Dion J. Pierre
ARTICLES BY: Dion J. Pierre
Jewish SUNY New Paltz Students Said Excluded From Sexual Assault Awareness Group Over Support for Israel
The State University of New York (SUNY) at New Paltz is addressing a report that Jewish students were kicked out of a sexual assault awareness...
US Lawmakers Call on Dept. of Education to End Delay of Campus Antisemitism Guidance
Thirty-nine members of the US Congress have urged the Department of Education to issue promised Title VI guidance to protect Jewish students from antisemitism on...
Alabama Jewish Groups Respond to ‘Inappropriate’ Display of Nazi Salute in Classroom
Footage of a Mountain Brook, Alabama, history teacher and his high school students pantomiming a Nazi-style salute in class has emerged, prompting a response from...
Campus Antisemitism Largely Felt In Person, Says Year-End Student Report
Last year's spike in antisemitic incidents on campus was mostly felt face-to-face, despite the online learning that continued at many universities during the pandemic, according...
Florida Police Charge Three Neo-Nazis for Assault on Jewish College Student
Police in Florida have charged three men for an antisemitic attack on a Jewish college student at a recent neo-Nazi rally in Orlando. The Orange County...
Biden Said to Continue Delay of New Title VI Protections for Jewish College Students
A delay of new guidance at the US Department of Education that would help protect Jewish college students from discrimination is set to continue through...
Duke University Student Government Adopts Leading Definition of Antisemitism
The Duke Student Government (DSG) has adopted the leading definition of antisemitism, a campus newspaper reported Thursday, months after the body drew national outrage when...
Brooklyn College Facing Federal Civil Rights Inquiry Over ‘Hostile Environment’ for Jewish Students
The US Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights (OCR) is formally investigating a complaint alleging antisemitic harassment of Jewish students at Brooklyn College, a...
Ex-UCLA Philosophy Lecturer Arrested for Antisemitic, Racist Threats of Mass Shooting
Police in Boulder, Colorado on Tuesday arrested a former University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) postdoctoral fellow for threatening to commit a mass shooting and issuing...
Faculty Group Urges Middle East Studies Association to Support Dialogue on ‘Discriminatory’ BDS Resolution
An academic group representing more than 800 faculty members urged the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) on Monday to foster open dialogue on a controversial...
NJ Snow Plow Operator Suspended After Intentionally Spraying Orthodox Jews With Snow
A New Jersey snowplow operator has been suspended for intentionally blasting two Orthodox Jews with snow as he drove past them on Saturday in Lakewood,...
Anti-Zionist Students at UChicago Urge Boycott of Classes on Israel, Israeli Fellows
An anti-Zionist student group at the University of Chicago implored students last week to boycott courses about Israel and Israeli academic fellows. "Don't take sh*tty Zionist...
Palestinian Authority Failed to Make Promised Changes to Antisemitic, Extremist Textbook Material: Study
The Palestinian Authority (PA) has failed to uphold promises made to purge its curriculum of antisemitic and violent themes, a report by an Israeli education...
‘This Isn’t Just History’: Seminar Gives K-12 Teachers Tools to Teach Lessons of the Holocaust
Ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Thursday, 23 middle school and high school teachers and museum staff took part in an intensive, virtual two-day...
