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Dozens of Harvard Medical School faculty and students protested outside of the school on March 15, 2024. They were protesting an event featuring the president of the American Medical Association, over the powerful physicians' group's repeated refusal to call for a ceasefire in Gaza. (Suzanne Kreiter/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)
February 6, 2025, 11:00 am
Federal health department to investigate medical schools over pro-Palestinian graduation protests
New federal agency opens antisemitism investigations for the first time.
By Andrew Lapin
View of Columbia University (Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons)
May 2, 2024, 10:58 am
From a Columbia alum Israeli peace activist
Our political leadership on both sides is using us all as pawns in this bloody conflict. It must end.
By Rabbi Dr. Haviva Ner-David
Harvard, Columbia, and the University of Pennsylvania have announced steps to fight antisemitism after weeks of turmoil on their campuses and others.(Wikimedia, David L. Ryan/The Boston Globe via Getty Images, Columbia University. Design by Jackie Hajdenberg)
November 2, 2023, 12:54 pm
Harvard, Penn, Columbia announce steps to address antisemitism
The announcements come as those schools have contended with complaints that their administrations have not taken sufficient action to protect Jewish students or condemn Hamas.
By Jackie Hajdenberg
Harvard President Lawrence Bacow introduces U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith at Harvard University in Boston, May 2, 2019. (Paul Marotta/Getty Images)
June 13, 2022, 9:55 pm
Two Ivy League presidents leave different legacies on campus Israel speech and antisemitism
Harvard President Lawrence Bacow’s announcement that he would be leaving the school came on the heels of a similar announcement in April from Columbia’s president, Lee Bollinger.
By Andrew Lapin and Caleb Guedes-Reed
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