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1. 📰 Top Stories

North Carolina. Yesterday afternoon at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, approximately 150 people entered academic buildings and
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disrupted classes in a protest that saw violent, anti-Israel rhetoric spraypainted both on and inside school buildings, including the historic naval armory that houses UNC’s US Navy ROTC program. As if writing “Death to US” and “Death to UNC” wasn’t clear enough, the protesters also raised a Palestinian flag on the building. According to the
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university, protesters entered at least nine academic buildings shouting and disrupting classes. The UNC chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine claimed responsibility: “The student movement is protesting UNC's refusal to divest from the apartheid regime and genocidal campaign being inflicted against the Palestinians by the Zionist regime.” The reactions were swift:

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UNC Hillel: “What happened today is clearly an antisemitic attack on the Jewish community. It is also an affront to the entire UNC community and to our country.”

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ADL: “We call on UNC administrators to conduct a full investigation and condemn this behavior. Meaningful dialogue is what should be happening on our campuses. This is far from that. Every student has a right to walk about campus without fear and harassment.”

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UNC Chancellor Lee H. Roberts: “Free expression and peaceful protest are, of course, in line with Carolina’s best traditions. We cannot tolerate, however, vandalism of public property or disruption of classes. We’ll pursue every avenue possible to hold people accountable.”

(Source: Old Row | X/Twitter)

(Source: Old Row | X/Twitter)


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Minnesota. Three weeks ago, the University of Minnesota
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rejected efforts to boycott and divest from Israel. Unable to take no for an answer, anti-Israel protesters dominated the
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inauguration of Minnesota’s new president on Wednesday, chanting “Disclose, divest! We will not stop, we will not rest!” for several minutes before being escorted from the auditorium. Then, when newly-minted President Rebecca Cunningham exited the venue to make a public speech on Northrop Mall, she faced a crowd of more than 200 protesters shouting expletives and holding signs that read “divest MN from apartheid Israel.” This latest protest on the University’s Minneapolis campus saw protesters from UMN Divest, Students for Justice in Palestine and similar groups. Notably, while one protester asserted President Cunningham “doesn’t center the
voices of students and doesn’t intend to keep promises the University has made,” that same protester admitted Cunningham has met with these student groups at least six times since July 1.

(Credit: Spencer White: Minnesota Daily)


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Cal-Irvine. Orange County, California prosecutors
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announced on Wednesday that two University of California, Irvine professors and four students are among those charged for their involvement in a protest on campus in May, and up to 40 others may still face charges. One professor, for instance, was reportedly charged with failure to disperse at the scene of a riot, as well as “resisting a peace officer with the threat of violence.” “The right to peaceful assembly is a constitutional right and we encourage protestors to exercise their right to peaceful assembly on any issue,” said Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer, noting that criminal activity “will not be tolerated.” UC Irvine, which has a
history of BDS activism on campus, has yet to comment on the status of the professors or students involved. The university affirmed, “All members of the UCI community remain subject to laws, policies, and relevant codes of conduct.”


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Duke. The Duke University chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine chose to mark the 23rd anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks by designing and posting a
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graphic that shows flames erupting from the twin towers along with the text “for the past 11 months every day and night is september 11th [sic] in Gaza.” Perhaps this disregard for the victims of 9/11 isn’t surprising because, as ADL has
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noted, SJP has previously called for “armed struggle” and urged students to “undermine and eradicate America as we know it.”


DEEPER. Read ADL’s
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resource on Students for Justice in Palestine.

(Source: The Algemeiner)


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UConn. Administrators at the University of Connecticut said Thursday that they won’t meet with the UConnDivest student group after members of that group reportedly distributed “grotesque”
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flyers depicting UConn President Radenka Maric with red devil horns and as a horned boar surrounded by missiles and dollar signs. A university official then wrote to the student group, saying “Whatever the intent [...] Depicting a Jewish female administrator with ‘devil horns,’ as a pig, or using obscene and vulgar expressions, are not amusing caricatures — they are dark and troubling images deeply rooted in history that have been associated with hatred and violence for centuries, in addition to being openly misogynistic.” In that same letter, administrators admitted they “were prepared to schedule additional meetings” between the group and school
administrators, but having witnessed these “deeply disturbing” actions, administrators now view any discussions with UConnDivest as “untenable.” We
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applaud the UConn administration for swiftly calling out the flyers as offensive and reinforcing age-old antisemitic tropes.


