Dion J. Pierre
ARTICLES BY: Dion J. Pierre
US House Committee Passes Bills to Combat Campus Antisemitism
The US House Committee on Education and the Workforce on Thursday voted to pass four bills to combat antisemitism both in K-12 school and on...
US Supreme Court Asked to Hear Major Civil Rights Case Over Antisemitism at MIT
A California-based Jewish advocacy organization has asked the US Supreme Court to hear a federal lawsuit which accused the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) of...
Fundraiser Nears $25K for Cornell Student ‘Not Interested in Working for a Jew’
Far-right extremists have raised nearly $25,000 in a crowdfunding campaign for a Cornell University student who told a potential employer that he has "no interest...
United Auto Workers Union Votes to Divest From Israel Bonds
The United Auto Workers (UAW) labor union on Thursday voted at a quadrennial convention in Detroit, Michigan to divest fully from Israel bonds, a seismic...
ADL Files Civil Rights Complaint Against Colorado School District Alleging Antisemitic Abuse
The Anti-Defamation League on Tuesday filed a federal civil rights complaint against the Boulder Valley School District (BVSD) in Boulder, Colorado, reporting to the US...
Students for Justice in Palestine Leads Walkout During Stanford Graduation to Protest Google Ties to Israel
Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) activists staged a disruption of Stanford University's undergraduate commencement ceremony on Sunday, leading some 200 students out of the...
Smith College Rejects Israel Divestment Proposal by Students for Justice in Palestine
Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts has rejected an anti-Israel divestment proposal which Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) inveigled school administrators into voting on in...
New York City Pension Funds Would Lose Billions if Mamdani Boycotts Israel, Report Finds
New York City's public pension funds would lose billions of dollars in growth if policymakers divested from Israel bonds to protest the Jewish state's policies...
California State Assembly Passes Bill to Protect Synagogues, Other Houses of Worship
California's State Assembly has passed a bill calling for new protections for religious houses of worship amid rising incidents of antisemitic violence and political extremism. The...
DOJ Indicts Eight Anti-Zionist Activists Over Alleged University of Michigan Intimidation Campaign
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Wednesday indicted eight anti-Zionist activists for allegedly carrying out a campaign of vandalism, stalking, and intimidation targeting University...
Massachusetts Police Investigating Antisemitic Graffiti Incident at Middle School
Law enforcement officials in Essex County, Massachusetts, have launched an investigation into an antisemitic graffiti incident at Beverly Middle School, where school officials said a...
Pennsylvania High School Reassures Community After Publishing Antisemitic Quote in Senior Yearbook
Administrators at a small-town high school in western Pennsylvania scurried this week to assure parents and media that neo-Nazism is frowned upon after a student...
‘We’re Not Alone’: Canadian Community Shows Up 60,000 Strong for ‘Walk With Israel’ March
An estimated 60,000 people marched through the streets of Toronto on Sunday for a "Walk with Israel" to show support for both the Jewish state...
Republican Senator Calls on Florida Stadium to Cancel Kanye West Show Over Antisemitic Comments
US Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) on Thursday urged concert promoters to cancel Kanye West's upcoming June 26 and 28 shows at the publicly owned Raymond...
