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A Jewish student at Rutgers University in New Jersey has been exposed to and damaged by its “laboratory of antisemitism,” according to a lawsuit filed this week. Rivka Schafer is suing Rutgers University, claiming the school failed to protect the safety of Jewish students following a series of antisemitic incidents in recent years, signaling a “toleration of bullying, intimidation, harassment, …

Harvard University agreed to some concessions for anti-Israel agitators in return for them dismantling the protest encampment ahead of the upcoming commencement ceremony, both sides announced Tuesday. Harvard Interim President Alan Garber released a message on Tuesday morning announcing that “the protesters agreed to end the encampment in Harvard Yard.” “Now that the area is being cleared and in line …

A University of Delaware student who allegedly went on “an antisemitic tirade” while screaming “f— Jews” and destroying a symbolic memorial on campus now faces a hate crime charge, according to the arrest warrant. Jenna Kandeel, 23, spit on and destroyed the memorial’s color-coded flags, each representing 10,000 people from different groups who lost their lives during the Holocaust, the …

A Duke University graduate said she wasn’t surprised to see a small group of anti-Israel agitators walk out on Jerry Seinfeld’s commencement speech, telling “Fox & Friends” that the Jewish comedian received overwhelming support. “Given Jerry’s very outward Zionism and his open Judaism, I can’t say I’m surprised, given these protests,” Alanna Peykar told Lawrence Jones on Monday. “It’s very …

An antisemitic-laced video has emerged of a Florida imam calling for the annihilation of Jews and describing the Israeli military as being “worse than the Nazis.” The video, which was live-streamed to Facebook on April 26, shows Florida Imam Dr. Fadi Kablawi making the remarks during a sermon at Masjid As Sunnah An Nabawiyyah in North Miami. “Oh Allah, support …

Jessica Seinfeld, the wife of comedian Jerry Seinfeld, praised her husband’s “amazing” Duke University Class of 2024 commencement speech on Instagram over the weekend after a group of anti-Israel protesters tried to interrupt him but found themselves drowned out by the rest of the audience. The comic, who is Jewish and a co-chair of the university’s Parents Committee, took the …

UK Foreign Secretary David Cameron called on the BBC to its face to label Hamas a terrorist group during an interview Sunday, wondering what the organization had to do to be branded that way by the British public broadcaster. “When you see what Hamas are prepared to do, you just realize the terrible, dreadful, inhuman people, frankly, that we are …

Tempers flared on NBC Sunday when South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham debated anchor Kristen Welker over the Biden administration possibly withholding weapons to Israel. After Welker cited “military officials” who agreed with stopping weapons shipments to Israel as it wages war in Gaza, Graham lambasted the anchor and the officials she cited. “These military officials that you’re talking about are …

A Columbia University student wearing zip-tie handcuffs tore up her diploma on stage Sunday as an act of defiance following recent concerns about anti-Israel demonstrations on campus. In a livestream video of Columbia’s School of Social Work commencement ceremony, a female graduate marched on stage with her arms above her head and wrists bound together by a plastic zip-tie. She …

It is hard to fight against an enemy whose reason for being is to eliminate you. So said author and Jewish historian Rick Richman in an interview as he answered the criticisms that are being leveled against Israel. These criticisms accuse the Jewish state of committing genocide in Gaza. Rather, it is Israel, he said, that is trying to prevent …