Aaron Bandler is an investigative journalist for the Jewish Journal. Originally from the Bay Area, his past work experience includes writing for The Daily Wire, The Daily Caller and Townhall. https://twitter.com/bandlersbanter https://www.facebook.com/bandlersbanter
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) released a report on January 12 finding that 20% of Americans believe at least six antisemitic tropes.
Several pro-Palestinian students at the University of Michigan chanted “intifada” in a video taken on January 12.
On August 29, 2022, the first day of class, Sheehi asked each student to share their identity and she validated each of them, until one Jewish student said they were Israeli.
A roundup of incidents, good and bad, happening on college campuses.
MESA’s website lauded Abdulhadi’s for “her deep commitment to Palestinian Studies, in relation to not only gender, sexuality, feminist, and queer studies, but also others.” The Canary Mission watchdog noted in a January 8 press release that Abdulhadi had attempted to hold a webinar featuring former Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) member Leila Khaled in 2020 on Zoom that was ultimately deplatformed.
Tlaib was quote-tweeting Jewish for Voice Peace (JVP), an organization that supports the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement. JVP’s tweet was accusing the newly installed Israeli government of “ethnic cleansing,” pointing to expulsion of residents from a Palestinian village.
The Algemeiner and Politico both reported on the delay of the regulation, but noted that OCR Assistant Secretary for Human Rights Catherine Lhamon wrote in a letter that “the rise in reports of anti-Semitic incidents, including at schools, underscores of addressing discrimination based on shared ancestry and characteristics.”
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