Posts Tagged: Smith College
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...
Cornell University Clears President of Wrongdoing After Incident With Anti-Israel Protesters
Cornell University absolved its president, Michael Kotlikoff, of wrongdoing following an incident in which anti-Israel protesters accused him of lightly impacting a student and an...
Shabbos Kestenbaum: The New Encampments
The encampments have returned. At Smith and Occidental Colleges, the ugliest form of campus bigotry since the 2024 Tentifada is back. The 2023-2024 academic year saw an...
Students for Justice in Palestine Surrenders Occidental College Encampment as Trustees Review Divestment Proposal
Member of Occidental College's chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine addressing social media while occupying a section of the campus in April 2026. Photo:...
Smith College to Hold Talks With Students for Justice in Palestine Following Unauthorized Encampment
Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts has granted Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) a meeting with high-level officials in exchange for the group's ending an...
Smith College Trustees to Vote on Anti-Israel Divestment Measure
Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts is the site of the latest clash between anti-Zionists and administrators over institutional ties to Israel, as its trustees will...
Anti-Zionist Student Groups ‘Convict’ Colleges of Aiding Gaza War
Anti-Israel extremists enrolled in higher education institutions in the New England region "convicted" a consortium of college officials of aiding the Israeli war effort in...
‘The Existence of a Malady Is Not in Question’: Scholars Spar Over Fate of Israel Studies in America
An academic group of Israeli and international scholars is claiming that the field of Israel Studies is faring far better than depicted in a recent...
New Faculty Campaign Aims to Show Solidarity With Jewish Students
Over 1,000 university professors will participate in a new campaign to show solidarity with Jewish students experiencing levels of antisemitism that are without precedent in...
Vanderbilt University Expels Anti-Zionists Who Occupied Administrative Building
Vanderbilt University in Tennessee has suspended and expelled several anti-Zionist students who participated in occupying an administrative building last month, according a statement issued by...
Ithaca College President Rejects Anti-Zionist Group’s Demands
The president of Ithaca College, a school located in New York, has rejected the demands of an anti-Zionist group on campus that staged a "die-in"...
Smith College Building Occupied by Anti-Zionist Group
Dozens of anti-Zionist students at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts have been occupying an administrative building for several days in an attempt to force administrators...
Smith College Condemns Islamophobia in Response to Antisemitic Graffiti, Says School Considering BDS Measure
Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts responded to recent antisemitic incidents on campus by condemning "Islamophobia" and pledging to review an anti-Zionist group's demand that the...
‘Anti-Colonial Thanksgiving’ Held at Smith College to Protest ‘Physical, Psychological Violence of Imperialism’ in Israel, America
A Thanksgiving gathering to protest the “physical and psychological violence of imperialism and colonialism” in Israel and the US was hosted by a Smith College student group last Sunday, Campus...
