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Rutgers president defends decision to negotiate with pro-Palestinian protesters

Published by NJ.com Rutgers University president Jonathan Holloway told the state school’s Board of Governors Monday that he remained confident in his handling of the peaceful end of the encampment of pro-Palestinian protesters on campus last week. The protesters disrupted 28 finals Thursday for about 1,000 students. After the university agreed to some of their

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Princeton Students Launch Hunger Strike Over Gaza

Published by HNGN More than a dozen students at Princeton University are participating in a hunger strike after the university refused to heed students’ requests for divestment from Israel. The students have said they will abstain from all food and drink, except for water, until the university agrees to boycott Israeli universities, disclose its investments

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Today’s Jewish Birthday: Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for evaluating and treating pathologies seen as originating from conflicts in the psyche, through dialogue between patient and psychoanalyst, and the distinctive theory of mind and human agency derived from it. [Wikipedia]

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University President’s Memoir Tells of Growing Up Jewish in Rural South

Most of Gitenstein’s memoir probes in depth her relationship with her parents, siblings, and grandparents and their relationships with each other.  The family saved the letters they wrote to each other and Gitenstein quoted from those letters frequently. [Donald H. Harrison

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Michigan Students Shout Back At Pro-Palestinian Protesters During University Commencement

Published by Tampa Free Press Students at the University of Michigan’s commencement ceremony on Saturday attempted to shout down pro-Palestinian protesters who had disrupted proceedings. Around 75 students at the University of Michigan’s graduation ceremony protesting Israel’s actions in response to Hamas terrorist attacks walked up to the main aisle and began chanting, with many

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San Diego Jewish Community Statement on Campus Turbulence

The presence of pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel protests, including a significant walkout at SDSU and an unsettling encampment at UCSD, has created an atmosphere of intimidation and misinformation that deeply concerns us all. [Heidi Gantwerk]

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Pro-Hamas Billionaires Funding the Pro-Gaza Campus Rioters

Published by The Western Journal Investigative journalists have uncovered a connection between pro-Hamas billionaires and the pro-Gaza riots taking place across U.S. college campuses. According to the Washington Times, a forthcoming analysis by the Capital Research Center, which describes itself as “America’s investigative think tank,” found that “the vast majority” of groups behind ongoing protests

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ADL Report on Campus Protests: May 3, 2024

Editor’s Note: The following roundup was prepared by the ADL (Anti-Defamation League) about campus protests and related events. TOP STORIES UMass. Yesterday, ADL and the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law announced that they submitted a formal complaint against the University of Massachusetts Amherst with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR)

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GOP Leaders in Legislature: Strip Funding from Universities that Won’t Protect Students

Republican Assembly Leader and Republican Senate Leader Brian Jones at news conference in Sacramento. (Photo courtesy of Brian Jones)

The proposal by Senate Minority Leader Brian Jones of San Diego and Assembly Republican Leader James Gallagher of Yuba City came in response to pro-Palestine protests at UC San Diego, UC Irvine, UCLA and other institutions. [Chris Jennewein, Times of San Diego]

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OpEd: UC San Diego’s Anti-Semitism Problem

We can garner meaningful insight into UCSD’s policies from its sister campus, UCLA. On April 30th, a Jewish woman was beaten unconscious at UCLA’s “pro-Palestine” encampment, while campus police stood by. In fact, in a now-viral recording, the UCLA Police Department admitted that its officers were instructed by the UCLA Administration to “stand down” while Jewish students were being assaulted and blocked from accessing parts of campus. [Kerry Schlossberg]

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600 More Children Who Died in the Holocaust are Memorialized

Overseeing the event was principal Judi Stapleton and eighth-grade history and social science teacher Stacy Salz who traced her ancestors to the Holocaust and said the project was a “compelling lesson in history.” [Marsha Sutton]

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Israel president: US campuses ‘contaminated by hatred, anti-Semitism’

Published by DPA International Israeli President Isaac Herzog has issued a message of support to Jewish communities around the world in response to a “dramatic resurgence in anti-Semitism” and the “intimidation” of Jewish students on some protest-hit US university campuses. Herzog focused on the unrest, fuelled by the war in Gaza, that has rocked universities

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