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    Trump’s Antisemitism Order Puts Foreign Students—and US Colleges—on Notice

    After 15 months of terrorist-supporting thugs engaging in acts of violence and intimidation against Jews with impunity, America finally has a president who takes combating antisemitism seriously. On Jan. 29, President Donald Trump signed an executive order making it “the policy of the United States to combat antisemitism vigorously, using all available and appropriate legal…
    Simon Hankinson
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    Trump Comes Out Swinging as Antisemitism Rises Worldwide

    Unrest and sporadic violence in the Dutch city of Amsterdam is ongoing in the wake of an incident last week in which Israeli soccer fans were targeted in what authorities have described as antisemitic attacks. As the rate of antisemitic incidents increased across the globe following Hamas terrorists’ Oct. 7 attack last year on Israel,…
    Dan Hart
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    Donations to Harvard Hit a Wall Amid Criticism Over Antisemitism on Campus

    DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Harvard University saw a decrease in donations this year after criticism of its handling of antisemitism on campus spurred multiple donors to cut ties with the school. Total gifts to Harvard decreased by nearly 15% in fiscal year 2024, dropping to $1.17 billion from $1.38 billion in 2023, according to a financial report released Thursday. Several high-profile donors…
    Jaryn Crouson
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    How We Got Here: Antisemitism and an Emboldened Iran

    One year after the most deadly day in Jewish history since the Holocaust, 3.5 million American Jews say they have experienced antisemitism, according to a recent study.  “One out of every five American Jewish children has experienced antisemitism since Oct. 7,” EJ Kimball, director of Christian engagement at Combat Antisemitism Movement, said during an event…
    Virginia Allen
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    ‘Cesspools of Rancid Antisemitism’: University Presidents Urged to Protect Jewish Students on Campus

    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—University presidents are responsible for keeping Jewish students safe on campuses this fall if pro-Hamas rioters return, according to a letter from a think tank founded by former Vice President Mike Pence. Executive Vice President of Advancing American Freedom Paul Teller wrote a letter to the presidents of New York University,…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    NYU Settles Lawsuit With Jewish Students Over Campus Antisemitism

    New York University settled a lawsuit Tuesday with Jewish students over claims that the university did not protect them from antisemitism on campus. The suit was filed in November accusing the university of violating federal civil rights laws by not enforcing its antidiscrimination policy in incidents targeting Jewish students and allowing “pervasive acts of hatred, discrimination, harassment,…
    Jaryn Crouson
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    ‘Condescending and Contemptuous’: University Presidents Blasted in Antisemitism Hearing

    “If I might correct the premise of your question” became the phrase of the day from university leaders Thursday in a contentious House hearing focused on antisemitism. Appearing before the House Education and Workforce Committee were Michael Schill, president of Northwestern University; Jonathan Holloway, president of Rutgers University; and Gene Block, chancellor of the University…
    Tony Kinnett
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    Common Sense vs. Antisemitism

    F. Scott Fitzgerald once quipped that the “test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.” The protests over the war between Israel and Hamas that have roiled university campuses across the nation are testing our collective intelligence…
    Ryan Bangert
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    ‘Our Babies Sometimes Say Harmful Things’: Superintendents Deny Antisemitism Is ‘Pervasive’ Problem in Their Schools

    In an explosive House subcommittee hearing Wednesday, Republicans pressed the leaders of three major public school districts about their responses to antisemitic incidents.  Rep. Kevin Kiley, R-Calif., presented Enikia Ford Morthel, superintendent of Berkeley Unified School District in California, with a report on antisemitic incidents in her school district. “You gave us a statement in…
    Tony Kinnett
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    How to Stop the Campus Antisemitism Cascade

    Over the past two weeks, American college and university campuses have witnessed an explosion of antisemitic rhetoric and conduct that once had been thought to be unthinkable today. A portion of the Columbia University lawn has become a tent city to protest—or more specifically, to protest the right of Israel, and Jews, to exist. As…
    Paul J. Larkin
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    I Went to the UPenn Campus to Address the Antisemitism Epidemic at US Colleges

