The White House reported on Monday “an alarming increase in anti-Semitic incidents on college and university campuses” since the attack by the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas in Israel on October 7.
The US government will hold a meeting this Monday with representatives of Jewish organizations, which will be attended by the Secretary of Education, Miguel Cardona, and Doug Emhoff, husband of Vice President Kamala Harris, a senior official reported.
The US government will hold a meeting this Monday with representatives of Jewish organizations, which will be attended by the Secretary of Education, Miguel Cardona, and Doug Emhoff, husband of Vice President Kamala Harris, a senior official reported.
The Education Secretary will go to a university this week and participate in a round table with Jewish students.
The Departments of Justice and Homeland Security have direct contact with universities, he added.
The White House has not provided figures on the increase in anti-Semitic acts since October 7.
Cornell University (northeast), where debates about the war have heated up, said Sunday that police were investigating anti-Semitic threats posted online against a Jewish community center on campus. .
The government says it is simplifying procedures for filing discrimination complaints on American campuses, for example for people subjected to anti-Semitic or Islamophobic slurs.
The war between Israel and Hamas has caused strong tension in the most famous American universities, such as Harvard, where about thirty student organizations published a statement shortly after October 7 calling for ” The Israeli regime is fully responsible for the violence.”
The text angered some politicians and personalities.
