Posts Tagged: Amcha Initiative
Fordham University Facing Backlash for Rejecting SJP on Campus
The National Lawyers Guild (NLG) recently condemned Fordham University for banning the radical group Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) from campus. The NLG claims that Fordham's decision...
The Left Loses Its Logic on Israel
Support for Israel among Democrats has plummeted in recent years, a new Pew poll shows, with nearly as many Democrats -- 31 percent -- saying they sympathize more with the...
Campus Watchdogs: Student Protesters Taking Advantage of Anti-Trump Rage to Attack Israel
Campus watchdogs accused student activists on Wednesday of taking advantage of the rage being expressed against the newly instated Trump administration in Washington to further an...
Campus Watchdogs Laud Fordham University’s Decision to Ban Notoriously Anti-Israel Student Group
Watchdogs lauded the recent decision by a New York academic institution to prevent a notoriously anti-Israel group from organizing on its campus. AMCHA Initiative co-founder Tammi Rossman-Benjamin and others...
Campus Antisemitism: The Year in Review
This has been an extraordinarily eventful year in the campaign against campus antisemitism, especially from our perspective at the Louis D. Brandeis Center. On the...
Watchdog: Unclear if Spike in Antisemitic Incidents Across US Campuses Since Presidential Election is Coming From Left or Right
The motivating forces behind the major spike in antisemitic incidents at universities across the US since the November 8 presidential election remain unknown, the head of a...
‘Unprecedented’ Spate of Antisemitic Vandalism Across US Colleges in Wake of Presidential Election Leaves Jewish Students Feeling Vulnerable, Campus Groups Say
Jewish students are feeling particularly vulnerable in the aftermath of the US presidential election, the result of which has sparked an unprecedented number of antisemitic incidents at...
Jewish Students at U of New Mexico, Already ‘Intimidated’ Into Keeping Low Profile, ‘Anxious’ Over Appearance of Nazi-Style Anti-Trump Graffiti, Sources Say
Jewish students at the University of New Mexico (UNM) are feeling "anxious" about the appearance on campus of Nazi-themed graffiti denouncing US President-elect Donald Trump,...
U of Michigan Students Justify ‘Zionism Is Scary’ Halloween Bake Sale Following Outcry Over ‘Gross Bigotry’
Students at the University of Michigan-Dearborn told The Algemeiner on Tuesday that they were justified in holding a blatantly anti-Israel event, "because Zionism constitutes antisemitism.” The school's chapter of Students...
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...
Campus Groups on New UC Irvine Recommendations for Combating Antisemitism on Campus: ‘Proof Will Be in the Pudding’ of Implementation
While the University of California, Irvine is taking a series of “good first steps” towards combating antisemitism, the “proof will be in the pudding" of implementation,...
In Response to Brandeis Report on Campus Antisemitism, Major Groups Say Students More Willing, Prepared Than Ever to Fight Back
Jewish and pro-Israel students are more willing and better organized than ever to fight back against antisemitism on US campuses, the heads of major campus...
Head of UC Berkeley Jewish Student Union Says Antisemitic Incidents Not Treated as Seriously as Attacks on Other Minorities
Attacks against members of the Jewish community at the University of California, Berkeley are not treated with the same gravity as those against other minority groups, the head...
Posters Demonizing Jews Crop Up on UC Berkeley Campus, as Controversial Anti-Zionism Course Reinstated
Antisemitic posters have been appearing around the University of California, Berkeley campus ever since a course exploring how Israel might be destroyed was first suspended and then...