    Victoria Coates, vice president of the Davis Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy at The Heritage Foundation, spoke at the University of Pennsylvania on Thursday about the ongoing antisemitism directed at Jews occurring on college campuses today. She said that Hamas’ terrorist attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, did not start but instead…
    Victoria Coates
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    Rep. Stefanik Grills Columbia University President at Second House Antisemitism Hearing

    Columbia University and other higher institutions have entirely falled to hold antisemites accountable according to Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y. and other Republican lawmakers. The House Committee on Education and the Workforce held its second hearing on antisemitism on Wednesday. The committee brought in Columbia University President Minouche Shafik and two board of trustee members to…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    How ADL’s Partisanship Harms the Fight Against Antisemitism

    For over a century, the Anti-Defamation League has enjoyed a reputation as the preeminent Jewish organization combating antisemitism and all forms of hate. Its acronym, ADL, has “household name” status—and not just in Jewish homes. This makes its current penchant for partisanship extraordinarily dangerous for, and beyond, the Jewish community. Last December, Senate Republicans learned…
    Yaakov Menken
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    ‘Grave Concerns’: House Education Committee Demands Documents Related to Elite University’s Handling of Antisemitism

    The House Committee on Education and the Workforce is demanding documents from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology related to the school’s handling of antisemitism on campus, according to a Friday letter. The House committee is requesting all reports of antisemitic and discriminatory acts at the university since Jan. 1, 2021; documents outlining the school’s processes…
    Brandon Poulter
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    Antisemitism on College Campuses Has Shot Up 1,753% Since Oct. 7. Higher Education Spawned This Culture of Hate.

    The nation’s college campuses have created a climate of hate. A report released Monday by the Combat Antisemitism Movement in partnership with the Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry at Tel Aviv University in Israel found that antisemitism has exploded in U.S. higher education. The numbers are shocking, but not surprising. The report…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    19 Years Ago, the Los Angeles Times Published a Column on Antisemitism on American Campuses

    Antisemitism on American college campuses is not new. College presidents and professors didn’t begin tolerating or teaching antisemitism last Oct. 8. Students marching on behalf of the annihilation of the Jewish state, student activists tearing down posters of kidnapped Jewish children, locking Jewish students in a library at Cooper Union, and “70% of Jewish college…
    Dennis Prager
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    Rise in Antisemitism Divides Liberals

    Jews are feeling increasingly afraid and unwelcome. Last week, girls on the basketball team of a Jewish private school in suburban Hartsdale, New York, were jabbed and hit with antisemitic slurs by players from Yonkers’ Roosevelt High School. “I support Hamas, you f—ing Jew,” a Roosevelt player snarled. The game had to be called off…
    Betsy McCaughey
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    The Harvard Crimson ‘Whitewashes Antisemitism by Using Israel as a Fig Leaf,’ Jewish Leaders Warn

    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Orthodox Jewish leaders condemned The Harvard Crimson, the student newspaper of Harvard University, for “whitewashing” antisemitism in a series of op-eds published at the tail end of 2023. Although Harvard’s efforts to respond to antisemitism on campus after Hamas’ terrorist attacks Oct. 7 in Israel drew early scrutiny, the university took…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    Yes, Anti-Zionism Is Antisemitism

    Imagine a group of people who work to destroy Italy because, they claim, Italy’s origins are illegitimate. Imagine further that these people maintain that of all the countries in the world, only Italy doesn’t deserve to exist. Then imagine that these people vigorously deny that they are anti-Italian. Would you believe them? Now substitute “Israel”…
    Dennis Prager
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    How Jews Are Planning for Personal Defense During the Rise of Antisemitism 

    After the Oct. 7  Hamas attack on Israel, many Jews around the world are choosing to arm themselves for self-defense, according to a panel of Jewish professionals.    “Jews tend not to own guns, and that’s very unfortunate, because if you look at our history, we could’ve used one or two throughout that time,” Karol Markowicz,…
    Lucy Gilbert
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