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Columbia U Under Federal Scrutiny for Messages Downplaying Antisemitism, as House Education Committee Demands Answers

By: Fern Sidman The House Education and the Workforce Committee has opened a fresh and intensifying line of inquiry into Columbia University, citing newly revealed internal communications that appear to downplay, and even delegitimize, concerns over antisemitism on campus. As The New York Post reported on Tuesday, Republican lawmakers are zeroing in on a series […]

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Orthodox Rabbis Slam Progressive Jewish Groups for Siding With Universities Over Antisemitism Fight

(TJV NEWS) The Coalition for Jewish Values (CJV), which represents over 2,500 Orthodox rabbis, has sharply criticized the leaders of Reform, Conservative, and Reconstructionist Jewish denominations for backing a statement that opposed President Trump’s crackdown on campus antisemitism. READ STATEMENT HERE The controversy centers on a recent declaration from the Jewish Council for Public Affairs […]

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Lawyers for Columbia U’s Mahmoud Khalil Demand Rubio Testify in Explosive Deportation Case

Lawyers for Columbia U’s Mahmoud Khalil Demand Rubio Testify in Explosive Deportation Case Edited by: Fern Sidman As antisemitism rises across the United States — often masked as political activism — the federal government’s case against Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian-born Columbia University graduate and organizer of last year’s radical anti-Israel campus protests, marks a decisive […]

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At Hamas’s Encouragement, Students for Justice in Palestine Sponsors March Commemorating Iran-Established ‘Al Quds Day’

Adam Kredo(Free Beacon) Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), the pro-Hamas campus group, is sponsoring a mass protest in New York City to honor Iran’s International Quds Day—the sort of demonstration that Hamas itself encouraged its international supporters to organize in opposition to Israel. SJP’s national affiliate and a host of other prominent anti-Israel groups—including […]

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‘There is no mask ban,’ Columbia student tells JNS

( JNS) During a virtual meeting with faculty over the weekend, Katrina Armstrong, the interim president of Columbia University, downplayed the school’s commitment to the Trump administration that it would address Jew-hatred on campus, The Washington Free Beacon reported. Armstrong told some 75 professors assembled on a Saturday morning Zoom call that the Ivy League […]

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Trump Education Secretary Linda McMahon: Columbia University Must ‘Comply’ to Regain $400M in Canceled Funding

Katherine Hamilton (Breitbart) Columbia University must “abide and comply” with its public agreement to crack down on anti-Israel protests if the Ivy League school hopes to regain $400 million in canceled funding, Education Secretary Linda McMahon said on Tuesday. When asked by a reporter, “What happens if it emerges that Columbia is not meeting the […]

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Chuck Schumer’s moral cowardice has enabled antisemitism

By Jonathan S. Tobin (JNS) Alan Dershowitz may have written a book titled Chutzpah, but if anyone’s picture deserves to be in the dictionary alongside that idiomatic Yiddish word, it’s that of Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.). There is fierce competition for such a dubious honor among politicians. But when it comes to the most shameless […]

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Trump Administration Cuts $400 Million in Federal Grants to Columbia University Over Anti-Semitism Concerns

Edited by: Fern Sidman The Trump administration announced on Friday that it had revoked $400 million in federal grants and contracts to Columbia University, citing the institution’s failure to protect Jewish students from harassment, The New York Times reported. The decision represents a significant escalation in the administration’s scrutiny of the university, which has been […]

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