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2025-07-13 Fifth Column
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The College-Jew hate nexus
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Acting Columbia U. president apologizes for calling to remove Jewish board member after Oct. 7, replace with someone from Middle East
[IsraelTimes] Acting Columbia University President Claire Shipman apologizes for calling to remove a Jewish university board member amid campus turmoil following the October 2023 invasion of Israel.
The Congressional Committee on Education and the Workforce exposed texts from Shipman yesterday.
Hot Air points out that Columbia’s accreditation is at risk because of this. Separately, last week the university system was hacked, with the hacker announcing he(?) was looking for evidence that the school was using race to determine admissions. And finally — and this is just a schadenfreude item — Columbia will pay out about $9 million to settle a lawsuit after they were caught inflating data they submitted to the US News & World Report “Best Colleges” list to move up from #10 to #2. The recheck dropped them down to #18.
Mr. Sussman is now lead plaintiff in a lawsuit against MIT. Commentary from Hot Air here.
University of California reiterates ban on boycotts of Israel by student governments
University head Michael Drake says financial decisions by campus bodies must be grounded in ‘sound business practices,’ which boycotts based on nationality violate.
New York’s Barnard College settles antisemitism lawsuit filed by Jewish students
Barnard College in New York City, an affiliate of Columbia University, agreed to take measures to combat antisemitism in a lawsuit settlement with Jewish students, a law firm representing the students said on Monday.
The US lawsuit was filed last year against the trustees of Columbia and Barnard in the federal Southern District court of New York. It argued that Columbia and Barnard failed to protect Israeli and Jewish students and enforce university policies against protesters as anti-Israel activists riled the campuses after the October 2023 Hamas invasion and onslaught.
The plaintiffs claimed that the harassment of Jews violated the federal Title VI Civil Rights Act of 1964, which bars discrimination at federally funded institutions. The law is widely used by pro-Israel advocates against universities that receive federal funding, like Columbia and Barnard.
Barnard is a women’s liberal arts college affiliated with Columbia. The two schools operate separately, but are deeply intertwined and located next to each other in Manhattan. The anti-Israel student activist group leading the protests, Columbia University Apartheid Divest, is active on both campuses. Most of the student plaintiffs were students at Columbia.
The lawsuit said students had been harassed with language like “Fuck the Jews” and were laughed at by professors while counter-protesting on campus. Some of the students suffered “immense stress” due to their treatment that interfered with their studies. Some dropped classes or attended remotely, and others avoided classes taught by professors active in anti-Israel protests.
The student plaintiffs were backed by the advocacy groups Students Against Antisemitism and the StandWithUs Center for Legal Justice, and represented by the Kasowitz LLP law firm.
Israeli postdoc sues Stanford for discrimination; university denies it
Researcher says lab tampered with his findings, falsely accused him of sexual harassment; Stanford says investigation found claims ‘unsubstantiated’. The lawsuit, filed in a federal California court, said a lab at Stanford had falsely accused Dr. Shay Laps of sexual harassment, tampered with his research, and forced him out of his position, due to his Israeli and Jewish identity. The university said the charges had been investigated and were unfounded.
Laps enrolled at Stanford as a post-doctoral student in the spring of 2024 to work on a diabetes treatment. When he arrived, a lab staffer connected to anti-Israel campus activists told Laps not to speak with her in person, refused him a seat with other colleagues at lunch, and told friends to ostracize him in common areas. Laps was the only Israeli in the lab and the staffer treated her other colleagues respectfully. When another researcher asked Laps where he was from, and Laps said he was from Israel, the other researcher turned his back and never spoke to him again, the lawsuit said.
Part of the staffer’s role was to order research materials for Laps, but she was hostile or noncooperative, hampering Laps’s work. The staffer later tampered with Laps’s research results by introducing insulin to compounds he was testing for diabetes treatments, and later asked him to destroy the irregular samples, potentially setting him up for allegations of fraud, the lawsuit alleged. The leader of the lab later said the issues with the staffer were minor errors, although the alleged tampering was not investigated, the lawsuit said.
Laps approached his lab leader about the problems, who told Laps he was under investigation for sexual harassment by the university’s Title IX office, that his research appointment could be ended, warned he could lose his visa, and encouraged him to “resign quietly.” Laps contacted the Title IX office, which told him there was no investigation and that he was in good standing.
The lawsuit said that members of the lab knew Laps was Jewish and Israeli, that all other members were not subjected to hostile treatment, and that the staffer giving him problems was part of an anti-Israel activist social circle. The issues also took place within a broader campus context of anti-Israel activism and antisemitism. The lawsuit did not include instances of antisemitic or anti-Israel rhetoric directed at Laps, though.
Laps made formal complaints, saying he was being discriminated against. The university probe said that Laps was not “discriminated against because he was Jewish or Israeli,” although the lawsuit said the investigation was thin.
