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UPenn announces new office to fight religious intolerance in wake of anti-Israel protests

Many of the school's Jewish students say they feel unsafe, and some of them filed a federal lawsuit against the Ivy League university.

 Pro-Palestine protesters march past a Star of David made of Israeli flags on Columbia University campus, during a march in support of a protest encampment supporting Palestinians in New York City, U.S., April 29, 2024.
 UNIVERSITY OF Pennsylvania campus.

Police dismantles pro-Palestine encampments and arrests dozens at Penn and MIT

 STUDENTS FLY an aerial banner that reads ‘Harvard hates Jews,’ over Harvard University, last month.

America's culture wars erase Jewish suffering - opinion

 Faculty and representatives from the University of Pennsylvania tour Kibbutz Kfar Aza, following the deadly October 7 attack by Hamas, in southern Israel January 3, 2024.

University of Penn professors in Israel speak out on US campus antisemitism


UPenn professors embark on high-level faculty solidarity mission to Israel

‘We sought to bear comfort to our brothers and sisters in Israel and to more fully absorb the depth of this trauma’

 UPenn professors tour Israel's south, January 2024

Austrian university severs ties with Harvard over antisemitism concerns

Presidents from MIT, Harvard, and UPenn testified following a Department of Education investigation into rising antisemitic incidents since the Hamas terror attack on Israel.

Buildings in Harvard Yard are reflected in frozen puddle at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, January 20, 2015.

US universities are teaching their students to be antisemitic - opinion

Like many interactions during the hearing, the vast distance between non-campus and campus, between “town and gown,” was clear. Ideological diversity is simply not a campus value.

 US REPRESENTATIVE Elise Stefanik (R-NY) speaks during a House Education and Workforce Committee hearing titled ‘Holding Campus Leaders Accountable and Confronting Antisemitism,’ on December 5

Jewish groups confront new questions: What counts as calling for genocide?

Swift and widespread outrage followed the hearing, leading to the resignation of Penn’s president and placing pressure on the other two leaders.

 PROF. DARIA Mochly-Rosen of California’s Stanford University.

Penn’s Jewish students say problems remain after president resigns

University of Pennsylvania president Liz Magill declined to state clearly that calls for the genocide of Jews violated school rules. On Saturday, she stepped down.

 STUDENTS TAKE part in protest organized by Harvard Jews for Palestine, at Harvard University last week

The struggle for justice for Jewish students on college campuses - opinion

When it comes to protecting marginalized students on campus, it seems some groups are "more equal than others," the author writes.

 A US HOUSE and Workforce Committee hearing, ‘Holding Campus Leaders Accountable and Confronting Antisemitism,’ takes place this past week.

Combating antisemitism on college campuses like UPenn - opinion

Colleges and universities across the US have an opportunity and responsibility to take bold action and reassert strong commitments to safe communities for their Jewish students.

 Visitors seen standing next to a display of swastika banners at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial museum in Jerusalem on April 26, 2022, ahead of Israeli Holocaust Remembrance Day.

UPenn should care about Jewish students - opinion

The entire Palestine Writes festival is just a front to spread antisemitic hate.

 ROGER WATERS: After UPenn decided to ban him from entering campus, he participated in the Palestine Writes literature festival over Zoom, says the writer.

Penn Hillel vandalized by person ‘experiencing a crisis,’ say police

An intruder at UPenn's Hillel smashed a table and podium, flipped over a table in the lobby, and yelled antisemitic slurs in an attack on the Jewish student center.

 A statue of a young Benjamin Franklin at the University of Pennsylvania.

UPenn to host slew of ‘antisemitic’ speakers at Palestine Writes literature festival

A number of the speakers to appear at the UPenn event

Roger Waters, draped with a Palestinian keffiyeh