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| Date | October 10, 2024 3:26 PM |
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1. 📰 Top Stories
UC Berkeley. Over 1,000 protesters
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demonstrated at University of California, Berkeley’s Sproul Plaza on Tuesday, holding signs like “Faculty and Staff for a Free Palestine” and distributing flyers that read “Long Live Al-Aqsa Flood.” According to local reporting, “Soon after the demonstration got underway, four pro-Israel demonstrators with Israeli flags walked across the steps of Sproul Hall and were swarmed and jostled by a dozen booing anti-war protesters and told they did not belong at the event.” And a long banner was hung from the Campanile tower that said, “Glory to the Resistance” and was decorated with a Hamas red triangle. As our friends at the JCRC of the Bay
Area
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put it: “It was never about wanting peace.”
(Source: JCRCBayArea | X/Twitter)
DEEPER: The ADL Center on Extremism was monitoring the depraved demonstrations on October 7, and put together this
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new report detailing the intimidation, harassment and violent rhetoric on campus.
ANOTHER TAKE: On nearly every campus, including
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Princeton University,
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University of Oregon and
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University of California at Berkeley, there were heartfelt, moving remembrances for those massacred on 10/7 and those still held hostage in Gaza.
~~~~~
Brown. On Wednesday, Brown University
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announced that its governing body, the Corporation of Brown University, voted against a proposal to divest from 10 companies associated with Israel. This decision follows months of pressure from the Brown Divest Coalition, which had advocated for divestment after last spring’s anti-Israel protests on campus. In a statement, Brown administrators highlighted the Corporation’s “clear position opposing divestment” and reiterated that “Brown has no direct investments in any of the companies targeted for divestment,” meaning a vote to divest would be a purely “symbolic political statement.” This vote came as a result of an April agreement with
anti-Israel protesters who agreed to end an encampment on the College Green in exchange for administrators considering a divestment proposal. In a
[link removed]
statement, ADL welcomed the vote, stressing that “BDS-aligned investment strategies are not only morally misguided, but also economically unsound.”
DEEPER: Read ADL affiliate JLens’
[link removed]
analysis that showed that the top 100 university endowments would lose $33 billion over a decade if they divested from Israel.
~~~~~
Columbia. Last semester, Columbia University student
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Khymani James made news when a video of him saying that “Zionists don’t deserve to live” and “Be grateful that I’m not just going out and murdering Zionists” came to light. James was barred from campus, and he issued an apology: “What I said was wrong,” he wrote. “Every member of our community deserves to feel safe without qualification.” On Tuesday, the message was: never mind. Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD) — which includes the suspended chapters of SJP and JVP —
[link removed]
retracted an earlier apology they had posted on James’ behalf, saying that the earlier apology “does not represent Khymani or CUAD’s values or political lines” and reiterating that “We support liberation by any means necessary, including armed resistance.” James thanked the group for the statement, writing on Twitter: “I never wrote the neo-liberal apology posted in late April, and I’m glad we’ve set the record straight.” If that was not enough at the Gotham Ivy, later that night, videos on social media appeared to show Columbia students storming the city
[link removed]
subway and shouting “Oink Oink Piggy Piggy we will make your lives shitty!"
(Source: Oliya Scootercaster | X/Twitter)
~~~~~
Rutgers. Videos posted on social media showed hundreds of anti-Israel protesters
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marching through the campus of Rutgers University on Tuesday night, chanting “there is only one solution, intifada revolution.” Screenshots indicate the march was
[link removed]
promoted by a local chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine, even though the Rutgers SJP was
[link removed]
suspended through 2025. On Monday, that group posted a
[link removed]
statement reading “Liberation will only be met when all traces of Zionism are extinct.” It’s stunning that this violent rhetoric is tolerated on any campus, much less at New Jersey’s flagship university.
