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(OneNewsNow) — All the members of America’s highest court – save one – say it’s important to protect the principle of free speech, even when the offending policy no longer exists. In a near-unanimous ruling (8-1), the U.S. Supreme Court ruled today that government officials must be held accountable when they violate constitutionally protected freedoms. The ruling […]
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Supreme Court Rules 8-1 in Favor of Campus Gospel Preaching Case, Justice Roberts Sole Dissenter
March 9th, 2021 
Awake Goy Scholars Under Surveillance: How Campus Police Use High Tech to Spy on Students
March 9th, 2021 Awake Goy It may be many months before college campuses across the U.S. fully reopen, but when they do, many students will be returning to a learning environment that is under near constant scrutiny by law enforcement. A fear of school shootings, and other campus crimes, have led administrators and campus police to install sophisticated surveillance systems […]
Courage Was the Reason Campus Antisemites Were Beaten
March 7th, 2021 Awake Goy Tufts University. Photo: Pete Jelliffe / Flickr. JNS.org – It was a familiar story but with an unfamiliar conclusion. A Jewish student objected to the antisemitic slanders promoted by a student organization dedicated to Israel’s destruction. For his pains, he was targeted for harassment and then scheduled to be hauled before a disciplinary meeting at […]
Israeli Apartheid Week 2009 may be coming to a campus near you
February 17th, 2021 Awake Goy Israeli Apartheid Week will take place on March 1-8 on college campuses in 27 cities internationally, in what has become a growing phenomenon since the annual event was started in 2005.Although the schedule for this year’s version has not yet been released, a message on its Web site makes clear what the focus will be: […]
Swastikas painted in front of California campus’ Jewish fraternity house
February 8th, 2021 Awake Goy Police in California are investigating after a Jewish fraternity at the California Polytechnic State University reported finding swastikas and other anti-Semitic graffiti painted outside its house. The symbols were scrawled in front of the Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity house in California’s San Luis Obispo County on Friday night, campus authorities said. “We awoke to multiple […]
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No Comments »California Must Lead The Way In Abolishing School And University Campus Police
February 3rd, 2021 Awake Goy By Angela Davis, Melina Abdullah and Robin D. G. Kelley, Sacramento Bee. February 2, 2021 The first days of 2021 — which will surely be remembered for police officers in Washington, D.C. removing barricades in order for white supremacists to storm the United States Capitol, confederate flag in hand — ask us to continue learning […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: abolishing, california, campus, police, school, university No Comments »‘NYT’ portrays pro-Palestinian activists as ‘strident’ and ‘orthodox’ in article on campus debate
January 27th, 2021 Awake Goy The New York Times ran a long article about the campus debate over Israel that highlighted Zoom’s cancellation of talks by Leila Khaled, because she had participated in two hijackings 50 years ago. Titled, “What Zoom Does to Campus Conflicts Over Israel and Free Speech,” the article placed Palestinian activism outside the normal range of […]
Posted in NEW YORK TIMES Tags: activists, article, campus, orthodox, palestinian, portrays, strident No Comments »Mariame Kaba Talks Abolition, Mutual Aid And Campus Police
January 18th, 2021 Awake Goy Above photo: Mariame Kaba is an activist and prison-industrial complex abolitionist. On Wednesday she addressed an audience of over 1,000, supporting student organizers and the campaign against University Police. Northwestern Now. Activist and prison-industrial complex abolitionist Mariame Kaba celebrated the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. by praising NU Community Not Cops and speaking […]
Campus Palestine Battles Didn’t Slow Down During Holidays
January 9th, 2021 Awake Goy Editor’s Note: This latest installment of The Shift was written before the riot at the U.S. Capitol on January 6. For more on that, including responses from Israeli leaders who have been perhaps Donald Trump’s greatest allies, see this article by Phil Weiss. A Setback at Fordham Fordham Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) have been […]
Yeshiva University students to again hold an LGBTQ event on campus
