( JTA) — In the final days of the Biden administration, the federal Department of Education has resolved a small number of its many remaining Title VI cases involving allegations of antisemitic and anti-Palestinian discrimination.
U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Friday visited the site of Nazi extermination camp Auschwitz, voicing his “sheer horror” at what he saw and vowing that he would fight the growing antisemitism which is causing fears to rise among Jews including in Britain.
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Many colleges accused of tolerating antisemitism on their campuses have been settling with federal civil rights investigators in the weeks before the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump, who urged a tougher response to campus protests against the war in Gaza.
Lipstadt first drew international attention for her defeat of a libel suit filed by British author David Irving, whom she accused of Holocaust denial in her 1996 book, “Denying the Holocaust.” The case was the basis for a 2016 film in which actor Rachel Weisz portrayed Lipstadt (and received accent coaching from her).
Rutgers students are slamming the settlement the Biden administration reached with Rutgers University after hundreds of incidents of antisemitism were reported.
The leader of a prominent European Jewish organization says authorities across Europe need to immediately take action against a precipitous rise in antisemitism
Many colleges at the center of the highest-profile cases, such as Columbia and Cornell, face investigations that remain unresolved.
Deborah Lipstadt, the U.S. special envoy for antisemitism, aligns with the incoming administration on several points related to antisemitism and Israel.
The Biden administration and the 118th Congress—particularly the Senate—failed the American Jewish community. The reelection of President Donald Trump and the Republican reclamation of both chambers represents a crucial opportunity to do better, and to reset federal policies on unlawful antisemitism.
Sir Keir Starmer has visited Auschwitz, a place he described as "utterly harrowing", and said he was determined to fight the "poison of antisemitism". The Prime Minister visited the former Nazi concentration camp as he travelled to Poland to meet the country's political leaders.