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GW. BREAKING: In the early hours of this morning, District of Columbia police cleared an anti-Israel encampment on and around George Washington University. According to a police spokesperson
at least 30 people were arrested for a variety of offenses including “assault of a police office” and “unlawful entry.”
The Capitol. In a powerful speech
yesterday at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Days of Remembrance ceremony in the U.S. Capitol, President Biden made clear that antisemitism will not be tolerated: “There is no place on any campus in America — any place in America — for antisemitism or hate speech or threats of violence of any kind. Whether against Jews or anyone else. Violent attacks, destroying property is not peaceful protest. It’s against the law.”
Alongside this speech, the Department of Education issued new guidance around Title VI violations to help guide every U.S. school district and college on examples of antisemitic discrimination.
At the same event, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson criticized American universities for becoming “hostile places for Jewish students and faculty,” and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries affirmed
his commitment to ensuring that “never again unequivocally means never again.”
Join us in thanking these leaders for their strong statements and commitment to fighting antisemitism on campus — and around the country.
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Silent Majority. According to a survey of U.S college students conducted over the past three days, 81 percent support holding accountable protesters who destroy property, vandalize or occupy buildings. 90 percent said blocking pro-Israel students from parts of campus is unacceptable.
THE FLIP SIDE: 58 percent of students who participated in or favored protests against Israel said they would not consider being friends with someone who marched for Israel.
UChicago. Tuesday morning, police cleared the anti-Israel protest encampment from the University of Chicago’s quad. In a statement,
UChicago president Paul Alivisatos wrote: “The University remains a place where dissenting voices have many avenues to express themselves, but we cannot enable an environment where the expression of some dominates and disrupts the healthy functioning of the community for the rest.”
READ: Alivisatos’ op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, “Why I Ended the University of Chicago Encampment.”
TAKE ACTION: Thank President Alivisatos for enforcing the rules, and urge him to keep fighting antisemitism on campus.
RISD. Anti-Israel protesters affiliated with its SJP chapter occupied an administration building at Rhode Island School of Design yesterday. RISD administration is negotiating with the students and has relocated classes that were to be held in the building.
Buffalo. On Monday, University at Buffalo police arrested
a student for making a threatening social media post directed at an on-campus march organized by the Jewish student union. The student was charged with attempting to make a terrorist threat and attempting to make a threat of mass harm. Thank you, UB Police!
NYU. At New York University, an anti-Israel encampment activist recently
lauded the North Korean regime for training terrorists from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) in “resistance.” The PFLP is a US-designated terror group; North Korea is one of the most repressive regimes on the planet.
CSU. Demonstrations can be expected across the California State University system’s campuses today as CSUF Divestment Now announces a “day of action” via an Instagram post.
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