(Source: Joey585 | X/Twitter)
~~~~~
UNC. At the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill yesterday, members of the SJP chapter made it very clear what they mean by BDS. On Twitter, the speaker explains that this means no more citing Israeli academics, “no more conferences in ‘occupied Palestine’,” “no more study abroad in Israel” and “no more Hillel.” You don’t need a PhD to see how blatantly antisemitic this is, but in our item below, we have a PhD who explains that very clearly in case anyone is confused.
2. 🏆 Campus Champions
Mayim Bialik. While Mayim Bialik is known as an actress and podcaster, she spent a lot of time on campus getting her PhD in neuroscience at UCLA. In a new
[link removed]
essay in the Atlantic, Bialik explains how important Hillel has been for her in her life and in her Jewish journey, and her dismay at the growing attacks against Hillel on campuses across the country. “It is, to put it plainly, undemocratic to support the tactics of drowning out and protesting Israeli or Jewish speakers simply because they are Jewish. It needs to be called out for what it is: anti-Semitism. It is anti-Semitic to seek to deny Jewish students the ability to access the most important organization for Jewish life on campus. We cannot allow this to be normalized,” she writes.
~~~~~
Awakening Change. Students at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina held one of the most satiating events to mark 10/7. “Spread Cream Cheese and Hummus, Not Hate” was sponsored by the Hillel and Muslim Students Association. According to the school
[link removed]
newspaper, “Members of both organizations sat together in a show of unity and welcomed conversations about antisemitism and Islamophobia.” As MSA Vice President Mai Soliman said: “No real progress is going to be made if both sides are just yelling at each other. We’re here to grow as people, and we need to see both sides of the story with any topic, so by doing events like this, we’re trying to spread unity.”
3. 💪✡️ Am Yisrael Chai
Remembering in the Park. Before a crowd of 2,000, Israel’s top artists
[link removed]
performed in HaYarkon Park in Tel Aviv on Monday night at the Bereaved Families Oct. 7 Memorial Ceremony. The two-hour ceremony, emceed by entertainers Hanoch Daum and Rotem Sela, included live and recorded accounts from bereaved family members. The evening culminated with legendary Israeli singer Shlomo Artzi performing a song with Yagil Yaakov, a 13-year-old 10/7 survivor and released hostage, and then the singing of the Israeli national anthem, “Hatikva,” The Hope.
~~~~~
Next Generation of Heroes. “If I don’t tell them what I know about the war, they will get their information from broken sources, from the internet, from friends or from their imagination,” said
[link removed]
Hadassah Ben-Ari. So she wrote a children’s book of heroic stories around the tragedy of October 7. The new book, The Heroes of October 7, features stories about military and civilian heroes like “Rachel’s Cookies,” which describes how Rachel Ederi stalled terrorists in her home by giving them cookies, and “The Officer Who Touched The Sky,” which describes how Sahar Saudien lost his life reloading an Iron Dome battery. Proceeds from the book will go to Brothers for Life, a group working to rehabilitate injured IDF soldiers. Writing in the introduction, Ben-Ari said it was focused on values of “friendship, camaraderie, giving, love and the warm
Israeli-ness which all came vibrantly to life during the war.”
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.
-
[link removed]
Alumni — how to organize a sign-on letter, answer a fundraising request, or write a letter to a university president.
-
[link removed]
Parents — write a letter about commencement, organize a dial day, or get help selecting a college for your student.
-
[link removed]
Glossary of Commonly Used Antisemitic Phrases Heard at Protests.
-
[link removed]
Campus Antisemitism Report Card — see the grade a college earned in this first-ever report card.
-
[link removed]
Report an Antisemitic Incident.
-
Are you a student or know one who needs legal help? Contact our
[link removed]
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!
Do you have something to share with us? Please email us at
mailto:[email protected]
[email protected] with any suggestions, questions, photos or videos.
