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Higher Education
Both sides agree, Irvine verdict sends message to campus activists
Dan Klein, JTA, September 26, 2011 The conviction of the UC Irvine Muslim Students Association members who disrupted Israeli Ambassador Oren's speech at the campus in February 2010 is already altering the climate for campus activism.
Jewish groups complain of anti-Semitism at UC campuses
LA Times,
September 23, 2011
A new request by Jewish activists, UC alumni and professors has been sent to UC administrators asking that they "take more forceful action against...anti-Semitism on UC campuses."
Anti-Semitism at Hampshire College
Sara Dogan, Frontpagemag.com, September 20, 2011
A federal judge ordered a history instructor reinstated based on his complaints about anti-Semitic discrimination at Madison Area Technical College.
Academics Against Israel
Manfred Gerstenfeld, Ynet,
September 14, 2011
The veteran researcher and author recaps the individuals and movements "leading the fight against anti-Israel schools."
US Colleges to Receive Warning Letters on Anti-Semitism
Johanna Paraszczuk, Jerusalem Post,
September 8, 2011
An Israeli NGO sent letters to hundreds of campus administrations warning them of their legal obligations to protect Jewish students.
World
Kenney, Baird sign pledge to fight anti-Semitism
Laura Payton, CBC News,
September 19, 2011
Two Canadian government ministers have signed onto the Ottawa Protocol, a declaration on combating anti-Semitism signed by legislators from various countries.
An everyday tale of anti-Semitism in Cairo
Thomas Dinham, The BBC,
September 15, 2011
A non-Jewish BBC correspondent relates his shocking experience in a Cairo crowd where he narrowly escaped an assault by convincing the crowd he wasn't a Jew.
Another Jewish Memorial defaced in Poland, in latest String of anti-Semitic Incidents
Reuters, Haaretz,
September 15th, 2011
Police say vandals defaced a monument for a former Jewish cemetery in the city of Bialystok.
10 years on, anti-Semitic conspiracy theories about 9/11 persist
Dan Klein, JTA,
September 2, 2011
"Myths that blame the Jews are spreading freely from neo-Nazi and other whites supremacists into new areas whose acolytes are not necessarily anti-Semitic but are unknowingly adopting the tropes of classical anti-Semitic conspiracy theories."
Anti-Israel protest disrupts Philharmonic show in UK
Ynet,
September 2, 2011
Anti-Israel protesters' shouting and heckling of the Israel Philharmonic forced the shutdown of a live radio broadcast by the BBC.
K - 12
Teens admit defacing Calabasas High campus with anti-Semitic graffiti
News Wire Services, Los Angeles Daily News, September 14, 2011
Two teens admitted in court that they vandalized the school in April 2011.
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