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2025-11-02 Fifth Column
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University Jew-hate 10/2-11/1/2025
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Some of the stories I happened across while looking for other things, so this is probably not even mostly what happened in academia over the past month. Dozens of Northwestern students face penalties for boycotting antisemitism video
While there is no requirement to endorse the contents of the training video made by Chicago’s Jewish federation, dozens protest what they call ‘biased’ content as bigotry against Jews peaks.
Free speech group censures New York University for canceling Oct. 7 event
The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), a free speech advocacy group, condemns New York University’s law school for canceling an event scheduled for October 7, the two-year anniversary of the Hamas invasion of Israel.
The law school had been scheduled to host an event by the conservative Federalist Society, but reportedly canceled the talk due to “security concerns” related to expected protests related to the October 7 anniversary.
The Federalist Society event was scheduled to feature Ilya Shapiro, a Jewish attorney who has criticized anti-Israel protesters and universities.
A law school administrator first asked that the event switch locations, which student organizers agreed to, but then the administrator said that Shapiro could not come to the campus at all, The Free Beacon reported.
“Doing the work for the would-be censors without even needing them to show up, NYU Law School’s reported decision to cancel the Federalist Society’s event with Ilya Shapiro is a textbook heckler’s veto,” says FIRE Special Counsel for Campus Advocacy Robert Shibley.
“By preemptively canceling a student-sponsored lecture due to expected opposition, NYU allows the threat of disruption to override students’ and speakers’ rights to listen and be heard,” Shibley says. “By also approving other events scheduled for the same time, NYU sends the message that only some views can be heard on campus. Universities cannot selectively disfavor one speaker while approving other major events on the same day.”
“NYU must reaffirm its commitment to free expression by ensuring that all student groups, regardless of viewpoint, can peacefully host events with invited speakers without facing censorship disguised as logistics,” he says.
US probes University of Nevada, Las Vegas over response to alleged antisemitism
The US Justice Department announces that it will probe the response of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, to claims of antisemitism on campus, the latest federal investigation of a school over protests against Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza.
The Trump administration has threatened to cut federal funds to universities over campus pro-Palestinian protests. The government says universities allowed displays of antisemitism.
University of Maryland student government passes BDS resolution on Yom Kippur
Jewish groups say scheduling of symbolic anti-Israel resolution ‘exclusionary’; vote was originally planned for Rosh Hashanah, then moved to holiest day in Jewish calendar
What the heck is going on at UC Davis?
Just three days after the October 7 massacre in Israel, UC Davis Assistant Professor Jemma Decristo posted threats on social media aimed at Jewish reporters and their families. Two years after a professor made violent threats against Jews, the university has done nothing.
MIT president rejects Trump’s ‘priority’ funding offer in exchange for policy changes
Sally Kornbluth is first university leader to reject Trump’s offer; US’s academic leadership ‘depends on independent thinking,’ she says in letter to administration.
The administration extended its proposal, titled the “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education,” to nine universities this month that it said were “good actors.”
The deal would require the schools to cap international student enrollment, limit employees’ political speech and make other changes in line with the administration’s policies, including “transforming or abolishing institutional units that purposefully punish, belittle and even spark violence against conservative ideas.”
In exchange, the schools would gain “priority” federal funding – a potentially potent carrot at a time when the Trump administration is more often slashing schools’ funding in an effort to retaliate against them and force changes.
One school, the public University of Texas system, said it was honored to be considered without yet accepting.
Memorial for Israeli hostages vandalized, Jewish students threatened at Lewis & Clark College
Cornell faces call for civil rights probe after Israeli student alleges discrimination
[CollegeFix] KEY TAKEAWAYS
- Cornell University Professor Eric Cheyfitz, 84, is retiring after being accused of discriminating against Israeli graduate student Oren Renard by driving him out of a course on Gaza.
- The university halted Cheyfitz’s teaching duties and suspended him following the student's complaint.
- Meanwhile, Cornell law Professor William Jacobson has called for a federal civil rights investigation into the matter.
Northwestern University Can Toss Students Who Refuse To Complete Anti-Semitism Training, Judge Rules
[FreeBeacon] Students who boycotted the course can lose financial aid, access to on-campus housing, and even their status as a student.
The ruling represents an early blow to the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) in the lawsuit it filed against Northwestern on behalf of the school’s Graduate Workers for Palestine, alleging the training violates federal civil rights law and bans "expressions of Palestinian identity." The plaintiffs had asked the court for a temporary restraining order to stop the school from punishing students who boycotted the training while the case played out, but Judge Georgia Alexakis rejected that request.
Faculty work to block Trump administration probe of antisemitism on Calif. campuses
[CollegeFix] As the Trump administration investigates allegations of antisemitism throughout the California State University and University of California systems, some educators are crying foul — and a lawsuit has been filed by a faculty union to block the feds from receiving scholars’ contact information.
The California Faculty Association on Oct. 10 filed a complaint seeking to halt system administrators from disclosing professors’ emails and phone numbers in response to federal subpoenas seeking to determine the extent of antisemitism at the CSU system’s 23 campuses.
“CSU capitulated without a fight to the Trump Administration’s witch hunt of faculty. We are suing for accountability of the CSU administration and we demand they do more to protect faculty, students and academic freedom,” the association stated in a news release.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is investigating complaints of campus antisemitism and is sending professors queries to understand whether there is a pattern or practice of discrimination, likely by establishing statistics around these occurrences.
Northwestern Provost Who Floated Divestment From Israel Resigns Amid Federal Anti-Semitism Probe
[FreeBeqcon] As an illegal encampment roiled campus, Kathleen Hagerty told a colleague that boycotting Sabra hummus sold on campus would be 'pretty easy'.
The Trump administration froze nearly $800 million in federal funding for Northwestern in April amid a Department of Education investigation into anti-Semitism at the school. The Department of Health and Human Services launched its own civil rights probe of Northwestern one month later, citing "systemic concerns" about the school's ability "not to discriminate against Jewish students."
Illegal anti-Israel protests have continued at Northwestern this year. Activists vandalized the building that houses the school's Holocaust center as Jewish students observed Passover in April, writing messages like "Death to Israel" and "Intifada Now!" in red spray paint. Around the same time, the school's Students for Justice in Palestine chapter held an anarchist training session in which members studied propaganda from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine terrorist group, urging them to "build an Intifada" and "destroy amerika."
Northwestern maintains a satellite campus in Hamas-friendly Qatar, which opened in 2008. Its contract with Qatar effectively forbids students and faculty from criticizing the Qatari regime, Schill's House interview revealed.
Pomona College to discipline masked agitators who stormed Hamas victim memorial
[CampusReform] Pomona College in Claremont, California has vowed to discipline pro-Hamas activists who disrupted a campus memorial for victims of Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023 massacre in Israel. On Oct. 16, Pomona College President G. Gabrielle Starr and Dean of Students Avis Hinkson condemned the violent disruption.
Palestinian politician suggests Yale students’ anti-Israel ideological crusades are counterproductive to peace
[CampusReform] 'The issue lies in the fact that you discuss ideologies,' he told the students, emphasizing the difference between the students’ eager ideological fervor and the realities of finding a practical, political solution.
Nasser al-Qudwa, former Foreign Affairs Minister of the Palestinian Authority, and former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert reminded students that lasting peace will come not from ideology, but from the hard work of political pragmatism.
Cornell student newspaper retracts artwork featuring Nazi symbols and bloodied Star of David
The drawing accompanied an opinion piece about Israel's Gaza campaign by indigenous studies professor Karim-Aly Kassam.
As an artist he has an eye for colour.
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