Hate crime inquiry open after ‘Death to the IDF’ graffiti and arson outside St. Louis soldier’s family home

Police in Clayton, Missouri, are investigating after finding what they said was “antisemitic graffiti” alongside three cars that were set on fire in the St. Louis neighborhood. The street was graffitied with the phrase “Death to the IDF,” according to drone footage shared by a local news outlet that obscured a portion of the graffiti […]

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Mahmoud Khalil pushes back on claims of antisemitism at Columbia in Ezra Klein interview

Six weeks after being released by federal detention, Mahmoud Khalil, the first student pro-Palestinian protest leader to be arrested by the Trump administration last spring, said concerns about antisemitism at Columbia University reflected a “manufactured hysteria.” Khalil first made the allegation in a jailhouse letter in April, soon after he was detained by immigration authorities […]

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Bard president Leon Botstein says Trump’s campaign against colleges follows ‘a classic antisemitic routine’

NUREMBERG, Germany — Leon Botstein, the president of Bard College for half a century, has seen many crises shake American colleges. But none has stripped schools of their leaders and their students like the present moment. The second Trump administration has gone to war against elite universities, claiming to root out antisemitism and left-wing indoctrination. […]

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J Street head says he was ‘persuaded’ by arguments that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza

Days after rejecting the claim that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, J Street President Jeremy Ben-Ami says he has been “persuaded” that he was wrong. Ben-Ami’s about face makes him the latest in a growing list of prominent left-wing Jewish voices to lodge the accusation, which Israel denies and which U.S. President Donald Trump […]

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Brown University strikes $50M deal with Trump administration over allegations of campus antisemitism

Brown University announced Wednesday it had struck a $50 million dollar deal with the Trump administration to regain its federal research funding after losing it last spring over allegations of campus antisemitism. The announcement comes one week after Columbia University agreed to a $221 million settlement with the Trump administration over funding canceled in March […]

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