Mahmoud Khalil’s ‘otherwise lawful’ behavior undermines US policy against antisemitism, Marco Rubio says

In advance of a pivotal court hearing this week in the deportation case of Mahmoud Khalil, the Palestinian protest leader at Columbia University, a judge demanded that the State Department lay out its case against him. Now, Secretary of State Marco Rubio has done so, in a two-page memo that says “beliefs, statements, or associations” […]

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California DOE finds school’s ethnic studies curriculum discriminated against Jewish students

A California school’s ethnic studies curriculum that included discussions of Israel as a “settler colonial state” was found to have discriminated against Jewish students. The California Department of Education issued the ruling last Friday following an investigation into a September complaint by the Bay Area Jewish Coalition — Education and Advocacy, which is affiliated with […]

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DHS says it is monitoring immigrants’ social media for ‘antisemitic activity’

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced Wednesday that it is now surveilling the social media of people applying to immigrate and international students for “antisemitic activity.” The new policy will go into effect immediately, and any evidence of antisemitism or the “physical harassment of Jewish individuals” on social media could be used to reject […]

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Cornell and Northwestern to see nearly $2B frozen amid Trump’s antisemitism crackdown

Cornell and Northwestern Universities have joined five other schools in the Ivy League in facing steep funding cuts from the Trump administration, ostensibly over their handling of campus antisemitism. Both schools have Jewish presidents. In Cornell’s case, Michael Kotlikoff, who was recently promoted from interim to permanent president, has broadcast confidence about the climate for […]

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Oct. 7 drove Jewish and Muslim teens apart. A dialogue group in L.A. brought them together.

This article was produced as part of (JEWISH REVIEW)’s Teen Journalism Fellowship, a program that works with Jewish teens around the world to report on issues that affect their lives. Micah MikoLevine felt isolated and invisible on her private high school campus in Pasadena, California after the Oct. 7 terrorist attack in Israel. “There was this […]

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