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1. 📰 Top Stories
UC Berkeley. Over 1,000 protesters
[link removed]
demonstrated at University of California, Berkeley’s Sproul Plaza on Tuesday, holding signs like “Faculty and Staff for a Free Palestine” and distributing flyers that read “Long Live Al-Aqsa Flood.” According to local reporting, “Soon after the demonstration got underway, four pro-Israel demonstrators with Israeli flags walked across the steps of Sproul Hall and were swarmed and jostled by a dozen booing anti-war protesters and told they did not belong at the event.” And a long banner was hung from the Campanile tower that said, “Glory to the Resistance” and was decorated with a Hamas red triangle. As our friends at the JCRC of the Bay
Area
[link removed]
put it: “It was never about wanting peace.”
(Source: JCRCBayArea | X/Twitter)
DEEPER: The ADL Center on Extremism was monitoring the depraved demonstrations on October 7, and put together this
[link removed]
new report detailing the intimidation, harassment and violent rhetoric on campus.
ANOTHER TAKE: On nearly every campus, including
[link removed]
Princeton University,
[link removed]
University of Oregon and
[link removed]
University of California at Berkeley, there were heartfelt, moving remembrances for those massacred on 10/7 and those still held hostage in Gaza.
~~~~~
Brown. On Wednesday, Brown University
[link removed]
announced that its governing body, the Corporation of Brown University, voted against a proposal to divest from 10 companies associated with Israel. This decision follows months of pressure from the Brown Divest Coalition, which had advocated for divestment after last spring’s anti-Israel protests on campus. In a statement, Brown administrators highlighted the Corporation’s “clear position opposing divestment” and reiterated that “Brown has no direct investments in any of the companies targeted for divestment,” meaning a vote to divest would be a purely “symbolic political statement.” This vote came as a result of an April agreement with
anti-Israel protesters who agreed to end an encampment on the College Green in exchange for administrators considering a divestment proposal. In a
[link removed]
statement, ADL welcomed the vote, stressing that “BDS-aligned investment strategies are not only morally misguided, but also economically unsound.”
DEEPER: Read ADL affiliate JLens’
[link removed]
analysis that showed that the top 100 university endowments would lose $33 billion over a decade if they divested from Israel.
~~~~~
Columbia. Last semester, Columbia University student
[link removed]
Khymani James made news when a video of him saying that “Zionists don’t deserve to live” and “Be grateful that I’m not just going out and murdering Zionists” came to light. James was barred from campus, and he issued an apology: “What I said was wrong,” he wrote. “Every member of our community deserves to feel safe without qualification.” On Tuesday, the message was: never mind. Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD) — which includes the suspended chapters of SJP and JVP —
[link removed]
retracted an earlier apology they had posted on James’ behalf, saying that the earlier apology “does not represent Khymani or CUAD’s values or political lines” and reiterating that “We support liberation by any means necessary, including armed resistance.” James thanked the group for the statement, writing on Twitter: “I never wrote the neo-liberal apology posted in late April, and I’m glad we’ve set the record straight.” If that was not enough at the Gotham Ivy, later that night, videos on social media appeared to show Columbia students storming the city
[link removed]
subway and shouting “Oink Oink Piggy Piggy we will make your lives shitty!"
(Source: Oliya Scootercaster | X/Twitter)
~~~~~
Rutgers. Videos posted on social media showed hundreds of anti-Israel protesters
[link removed]
marching through the campus of Rutgers University on Tuesday night, chanting “there is only one solution, intifada revolution.” Screenshots indicate the march was
[link removed]
promoted by a local chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine, even though the Rutgers SJP was
[link removed]
suspended through 2025. On Monday, that group posted a
[link removed]
statement reading “Liberation will only be met when all traces of Zionism are extinct.” It’s stunning that this violent rhetoric is tolerated on any campus, much less at New Jersey’s flagship university.
