Campus antisemitism -

White House revokes Harvard’s right to enroll international students, including Jews from abroad

May 22, 2025May 23, 2025Sara Wood

The Trump administration has revoked its permission for Harvard University to enroll international students, in a dramatic escalation of what the Department of Homeland Security says is an effort to curb antisemitism at the university. The move “means Harvard can no longer enroll foreign students and existing foreign students must transfer or lose their legal […]

Jews at Tufts are furious over ICE seizing a pro-Palestinian grad student. But they’re wary of joining protests for her.

April 4, 2025April 4, 2025Sara Wood

For the last year and a half, Tufts Students for Israel has battled against criticism of Israel on the Boston-area campus. But on Thursday, the group took a stance of a different kind: It published an op-ed in the campus newspaper advocating for the school’s most prominent pro-Palestinian student. “The detainment of Rümeysa Öztürk is […]

As ICE targets a Palestinian activist, some Jews are asking if this is the fight against antisemitism they signed up for

March 11, 2025March 14, 2025Sara Wood

The campus pro-Palestinian protests that erupted after the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attacks united many Jewish students, parents and “defense” groups in a national fight against antisemitism, intimidation and the disruption of university life. But as the Trump administration has taken up the cause with gusto — most recently arresting, detaining and threatening to deport […]