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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 644

Tufts University

Hundreds of people gather in Somerville, Massachusetts on March 26, 2025, to demand the release of Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish student at Tufts University, who was arrested on March 25 by federal agents. (AP Photo/Michael Casey)
May 10, 2025, 7:56 am
Judge frees Tufts Turkish student; anti-Israel op-ed insufficient to justify detention
Rumeysa Ozturk ordered released ‘immediately’ on bail, judge says no evidence she engaged in or advocated violence, warns of efforts to suppress free speech
By Agencies
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
This contributed photo shows Rumeysa Ozturk on an apple-picking trip in 2021. (AP Photo)
March 27, 2025, 9:08 pm
As Turkish student held, Rubio says US revoked visas of over 300 anti-Israel ‘lunatics’
Homeland Security says Rumeysa Ozturk, who co-authored anti-Israel op-ed in Tufts student paper, ‘engaged in activities in support of Hamas,’ glorified killing of Americans
By Agencies and ToI Staff
In this image taken from security camera video, Rumeysa Ozturk, a 30-year-old doctoral student at Tufts University, is detained by Department of Homeland Security agents on a street in Somerville, Massachusetts, March 26, 2025. (AP Photo)
March 27, 2025, 3:48 am
US detains, revokes visa of Turkish student at Tufts who co-wrote an anti-Israel op-ed
Department of Homeland Security accuses Rumeysa Ozturk of ‘engaging in activities in support of Hamas’ after piece in school paper called for divesting from Israeli firms amid war
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Jewish Rutgers University's students and members of the community gather holding placards and flags to hold solidarity and vigil for Israel on Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2023, in New Brunswick, N.J. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki)
September 4, 2024, 7:24 pm
Study finds Jewish life on US campuses boosted but battered by October 7 fallout
Landmark survey from Tufts shows Jewish students became more involved with community in wake of war, along with surprising correlation between wealth and support for Israel
By Andrew Lapin
Doctors Without Borders staff gather at UN headquarters in New York to protest Israel's actions in Gaza, December 6, 2023, in New York. (Sara Kerens/AP Images for Doctors Without Borders)
July 1, 2024, 2:13 am
Ostracized post-Oct. 7, US doctor forms new association for Jewish health professionals
Jewish medical professionals say that since the onset of the Israel-Hamas war, they face a hostile atmosphere. The AJMA seeks to provide them resources and support
By Cathryn J. Prince
An illustrative photo of cell-cultivated fish created by Israeli food tech startup Wanda Fish.(Marcomit)
March 28, 2022, 11:40 pm
Israeli food tech startup teams up with Tufts University for cell-cultivated fish
Wanda Fish, founded in late 2021, hopes to develop ‘sustainable, tasty, cultivated fish fillets’
By Ricky Ben-David
A view of Tufts University's Medford, Massachusetts campus. (Courtesy of Tufts University)
March 18, 2022, 8:21 pm
At Boston’s Tufts, campaign urges students not to join liberal pro-Israel groups
Pro-Palestinian chapter argues organizations like J Street ‘condemn occupation while normalizing colonization’; university calls campaign ‘divisive and harmful’
By Penny Schwartz
A view of Carmichael Hall on the Tufts University campus. (Wikimedia Commons via JTA)
February 28, 2021, 11:10 am
Tufts pro-Israel Jewish student government member no longer facing impeachment
Max Price says Students for Justice in Palestine’s campaign against him constituted anti-Semitic discrimination, group only dropped case due to media attention
By Ben Sales
Illustrative: Northeastern University students protest after Students for Justice in Palestine was temporarily suspended by the university, March 18, 2014. (AP/Stephan Savoia)
April 25, 2020, 3:18 am
Tufts president says award for pro-Palestinian club ‘should not have happened’
Anthony Monaco disavows event recognizing Students for Justice in Palestine, says university leadership was not involved
By Shira Hanau
Worker Gabe Ryan removes a sign that includes the name Arthur M. Sackler at an entrance to Tufts School of Medicine, December 5, 2019, in Boston. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
December 6, 2019, 11:07 am
Amid opiod crisis, Tufts removes Sackler name from buildings, programs
Dean of medical school says students ‘find it objectionable’ to be in facilities named after family under fire for role in the crisis; university won’t return donations
By Marcy Oster
East Hall at Tufts University in Medford, Mass. (Wikimedia Commons via JTA)
September 19, 2019, 6:44 am
Swastika hung on dorm door of Jewish student at Tufts
School president condemns ‘cowardly act of hatred and ignorance’
By Penny Schwartz
West Hall at Tufts University (Wikimedia Commons via JTA)
February 13, 2019, 11:16 pm
Signs hung on Tufts’ Jewish center call to destroy ‘Israeli Apartheid Forces’
Posters as Boston-area university illustrated with cartoons depicting militarized pigs, some of them holding guns
By Agencies
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
The Semer Project performed at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts, on Nov. 14, 2017 (Ilene Perlman/Jewish Arts Collaborative)
November 23, 2017, 10:14 pm
Saved in a musical ‘Noah’s Ark,’ pre-Holocaust Jewish music performed again live
A shellac disc trove of sacred — and very profane — pre-WWII music rescued 15 years ago spurs creation of an ensemble that honors slain musicians’ resistance to genocide
By Matt Lebovic
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