Media Coverage

Algemeiner ~ By Dion J. Pierre | Feb. 11, 2022 ~   Jewish SUNY New Paltz Students Said Excluded From Sexual Assault Awareness Group Over Support for Israel

Jewish Journal ~ Aaron Bandler | Feb. 10, 2022 ~ Representative Ted Lieu (D-CA) headlined a bipartisan letter of nearly 40 members of Congress calling on the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights (OCR) to end their delays on investigating complaints of antisemitism on college campuses. The February 4 letter, which was also signed […]

Algemeiner ~ February 9, 2022 ~ US Lawmakers Call on Dept. of Education to End Delay of Campus Antisemitism Guidance by Dion J. Pierre Thirty-nine members of the US Congress have urged the Department of Education to issue promised Title VI guidance to protect Jewish students from antisemitism on college campuses, and to resolve long-outstanding […]

Inside Higher Ed ~ By Elizabeth Redden | February 7, 2022 ~ The Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights is investigating a complaint alleging that Jewish students enrolled in Brooklyn College’s graduate mental health counseling program have been subjected to anti-Semitic harassment from professors and peers. The complaint, filed on behalf of two Jewish […]

JNS ~ By Sean Savage ~ (February 3, 2022 / JNS) The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights has announced that it has opened a formal investigation into a complaint alleging Jewish students at Brooklyn College have been subjected to severe and persistent anti-Semitic harassment from both professors and peers. The complaint—submitted by the Louis D. […]

Algemeiner by Dion J. Pierre ~ Feb. 3, 2022 ~ The US Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights (OCR) is formally investigating a complaint alleging antisemitic harassment of Jewish students at Brooklyn College, a legal advocacy group announced Thursday. Filed in February 2021 by the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law, the complaint said that […]

eJewish Philanthropy | eJP ~ By Ben Sales | February 2, 2022 ~ The U.S. Department of Education has repeatedly delayed a process that aims to codify civil rights protections for Jewish college students, eJewishPhilanthropy has learned. The delays have taken place under the presidential administrations of both Donald Trump and Joe Biden, and relate to Trump’s […]

AP News – February 1, 2022 – NEW YORK (AP) — Whoopi Goldberg expressed regret Tuesday for saying on “The View” a day earlier that race was not a factor in the Holocaust, saying she was “deeply, deeply grateful” for getting an education on the topic. “The View” brought on Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of the […]

New York Times By Adam Liptak and Anemona Hartocollis Jan. 24, 2022 ~ WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to decide whether race-conscious admissions programs at Harvard and the University of North Carolina are lawful, raising serious doubts about the future of affirmative action in higher education. The court has repeatedly upheld similar programs, most recently […]

The Times of Israel Less than two months after Zahra Billoo, a longtime leader of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), lambasted Jewish houses of worship before a packed room at the American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) convention in Chicago, a Texas synagogue was targeted by an Islamist hostage-taker. On November 27, 2021, Billoo warned 3,000 AMP conference-goers to […]

Independent ‘The FBI got it wrong’: Jewish leaders criticise law enforcement statement on synagogue siege Failure to understand antisemitism ‘is something of a pattern with law enforcement in the United States’, Jewish civil rights leader says Bevan Hurley Joe Biden says Texas synagogue attack was ‘an act of terror’ Jewish leaders have condemned the FBI for claiming the Texas […]

Algemeiner ~ By Dion J. Pierre | January 13, 2022 @ 4:44 pm ~ A commissioner for the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) this week addressed allegations that Stanford University’s diversity and inclusion trainings fostered a hostile work environment for Jews, calling them “troubling.” The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights filed a complaint in […]

Hadassah Magazine ~ By Rahel Musleah January 2022 Image from Alamy When Max Price entered Tufts University in 2018, excited to study international relations and economics, he did not expect that his college experience would include being intimidated, harassed and marginalized on the Medford, Mass., campus. In his years at the university, he has been slandered in […]

JNS (January 12, 2022 / JNS) With a general rise in anti-Semitic violence last year, instances of anti-Semitism have also been on the rise in work and education settings, something the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is closely monitoring according to senior commission members who were guests on Monday of a virtual panel discussion held by the […]

The Times of Israel January 10, 2022 ~ To learn more, watch the video of Alyza Lewin’s recent presentation, “Is Today’s Campus Climate Safe for Jews?” As a child growing up in the Deep South during the upheavals of the 1960s, I saw firsthand how the Civil Rights Act of 1964 became a powerful force for […]

JTA  — A prominent Jewish civil rights group is demanding that the administration of Duke University override the student government after its president denied recognition to a campus pro-Israel group. In November, the student government president, Christina Wang, decided to veto a student Senate vote to charter Duke SSI, the campus chapter of the international campus Zionist […]

Fox News   A civil rights organization is telling Duke University it is “legally obligated” to grant a pro-Israel student organization official recognition on campus. During the Nov. 10 Duke Student Government senate meeting, the proposed Students Supporting Israel chapter was granted official recognition. However, when legislation approving the pro-Israel organization went to student government President Christina Wang, […]