( 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.
Antisemitism, Auschwitz concentration camp and Starmer
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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.
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.
Many colleges at the center of the highest-profile cases, such as Columbia and Cornell, face investigations that remain unresolved.
The leader of a prominent European Jewish organization says authorities across Europe need to immediately take action against a precipitous rise in antisemitism
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Deborah Lipstadt, the U.S. special envoy for antisemitism, aligns with the incoming administration on several points related to antisemitism and Israel.
International delegations are expected to attend a Jan. 27 ceremony commemorating 80 years since the death camp's liberation