Trump administration again sues UCLA over antisemitism, alleging ‘hostile educational environment’

The U.S. Department of Justice sued the University of California for the second time this year over allegations of an antisemitic campus environment at UCLA, claiming the school “was deliberately indifferent to the suffering of its Jewish and Israeli students” after Oct. 7. The federal lawsuit, filed Tuesday, claims UCLA violated the students’ civil rights […]

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

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 […]

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Everything ‘alt’ is new again: Watchdogs see a mainstreaming of far-right extremism

Remember the “alt-right”? Way back in the two-thousand-and-teens, the loose coalition of white nationalists, neo-Nazi pranksters and anti-immigrant extremists was more likely to be found in obscure corners of the internet than on mainstream conservative outlets like Fox News. Groups that monitor extremism say that has changed, and that the extremes have become mainstream.  They […]

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