Some university presidents and leaders appear to be changing their views. Anti-Israel demonstrators on campusIn recent days alone, at least three universities have expelled, warned or suspended students who participated in disruptive protests deemed anti-Semitic, Fox News Digital has revealed.
Pomona College President Gabriel Starr said, “Any participant in today’s event… who is found to be a Pomona student will be subject to immediate suspension. All other Claremont College students will be expelled from the Pomona campus. , and will be subject to disciplinary action at their respective campuses.” Friday student alert.
On Friday, an estimated 150 people and students from the California school staged a protest in front of Starr’s office in the campus administration building, then stormed the building and destroyed a pro-Palestinian “mock apartheid wall” erected on campus. refused to leave the building over the removal of the building. At least 20 people were arrested, prompting Starr to write a letter to school officials warning that participants would be suspended from school.
According to Starr’s letter, several students reportedly used “offensive anti-Black racial slurs while speaking to administrators,” and the New York Post reported that students called police ” It was reported that they called it the KKK.
Friday’s protest, which drew a large police response, was only the latest to hit the campus since war broke out in Israel last October. From coast to coast, universities have seen pro-Palestinian demonstrators occupy school libraries and buildings, forcing them to clean up threatening graffiti outside campus grounds. Jewish students say they feel like it’s “season for Jews to come and go on campus.”
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While Jewish students across the country are reporting feeling unsafe on campus and calling on school leaders to take action amid a rise in anti-Semitic incidents, others are The school is suing the school for failing to respond appropriately to anti-Semitism within the school.
When Hamas first attacked Israel in October, Fox News Digital spoke with Israel’s special envoy to combat anti-Semitism, who said the war was a “time of reckoning” for universities amid rising instances of anti-Semitism. Told.
“This is a moment of reckoning for universities, social media spaces, and elected officials. A reckoning, so to speak, for what we have allowed in moral ambiguity for far too long.” ‘It’s time for moral clarity and the courage to point out moral ambiguity,’ Michal Kotler-Wansch told Fox News Digital in an interview last year.
Former Harvard University President Claudine Gay (Erin Clark/Boston Globe via Getty Images)
Late last year, the presidents of Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology appeared before Congress and were criticized for their universities’ responses. Antisemitism on each campus. Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik of New York had a particularly heated exchange with a trio of academics, demanding answers about whether their “calls for genocide against Jews” violated their respective schools’ codes of conduct.
Claudine Gay and Liz McGill, presidents of Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania, respectively, came under fire for responding to Stefanik that such comments would violate their schools’ codes of conduct depending on the “context.” Ta. Both presidents subsequently resigned from their positions following widespread condemnation from Jewish communities, alumni, and students across the country.
Liz McGill, then-president of the University of Pennsylvania, testifies before the House Committee on Anti-Semitism on the university campus in Washington, DC, on December 5, 2023. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
In recent days alone, more university leaders appear to be taking action against anti-Israel demonstrators who disrupt campus activities with slogans such as “One Solution, Intifada Revolution.”
For example, the University of Michigan last week introduced new penalties for students who disrupt university events, after students have been calling on the school for months to divest from companies that provide weapons to the Israeli military. announced the activity policy.
“No one has the right to interfere with the lawful activities or speech of others.As universities are public institutions, not only are they prohibited from interfering with lawful speech, but they are also prohibited from interfering with the lawful speech of others. We need to intervene if we see that we are disrupting ‘legal speech on our campus,”’ Michigan State President Santa J. Ono said last week.
Last week, Vanderbilt University reportedly expelled three students, suspended another, and placed another 20 on probation for participating in a sit-in protest inside the school building. It is believed that the students broke through security before the incident led to arrests. The school did not release details about the number of students who were expelled, but the president and vice president for academic affairs said the incident would be “thoroughly investigated” and students would have 10 days to respond to penalties. The student newspaper reported that he said that he could file an objection.
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“After a thorough review of the incident, including examining the evidence and interviewing the student, Student Responsibility Community Standards and Academic Integrity staff issued a wide range of findings and sanctions that considered the individual circumstances of each student’s conduct. ” said Vanderbilt President and Vanderbilt Professor. Vice President for Academic Affairs C. Cybert Labor said this Friday, according to the school newspaper. “Sanctions included suspension and expulsion as well as disciplinary observation.”
Thousands of anti-Israel demonstrators fill Freedom Plaza and surrounding streets, demanding an end to the Israel-Hamas war in Washington, DC, on November 4, 2023. (Rod Lamkey/CNP, FOX News Digital)
Columbia University announced last week that it had suspended a student who participated in a “Resistance 101” event late last month. The event featured speakers including Khalid Barakat, who is reportedly a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a US-designated terrorist organization that advocates the destruction of Israel.
Pro-Palestinian demonstrators demonstrate near Columbia University on February 2, 2024 in New York City. (Alexi J. Rosenfeld/Getty Images)
“On March 24, an event was held in a campus residential facility that the university had already banned twice.The event featured speakers known to support terrorism and incite violence. The event was “an abhorrent violation of our values, and we want to update our community on the actions that are taking place as a result,” school principal Minoush Shafik said last week. , said in a letter to the school community. Four students were reportedly suspended, according to the Columbia Daily Spectator.
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A police officer moves pro-Israel protesters away from people gathered for a demonstration in support of the Palestinians in Washington Square Park on November 24, 2023 in New York City. (Yuki Iwamura/AFP via Getty Images)
“We also want to remind our community that all of our rules and policies matter.Yesterday, students, faculty, staff, and other members of our community You have chosen to hold an unauthorized event near an academic facility in violation of our rules and policies. “This university will only thrive if we are able to build a strong foundation of respect, both for each other and for our rules,” Shafiq added.
While some universities appear to be taking a tougher stance on anti-Israel protests, other schools are still grappling with heated demonstrations.
Chaos broke out on Rutgers University’s campus Thursday during a town hall, requiring police to direct Jewish students and school officials. The town hall was held by the Rutgers University Student General Assembly regarding two Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions referendums regarding severing ties with Tel Aviv University and stripping ties with Israel.
Fox News Digital reached out to the school for comment on this story, but did not immediately receive a response.
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Following the ouster of Penn and Harvard presidents in recent months, other schools have also cracked down on protests, Times Higher Education reported in February. American University banned indoor demonstrations, Barnard College banned public protests, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst blocked students who participated in nonviolent protests from participating in study abroad programs, according to the report.
