September 20, 2021 Survey of Jewish fraternity and sorority finds most respondents experienced antisemitism on campus (JTA) JTA BY BEN SALES SEPTEMBER 20, 2021 5:59 PM — A survey of members of AEPi and AEPhi, the most prominent national Jewish fraternity and sorority, found that large numbers of respondents have experienced antisemitism on campus. The survey also found that about half of respondents have felt the need to hide their Jewish identity on campus […] Media Coverage Press Room
September 3, 2021 If you are going to spell it ‘antisemitism,’ then you should remove the hyphen from ‘anti-Zionism’ by Kenneth L. Marcus (JTA) JTA ~ KENNETH L. MARCUS (September 3, 2021 ~ 10:00 AM) (JTA) — Deborah Lipstadt, recently named by President Joe Biden as the U.S. Special Envoy To Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism, won’t just combat anti-Semitism but may well eliminate it. And that would be a mistake. To be clear, the Emory University historian is a fierce opponent […] Media Coverage Press Room
August 18, 2021 Family of slain teenager makes headway in decades-old terror funding lawsuit (Jewish Insider) Jewish Insider ~ By Melissa Weiss [August 18, 2021] David Boim was 17 years old when he was shot and killed by a Hamas terrorist at a West Bank bus stop in May 1996. The legal battle waged by his parents to hold accountable U.S.-based organizations that contributed funds to Hamas has lasted far longer than the […] Media Coverage Press Room
August 9, 2021 “Why we filed a discrimination complaint against Stanford” by Ronald Albucher and Sheila Levin (The Stanford Daily) The Stanford Daily ~ From The Community | Why we filed a discrimination complaint against Stanford by Ronald Albucher and Sheila Levin ~ Ronald Albucher is a psychiatrist and former CAPS director. Sheila Levin is a former clinical care manager for CAPS and an eating disorder specialist.The two filed complaints in June with state and federal civil […] Media Coverage Press Room
August 6, 2021 Jewish advocacy groups demand action from Hopkins concerning TA’s tweets (The News-Letter) The Johns Hopkins News-Letter ~ By MIN-SEO KIM | August 6, 2021 ~ Earlier this year, the Office of Institutional Equity (OIE) began an investigation into Rasha Anayah, a graduate student and teaching assistant (TA) for Applied Chemical Equilibrium and Reactivity with Lab, after reports surfaced that several of her tweets targeted Zionist and Jewish students. In the […] Media Coverage Press Room
July 29, 2021 Amid increasingly hostile campus environment, CAMERA teaches strategies to combat anti-Israel hate (JNS) JNS.org ~ by JNS Staff, July 28, 2021 ~ Dozens of college students from the United States, the United Kingdom, Israel and elsewhere gathered online for the annual CAMERA on Campus conference aimed at empowering young adults to be advocates for Israel in an increasingly hostile environment. As speaker, professor and author Gil Troy told […] Media Coverage Press Room
July 27, 2021 Are the anti-BDS laws aimed at Ben & Jerry’s constitutional? (The Forward) The Forward ~ By Arno Rosenfeld [July 27, 2021, The Forward] The Arkansas Times, a small monthly in Little Rock, hasn’t written a single article about Ben & Jerry’s recent decision to end sales in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Yet despite running a newspaper that he called “about as local and provincial as you can be,” publisher Alan Leveritt is […] Media Coverage Press Room
July 23, 2021 Will US anti-BDS laws cause a financial meltdown for Ben & Jerry’s and Unilever? (JNS) Cleveland Jewish News [by Sean Savage, July 22, 2021] The recent announcement that Ben & Jerry’s plans to end its sale of ice-cream in “occupied Palestinian territory,” primarily Judea and Samaria as well as eastern Jerusalem, has stirred a fierce reaction, including potential legal and financial repercussions for the ice-cream maker and its parent company […] Media Coverage Press Room
July 19, 2021 Jewish groups calls for Johns Hopkins to break silence on TA’s anti-Semitic posts (Campus Reform) Campus Reform Ben Zeisloft | Student Editor (Friday, July 16, 2021 2:30 PM) ~ Johns Hopkins University is not seriously addressing a teaching assistant’s anti-Semitic posts that indicated she may give Jewish students failing grades. That accusation comes from groups such as StandWithUs and the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law. Both […] Media Coverage Press Room
July 16, 2021 Whatever happened to that John Hopkins teaching assistant who wanted to punish ‘Zionist students?’ (The Forward) The Forward Whatever happened to that John Hopkins teaching assistant who wanted to punish ‘Zionist students?’ by Stewart Ain (Forward ~ July 15, 2021) Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore has reportedly concluded its investigation into the actions of a teaching assistant who asked in a tweet last Nov. 15 if she could lower the grade […] Media Coverage Press Room