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Far-left commentators Cenk Uygur (left) and Hasan Piker discuss being blocked from entering Britain to speak at events, June 1, 2026. (Screenshots/YouTube)
June 4, 2026, 6:12 pm
Oxford Union to host banned US commentators via livestream after UK denies them entry
University union president, facing calls to resign for praising Hamas, vows to go ahead with talks from Cenk Uygur and Hasan Piker, both accused of antisemitism
By ToI Staff
Jews attend a rally in support of detained anti-Israel Tufts University graduate student Rümeysa Öztürk in Somerville, Massachusetts, March 26, 2025. Several Jews later left the rally after speakers began denouncing Israel. (Courtesy of Ron Newman via JTA)
April 6, 2025, 1:43 am
Jews at Tufts oppose ICE seizure of anti-Israel grad student, but are wary of protests
While condemning the arrest of Rümeysa Öztürk amid free speech concerns surrounding Trump crackdown, Jewish advocates feel isolated by the tenor of demonstrations on her behalf
By Andrew Lapin
Israeli artist Benzi Brofman poses with his mural 'The Process' at the Contemporary Antisemitism London 2025 conference in the city’s JW3 Jewish cultural center, held from March 29 to April 1, 2025. (Lakruwan Rajapaksha
April 1, 2025, 8:13 pm
Global academics converge in London ‘safe space’ to dissect post-Oct. 7 antisemitism
Four-day conference this week sees scholars, artists and activists from India to Finland come together to share findings about widespread shunning amid Gaza war
By Lianne Kolirin
Illustrative: A Cornell University student walks along the campus in Ithaca, NY, on Dec. 16, 2021, with luggage in tow. (AP/Heather Ainsworth)
March 30, 2025, 1:26 am
Cornell’s new Jewish president says he’s ‘very comfortable’ with where university is currently
Days after being permanently appointed to the interim position he’s held since July 2024, Mike Kotlikoff weighs in on campus Jewish life, visa revocations, and academic freedom
By PHILISSA CRAMER
Members of London's Jewish community protest outside the launch of the book “Understanding Hamas: And Why That Matters" at the London School of Economics, March 10, 2025. (X video screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
March 11, 2025, 7:19 pm
Jews protest launch of Hamas ‘propaganda’ book at London School of Economics
Author of ‘Understanding Hamas: And Why That Matters’ falsely claims terror group mainly attacked military targets on Oct. 7, 2023, is unfairly ‘vilified’ by mainstream media
By ToI Staff
People inspect the damage following an Israeli strike on the UNRWA Al-Majda Wasila Governmental School housing displaced Palestinians in Gaza City after the IDF said it found Hamas operatives inside the building, on December 14, 2024. (Omar Al-Qattaa/AFP)
January 7, 2025, 2:41 am
American Historical Association resolution condemns Israeli ‘scholasticide’ in Gaza
Motion, opposed by some leading figures in the AHA, now goes to Council for approval or rejection
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: Then-US secretary of state John Kerry, speaking at the Oxford Union at Oxford University, England, May 11, 2016. (Peter Nicholls/Pool Photo via AP)
December 17, 2024, 4:06 pm
‘Toxic and polarizing’: Oxford Union debate on Israel genocide still roils
As counterterror police investigate an anti-Israel speaker’s statements at the November 28 event, Jewish students and panelists decry its contribution to climate of Jew-hatred
By Robert Philpot
Illustrative: Palestinian flags hung in the quad alongside the anti-Israel encampment at DePaul University in Chicago on May 1, 2024. (Jacob Magid/Times of Israel)
December 12, 2024, 5:26 pm
Faculty survey reveals fear, self-censorship at US universities, especially about Israel
Newly released study polled 6,269 instructors at 55 major colleges and universities; four times as many report toning down their opinions compared to the McCarthy era
By Luke Tress
Illustrative: Then-US secretary of state John Kerry, speaking at the Oxford Union at Oxford University, England, May 11, 2016. (Peter Nicholls/Pool Photo via AP)
November 25, 2024, 4:12 pm
Top UK university to debate if Israel is ‘an apartheid state responsible for genocide’
The exclusive Oxford Union society, which has hosted US presidents, celebrities and neo-Nazis, again courts controversy this week; its track record on Israel isn’t friendly
By Robert Philpot
Anti-Israel demonstrators protest outside Columbia University, September 3, 2024, in New York. (AP/Yuki Iwamura)
October 22, 2024, 1:10 am
Anti-Israel US campus groups radicalize, with no one to stop them, experts warn
Former security officials say increasingly violent rhetoric mimics that of 1960s students who pivoted to domestic terror. It’s going unhindered as students point to First Amendment
By Cathryn J. Prince
Adam Kirsch, an editor at the Wall Street Journal’s Weekend Review section, is the author of 'On Settler Colonialism.' (W.W. Norton & Company/ via JTA)
September 1, 2024, 1:42 am
A literary critic on why the ‘settler colonial’ framing is bad for Israel and Palestine
Struck by the number of activists and thinkers who cheered the Oct. 7 Hamas atrocities, Adam Kirsch has written a book on the misguided idealism that’s fostered Jew-hatred
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Demonstrators lock arms as law enforcement officers move them down Park Avenue away from the University of Arizona campus, May 10, 2024, in Tucson, Arizona. (Kelly Presnell/Arizona Daily Star via AP)
August 25, 2024, 1:26 am
Uniting as the Student Intifada, anti-Israel groups plan to further disrupt US campuses
Condoning violence and vocal in their anti-West and anti-capitalist views, the protesters are preparing to sow more chaos this year as experts warn of intolerance for other views
By Cathryn J. Prince
Pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel demonstrators gather on the UCLA campus, after nighttime clashes between pro-Palestinian and counterprotest groups, in Los Angeles, May 1, 2024. (Jae C. Hong/AP)
August 7, 2024, 4:03 pm
Ahead of school year, US Jews skeptical campuses can prevent repeat of hostilities
Many Jewish students say they feel targeted by anti-Israel activists who’ve created a poisonous atmosphere. But with some schools negotiating with protesters, where is the deterrence?
By Cathryn J. Prince
Prof. Barbara Risman (Courtesy)
May 21, 2024, 12:45 am
Retiring early due to antisemitism, a professor paints a dire picture of US academia
Barbara J. Risman felt that the atmosphere among University of Illinois faculty after October 7 was too much for her to bear as a Jew. Her colleagues secretly tell her she’s right
By Cathryn J. Prince
Pro-Palestinian demonstrators chant during a protest, April. 12, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)
April 13, 2024, 6:20 am
Jewish writers say the post-Oct. 7 English literary world has blacklisted them
As the war in Gaza goes on, authors say that when they don’t face outright hostility for being Jews, they are marginalized as publishers claim their voices aren’t marketable
By Cathryn J. Prince
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