Posts Tagged: Alums for Campus Fairness
Survey: Nearly All Jewish Students and Alumni Cite Campus Antisemitism as a ‘Problem,’ With Half Saying It’s ‘Getting Worse’
Virtually all Jewish university students and alumni now feel that antisemitism on college campuses is a problem, according to a survey released on Monday by...
How Jewish Students Can Explain Antisemitism to Non-Jews
JNS.org - Even as antisemitism is rising, its common understanding seems to be falling apart. As the Jewish community looks at how the demographics of...
Tenured Columbia Professor Proudly Supports Terrorism Against Israel
A tenured Columbia University professor endorsed terrorism in a speech given at the Palestine Center earlier this month. "The Oslo Accords inaugurated this process of liquidating...
Pro-Israel Groups Urge President of NYU to Act on Discriminatory Statement
JNS.org - With the academic year about to begin, Israel advocacy groups, including the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law (LDB), StandWithUs (SWU), and Alums for Campus Fairness (ACF),...
Alumni Group Knocks Columbia University for ‘Disappointing’ Response to Professor Who Blamed Israel for ‘Every Dirty Act in the World’
An alumni group has criticized Columbia University's response to concerns shared about a professor who has been accused of promoting a hostile environment for Jewish...
Coalition of Columbia Professors, Alumni, Students Urge University to Discipline ‘Antisemitic’ Professor Who Blasted ‘Fifth Column Zionists’
Nearly 250 alumni, students, faculty, and community members called on Columbia University on Tuesday to discipline a professor accused of making antisemitic comments. Hamid Dabashi, who teaches Iranian...
Pro-Israel UCLA Students to Meet With Administration After Anti-Zionist Peers ‘Violently’ Disturb Event
Pro-Israel students at the University of California, Los Angeles who called for the suspension of an anti-Zionist group that disrupted their event will meet with administrators on Wednesday. Students...
Columbia University Forces Organizers of Upcoming Event With Jewish State’s UN Ambassador to Slash Number of Pro-Israel Attendees
Organizers of an upcoming program at Columbia University featuring Israeli Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon have been forced to slash the number of non-university...
BDS and Radioactivity: Alumni Confront Anti-Israel Rhetoric on Campus
You may remember the story of Alexander Litvinenko, the ex-KGB officer who fled Russia for asylum in Great Britain. In 2006, while living in England,...
Faculty, Alumni Join Human Rights Organizations in Demanding Eradication of Anti-Zionist Indoctrination in U of California Classrooms
A mass appeal to the University of California (UC) system to stop the “growing and worrisome trend” of anti-Zionist faculty members using their classrooms as political platforms is...
Next Steps for Oberlin College
On September 22, 2016, more than 60 members of the Oberlin College community gathered for an important, and I believe unprecedented, event: an off-campus symposium...
Oberlin Student Senate Condemns Symposium Promoting Self-Respect and Civil Rights for Jews
You can't make this stuff up. Some alumni at Oberlin College are unhappy with the way things are going at their alma mater. Some students at...
Alumni: An Untapped Resource Against BDS No Longer
A group that I helped form, Alums for Campus Fairness (ACF), has begun organizing alumni nationwide to restore their respective alma maters to what they...
Vassar Alumnus Calls Defeat of BDS Resolution at College a ‘Watershed Moment’
The Thursday defeat of a Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement resolution at Vassar College is a major turning point at a school known for...
