piece by Tammi Rossman-Benjamin in Newsweek on anti-Semitism at U.S. college campuses: For example, after anti-Zionist student protesters at San Francisco State University disrupted a Hillel-sponsored talk from the mayor of Jerusalem by loudly chanting, “Get the hell off our campus!” “Long live the intifada!” and “From the river to the sea, Palestine […]

We’ve reported on the movement on college campuses to apply boycotts, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against entities that invest in the state of Israel. As well, we’ve shown the anti-Semitism in this campaign. Now, a former intern of ours has connected the dots and shows that you are paying for the BDS campaign in federal taxes. […]

Usually university officials go into overdrive to solve a reported hate crime. Apparently they become more deliberate when the alleged victim is a Jewish student. “On Thursday, the UC Irvine Office of Student Conduct announced that it had concluded a three-month investigation into an aggressive and disruptive incident on the UCI campus last May,” the Louis […]

The anti-Semitism evident in e-mails from the Democratic National Committee (DNC), which WikLeaks obtained,  might not surprise so many if they knew how prevalent that attitude is on American college campuses. The AMCHA Initiative housed at the University of California at Santa Cruz, has, for the second year in a row, tallied up the actions […]

The University of California system is supposed to protect students and employees from anti-Semitism, so what’s up with you, Cal-Irvine?

Summers, a professor at Harvard, makes some great points in his piece in the Washington Post. Photo by :::mediActivista:::

Editor’s Note: This post originally appeared on the Gatestone Institute website. The California university system seems to have the dubious distinction of being the epicenter of the campus war against Israel. The situation that has apparently reached such intolerable levels that the Board of Regents of the University of California (UC Regents) was forced to […]

That’s a big move for the University of California system; good for them to recognize the growing anti-Semitism on their college campuses and counter it. Photo by Herkko Hietanen