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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 363

Israel on campus

Ron Hassner, chair of the Israel studies program at the University of California, Berkeley, is holding a one-man sit-in in his office to press the university to better address tensions among students heightened by the Israel-Hamas war. (Courtesy Hassner via JTA)
March 13, 2024, 12:46 am
An Israel studies professor at Berkeley is staging a sit-in for his Jewish students
Ron Hassner tells pupils he won’t leave his office until the school takes sufficient steps to protect them amid intense anti-Israel protests during the ongoing Gaza war
By JTA and ToI Staff
NYPD officers push anti-Israel protesters off the street during the 'All out for Palestine' rally outside Columbia University in New York on February 2, 2024. (Photo by Yuki IWAMURA / AFP)
February 11, 2024, 2:14 am
In NY, Jewish Columbia student alleges harassment by violent anti-Israel protesters
Noah Lederman says a toxic atmosphere on campus led to his being pinned against a wall as he fled a demonstration co-organized and endorsed by student organizations
By Cathryn J. Prince
Aidan Bloomstine with Maccabee Task Force guide Reut Ben Shlomo in Israel, January 2024. (Courtesy/Nir Rotman)
January 25, 2024, 9:06 am
Allies of Jewish US students visit Israel after Oct. 7 – and come back armed with info
The Maccabee Task Force brings pupils together to combat antisemitism and disinformation on American college campuses – a place where Israel supporters have fewer friends
By Cathryn J. Prince
Students from The University of Connecticut participated in a roundtable discussion with The Times of Israel about the antisemitism they are facing on campus. Counter-clockwise from bottom left: Maya Mazor, Ari Gerard, Jessica Baden, Leo Gold, Laura Augenbraun, Julianne Katz. (Not pictured, Troy Sweet). (Cathryn J. Prince/Times of Israel)
November 19, 2023, 5:14 pm
ToI round-table with US Jewish students: ‘Everyone hates you and wishes you dead’
Eight students from the University of Connecticut talk about what it’s like attending university at a time when antisemitism has moved from a whisper to a shout
By Cathryn J. Prince
Illustrative: In this November 13, 2017 photo, Devante Kincade, quarterback for the Grambling's NCAA college football game college football team, listens during a criminal justice class at the university in Grambling, Louisiana (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
July 11, 2020, 4:16 am
Student leaders at historically Black US colleges join Israel advocacy effort
As part of the Sheldon Adelson-funded Maccabee Task Force, Black students spread awareness on campuses with little Jewish presence, visit Jewish state to experience it firsthand
By Cathryn J. Prince
Illustrative: Marchers against Israel walk from the Carnegie Mellon University campus in Pittsburgh on Wednesday, July 26, 2006. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)
November 20, 2019, 3:17 pm
As campus anti-Semitism morphs, bullied Jewish students counter-organize
A 42% drop in classic acts of bigotry at universities in 2018 is offset by a 70% rise in anti-Israel related harassment; a flurry of recent events highlight insidiousness of issue
By Cathryn J. Prince
File: A sign marks the entrance of Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, October 20, 2010. (Josh Reynolds/AP)
November 5, 2018, 4:25 am
For students at Brandeis, vigorous debate about Israeli politics is almost taboo
Many from both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict say they prefer to self-censor rather than get backlash from fellow students at the historically Jewish college
By Cathryn J. Prince
Ofir Dayan at Columbia University, New York, September 2017 (Raphael Ahren/TOI)
September 30, 2018, 4:03 pm
Israeli NY consul daughter: Columbia U not protecting me from Palestinian group
Pro-Israel advocate Ofir Dayan says she’s worried about her safety after repeated threats and harassment from Students for Justice in Palestine
By ToI Staff
Rutgers University. (photo credit: Courtesy)
September 8, 2018, 3:38 am
US Education Department reopens probe of anti-Semitism allegations at Rutgers
Assistant secretary for civil rights says it may be discriminatory that Jewish students were charged admission to 2011 pro-Palestinian event while others were allowed in for free
By Ben Sales
MEDFORD, MA - AUGUST 31: The Tufts University campus in Medford, MA is pictured on Aug. 31, 2017. (Photo by Jonathan Wiggs/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)
September 1, 2018, 9:45 am
US students say ‘Colonizing Palestine’ university class demonizes Israel
The Hillel chapter at Tufts says that while it supports academic freedom, the course description is ‘prejudicial and unnecessarily provocative’
By Penny Schwartz
Prof. Hamid Dabashi. (Columbia University)
June 7, 2018, 2:13 am
Columbia U alums call for professor to be suspended over anti-Zionist posts
On Facebook, Iranian studies teacher Hamid Dabashi railed about ‘diehard Fifth Column Zionists working against the best interests of Americans’
By JTA
The main alley of the SUNY Stony Brook Campus in New York. (CC BY-SA 3.0 GK tramrunner229/Wikipedia)
May 9, 2018, 4:00 am
Pro-Palestinian US students slam Muslim chaplain for defending campus Hillel
Stony Brook University’s Sanaa Nadim accused of ‘heinous level of betrayal’ after standing up for Jewish group against call for expulsion from university
By JTA
Andrew Baker
May 8, 2018, 3:41 pm
Andrew Baker
To fight anti-Semitism, first define it
The US needs to adopt a working definition that includes thorny but necessary wording about Israel
Student organizers of an Israel Independence Day event at New York University, April 19, 2018. They include Adela Cojab, Jenny Labovitz and Esther Bildirici, front row, left to right, and Gabe Hoffman, back row, right. (Josefin Dolsten)
April 24, 2018, 2:01 am
What it’s like to support Israel at NYU
After BDS motion signed last week, one pro-Israel student says ‘animosity’ largely failed to take hold at Manhattan campus, but another says it ‘became ‘cool’ to be anti-Zionist
By Josefin Dolsten
Mick Davis
April 2, 2018, 3:04 pm
Mick Davis
Israel and the Diaspora: We have to talk
The Israeli government’s failure to move toward peace is creating a dangerous crisis for young Diaspora Zionists
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