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📰 Top Stories

Stanford. Antisemitic and anti-Israel vandals covered their political bases at Stanford University last week, with
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graffiti from both left-wing and right-wing agitators defacing the school. First came the left, with markings on the school’s Memorial Church saying ‘free the Stanford 11,” a swastika and more in support of the students who broke into the university president’s office last fall during an anti-Israel protest and caused hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage. Then, to balance the idiocy, the right wingers added graffiti claiming “Nick Fuentes was right about Israel.” You can read
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more from ADL experts about Fuentes, an avowed white supremacist Holocaust denier.

(Image Source: Stanford Review)

TAKE ACTION: Has someone in your family experienced antisemitism?
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ADL Legal Action Network is designed to provide victims of antisemitism and extremism with access to legal services.

More from Stanford (this time, the good news): A
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pilot Israel studies program at the school has become permanent. It will offer courses, research and public programs. The program director Amichai Magen is gratified that the program will have an ongoing impact for Stanford students who face efforts to dehumanize Israel: “The best antidote for dehumanization is humanization, just as the best antidote to ignorance is well-grounded knowledge.”


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Pennsylvania. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has sued the University of Pennsylvania for
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refusing to hand over names and contact info of Jewish employees and students, as part of its campus antisemitism investigation. In response, hundreds of Penn faculty, staff and students signed a petition condemning the list request as “alarming” and “terrifying,” with one professor drawing comparisons to Nazi-era registries. Penn Hillel and MEOR, while supporting the antisemitism probe,
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warned the EEOC’s move “carries echoes of the very patterns that made Jewish communities vulnerable for centuries.” ADL Philadelphia, along with AJC Philadelphia/Southern NJ and the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia,
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issued a joint statement about producing such a list, writing “history has taught us to be vigilant when governments compile lists of people based on religious identity.”


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Harvard. Anti-Zionist activists at Harvard – egged on by the Harvard Crimson’s 2022
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editorial endorsing a boycott of Israel - are insisting students “favor divestment” from Israel based on a survey the Palestine Solidarity Committee (PSC) slipped onto an unrelated ballot. But the numbers tell a different story: only eight percent of undergrads actually said “yes,” while over 80 percent either skipped the divestment question, declined to answer or selected a neutral option — hardly evidence of a campuswide consensus. Still, PSC declared a victory and promoted the flimsy numbers as a campuswide mandate. Harvard, for its part, reiterated that academic boycotts have no place at the university.


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New York. The graduate student union at Cornell, Cornell Graduate Students United – United Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers of America Local (CGSU-UE), is currently voting on a BDS referendum so extreme it would make
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some actual BDS organizers blush. The proposal declares support for Palestinians “resisting a genocide… by any means necessary,” accuses Cornell of “supporting genocide in Gaza” through research partnerships and calls for internal boycotts, divestment from Israeli-linked entities and “political education” on how the “Palestinian liberation struggle” connects to grad students’ work conditions. The referendum even blames “anti-labor interests” for “weaponizing false allegations of antisemitism.” The vote runs through Tuesday, but the absurdity is well under way.

DEEPER. Getting ready to consider colleges? One helpful resource is
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ADL’s Campus Antisemitism Report Card, which assesses how 135 schools, including Cornell, are addressing antisemitism.


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Guelph (Canada). For the second time in November, students at the University of Guelph were
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targeted with a swastika. This time, the hate symbol was found on the door of a dorm room; earlier this month, a student leader of a pro-Israel student group found a swastika traced in the snow on his car. A university spokesperson offered support to the student, calling the vandalism “a malicious act that violates the safety and respect every member of our residence community expects and deserves.” You have to appreciate the blunt reply by Guelph Mayor Cam Guthrie against the cowardly incident: “Our city stands against hate in all forms. If you don’t like that we stand for these things, then get lost.”


🎒 K-12

Washington D.C. The House Education and Workforce Committee has
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launched an investigation into antisemitism in K-12 schools, opening inquiries into Berkeley Unified School District, Fairfax County Public Schools, and the School District of Philadelphia. The
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committee cited reports of Jewish students being harassed, targeted during school-day walkouts and exposed to antisemitic imagery and classroom materials. Letters sent to the districts detail allegations ranging from students allegedly chanting ‘Kill the Jews’ to educators promoting extremist content or failing to address ongoing incidents. The committee is now demanding documentation and further explanations. ADL
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welcomed the move, with CEO Jonathan Greenblatt calling it an “important step” toward holding institutions accountable.

DEEPER: Are you an educator or parent who wants to get involved or needs support in creating more inclusive school communities? Learn more about
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ADL’s BEACON network and
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School Action Network.

🏆 Campus Champions

Scholarships Changing Lives. JBI Library has
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announced its largest-ever round of Wolfson Merit Awards, awarding more than $180,000 to 18 legally blind Jewish students studying across the United States and Israel. This record-setting cohort includes students enrolled at UC Berkeley, the University of Virginia, the University of Haifa and a number of others. Created by the late Nathan L. Wolfson and his wife, Suzanne, the awards were designed to remove barriers and open doors for blind and low-vision Jewish students pursuing higher education.


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‘Doughing’ Good For Others. Hundreds of students from universities in Pittsburgh have come to the Hillel JUC for
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‘Challah for Change,’ where they bake challahs and sell them to support a local food pantry and other worthy causes. The students, who feel a knead to give back, praise the event both as a way to do good and to do something social in their community. We support these students as they rise to the occasion, though we do lift an eyebrow at the challah flavors, which included plain, dill pickle and caramel apple during the most recent event.

Hillel Students Across Pittsburgh (Image Source: cfc_pitt | Instagram)


📣 Info and Action

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Campus Community Advocacy Toolkit — From incident reporting and educational resources to letter-writing campaigns and Know Your Rights factsheets, ADL has clear steps for you to take action and effect change on college campuses.
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University Administration — Guidance and best practices for making campuses safer and more inclusive.
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Campus Antisemitism Report Card — See the grades of 135 universities, the current state of antisemitism on campus and how colleges and universities are responding.
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General Campus Resources — ADL Backgrounders, Educational Programming, Research and Analysis and more.
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ADL Legal Action Network — Anyone over 18 can report incidents of antisemitism to ADL for our network of law firms nationwide.
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K-12 Advocacy Resources — Tools and knowledge to foster and advocate for a safe, inclusive and equitable school environment for all.
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K-12 Advocacy Resources for Independent Schools — Additional resources for members of independent K-12 school communities.
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Report an Antisemitic Incident.

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