Laps was eventually removed from the lab, had a research grant revoked, and was forced to leave the country due to visa issues, causing severe damage to his career and reputation, the lawsuit said.
The lawsuit argued that the hostility toward Laps was part of a broader trend of antisemitism and discrimination against Israelis on the campus. A May 2024 internal report found that such discrimination was widespread and charged the university with a “failure to respond to the rising wave of antisemitism.” The lawsuit said Laps was in contact with other Israelis on campus who reported similar treatment.
The lawsuit seeks damages, including unpaid wages, a declaration that the lab defamed Laps, and an injunction preventing Stanford from discriminating against Jews or Israelis, among other measures.
Laps was backed by The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law, a nonprofit that uses legal means to advance Jewish civil rights. The center and other Jewish groups have regularly filed lawsuits against universities and other entities for alleged discrimination.
Pro-Palestinian activists spray paint UW regents’ homes, accuse them of ‘genocide’
[CollegeFix] Pro-Palestinian activists vandalized the homes of at least four Universities of Wisconsin Board of Regents members Friday, accusing them of “genocide.”
At two of the homes, the vandals spray-painted messages reading “Regents are complicit in genocide” and “UW blood on your hands” on the driveways, Madison police Sgt. Matthew Baker said, according to the Wisconsin State Journal.
Baker also said the protesters splattered artificial blood on some of the properties and posted letters with a set of demands on the doors.
Further, they used air horns and left them on the properties. A neighbor to one of the regents was awoken at 3:40 a.m. by an air horn.
Ring camera footage from one home showed six people wearing all black arriving on bicycles. Police are analyzing the footage to determine where the protesters came from.
“They were probably masked and hiding their identities. But oftentimes we can trace that video back to a meetup location or a gas station, even where they would buy the spray paint or something,” Baker said.
And for the high school contingent: Jewish Teen Hid in Locked Classroom as Anti-Semitic Mob of Classmates Pounded on Door: Lawsuit
[FreeBeacon] Seattle Public Schools likely allowed footage of the incident to be deleted, plaintiff's lawyers say
Elite private DC-area school expels siblings after parents report antisemitic bullying — lawsuit
At Nysmith School for the Gifted, an hour from US capital, students allegedly called Jews ‘baby killers,’ said they deserve to die over Gaza, and cast Hitler as a ‘strong leader’, school told parents their kids needed to toughen up before kicking them out.
The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law and Dillon PLLC said Tuesday they had filed a complaint against the school, saying the decision violates the Virginia Human Rights Act.
Nation’s Largest Teachers’ Union Moves to Cut Ties with the ADL over Group’s Defense of Israel
[NationalReview] The National Education Association’s policymaking body voted this week to cut all ties with the Anti-Defamation League over the antisemitism watchdog’s defense of Israel.
The 7,000-member policymaking committee approved New Business Item 39, which says the nation’s largest labor union in the U.S. “will not use, endorse or publicize materials from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), such as its curricular materials or statistics.”
The committee explained its decision by saying, “Despite its reputation as a civil rights organization, the ADL is not the social justice educational partner it claims to be.”
The New Business Item must receive final approval from the NEA executive committee. If passed, the measure would end a nearly 40-year relationship between the ADL and U.S. schools that has involved curriculum, programming and teacher training.
“With antisemitism at record high levels, it is profoundly disturbing that a group of NEA activists would brazenly attempt to further isolate their Jewish colleagues and push a radical, antisemitic agenda on students,” an ADL spokesperson told National Review.
“We will not be cowed for supporting Israel, and we will not be deterred from our work reaching millions of students with educational programs every year,” the spokesperson added. “It is our understanding there’s an internal NEA process that deals with issues like this and it is far from a completed process. We will continue to call out this antisemitism and prioritize our Jewish students and educators.”
Union delegates who spoke on the Assembly floor “rejected the ADL’s abuse of the term ‘antisemitism’ to punish critics of Israel, and its use of hyperinflated statistics on hate crimes to gin up fears about Jewish safety and paint calls for Palestinian rights as ‘hate speech,’” according to Mondoweiss.
“These are educators who believe in antiracist and social justice unionism. They’re beginning to understand Palestine in that context. They’re intolerant of the justification of violence,” one NEA member said, according to the report.
'Quite Shocking to Us': Local Parents Fighting 'Cesspool' of Anti-Semitism in Philly Schools Say Josh Shapiro's Office Stopped Meeting With Them
[FreeBeacon] Philadelphia's public school system, according to documents provided to the Free Beacon, teaches identity politics and hosts radical pro-Hamas employees
The Philadelphia school district settled a federal discrimination case with the Department of Education last year after students allegedly taunted their Jewish classmates with Nazi salutes, swastika graffiti on doors, and threats to "kill the Jews."
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