December 19th, 2020 Awake Goy Ten years after an event featuring gay students and graduates divided Yeshiva University, students at the Modern Orthodox school are planning another event on LGBTQ issues — with trepidation. The students who helped plan the event set for Sunday say they do not want their names associated with the panel out of concern that it […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: again, campus, event, lgbtq, students, university, Yeshiva No Comments »Canadian Campus Fraternity Behind Racist, Antisemitic Chatroom ‘Seething With Hate’
November 28th, 2020 Awake Goy An email written by one of the activists said that members of Delta Chi referred to Black Lives Matter protesters as “criminals” and “idiots” and talked about “how they hate Black people and that Black people were better as slaves.” The email continued: “They describe how they wish they could own Black people as slaves, […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: antisemitic, behind, campus, canadian, chatroom, fraternity, Racist No Comments »UIUC declared its commitment to fighting antisemitism on campus
November 17th, 2020 Awake Goy The University of Illinois has declared that it will begin pushing back, in cooperation with the Jewish community, against antisemitic and anti-Zionist harassment that takes place on campus, according to a statement by the university. The university expressed its commitment to allowing all students to express their Jewish and Zionist identity without facing discrimination during university […]
UConn Shutting Campus Down over Less Than 1% Coronavirus Positive Rate
November 9th, 2020 Awake Goy The University of Connecticut announced last week that it will shut down its main campus after the Thanksgiving break to prevent the spread of coronavirus. The campus is currently reporting a positivity rate of under one percent. According to a local news report, the University of Connecticut is shutting down its main campus to mitigate […]
Amy Coney Barrett Emphasized Due Process in Campus Sexual Misconduct Case
October 2nd, 2020 Awake Goy U.S. Supreme Court nominee Judge Amy Coney Barrett led a unanimous all-woman panel of judges in June 2019 in reversing a lower court’s decision to dismiss a male college student’s claims of discrimination because of his gender and failure of his school to protect his right to due process. In Doe v. Purdue University, Barrett, […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: barrett, campus, coney, emphasized, misconduct, process, sexual No Comments »Meet Students Organizing The First Campus-Wide Undergraduate Union
September 17th, 2020 Awake Goy Above photo: Kenyon Student Worker Organizing Committee/Facebook. Inside the groundbreaking student organizing drive at Kenyon College. On August 31, students at Kenyon College, a private liberal arts college in Gambier, Ohio, announced their intent to unionize with the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE) in an open letter to the school’s president and board […]
Texas campus white supremacy row stars a 19th-century ‘racist’ Jewish composer
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‘It’s not the same and everybody knows it’: Jewish campus life goes virtual
August 28th, 2020 Awake Goy (JTA) — When Abigail Adams decided to attend the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, she thought she would spend the Friday nights of her first year there at Shabbat dinners on campus with other Jewish students, building a close-knit group of friends. By the time Adams moved into her dorm earlier this month, […]
‘It’s not the same and everybody knows it’: Jewish campus life goes virtual
August 28th, 2020 Awake Goy (JTA) — When Abigail Adams decided to attend the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, she thought she would spend the Friday nights of her first year there at Shabbat dinners on campus with other Jewish students, building a close-knit group of friends. By the time Adams moved into her dorm earlier this month, […]
Evergreen State’s "Independent" report whitewashes campus meltdown, claims professor
June 1st, 2018 Awake Goy Evergreen State College released a 38-page “Independent” report on the protests and riots of last spring that is far from “independent,” claims a former administrator at the college. Last spring, Evergreen State was engulfed in riots after a Bret Weinstein, a former professor, sent an email questioning the school’s “day of absence,” which called […]
Posted in World News Tags: campus, evergreen, independent, meltdown, report, state, whitewashes No Comments »AUB Bans Political Analyst from Taking part in BBC Debate to Be held on Its Campus
March 4th, 2018 Awake Goy The American University of Beirut, which hails itself as a sanctuary of free-thinking in the Middle East and claims to provide a platform for freedom of speech has just banned an independent political analyst from participating in a BBC debate that is scheduled to take place on the 8th of March on AUB campus. This […]
