Posts Tagged: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Israeli Flag Gets Pelted With Eggs at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
JNS.org - An Israeli flag draped over the apartment balcony of a University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Jewish student was pelted with 10 to 20 eggs...
Jewish Students at University of Illinois Decry Passage of Anti-Israel Divestment Resolution During High Holidays
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s student government on Wednesday night voted in favor of a pro-BDS resolution calling for divestment from a number of...
Student Government at University of Illinois-Urbana to Vote on BDS Resolution
JNS.org - The student government of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is scheduled to vote on a resolution on Wednesday that in part calls...
UIUC Jewish Leader Berates Student Government for Sign Equating Pro-Israel Activists With Nazis
A Jewish student leader at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign berated members of the university's student government on Wednesday after she was called a...
University of Illinois Student Government Set to Vote on ‘Divisive’ BDS Resolution
JNS.org - The student government at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) is scheduled to vote on a BDS resolution on Wednesday that calls...
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...
Jewish, Zionist Students at University of Illinois Step Up Amid Israel Delegtimization Campaign
“The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference.” This was the main lesson I took with me from my first time at the AIPAC...
After Anti-Israel Referendums, University Leaders Defend Academic Freedom, Reject BDS Campaign
The leaders of universities where anti-Israel referendums were considered this month recently spoke out in defense of academic freedom and against the boycott, divestment, and...
Anti-Israel Group SJP Slams ‘Powerful Zionist Lobby’ After University of Illinois Condemns Antisemitism
An anti-Israel group at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) is organizing a campaign to protest the school’s recent condemnation of “anti-Semitic attacks hidden...
University of Illinois Chancellor Slams ‘Antisemitic Attacks Hidden Under Anti-Zionist Rhetoric’
The chancellor of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) on Sunday condemned rising antisemitism at American universities, including “anti-Semitic attacks hidden under the guise...
Discredited Academic Demonizes Israel at Dublin’s Trinity College, Defends Tweet Celebrating 2014 Hamas Kidnapping of Teens
A controversial academic who celebrated the June 2014 Hamas kidnapping of three Israeli teens who were later found murdered defended his remarks on Monday while...
Israeli and American Researchers Develop New Hi-Tech Water Filtration Solution
JNS.org - A collaborative effort between researchers from Israel’s Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) has resulted in...
