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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 433

Brown University

Students and community members hold an anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian rally at the encampment at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, on April 29, 2024. (Joseph Prezioso/AFP)
October 10, 2024, 1:40 am
Brown University rejects anti-Israel students’ divestment proposal
Explaining vote, board of governors says the university’s ‘mission is to discover, communicate and preserve knowledge. It’s not to adjudicate or resolve global conflicts’
By Andrew Lapin
Pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel protesters rally at University Hall at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, on April 29, 2024. (Joseph Prezioso / AFP)
September 9, 2024, 11:47 pm
Brown University trustee resigns in protest of upcoming vote on Israel divestment
Joseph Edelman decries school’s ‘stunning failure of moral leadership’ in agreeing to student protesters’ demand; university criticizes his ‘misunderstanding’ of decision
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
Pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel students take down their encampment after reaching a deal with Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island on April 30, 2024. (Joseph Prezioso / AFP)
July 8, 2024, 10:18 pm
US federal probe slams Brown for ‘no or little action’ on antisemitism complaints
Report says total of 75 alleged antisemitic, anti-Palestinian, and anti-Muslim incidents between October and March were not handled properly, suggests changes to process
By JTA and ToI Staff
A message in chalk decorates a sidewalk after a pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel encampment was taken down at Brown University, April 30, 2024, in Providence, Rhode Island. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
May 27, 2024, 1:14 am
‘No rest till Brown divests’: Anti-Israel protesters interrupt university graduation
College president’s speech briefly disrupted by alumni-led protest calling for it to divest from firms contributing to Israel’s war against Hamas
By AP and ToI Staff
Doug Seserman
May 14, 2024, 2:51 pm
Doug Seserman
What to do when your alma mater doesn’t reflect your values?
School administrators across the country have negotiated with protestors, reaching shocking deals that capitulated to anti-Israel pressure. Together we can make a difference. Here are some ideas.
Tents, flags and other supplies remain at Deering Meadow on Northwestern University's campus in Evanston, Ill. on Tuesday, April 30, 2024, a day after the university and protest organizers announced an agreement which largely ended anti-war demonstrations that have lasted days. (AP Photo/Melissa Perez Winder)
May 4, 2024, 8:42 pm
As some colleges make deals to end protests, critics say they’re incentivizing unrest
Certain Jewish community members unsatisfied with agreements that gave ground to anti-Israel activists, say they’re ‘watering and fertilizing seeds for more in the future’
By Andrew Lapin
A message in chalk decorates a sidewalk after a pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel encampment was taken down at Brown University, April 30, 2024, in Providence, Rhode Island. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
May 1, 2024, 10:16 am
Brown becomes first US university to consider divesting from Israel
Pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel protesters clear encampment on campus after coming to agreement with university administration
By AFP and ToI Staff
NYPD officers in riot gear break into a building at Columbia University, where pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel students are barricaded, in New York City on April 30, 2024 (KENA BETANCUR / AFP)
May 1, 2024, 3:58 am
Police clear anti-Israel protesters from Columbia U’s Hamilton Hall after standoff
School president said there was no other way to restore order; two other universities reach deals to end encampments, with one agreeing to hear demands for divestment from Israel
By Agencies, ToI Staff and Jacob Magid
Pro-Palestine, anti-Israel supporters gather for a rally at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on October 14, 2023. (Joseph Prezioso/AFP)
January 19, 2024, 12:40 am
US Education Department opens new antisemitism probes into universities, schools
Investigations also launched into two largest public school districts in the San Francisco Bay Area, Jewish anti-Zionist professor who praised Hamas
By Andrew Lapin
People gather for a vigil in Pliny Park in Brattleboro, Vermont, for three Palestinian-American students who were shot while walking near the University of Vermont campus in Burlington, Vermont, seen November 27, 2023. (Kristopher Radder/The Brattleboro Reformer via AP)
November 28, 2023, 7:02 pm
Anti-Israel chants at vigil for Vermont shooting of 3 men of Palestinian descent
At Brown University gathering, victim’s statement read out in which he claims had he been shot in West Bank, Israeli army would have stopped medical services from treating him
By AP and ToI Staff
In this Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2019 photo people rest on grass while reading at Brown University, in Providence, Rhode Island (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
December 4, 2019, 4:36 pm
Brown U urged to divest from companies ‘facilitating rights abuses in Palestine’
Ethics advisory committee adopts nonbinding recommendation, months after undergraduate students at Ivy league school overwhelmingly voted to boycott Israel
By JTA
Brown University students welcoming the 2019 freshman class. (Brown University, courtesy)
April 15, 2019, 8:25 pm
Brown University freshmen hit by anti-Israel protest
BDS protesters rain leaflets on incoming students at campus welcome ceremony
By JTA
Students sitting in the College Green outside Sayles Hall on the Brown University campus in Providence, Rhode Island. (Wikimedia Commons via JTA)
March 23, 2019, 10:28 am
Brown students pass referendum demanding university divest from Israeli firms
Nonbinding measure proposes to ‘identify and divest from companies that profit from Israeli violations of human rights.’ Brown administration hasn’t commented
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Students sitting in the College Green outside Sayles Hall on the Brown University campus in Providence, Rhode Island. (Wikimedia Commons via JTA)
August 5, 2018, 11:16 pm
Brown University condemns campus anti-Semitic incident
Two people unaffiliated with the college made video of themselves with ‘vulgar and highly offensive’ sign
By JTA
Goldie Michelson in 2008 by the theater that bears her name. (Clark University)
July 10, 2016, 2:22 pm
Oldest American, Goldie Michelson, dead at 113
Russian-born Jewish woman dies in her Massachusetts home a month before her 114th birthday
By Agencies
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