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| Jew hate in education 2/13-2/22 And the beat goes on |
| 2026-02-22 |
Purges of Conservative and pro-Israel Faculty leave “very few to speak up for Jewish students” [LegalInsurrection] [Professor William Jacobson’s] testimony to the U.S. Civil Rights Commission: “The campuses, unfortunately, are incapable of reforming themselves because there is no internal opposition left.” His testimony wraps up everything collected in this series of round-ups, provides historical perspective, and ties the whole thing up with a ribbon. Go read the whole, brief thing. House Ed Committee questions mayor who didn’t send police to Northwestern encampment [CollegeFix] U.S. House Committee on Education and Workforce Chairman Tim Walberg is investigating antisemitism on Northwestern University’s campus, including accusations that Evanston Mayor Daniel Biss refused to send police backup to a hostile pro-Palestinian encampment for political reasons. Although Biss did not respond to multiple requests for comment from The College Fix, a spokesperson for Walberg said the mayor has been cooperating with the investigation. The situation centers around events in April 2024 when, following suit with over 100 other campuses nationwide, a group of pro-Palestinian Northwestern students established an encampment on Deering Meadow, which lasted for five days. In a Jan. 28 letter to Biss, Congressman Walberg described the encampment as “a hotbed of antisemitic harassment and hostility, including multiple alleged assaults and virulently antisemitic signage.” “I write with grave concern regarding your failure to protect Jewish students at Northwestern University …by refusing to give the university the police support it desperately needed to clear its violent and antisemitic encampment in April 2024,” Walberg wrote. In a recent report, The Daily Northwestern detailed correspondence between former university President Michael Schill and Northwestern’s Board of Trustees Chair Peter Barris regarding the 2024 encampment and the mayor’s refusal to send police to help. Beginning April 26, 2024, just one day after the encampment began, Schill contacted Barris stating there were “too few police” to safely remove the encampment, according to the report. To aid in the removal, Schill said he was relying on the Evanston Police Department, with an agreement having been made between the city and the university. That night, however, Mayor Biss contacted President Schill, informing him that police would not be sent, according to the Daily Northwestern. “’You know, you can sue me if you want,’” Schill said Biss told him during their call, the report states. Biss is running for Congress as a Democratic candidate in the 2026 election cycle. Yale Vows to Investigate Anti-Semitic Graffiti On Campus Quads [Washington Free Beacon]Yale University said it is investigating an incident in which anti-Semitic graffiti was spray-painted into the snow on major campus quads, a university spokeswoman told the Washington Free Beacon. The university declined to say whether it had video footage of the individuals who left the graffiti, which included the phrases "Intifida" and "IDF Die." A Yale senior, Sahar Tartak, said on social media that "every gate" facilitating entrance onto the quad where the graffiti was found is "locked and recorded" by video surveillance. "On Wednesday morning, messages that appear to have been spray-painted on the snow at Old Campus and Cross Campus were removed by the university, consistent with Yale’s policies on postering and chalking," Yale spokeswoman Karen Peart said. Those policies preclude messages whose content is "harassing" or "threatening." CBS boss Bari Weiss cancels UCLA lecture ahead of expected student protests: report [NYPost] CBS News editor in chief Bari Weiss canceled an upcoming lecture at the University of California-Los Angeles as students were expected to protest — and some staff objected to hosting her — according to a report. Weiss was slated to give the annual Daniel Pearl Memorial lecture on Feb. 27 on “The Future of Journalism,” but the exec — who is a staunch advocate of Israel — pulled out of the event earlier this week amid concerns for her safety. The university has been at the center of intense national scrutiny, including federal investigations and legal action on claims of systemic antisemitism, since Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023 attack on Israel and the war in Gaza sparked campus protests. Almost 11,000 people, most of whom are not UCLA students, petitioned the Burkle Center to remove her. Led by Code Pink, a leftist organization funded by billionaire Neville Singham (who has spent years and millions of dollars promoting the Chinese Communist Party and who is married to the Code Pink founder), the group campaigned against her because, according to them, “She has a history of flagrant xenophobic remarks about Palestinians, Muslims, and Arabs.” Simply put, in their warped worldview, one of the most important journalists in our nation should be prohibited from speaking at UCLA because she is a Zionist. Because Ms. Weiss believes there should be a Jewish homeland, that there is no historical “Palestine,” and that the Muslim regimes that want to destroy Israel should be stopped, she should have no voice according to these fanatical leftists. Even worse for these fascist leftists who seek to rid the world of any opinion but their own, Bari Weiss doesn’t fit their mold. Like Larry Elder, a black man who is conservative, Bari Weiss doesn’t fit into what they feel a queer Jewish woman should be. So rather than try to understand her perspective, they have successfully sought to remove her voice entirely. Code Pink is an awful organization that is a well funded arm of leftism, so none of this should come as a surprise. The true sadness is how UCLA demonstrated its own hatred for conservatism, dialogue, and Israel by capitulating to a group that is not even composed of students. The Burkle Center, whose mission is to “promote discussion of international relations, U.S. foreign policy, and complex issues of global cooperation and conflict,” has, in canceling her, acted in direct contradiction to its mission statement. By silencing her voice, they are demonstrating that they are not interested in discussion unless it is in sync with the values of their leadership. Burkle Center Associate Director Margaret Peters made the decision, along with her colleagues (who can all be reached at burkle@international.ucla.edu), not because she is pro-Trump or conservative, but for one simple reason: Bari Weiss is pro-Israel. She understands the