The University of Southern California said it has canceled plans for a graduation speech by this year’s valedictorian, Asna Tabassum, who is Muslim. The school said the decision stemmed from security concerns, after several pro-Israeli groups objected to her social media posts supporting Palestinians. The decision drew immediate criticism from the Los Angeles office of […]
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April 11, 2024, 3:08 p.m. ET April 11, 2024, 3:08 p.m. ET A Palestinian girl receives treatment for malnutrition at Al-Awda Hospital in northern Gaza.Credit…Mohammed Salem/Reuters Soon after the Hamas terrorist attacks on Israel, the Israeli defense minister vowed to impose a “complete siege” on Gaza: “no electricity, no food, no water, no fuel” would […]
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Virginia Foxx, the Republican congresswoman from North Carolina, has spent the last few months giving elite schools a hard time. As the chairwoman of the House committee on education, she oversaw a tense hearing in December that spurred the resignations of the presidents of University of Pennsylvania and Harvard. She has led an investigation of […]
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Four months after an explosive congressional hearing on antisemitism precipitated the resignations of two Ivy League presidents, another university president is about to step to the hot seat. On Wednesday, Columbia’s president, Nemat Shafik, will testify about antisemitism before the same House committee that grilled the presidents of the University of Pennsylvania, Harvard and the […]
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The chancellor of New York City’s public schools will testify about how the district is handling antisemitism before a congressional committee next month. It will be the first time that a K-12 district takes center stage in the House hearings focused on how schools are responding to a wave of student protests since Hamas’s attacks […]
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When the musician Laurie Anderson was beginning her career in the early 1970s, an avant-garde artist who wanted to work at scale had to go abroad — to one place in particular. “I got my start in Germany, because of state-supported art,” recalled Anderson, who exhibited at its national museums and performed with its symphony […]
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Last week, Susanne DeWitt, an 89-year-old Holocaust survivor who later became a molecular biologist, spoke before the Berkeley, Calif., City Council to request a Holocaust Remembrance Day proclamation. After taking note of a “horrendous surge in antisemitism,” she was then heckled and shouted down by protesters at the meeting when she mentioned the massacre and […]
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Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, was sued Tuesday by a former employee who accused him of discrimination and creating a hostile work environment by calling Adolf Hitler “great,” disparaging Jews and saying that “gay people are not true Christians.” The lawsuit was filed in Los Angeles Superior Court by Trevor Phillips, who […]
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