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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 477

University of Illinois

Illustrative: A protester holds up a skateboard with the Black Lives Matter initials in London, Wednesday, June 3, 2020, during a demonstration over the death of George Floyd, a black man who died after being restrained by police in Minneapolis, Minnesota. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)
September 30, 2020, 10:55 am
University of Illinois students pass resolution urging divestment from Israel
Nonbinding BDS move was bundled with vote in support of Black Lives Matter movement; Jewish student group slams ‘attempt to paint Israel and Jews as the obstacle to racial equity’
By Marcy Oster
The main library at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Wikimedia Commons via JTA)
October 29, 2019, 9:49 am
University of Illinois students pass vote separating anti-Zionism, anti-Semitism
Resolution comes after US school’s chancellor decried as anti-Semitic a presentation on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
By Josefin Dolsten
University of Illinois Chancellor Robert Jones (Screen capture: YouTube)
October 16, 2019, 12:11 am
U of Illinois head under fire for calling ‘Israeli terror’ address anti-Semitic
Critics push back against university chancellor Robert Jones, say presentation by student involved in Students for Justice in Palestine was critical of Israel but not anti-Jewish
By Marcy Oster
Illustrative: Early commuters drive as the sun rises over the Chicago skyline Friday, June 30, 2017. (AP Photo/G-Jun Yam)
October 25, 2018, 3:11 pm
Tel Aviv University to partner in new Chicago innovation, entrepreneurship hub
Center will focus on cybersecurity, AI, big data, food security, among other fields of innovation
By Shoshanna Solomon
Security camera footage of University of Illinois students vandalizing the campus menorah in 2017 (YouTube screenshot)
November 8, 2017, 7:42 pm
2 U of Illinois students charged with vandalizing campus menorah
Jacob Bassler and Nicholas Gustafson, both 18, turned themselves in to university police
By JTA
An anti-Semitic flier distributed on the campus of the University of Illinois in Chicago in March 2017. (Facebook)
March 20, 2017, 8:41 am
Anti-Semitic fliers found at Chicago campus for second time
New wave of anti-Jewish literature includes Holocaust denial, says ‘ending white privilege starts with ending Jewish privilege’
By JTA and ToI Staff
Fliers claiming that “Jewish privilege” is the key to social injustice found on the campus of the University of Illinois at Chicago, March 16, 2017 (Screenshot from Twitter/Alyssa Greenberg, via JTA)
March 16, 2017, 8:58 pm
Fliers blaming Jews for social injustice found at Chicago university
‘Ending white privilege starts with ending Jewish privilege,’ say leaflets stuck all over University of Illinois at Chicago
By JTA
A menorah at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign was vandalized for the third time in 10 months on February 7, 2016. (Photo credit: YouTube Screenshot)
February 18, 2016, 3:01 am
U. of Illinois student apologizes for vandalizing menorah
Ruby Rivera, a junior, sorry for breaking arm off Chabad-erected candelabra, the third such vandalism in 10 months
By JTA
A menorah at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign was vandalized for the third time in 10 months on February 7, 2016. (Photo credit: YouTube Screenshot)
February 9, 2016, 7:41 pm
U. of Illinois menorah vandalized for 3rd time in a year
Security video shows man and woman breaking an arm off the nine-foot candelabra
By JTA
An image from security-camera footage released by the University of Illinois police, showing a man knocking over the campus menorah, August 21, 2015. (screen capture: YouTube)
August 30, 2015, 10:38 pm
Illinois man arrested for toppling Chabad menorah
20-year-old reportedly wanted to take giant candelabrum from local university as gift for a Jewish friend
By JTA
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