Category: campus antisemitism

campus antisemitism

New Faculty Group Presses CUNY Union Over Anti-Israel Resolution

Chuck Schumer poses with CUNY during 2019 Labor Day Parade

On June 10, the City University of New York’s (CUNY) Professional Staff Congress (PSC) passed a resolution condemning Israel. The resolution called Israel an “apartheid,” “settler colonial state” responsible for the “massacre” of “Palestinians” during the conflagration in May, when Hamas shot over 4,000 missiles into Israeli city centers, unprovoked. This has resulted in what …

American Jewry, antisemitism, campus antisemitism

Illinois College Forced to Limit Antisemitic “Bias Response” Team Actions due to Legal Challenge

university of illinois urbana-champaign

A University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign “bias response” team that was said to have intimidated pro-Israel students, has been reined in by the university after it was suggested a Supreme Court review was in the workings. Speech First, a nonprofit working against college policies that violate free speech, sued the university in 2019, for policies …

American Jewry, antisemitism, campus antisemitism

USC Student Government Veep Resigns Due to Antisemitism

USC student government veep Rose Ritch before her resignation

Rose Ritch, student vice president for University of Southern California’s USC’s Undergraduate Student Government (USG), resigned her position August 5, due to antisemitic bullying. Ritch explained her resignation in a letter she posted to Facebook, explaining that the pressure got to be too much, and that it was all about her being a Zionist and …