Islamic threat to Western civilization, the evils of Hamas, and the dangers of Iran. NYC public law school to host event on Hamas tunnels as ‘resistance to colonization’ [IsraelTimes] Talk led by Columbia University academic describes underground terror infrastructure as ‘decolonial land use’ Trump administration sues Harvard, accusing it of not cooperating on admissions probe [IsraelTimes] The Trump administration sued Harvard University on Friday, accusing it of failing to comply with a federal investigation and seeking documents to determine whether the university had illegally considered race in its admissions process. The move comes less than two weeks after US President Donald Trump said his administration was seeking $1 billion from Harvard to settle probes into school policies, after a news report that said Trump had dropped his demand for a payment from the Ivy League school. A Harvard spokesperson said the university is committed to following the law and has been responding to the government’s inquiries in good faith. “The university will continue to defend itself against these retaliatory actions which have been initiated simply because Harvard refused to surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights in response to unlawful government overreach,” the spokesperson said. Trump’s administration has been threatening to withhold federal funds from Harvard and several other universities over issues including pro-Palestinian protests against Israel since the Hamas-led October 7, 2023, attack that triggered the Gaza war, campus diversity and transgender policies. The Justice Department said on Friday in a press release that Harvard had “repeatedly slow-walked the pace of production and refused to produce pertinent data and documents,” including admissions policies and correspondence related to banned diversity, equity and inclusion programs. In the complaint filed in Boston federal court, Justice Department lawyers said the documents requested will help assess whether Harvard is complying with a 2023 decision by the US Supreme Court which said that race-conscious college admissions programs are unconstitutional. The Justice Department said it brought the lawsuit “solely to compel Harvard to produce documents relating to any consideration of race in admission” and “does not accuse Harvard of any discriminatory conduct, nor does it seek monetary damages or the revocation of federal funding.” Mistrial declared in case of anti-Israel Stanford students who occupied school president’s office [IsraelTimes] Jury deadlocks on felony charges against the students, Germán González, who was a sophomore at Stanford when he was arrested, vows that ‘we will continue to fight… because at the end of the day, this is for Palestine’; prosecutors to seek new trial A judge declared a mistrial Friday in the case of five current and former Stanford University students charged after anti-Israel pro-Palestinian protests in 2024, when they barricaded themselves inside the university president and provost executive offices. The trial in Santa Clara County was a rare instance of demonstrators facing felony charges from protests over the Israel-Hamas war that roiled campuses across the country. The two sides argued over free speech, lawful dissent and crime during the three-week proceedings. The jury voted 9 to 3 to convict on a felony charge of vandalism and 8 to 4 to convict on a felony charge of conspiracy to trespass. Jury nullification Demonstrators barricaded themselves inside the offices for several hours on June 5, 2024, the last day of spring classes at the university. Prosecutors said the defendants spray-painted the building, broke windows and furniture, disabled security cameras and splattered a red liquid described as fake blood on items throughout the offices. Defense attorneys said the protest was protected speech and there was insufficient evidence of an intent to damage the property. They also said the students wore protective gear and barricaded the offices out of fear of being injured by police and campus security. If convicted, the defendants would have faced up to three years in prison and been obligated to pay restitution of over $300,000. “This case is about a group of people who destroyed someone else’s property and caused hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage,” Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeff Rosen said in a statement. “That is against the law and that is why we will retry the case.” Authorities initially arrested and charged 12 people in the case, but one pleaded no contest under an agreement that allows some young people to have their cases dismissed and records sealed if they successfully complete probation. He testified for the prosecution, leading to a grand jury indictment of the others in October of the others. Six of those accepted pretrial plea deals or diversion programs, and the remaining five pleaded not guilty and sought a jury trial. Protests sprung up on campuses across the country following the Hamas-led October 7, 2023, onslaught that started the conflict in Gaza, with students setting up camps and demanding their universities stop doing business with Israel or companies that support its war efforts against Hamas. About 3,200 people were arrested in 2024 nationwide. While some colleges ended demonstrations by striking deals with students or simply waited them out, others called in police. Most criminal charges were ultimately dismissed. Haverford College bans 2 from campus after disrupting Jewish journalist’s talk [CollegeFix] Haverford College, a small, private institution in Philadelphia, “indefinitely” banned two individuals from its campus last week after one of them used a bullhorn to disrupt a Jewish journalist’s guest talk. Neither was a student or employee of the college, Director of Campus Safety Jerry Fayette stated in a message to the campus Wednesday. He did not name the individuals. “We have gathered sufficient evidence to identify both the individual who used a bullhorn and the audience member who initiated physical contact with them,” Fayette stated. Both are banned from the college “indefinitely,” he stated. “If they are found to be on Haverford’s campus, their presence will be considered trespassing, and the College will contact local police.” The college took action after a crowd of masked anti-Israel protesters showed up at a guest talk by The Times of Israel journalist Haviv Rettig Gur on Feb. 1. Gur’s topic was “Roots, Return & Reality: Jews, Israel, and the myth of settler colonialism.” The college’s Chabad chapter sponsored the event. |
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