A #RightWing Jewish group said some identified w/the tool were on a list of names it gave to #Trump’s admin, urging that they be deported in accordance w/his call for the expulsion of foreign #students who participated in “pro-jihadist” #protests.

Other pro-#Israel groups have enlisted help from supporters on #campuses, urging them to report foreign students who participated in protests against the war in #Gaza to #ICE.

"The impetus is on organisations, probably businesses and charities."
"It's not about what individuals think. It’s about what organisations do."

• When people try to change the British political landscape, they make demands of boycott on British cultural institutions: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/09/13/pressure-on-british-museum-to-ditch-bp
• When people try to change the German political landscape, they make demands of boycott on German cultural institutions: https://en.hespress.com/78244-cultural-figures-intellectuals-call-for-germany-boycott-over-palestine.html
• When people try to change the Israeli political landscape, they make demands of boycott on Israeli cultural institutions: https://vashtimedia.com/cultural-boycott-israel-palestine-gaza-sally-rooney/

Francesca Newton: https://vashtimedia.com/cultural-boycott-israel-palestine-gaza-sally-rooney/ @academicchatter

Will #Gaza #Genocide #protests spoil the #party for #VicePresident #KamalaHarris?

The #Gaza #Genocide, as more #Palestinian #civilians were #killed, #protests over the #war grew #louder — particularly on #California #college #campuses — and #pressure #increased on #Democratic #leaders to support a #ceasefire #resolution.

https://calmatters.org/newsletter/kamala-harris-democratic-convention-gaza/

#Policy comes after Gov. #KristiNoem (R) instructed the #BoardofRegents to take action against “#liberal #ideologies” (Viewpoint #Censorship) on #college #campuses, including asking the #board to “#remove all #references to #preferredpronouns in #school #materials” and #ban #dragshows on #campuses. Gov. Noem appointed all nine of the #voting #members of the Board of Regents.

"A vicious campaign by Israeli academia, police, and media to silence the professor shows Palestinians they have no safe place in Zionist institutions."

by a former student: https://www.972mag.com/nadera-shalhoub-kevorkian-israeli-academia/ @israel @academicchatter

#GOP ldrs this wk announced plans for new “oversight investigations” of #universities where — in the words of #House #Republican Whip #TomEmmer — “pro-terrorist anti-Semites [are] taking over.”& on Wed they prepared to pass a bill they said would empower the #federal govt to crack down on anti-Israel #protests on #campuses by codifying a definition of #antisemitism that encompasses not just threats against Jews, but also certain criticisms of #Israel itself.
#HouseRepublicans #Gaza #Palestinians

#NewYork #Lawmakers ‘#Outraged’ After #Cops #Raid #ColumbiaUniversity.

“I am #outraged by the level of #police #presence called upon #nonviolent #student #protesters,” Bowman tweeted, adding in a thread that the “#militarization of #college #campuses, extensive #police #presence, and #arrest of hundreds of #students are in direct opposition to the #role of #education as a #cornerstone of our #democracy.”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/new-york-reps-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-and-jamaal-bowman-outraged-after-cops-raid-columbia-university

Exploring #ProPalestinian #Protests, #Antisemitism, and the #Right to #FreeSpeech on #College #Campuses.

It’s important to understand who is showing up at #protests vs. who is leading them. #Universities have to fulfill their #educational #obligations. Don’t #CalltheCops on #nonviolent #protesters.

https://msmagazine.com/2024/05/01/hamas-palestinian-protests-antisemitism-free-speech-college-campus/

11 months earlier, there was no campaign to remove a white male University President on #plagiarism: https://social.coop/@eric/109893277642535577

"For this campaign to work, they needed mainstream media to support them. And the media obliged. All in all, it has been a very successful couple of weeks for bad-faith attacks on higher education. In just 10 days, the New York Times published 13 pieces about the President of one university in the aftermath of both the hearings and the plagiarism allegations.

"Is that a lot? To provide a comparison, we would need a benchmark of a university president accused of academic misconduct at a very prestigious institution. As it turns out, Stanford President Marc Tessier-Lavigne faced more serious accusations of academic misconduct involving data manipulation. A formal investigation was announced in November of 2022, and he was forced to resign in July of 2023. So, how many articles did the Times write about the topic prior to his resignation? Zero. And zero is probably the right number, because this is not national news until an actual resignation. But that is not the standard being applied to Gay, because the campaign is not about academic misconduct."

Don Moynihan (22 Dec 2023) https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-campaign-to-remove-the-president

As Rita Jabri Markwell put it:
• trauma is a genuine wound;
• fragility serves as an exercise of power over oppressed peoples.
In the Zionist case, fragility depends on genuine wounds (collective Jewish historical trauma) to leverage its power and silence dissenters.

Randa Abdel-Fattah: https://https://mondoweiss.net/2023/12/on-zionist-feelings/ @supremacy

Nicole Narea, "a first-generation American", wrote: All three [university] presidents refused to say that students should be punished for invoking those [hateful] phrases across the board — only when it rises to the level of harassment, discrimination, or incitement to violence.

“I have little doubt that if student activists actually were issuing unequivocal calls for the genocide of Jews on university campuses, they would be swiftly disciplined by their administrations — and rightly so,” Berkman said. “This should have been an easy question for Magill, Kornbluth, and Gay to answer, but because they felt they couldn’t contest the description of pro-Palestinian rhetoric as inherently genocidal, despite knowing that description to be untrue, they ended up looking foolish.”

Internal discord at elite institutions and bipartisan doubt about the sanctity of higher education was the outcome that Stefanik and her Republican colleagues wanted — but not because they’re any great defenders of Jews.

#Stefanik has echoed the antisemitic “great replacement” theory that Jews have pushed immigration and multiculturalism as a means of amassing political power over white Americans: In a 2021 campaign ad, she railed against what she characterized as Democrats’ plan to “overthrow our current electorate” by allowing undocumented immigrants to enter the country, leading to accusations of antisemitism.

(15 Dec 2023) https://www.vox.com/politics/2023/12/15/24001823/antisemitism-college-harvard-penn-mit-free-speech @supremacy