According to the complaint filed today against California State Polytechnic (Cal Poly), Humboldt by the Brandeis Center and Jewish on Campus, Jewish students have been attacked verbally and physically, excluded and forced out of areas on campus, and subjected to vicious antisemitism.

Leaders of ADL and AJC applaud organization’s work

American Jewish Committee (AJC) and Jewish on Campus today announced a new partnership to better support young Jews before, during, and after their time as college students.

Today, Jewish on Campus (JOC), a student-powered organization advocating for Jewish students, and ADL (the Anti-Defamation League), the world’s leading anti-hate organization, announced a new partnership to leverage the strengths of both organizations to better meet the needs of Jewish students as antisemitism rises.

According to the complaint, not only did AU ignore the antisemitism, it harassed student whistleblowers

oday, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) in the U.S. Department of Education announced it would open an investigation into the University of Pennsylvania and Wellesley College for their failure to address pervasive incidents of campus antisemitism.

Largest-ever survey of students on antisemitism, supported by World Jewish Congress, finds alarming level of incidents, believability of conspiracies, and lack of Holocaust awareness among college students.

The Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced it has opened a formal investigation into a complaint alleging two Jewish students at State University of New York (SUNY) at New Paltz were kicked out of a sexual assault awareness group and then bullied, harassed and threatened over their Jewish and Israeli identities.

Jewish on Campus, an organization committed to amplifying the voices of Jewish students to address antisemitism, applauded President Joe Biden’s announcement of his administration’s National Strategy to Counter Antisemitism, a first-of-its-kind initiative at the highest levels of government. 

Today, the U.S. Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights, put forward a resolution outlining concerns into the handling of antisemitic, anti-Zionist harassment at the
University of Vermont.

Jewish on Campus commends President Biden’s announcement that he will create an interagency group to develop a national strategy on countering antisemitism.

Jewish on Campus thanks the White House for inviting them to a roundtable discussion on combatting antisemitism with heads of major U.S. Jewish organizations on December 7, 2022.

Yesterday, after news broke that the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights is investigating antisemitism at the University of Vermont, President Suresh V. Garimella sent his university community an astonishingly inadequate and offensive response to the Title VI antisemitism complaint that the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law and Jewish on Campus had filed.

We, the undersigned Jewish organizations, are alarmed, disappointed and troubled by the response issued yesterday by the President of the University of Vermont to the Title VI complaint filed on behalf of a number of UVM students by the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law and Jewish on Campus.

The Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced it has opened a formal investigation into a complaint alleging Jewish students at the University of Vermont (UVM) have been subjected to severe and persistent antisemitic harassment and discrimination.

Two Jewish State University of New York (SUNY) at New Paltz students kicked out of a sexual assault awareness group and then cyberbullied, harassed and threatened, over their Jewish and Israeli identities, filed a formal complaint with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights.

The first national study of campus antisemitism conducted by students themselves demonstrates that while hatred against Jews expressed online remains a significant problem, almost three-quarters of incidents took place in-person, with the remainder happening online.

The World Jewish Congress (WJC) and Jewish on Campus today announced a joint partnership to amplify the voices and strengthen the actions of college students who identify antisemitic occurrences at their schools.