Campus Watch June 8, 2023
A roundup of incidents, good and bad, happening on college campuses.
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A roundup of incidents, good and bad, happening on college campuses.
Two Los Angeles lawyers who recently formed a new firm have resigned from said firm after a series of offensive emails were exposed, including emails containing antisemitic content.
Two legal groups sent a joint letter to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) urging the agency to investigate and potentially revoke the City University of New York’s (CUNY) School of Law’s tax-exempt status over the law school’s faculty unanimously passing a resolution supporting the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement last year.
A mural that honors the Jewish community was unveiled on the afternoon of June 4 in the Pico-Robertson neighborhood, a couple of blocks away from where the February shootings occurred.
Lipstadt called the plan “something that transcends politics.”
A roundup of incidents, good and bad, happening on college campuses.
The House of Representatives unanimously passed a resolution 429-0 on May 31 that both condemned antisemitism and urged elected officials to inform the public about the contributions Jewish Americans have made to society.
The speech, delivered by Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) activist Fatima Mohammed, featured her applauding CUNY Law’s faculty and students for endorsing the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement.
Video footage circulating on social media also showed protesters in the audience unfurling an Israeli flag and chanting, “Am Yisrael Chai!”
The concert featured Waters entering the stage donning the SS-like uniform with red armbands marked with crossed hammers instead of swastikas.