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2024-09-01 Fifth Column
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Universities anti-Israel protests round-up: The school year starts
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Presented in no particular order. Gaza protests already marring kickoff of fall semester at several US campuses
NY’s New School senate blocks funding to clubs in bid to demand Israel ‘divestment’
[IsraelTimes] Manhattan university student body’s announcement doesn’t specify how it expects university to carry out divestment; school indicates move will be circumvented.
Expelled Vanderbilt anti-Israel protester who previously met with Kamala Harris now faces possible yearlong jail sentence
[CampusReform] An anti-Israel protester at Vanderbilt University faces almost a year in jail after he participated in a sit-in demonstration in the chancellor's office. Jack Petocz, who was expelled from Vanderbilt University, faces charges relating to an alleged assault against Chief of Staff Dawn Turton and security guard Tony Brown during a March 26 sit-in protest of Chancellor Daniel Diermeier’s office to WPLN.
Two anti-Israel groups at NYU, Columbia say Instagram removed their accounts
[IsraelTimes] Columbia’s Students for Justice in Palestine and NYU’s People’s Solidarity Coalition likely violated Meta’s new rules, which ban use of word ‘Zionist’ to promote antisemitism.
In February, Within Our Lifetime, the prominent hardline anti-Israel group, announced that it was banned from Instagram. A spokesperson for Meta told the New York Jewish Week at the time that the group’s accounts had been removed because they violated the platform’s community guidelines, including its “Dangerous Organizations & Individuals policy.”
This week, the NYU administration similarly issued new hate speech guidelines saying that the use of “Zionists” is banned if employed to target Jews or Israelis.
US universities, Jewish groups hope to change campus climate as school year begins
[IsraelTimes] With new initiatives including broader rules around demonstrations and even full-time surveillance, institutions seek to rein in anti-Israel protesters, who vow not to ease up.
Colleges, caught flat-footed by a groundswell of protests last year that frequently created a hostile climate for Jewish students, are trying to get ahead of the problem this fall. Meanwhile, various Jewish groups, including those with a focus on college students, are announcing initiatives of their own after venting their frustrations with what they say is inadequate action by the colleges.
Facing lawsuits, Congressional hearings, donor pressure, Title VI complaints and the occasional high-profile resignation of a campus president, many schools are still improvising what exactly protecting Jewish students will look like this year. Universities have issued revised policies around the acceptable time, place and manner of student protests.
Some, such as Indiana University and the University of Denver, have banned all tents, late-night rallies and writing on campus walls. George Washington University preemptively suspended student groups, including the anti-Zionist Jewish Voice for Peace, before classes began. Others, such as the small liberal arts school Ohio Wesleyan University, are trying the approach that gained renown for Dartmouth College last year by launching new civic dialogue initiatives.
Yet the campus protest movement, like the Israel-Hamas war itself, is still casting a long shadow. New-student orientations at other schools this summer, including the University of New Mexico and the University of Michigan, have also been disrupted by anti-Israel activists. Young Democratic Socialists of America, which has chapters on more than 100 campuses, is encouraging a “national student strike for Palestine.”
And this week the American Association of University Professors, a major national faculty organization, changed its longstanding policy discouraging boycotts to say they can now be “legitimate tactical responses” — clearing the way for faculty to argue in favor of boycotting Israeli universities, a longtime rallying cry of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement. Pro-Palestinian faculty encouraged or even participated in many of the most disruptive student protests last year.
Jewish groups are taking more aggressive action for students, without waiting for the schools to improve their policies. The Community Security Service, saying it had heard from Jewish students who “fear for their life,” recently announced new self-defense training for students.
Hillel International and the Secure Community Network, which organizes security for Jewish spaces, are partnering on “Operation SecureOurCampuses,” their own training initiative for Jewish students and staff. The new venture includes what the groups describe as “full-time intelligence analysts to monitor campus security incidents and provide real-time support.” Some individual Hillels are also taking their own steps: Penn State University’s is reinstating a full-time Israel educator to its staff.
Columbia task force reports ‘crushing’ discrimination against Jews and Israelis
[IsraelTimes] University’s Task Force on Antisemitism says students driven out of dorms and campus, ostracized by peers and denigrated by faculty.
University of Maryland grants permit for pro-Palestinian group’s campus rally on Oct. 7
[IsraelTimes] Move to hold Students for Justice in Palestine event on anniversary of Hamas attacks outrages Jews on campus and beyond.
Temple University investigating pro-Palestinian march at campus Hillel Thursday
[IsraelTimes] Students for Justice in Palestine demonstration are part of a resurgence in campus protests as students return to school.
University of Michigan campus club fair erupts into mayhem as cops break up anti-Israel protests.
[NYPost] The protesters, there to demand that the school divest from all companies that support Israel, identified themselves as members of the TAHRIR Coalition, whose name is an acronym for “Transparency, Accountability, Humanity, Reparations, Investment, and Resistance.”
The school’s club fair was disrupted almost immediately by a sit-in of a few dozen anti-Israel demonstrators chanting “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” — a slogan that implies the state of Israel must be eliminated. The anti-Israel protestors, who did not have a permit to demonstrate, passed out fliers listing their demands that the school divest from “Israeli apartheid and genocide,” establish a “People’s Audit,” boycott Israeli academic institutions, and abolish campus policing.
A group of pro-Israel counter-protesters also quickly gathered, holding American and Israeli flags.
Last spring, anti-Israel activists at U-Michigan running under the banner of the “Shut It Down” party won control of the student government. Since then, they’ve withheld funding from clubs on campus, demanding that the University divest from companies that support Israel.
In a March press release, university regents made clear they won’t buckle under political pressure to divest.
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