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ADL Report on Nationwide Campus Turmoil: May 21, 2024

As part of the agreement, UW commits to: funding at least 20 scholarships for Palestinian students displaced from Gaza, reviewing study abroad programs and soliciting names of those to review from the groups leading the protest, expanding hiring and scholarship on Palestine, and meeting with student representatives to explore “divestment decisions.” [Press Release]

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Jewish Community Finds Heartfelt Support in California’s Capitol

Fifty of California’s 120 legislators joined the conference on Tuesday, May 14, to express their solidarity with the state’s Jewish community, and almost the entirety of the 19-member Legislative Jewish Caucus spoke about their close working relationship with JPAC. In addition to Governor Newsom’s remarks, Lieutenant Governor Eleni Kounalakis, Senate President pro Tempore Emeritus Toni Atkins (by video), Attorney General Rob Bonta, and Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond addressed participants. [Press Release]

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AMCHA Initiative Condemns Sonoma State University’s Stand Against Israel

AMCHA Initiative Director Tammi Rossman-Benjamin issued the following statement Wednesday blasting Sonoma State University’s capitulation to the encampment demands of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), including committing the state school to a full academic boycott of Israel … (Press Release0

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ADL Report on Nationwide Campus Turmoil: May 14, 2024

Over 200 anti-Israel protesters staged a march and then a sit-in on Saturday afternoon on Harvard’s campus, organized by Harvard Out of Occupied Palestine. This comes one day after Harvard placed 20 students on involuntary leave for participating in the unauthorized encampment on campus. … [Press Release]

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Lightning Storms in Arctic Speeding Global Warming, Polar Melt

A statistical analysis of the ice sheet retreat compared with the number of lightning storms revealed a correlation: as the number of storms increased in a certain year, so did the melting of the sea ice increase that year. [Press Release, Tel Aviv University]

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Jewish Tritons Outline Situation Facing Jews at UCSD

Antisemitism has grown rampantly since the October 7th massacre carried out by Hamas, and rising Jew-hatred has caused Jewish students to feel increasingly unsafe on campus. We students are fearful of expressing our identities on campus, and especially in the classroom. [Press Release]

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