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A Jewish student watches a pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel protest at Columbia University campus on November 14, 2023. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images via AFP)
April 4, 2025, 7:47 pm
ADL upgrades 19 US colleges’ antisemitism ‘grades,’ as some enact new policies
Watchdog chief: Revision of scores ‘encouraging’; critics argue system fails to take totality of Jewish student life into account, doesn’t focus on campus response to antisemitism
By Andrew Lapin
Pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel demonstrators rally on the Columbia University campus in New York City to mark a year since the Hamas terror group's onslaught on southern Israel that sparked the ongoing war in Gaza, October 7, 2024 (Alex Kent/Getty Images/AFP)
February 4, 2025, 11:06 am
Trump administration opens antisemitism probes into 5 colleges, including Columbia
US Department of Education investigating Columbia, UC Berkeley, Northwestern, University of Minnesota, and Portland State University, says it’s putting all schools ‘on notice’
By AP and ToI Staff
Screenshot of a video on X of anti-Israel protesters outside The University of Minnesota's Morrill Hall, October 22, 2024 (used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law).
October 22, 2024, 2:27 pm
Anti-Israel protesters arrested after occupying University of Minnesota building
Demonstrators demanding the school divest from Israel barricade doors, damage property, and block staff from exiting during brief takeover, school says; at least 11 arrested
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Raz Segal discusses his Jewish Currents article in which he stated Israel intends to commit genocide in Gaza, October 25, 2023. (NJ Spotlight News/PBS screenshot via JTA)
June 11, 2024, 11:26 pm
U of Minnesota backtracks on Holocaust studies hire who accused Israel of genocide
University pauses selection process after initially defending hiring of Raz Siegel, who made accusation days after October 7, as director of Center for Holocaust and Genocide
By Andrew Lapin
Pro-Palestinian, 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
Sima Shakhsari, an associate professor at the University of Minnesota. (Wolf Humanities Center/University of Pennsylvania)
December 23, 2023, 10:09 pm
US professor who denies Oct. 7 rape cases up for top role at campus diversity office
University of Minnesota’s Sima Shakhsari tells panel she has not seen evidence of sexual violence by Hamas-led terrorists, says such accusations are racist
By Michael Horovitz
Entrance sign at the northwest corner of the University of Minnesota (CC BY-SA Alexius Horatius, Wikimedia Commons)
March 22, 2018, 4:17 am
Anti-Semitic fliers blame US Jewish lawmakers for gun control
Headlined ‘Why Are Jews After Our Guns,’ circulars pointing to Sanders, Schumer and others posted at University of Minnesota
By JTA
Entrance sign at the northwest corner of the University of Minnesota (CC BY-SA Alexius Horatius, Wikimedia Commons)
February 19, 2017, 9:21 pm
Minnesota student arrested for drawing swastika
Anti-Semitic graffiti daubed in public area of dorm; neo-Nazi fliers posted around campus a day later
By JTA
A chalk tribute to Philando Castile marked a sidewalk across the street from the Minnesota governor's residence as demonstrators gathered outside the residence Friday, July 8, 2016, in St. Paul, Minnesota, to protest the shooting death by police of Castile after a traffic stop Wednesday, July 6, in nearby Falcon Heights. (AP Photo/Jim Mone)
July 10, 2016, 4:27 am
Stopped 52 times by police: Was it racial profiling?
Before he was killed by a cop Wednesday, Philando Castile shared an experience familiar to many African-Americans
By Carla K. Johnson and Steve Karnowski
Professor Moshe Halbertal (photo credit: CC-BY-Tzahy Lerner, Wikimedia Commons)
November 5, 2015, 1:22 am
Israeli professor shouted down at University of Minnesota
Two dozen protesters delay Moshe Halbertal’s lecture, chanting pro-Palestinian slogans
By JTA and ToI Staff
April 12, 2013, 3:25 pm
Obama names Eric Schwartz to religious freedom body
Members of the US Commission on International Religious Freedom are appointed by both houses of Congress and the president
Evan Kaufmann, a US-born hockey player whose great-grandparents were killed in the Holocaust, is now representing the German national team. (Photo credit: Courtesy Eishockey Magazin via JTA)
February 10, 2012, 10:17 pm
Auschwitz survivor’s grandson plays hockey for Germany
Evan Kaufmann began playing in German Deutsche Eishockey Liga, and will soon be playing for their national team
By Jason Milller
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