by Mattea Kramer | Nov 20, 2025 | Antisemitism, free speech, Gaza, Israel, Op-Ed, Palestine, Rümeysa Öztürk
Rooting out terrorism and antisemitism was the supposed reason that plainclothed ICE agents arrested doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk on a street in Somerville, Massachusetts, after she coauthored an op-ed calling on Tufts University to divest from companies with ties to Israel due to the killing and starvation of Palestinian civilians. There is an international movement to boycott, sanction…
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by Marjorie Cohn | Nov 5, 2025 | AB 715, Antisemitism, Biden National Strategy, California, due process, education, First Amendment, Genocide, International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, Israel, News Analysis, Palestine, Zionism
Beginning January 1, 2026, teachers in California classrooms will be looking over their shoulders to avoid running afoul of a frightening new “antisemitism” law. On October 7, despite widespread opposition from civil rights groups, teachers’ unions, and education advocates, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed AB 715, which amends the California Education Code to police what teachers can teach and what…
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by Derek Seidman | Oct 22, 2025 | AIPAC, Antisemitism, education, Higher Education, Israel, labor, News, Palestine, palestine solidarity, Public Education, Tim Walberg, Unions
In late 2023, Rep. Virginia Foxx of North Carolina made headlines when she used her position as chair of the U.S. House Committee on Education and Workforce to stage something akin to a show trial. Committee members berated the presidents of Harvard, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the University of Pennsylvania about their failures to confront alleged antisemitism on their campuses.
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