Antisemitism

In the last several weeks, 47 of the nation’s top 50 universities have seen protests turn into riots. Arkansas Republican Sen. Tom Cotton says his new bill is aimed at anti-Jewish protestors who break the law. His proposal would ban any student convicted of crimes during these – or any other protests – making them “ineligible for student debt forgiveness, cancellation, waiver, or modification of certain Federal student loans.” Read More.

A display of over one thousand Israeli and American flags was destroyed over the weekend at Harvard University. Read More.

Authorities are investigating a disturbing bomb threat emailed to more than two dozen synagogues and Jewish institutions in the Big Apple — and to temples upstate and on Long Island. Read More.

In part due to the unleashing of Jew-hatred in the aftermath of Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacre, antisemitism in the United States spiked by a record 140%, according to figures released by the Anti-Defamation League on Tuesday. Read More.

Florida Senator Rick Scott sent a letter to U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland urging legal action be taken against pro-Hamas protesters occupying the nation's college campuses. Read More.

Los Angeles police said they were responding to UCLA's request to restore order "due to multiple acts of violence within the large encampment." Read More.

Anti-Israel protesters dialed up their demonstration at Columbia University by taking over an academic building late Monday night and into Tuesday morning. Read More.

Pro-Palestine student protesters at the Harvard Yard encampment flew three Palestinian flags from University Hall on Saturday evening. Read More.

As the number of protests on college campuses over the Israeli-Hamas war swells, Florida’s flagship university is warning students may face banishment and workers could be fired for breaking certain campus restrictions. Read More.

More than 100 people were arrested at Emerson College in Boston early on Thursday in the latest crackdown against the rising wave of campus pro-Palestinian protests across the US that has seen the House speaker, Mike Johnson, suggest calling in the national guard. Read More.

A group of Columbia University professors is being slammed for their “grotesque” decision to hold a rally Monday that publicly backed the antisemitic protests roiling the Manhattan Ivy League school’s campus. Read More.

A Columbia University professor who has been a vocal critic of the administration’s response to the ongoing anti-Israel student protests was barred from campus Monday after he tried to lead a pro-Jewish rally at the Ivy League college. Read More.

Police in a suburb of Miami are looking for a woman who toppled a wooden menorah outside of a synagogue. Read More.

Columbia University President Dr. Nemat Shafik told students in an overnight statement that all classes will be held virtually on Monday amid anti-Israel protests. Read More.

Israel National News reports that the US House of Representatives on Tuesday passed a resolution condemning the chant “From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be free” as antisemitic, Fox News reported. Read More.