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California. The Undergraduate Students Association Council
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passed a resolution on Tuesday calling for the University of California system to rescind its policy banning encampments across UC campuses. The
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resolution, which passed 10-1, accuses UC schools of “actively backing the zionist war machine.” The sole student representative to vote against this resolution said “Given what happened in the spring, I do have concerns in terms of student safety.” A spokesperson for the UC system reportedly declined to comment on this specific resolution but maintained that the new guidelines are meant to protect free speech while also ensuring campuses are safe and free from intimidation.


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Virginia. Leaders at the University of Virginia
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announced this week that the university won’t divest from companies connected to Israel, despite a successful student referendum last spring that condemned Israel and demanded the university divest. UVA officials reaffirmed their commitment to their current investment strategy. “We do not like using our investment strategy as a means of expressing a moral, political opinion,” said CEO of the UVA Investment Management Company, Robert Durden. Notably, Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares
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urged the Board of Visitors to reject the anti-Israel resolution earlier this year, writing that it’s “well-documented that the leaders and founders of the international BDS campaign believe in the destruction of Israel.”

2. 🏆 Campus Champions

Heartland Heart. Adrien Kaplan-Mazur, a senior at Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa, wrote an op-ed on Monday describing how he’s been
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“wonderfully blessed with a surprisingly Jew-ful college experience,” despite going to school in a small, rural community where “Jews were absolutely not in abundance.” To his surprise, Adrien found his “strongest sense of community” among the college’s small, informal Greek life where he found volunteer activities like repainting a nearby barn or raising money for breast cancer research resonated with the Jewish principle of “tikkun olam,” to repair the world. Adrien plans to wear his kippah proudly in his senior year, and he states that “It doesn’t matter that my fraternity isn’t one of Jewish history, because I am
Jewish, and I am making history within it.”


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Tik Tokked. Gil Troy, a Senior Fellow at the Jewish People Policy Institute in Jerusalem is a prolific writer and scholar whose latest book To Resist the Academic Intifada: Letters to My Students on Defending the Zionist Dream would be of particular interest to college students (and our dear readers). But, his two-minute explanation of the book was
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removed from TikTok after it was labeled as “misinformation.” Troy laments that this incident is a sign of the larger antisemitism problem facing Jews on campus and online: “American Jews face double-trouble these days. Jew-hatred has gone from the margins to the Big Tent. America’s Silenced Majority remains pro-Jewish and overwhelmingly pro-Israel. But dynamics on social media, and a polarized political culture that broadcasts extremists too loudly, has given the haters an outsized profile.”


3. 💪✡️ Am Yisrael Chai

Feeling Alive on the Dead Sea. Holocaust survivor Walter Bingham celebrated his 100th birthday last week by
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skydiving over the Dead Sea. After growing up in Germany in the 1930s and subsequently being sent to England before the outbreak of World War II, Bingham served with distinction in the British army. A highpoint of his service included interviewing Nazi foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop to determine his culpability in the Holocaust. Then, after a distinguished journalism and acting career, Bingham moved to Israel in 2004, where he has since hosted radio shows for Israel National News. Reflecting on the rise of antisemitism today, Bingham said “We are living today in times like the 1930s. I really believe that the only difference is that we have the state of Israel…which
is stronger than most people think.”

(Source: AIJAC)


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Tour de Denver. There may be nothing more Coloradan than combining the love of food — with biking. The third annual
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Jewish Deli Bike Tour spread joy, and a schmear, in Denver on Sunday as nearly 90 participants on all types of bikes rode from one deli to the next. Event creator Daniel Siegel, inspired by biking during the pandemic, teamed up with Avi Stopper of Bike Streets and Rabbi Caryn Aviv to lead the event. “Wouldn’t it be funny to map a route of all the local delis?” Siegel mused, and two years later, the tour was born. It is unclear how fast anyone can bike with a bellyful of pastrami.

(Credit: JCC Denver | Facebook)

4. 📣 Info and Action:
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Not on My Campus

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Students — how to take action, deal with antisemitism, and organize your community.
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Alumni — how to organize a sign-on letter, answer a fundraising request, or write a letter to a university president.
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Parents — write a letter about commencement, organize a dial day, or get help selecting a college for your student.
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Glossary of Commonly Used Antisemitic Phrases Heard at Protests.
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Campus Antisemitism Report Card — see the grade a college earned in this first-ever report card.
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Report an Antisemitic Incident.
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Are you a student or know one who needs legal help? Contact our
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Campus Antisemitism Legal Line (CALL), run by ADL, Hillel, the Brandeis Center, and Gibson Dunn. Hundreds of incidents have been reported. You are not alone!

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