College Fix: Yale students go on pro-Hamas hunger strike; administrators refuse meeting.
Harvard president rejects 'partisan' label in letter to Sec. McMahon amid clash with Trump admin
Not specific to fostering Jew-hate, but related and eminently satisfying.
[CampusReform] Harvard University President Alan Garber asserted that the Trump administration is sidestepping private institutions’ constitutional freedoms. This comes after Education Secretary Linda McMahon said that the university will no longer receive federal grants.Prof who called Jewish Temples “Synagogues of Satan” Has Been Fired.
[ToniAiraksinen] A professor at the prestigious Berklee College of Music — often compared to The Juilliard School in Manhattan — has been fired after years of antisemitic comments have surfaced, with the African American professor now surprisingly claiming that he himself is the victim of antisemitism.
Berklee College of Music has fired their Brass Department Chair, Nicholas Payton, only months after promoting him to the position. While the school says it cannot comment on “personnel matters” to explain any details, it did confirm that Payton had been terminated. Payton, 51, considers himself a “social activist” in music. His unique commentaries on Black music, such as arguing that “jazz” is a slur and referring to it as #BlackAfricanMusic (BAM) has earned the outspoken musician spots on a number of podcasts and nearly 50,000 followers on Instagram.
US terminates additional $60 million in Harvard grants over alleged antisemitism
[IsraelTimes] The US Department of Health and Human Services says that it was terminating $60 million in federal grants to Harvard University saying the Ivy League institution failed to address antisemitic harassment and ethnic discrimination on campus. US President Donald Trump’s administration has frozen or ended federal grants and contracts for the university worth nearly $3 billion in recent weeks. The administration has accused Harvard of continuing to consider ethnicity when reviewing student applications and of allowing discrimination against Jews as a result of the anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian student protest movement that roiled American campuses last year.
Bloomberg Reporter Arrested With Pro-Hamas Group That Took Over Columbia Library
[Townhall] A reporter from Bloomberg News was arrested when pro-Hamas rioters took over Columbia University’s Butler Library earlier in the month. The reporter, Jason Kao, had graduated from Columbia in 2022. He was charged with criminal trespass and was given a desk appearance ticket.
Eighty-one activists were arrested in total.
“During the unrest, rioters injured two, passed out pamphlets endorsing Hamas’s violence, vandalized and damaged the library, and renamed the building after Basel al-Araj, a Palestinian terrorist killed in a 2017 shootout with the Israel Defense Forces,” according to the Washington Free Beacon:
“Kao’s personal website is exclusively devoted to negative coverage of Israel’s war in Gaza,” the outlet continued.
“Kao was employed by Bloomberg News as of May 1, based on a social media post from a colleague,” but Bloomberg told the Free Beacon that they no longer employ Kao.
Because the man is a propagandist, not a reporter — and certainly not a journalist.
George Washington U bans student for commencement speech calling to divest from Israel
[IsraelTimes] Speaker at George Washington graduation urges alumni not to donate, decries Gaza ‘genocide’; DC school apologizes for ‘inappropriate’ speech that strayed from approved text. Cecilia Culver made the comments while addressing the school’s liberal arts college on Saturday.
Culver had to take frequent breaks for sustained applause she received during her speech, delivered at GWU’s largest graduation ceremony. According to GWU’s own communications, during Culver’s time at the school the economics and statistics dual major was a recipient of a prestigious award and received an award from the Federal Reserve as part of an internship she completed.
“Cecilia is in every way a distinguished scholar,” the school noted.
GWU’s student newspaper noted that Daiya’s profiles have since been scrubbed from the university’s websites and directory. Her LinkedIn page is also disabled.
From Million-Dollar Homes to Radical Activism—These Posh Private School Alumni Were Among the Arrested Columbia and Barnard Students
[FreeBeacon] One student won an ‘international friendship’ award before joining a mob that injured two.
Trump administration accuses Columbia of violating Jewish students’ civil rights - violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act
[IsraelTimes] US government says the university has been ‘acting with deliberate indifference’ to antisemitism on campus since Oct. 7, ‘continually failed to protect Jewish students’.
The finding was announced late Thursday by the US Health and Human Services Department. It comes hours after the Department of Homeland Security said it would revoke Harvard University’s ability to enroll international students, a major escalation in the administration’s monthslong feud with higher education.
Title VI of the Civil Rights Act blocks federal funding recipients from discrimination based on race, color or national origin. That final category, the press release notes, includes “discrimination against individuals that is based on their actual or perceived Israeli or Jewish identity or ancestry.”
The announcement did not include new sanctions against Columbia, which is already facing $400 million in federal cuts by the Trump administration over its response to pro-Palestinian campus protests. A spokesperson for Columbia said the university is currently in negotiations with the government about resolving its claims of antisemitism.
George Washington University Slapped With Lawsuit Alleging ‘Pervasive and Severe Antisemitic Harassment’ on Campus.
[FreeBeacon] George Washington University (GW) was sued in federal court by Jewish students on Thursday, alleging it allowed “pervasive and severe antisemitic harassment” on campus for years without any action from the school’s leaders.
Students Sabrina Soffer, Ari Shapiro, and a group of anonymous plaintiffs accused GW of failing to address a surge in hostility towards Jewish students, particularly following the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel, according to a copy of the complaint obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, claims the university violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act by allowing a “hostile educational environment” to flourish unchecked.
The 176-page complaint details a litany of incidents that paint GW as a campus where Jewish students face relentless intimidation. According to the filing, anti-Semitic acts include physical assaults, vandalism, and verbal harassment, with university administrators allegedly turning a blind eye. The lawsuit cites specific examples, such as anti-Israel protests that escalated into violence and Jewish students’ property being defaced with anti-Semitic slurs.
..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
..a regional Iranian catspaw,...