(Source: Joey585 | X/Twitter)
~~~~~
UNC. At the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill yesterday, members of the SJP chapter made it very clear what they mean by BDS. On Twitter, the speaker explains that this means no more citing Israeli academics, “no more conferences in ‘occupied Palestine’,” “no more study abroad in Israel” and “no more Hillel.” You don’t need a PhD to see how blatantly antisemitic this is, but in our item below, we have a PhD who explains that very clearly in case anyone is confused.
2. 🏆 Campus Champions
Mayim Bialik. While Mayim Bialik is known as an actress and podcaster, she spent a lot of time on campus getting her PhD in neuroscience at UCLA. In a new
[link removed]
essay in the Atlantic, Bialik explains how important Hillel has been for her in her life and in her Jewish journey, and her dismay at the growing attacks against Hillel on campuses across the country. “It is, to put it plainly, undemocratic to support the tactics of drowning out and protesting Israeli or Jewish speakers simply because they are Jewish. It needs to be called out for what it is: anti-Semitism. It is anti-Semitic to seek to deny Jewish students the ability to access the most important organization for Jewish life on campus. We cannot allow this to be normalized,” she writes.
~~~~~
Awakening Change. Students at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina held one of the most satiating events to mark 10/7. “Spread Cream Cheese and Hummus, Not Hate” was sponsored by the Hillel and Muslim Students Association. According to the school
[link removed]
newspaper, “Members of both organizations sat together in a show of unity and welcomed conversations about antisemitism and Islamophobia.” As MSA Vice President Mai Soliman said: “No real progress is going to be made if both sides are just yelling at each other. We’re here to grow as people, and we need to see both sides of the story with any topic, so by doing events like this, we’re trying to spread unity.”
3. 💪✡️ Am Yisrael Chai
Remembering in the Park. Before a crowd of 2,000, Israel’s top artists
[link removed]
performed in HaYarkon Park in Tel Aviv on Monday night at the Bereaved Families Oct. 7 Memorial Ceremony. The two-hour ceremony, emceed by entertainers Hanoch Daum and Rotem Sela, included live and recorded accounts from bereaved family members. The evening culminated with legendary Israeli singer Shlomo Artzi performing a song with Yagil Yaakov, a 13-year-old 10/7 survivor and released hostage, and then the singing of the Israeli national anthem, “Hatikva,” The Hope.
~~~~~
Next Generation of Heroes. “If I don’t tell them what I know about the war, they will get their information from broken sources, from the internet, from friends or from their imagination,” said
[link removed]
Hadassah Ben-Ari. So she wrote a children’s book of heroic stories around the tragedy of October 7. The new book, The Heroes of October 7, features stories about military and civilian heroes like “Rachel’s Cookies,” which describes how Rachel Ederi stalled terrorists in her home by giving them cookies, and “The Officer Who Touched The Sky,” which describes how Sahar Saudien lost his life reloading an Iron Dome battery. Proceeds from the book will go to Brothers for Life, a group working to rehabilitate injured IDF soldiers. Writing in the introduction, Ben-Ari said it was focused on values of “friendship, camaraderie, giving, love and the warm
Israeli-ness which all came vibrantly to life during the war.”
4. 📣 Info and Action:
[link removed]
Not on My Campus
-
[link removed]
Students — how to take action, deal with antisemitism, and organize your community.
-
[link removed]
Alumni — how to organize a sign-on letter, answer a fundraising request, or write a letter to a university president.
-
[link removed]
Parents — write a letter about commencement, organize a dial day, or get help selecting a college for your student.
-
[link removed]
Glossary of Commonly Used Antisemitic Phrases Heard at Protests.
-
[link removed]
Campus Antisemitism Report Card — see the grade a college earned in this first-ever report card.
-
[link removed]
Report an Antisemitic Incident.
-
Are you a student or know one who needs legal help? Contact our
[link removed]
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!
Do you have something to share with us? Please email us at
mailto:[email protected]
[email protected] with any suggestions, questions, photos or videos.
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Support Our Work
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