Posts Tagged: UIUC
After Controversies, University of Illinois Housing Staff Receive Antisemitism Training
Some 1,000 staff and paraprofessionals at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign are receiving antisemitism training, following several recent campus controversies. The Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan...
In Mass Email, University of Illinois Student Gov’t Leader Rejects Conflation of ‘Antisemitism and Anti-Zionism’
The student body president at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) invoked a controversial antisemitism resolution that has been rejected by the campus Jewish...
Anti-Israel Professor Announces He’s Leaving Academia, Blames ‘Zionists’ for Inability to Find Job
A professor who gained attention in 2014 for a series of controversial tweets about Jews and Israel has announced that he is leaving academia, and blamed Zionists...
Amid Temple Mount Tensions, Anti-Israel Student Groups in US Celebrate Palestinian Violence Against Jewish State
Anti-Zionist student groups are taking to social media to celebrate Palestinian violence against Israel as tensions in the Middle East have continued to escalate following the recent...
Academic Association to Vote on Removing Censure of University of Illinois Over Expulsion of Professor for Vehement Anti-Israel Tweets
A committee of a leading US academic freedom organization has recommended its members vote to lift a two-year censure of the University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign...
Groups Involved in BDS Campaign on Illinois Campus Use Israeli Tech for Their Websites
Student groups co-sponsoring a new Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel at an Illinois university used Israeli software to build their websites, The Algemeiner has...
Student Group at Illinois U Vows to ‘Expose True Hateful Nature’ of BDS, in Response to Launch of Anti-Israel Divestment Campaign on Campus
One of the heads of a pro-Israel student group told The Algemeiner about a new initiative to "expose the true hateful nature" of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions...
For Jewish Students, Life at College is Better Than You Think
I have lost track of the number of times that I have been asked to address the “Israel issue” at my campus, the University of Illinois at...
