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University Jew-hate 12/1-12/21
2025-12-21
Just those things I saw and posted here as I wandered the internet.

Harvard Hires Divinity School Graduate Who Assaulted Israeli Classmate
[WashingtonFreeBeacon] Elom Tettey-Tamaklo was ordered to take an anger management class and perform 80 hours of community service following infamous 'die-in' protest

U of Florida must readmit student banned for antisemitic posts, US federal judge rules
Judge orders Preston Damsky, expelled for posts including calling for Jews to be ‘abolished,’ be allowed back to school on free speech grounds, says posts didn’t constitute threat

NYC school said to decline Holocaust survivor’s talk over ‘messages on Israel, Palestine’
Principal of Brooklyn middle school, MS 447 told parent Sami Steigmann’s opinions would not be ‘right’ for school, but they’d be happy to explore other speakers on antisemitism; city Department of Education backed the principal, as did the office of Mayor Eric Adams, a vocal Israel advocate.

Cal State investigating professor seen coaching class to oppose antisemitism bill
Video shows Melina Abdullah, a prominent activist instructor at California State University, Los Angeles, telling students Israeli interests have subverted Congress, discussing violent revolution in US.

The university said it was aware and investigating.

Abdullah is a professor at the university’s Department of Pan-African Studies and the former chair of the department. She is a co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement, the lead of the movement’s Los Angeles chapter, and involved in the organization’s national leadership, according to the university website. Cornel West, a prominent academic and social activist, selected Abdullah as his running mate for his 2024 presidential campaign.

NYC Jewish leaders demand action from CUNY after protest targeting Hillel rep at interfaith event
Jewish leaders in New York write the chancellor of the City University of New York (CUNY), the city’s public university system, demanding action following a protest against the Jewish representative at a campus interfaith event last month.

During the protest at the City College of New York, first reported by The Times of Israel, a Muslim leader led a walkout to protest against a Hillel director who was representing the Jewish community at the event. The Muslim leader blamed the Hillel director, Ilya Bratman, for suffering in Gaza and led his followers out of the room. The incident sparked an uproar from the Jewish community and elected leaders in New York.

Jewish leaders write CUNY Chancellor Félix V. Matos Rodríguez, calling the walkout “outrageous” and discriminatory, and saying that CUNY has not issued enough of a response. The walkout and CUNY’s response “send a clear message to Jewish and Zionist students at CUNY: you do not belong here,” the letter says.

The letter, dated to yesterday and shared with The Times of Israel today, is signed by New York City Councilmember Eric Dinowitz; Mark Treyger, the head of the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York; Eric Goldstein, CEO of the UJA-Federation of New York; Scott Richman, the New York and New Jersey regional director of the Anti-Defamation League; Miriam F. Elman, the head of the Academic Engagement Netowrk; and Josh Kramer, the head of the American Jewish Committee in New York. Dinowitz is the chair of the city council’s committee on higher education and the chair of the council’s Jewish caucus.

“Against the backdrop of this shameful incident and rising antisemitism on campus, we urge CUNY to take steps to amend its student code of conduct,” the letter says, calling for a “system-wide policy” to protect Jewish students at CUNY.

CUNY is made up of dozens of campuses around the city, which each have significant autonomy from the central administration, making system-wide changes difficult.

In legal settlement, UC Berkeley acknowledges discriminating against Israeli prof
California university’s chancellor apologizes to Dr. Yael Nativ for faculty member blocking her job application due to her Israeli identity, says she will be welcomed back

Jewish students singled out, scapegoated: Columbia releases final antisemitism report
Antisemitism Task Force says university’s Middle East studies lacks faculty who are not ‘explicitly anti-Zionist,’ seeks to balance free speech with protection for Jews

Jews for Palestine Seek Name Change to Include Term “Anti-Zionist,” Receive Pushback From Oberlin College Administration

BEFORE UNIVERSITY
California high school students spark outrage with viral ‘human swastika’
Students in San Jose face disciplinary action over social media post with Hitler quote calling for annihilation of Jews; local lawmaker decries ‘the hate plaguing our communities’

A photo of eight high school students forming a “human swastika” on a California football field went viral online last week, spurring an outcry from the Jewish community and political leaders across Silicon Valley. The students face disciplinary action and the San Jose Police were called to the school regarding the matter, according to media accounts.

Marc Levine, ADL’s Northern California director, said on Tuesday that Branham school administrators have reached out to him.

“We all want to keep hate out of student spaces,” he said.

This is not the first time Branham High School has been embroiled in controversy related to alleged antisemitism, as the school was found in April to have discriminated against Jewish students after a local Jewish advocacy group accused it of presenting “biased” content about the Israel-Palestinian conflict in a 12th-grade ethnic literature curriculum.
So they just did as their teachers taught them. Classy blamecasting, O school staff.


… the normalization of anti-Jewish hate. How do American students make it to high school without integrating the value of tolerance and the lessons of history?

The image on social media also included a caption quoting parts of Hitler’s 1939 Reichstag speech, one of his most infamous addresses, in which he threatened "the annihilation of the Jewish race."

Source: Pew Research Center & Liberation75

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