Posts Tagged: AMCHA
80 Groups Applaud UMass for Initial Steps Over Anti-Israel ‘Political Rally,’ but Urge Immediate Action
A group of 80 organizations that called on the University of Massachusetts in Amherst to refrain from sponsoring a political event featuring supporters of Israel...
The Intellectual Hypocrisy of Anti-Israel Academic Boycotts
Among the many examples of the shameful degradation of values in academia, few are more intellectually grotesque than academic boycotts. And these boycotts, in their present form,...
New Website Exposing Professors Who Discriminate Against Conservative Students Tops 500K Views in First Month
JNS.org - A new website that aims to expose university faculty who "discriminate against conservative students and advance leftist propaganda in the classroom" has amassed more...
Denying Campus Antisemitism Puts Jewish Students at Risk
Mitchell Bard, who frequently writes articles challenging the veracity of claims that campus antisemitism is on the rise, often cites his own favorite statistic to...
Academics Unpack BDS, Antisemitism at Media Watchdog’s Annual Conference
JNS.org - Many colleges and universities “don't govern in a consistent way when it comes to Israel” and apply a “double standard” to how they treat...
Campus Watchdog Rejects Stanford Prof’s ‘Defamatory’ Accusation That It Denies Free Speech of Anti-Israel Activists
The head of a campus watchdog group railed against a recent "broadside attack" on its activities, calling the accusation that it aims to hamper the free speech of anti-Israel...
The Jewish Exception to Free Speech on Campus
JNS.org - In 2012, the Electronic Intifada, an online anti-Zionist media outlet that aggressively promotes the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement, ran a lengthy article suggesting...
In First Half of 2016, Antisemitism Skyrockets on College Campuses
Antisemitic activity on college campuses with the largest Jewish undergraduate enrollment drastically increased during the first half of 2016 compared to the same time last...
Antisemitism Is Flourishing on California Campuses
For nearly a decade, incidents of antisemitism have been on the rise in the University of California system and numerous other colleges in the Golden...
Detractors Stay Silent as UCLA Celebrates Israel Independence Week
JNS.org - On the campus of University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), they’re partying like it’s 1948 — and Israel’s usual detractors are staying silent. Advocates of...
Anti-Israel Week Overshadows Holocaust Remembrance Day at UC-Irvine
University of California-Irvine (UCI) student Kevin Brum is not Jewish. But that didn’t matter to the northern California native after he saw the film “Schindler’s...
The Need for an ‘Educational’ Birthright Program
Numerous studies have documented that college campuses are increasingly hostile not just to Israel, but to all Jewish students. Most Jewish high school graduates are unprepared...
Campus Group Gathers Testimonials From UC Jewish Students Experiencing Antisemitism
The campus antisemitism watchdog AMCHA Initiative announced on Tuesday its new website, which chronicles student testimonials of antisemitism across the University of California school system. AMCHA said so far it has collected...
In Wake of UAW 2865 BDS Vote, California Assemblyman Demands Assurance That ‘Anti-Israel Propaganda’ is Prohibited from UC Classrooms
A leading California Assembly Member has urged University of California President Janet Napolitano to ensure that members of the university's faculty do not use their...
