August 7, 2025 Antisemitism’s newest safe space: Teachers’ unions (The Hill) Published by The Hill on 8/6/2025 by Kenneth Marcus. At Nysmith School in Virginia, three Jewish siblings were expelled after their parents notified the headmaster about the relentless antisemitic bullying faced by one of the daughters. At Concord-Carlisle High School in Massachusetts, students gave Nazi salutes in school hallways, divided themselves into teams called “Team Auschwitz” and “Team Hamas” […] Press Room Op-Eds
August 5, 2025 ‘Decolonizing Therapy’ and the erasure of Jewish identity in mental health (Jerusalem Post) Published by the Jerusalem Post on 7/29/25 Antisemitism is becoming increasingly more prevalent within therapy and therapeutic spaces. The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law recently wrote about antisemitic incidents within the mental health sphere, including a Washington, DC-based therapist who refused to see a Jewish patient who had recently moved to the […] Media Coverage
August 5, 2025 ‘All of Our Strength’: Over 1,000 Pro-Israel Activists Gather in DC for Solidarity Conference (Algemeiner) Published by the Algemeiner on 7/29/25 Over 1,000 Jewish students, faculty, and activists amassed in Washington, DC on July 27-29 to attend the Israel on Campus Coalition’s annual National Leadership Summit (NLS), an electric event which achieved creating the atmosphere of both a festival of Jewish elation and an academic conference. Founded in 2002, the […] Media Coverage
August 5, 2025 Ivy League universities paid hundreds of millions to settle with Trump. Is UCLA next? (LA Times) Published in the Los Angeles Times on 8/2/25 University of California leaders face a difficult choice after the U.S. Department of Justice said this week that UCLA had violated the civil rights of Jewish students during pro-Palestinian protests and federal agencies on Wednesday suspended more than $300 million in research grants to the school. Do they agree […] Media Coverage
August 5, 2025 A Columbia genocide scholar says she may leave over university’s new definition of antisemitism (Associated Press) Published by the Associated Press on 7/25/25 NEW YORK (AP) — For years, Marianne Hirsch, a prominent genocide scholar at Columbia University, has used Hannah Arendt’s book about the trial of a Nazi war criminal, “Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil,” to spark discussion among her students about the Holocaust and […] Media Coverage
August 5, 2025 Inside the powerful task force spearheading Trump’s assault on colleges, DEI (Washington Post) Published by the Washington Post on 7/24/25 In 2021, future vice president JD Vance delivered a speech titled “The Universities Are the Enemy.” A few years later, during his campaign, Donald Trump called college leaders “Marxist maniacs.” Now their administration is using the full force of the federal government to investigate long-standing conservative complaints about universities, making […] Uncategorized Media Coverage
August 5, 2025 Complaint: CA school district misled public about instituting ethnic-studies requirement (JNS) Published by JNS on 7/21/2025 The Palo Alto Unified School District, a public district that operates about 20 schools, violated California state law, misleading the public about its ethnic-studies curriculum, a new complaint alleges. In January, the district’s superintendent, Don Austin, announced an indefinite pause in implementing ethnic studies. A few days later, the district board […] Media Coverage
August 5, 2025 Suing MIT for Antisemitism (Aish) Published by Aish on 7/20/25 Lior Alon and William Sussman, two Jewish students, got into MIT, one of the top universities in the country where they were following their dreams. Alon, a former IDF soldier, was a postdoctoral student, while William was working towards becoming a PhD. Allegedly, tenured linguistics professor Michel DeGraff harassed Jews […] Media Coverage
August 5, 2025 US Federal Judge Allows Antisemitism Lawsuit to Proceed Against Powerful Lawyers Union (Algemeiner) Published by the Algemeiner on 7/17/2025 A US federal judge ruled on Tuesday that an antisemitism lawsuit accusing the powerful Association of Legal Aid Attorneys (ALAA) union can continue over the objections of the organization’s formidable legal counsel, which attempted to have the case dismissed by arguing that it is “self-serving” and “anti-democratic.” On Wednesday, officials from […] Media Coverage
August 5, 2025 Israeli chemist accuses Stanford of career sabotage with malicious distortion, fabricated claims: Lawsuit (Fox News) Published by Fox News on 7/14/2025 An Israeli scientist was allegedly subject to a hostile and discriminatory work environment involving the alleged malicious distortion of his research, a fabricated sexual harassment investigation and an alleged retaliatory firing which all threatened to jeopardize his entire career, according to a bombshell federal lawsuit filed last week. Dr. […] Media Coverage