It’s so fucking sick that Stanford is *felony* prosecuting their own students for a ONE HOUR PROTEST inside the president‘s office. Crime? Barricading themselves for ONE HOUR

Felony charges and six-figure fines for a one-hour nonviolent protest is outrageous. An institution that does this is not an institution of education.

More on Harvard's unjustified firing of Mary Basset and others: "In no instance has the Harvard administration provided any justification for these highly irregular actions, which have threatened the reputations of well-regarded and principled colleagues." www.aaup-hfc.org/aaup-harvard...

It bears emphasizing: The same admin that is attacking and defunding our universities, over what they call an antisemitism crisis, is now saying antisemitism isn't a problem at all.

The new travel ban issued by President Trump halts people with Palestinian Authority-issued passports from entering the United States. Immigration law expert Samah Sisay (of @ccrjustice.org) says the new restrictions are about politics, not security.

The choice by ADL and other legacy institutions, to demonize protest against Israel as antisemitic, created a wide opening for Vance et al to deny that antisemitism exists, while at the same time welcoming anti-semites like Fuentes into their fold.

From CJFS co-founder Eve Spangler: Ceasefires in the Gaza Genocide: A Historical Perspective www.counterpunch.org/2025/12/19/c...

CJFS joins 2000+ demanding that Harvard's School of Public Health reverse the ouster of Mary Bassett as director of the FXB Ctr for Health & Human Rights. We are outraged that FXB's webinars on the public health crisis in Gaza have been smeared as antisemitic. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"To foster a campus climate of real inclusion, we need to convene and converse, not record and report... Our administrations and governments just have to give us the respect, job security and academic freedom to do so." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

“…to foster a campus climate of real inclusion, we need to convene and converse, not record and report. The details are tricky, but teachers and students can figure them out together. Our administrations and governments just have to give us the respect, job security and academic freedom to do so.”

mic drop from the brilliant @margaretlitvin.bsky.social co-founder of @concernedjfaculty.bsky.social modeling how we lead with humanness. (no surprise from the humanities). www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

Our co-founder @margaretlitvin.bsky.social on how to combat antisemitism by bringing students together rather than turning them on each other. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

From Joseph Levine in @dailyhampgazette.bsky.social : Report of MA antisemitism commission "flawed for its conflation of Judaism with Zionism, and dangerous because it... puts the imprimatur of a blue state on the Trump admin’s exploitation of antisemitism." reader.gazettenet.com/story/hg-dhg...

DOJ attorneys tasked with investigating antisemitism in the UC system were told to "come up with a reason to sue UC" before they had even started the investigation. www.latimes.com/california/s...

It's been a horrible 24 hours, with one mass shooting at Brown and another on a Hanukkah celebration in Sydney, Australia. Our thoughts are with everyone impacted.

Here’s what many Jews know but the commission won’t acknowledge: Conflating Jewish identity with support for Israel increases antisemitism. By insisting that criticizing Israeli government policy is antisemitic, we make all Jews responsible for those policies. @concernedjfaculty.bsky.social

Today, CJFS and @inclusivemass.bsky.social members handed copies of our Shadow Report to the offices of every Senator and Representative in the MA State House, and shared our concerns about weaponization of antisemitism. Read the report here: www.concernedjewishfaculty.org/commission-s...

Two new pieces in the @cwbeacon.bsky.social from CJFS members! 1. Alex Gourevich writes how state antisemitism commission obssesses over criticism of Israel, while ignoring growing threats from right-wing Christian nationalists. commonwealthbeacon.org/opinion/the-...

"Why should it be antisemitic to argue that members of a state of different religions should have equal rights? Wasn't that the premise of emancipation? Don't we criticize states that fail to do that?" -Mark Mazower, author of "On Antisemitism: A History of a Word" www.haaretz.com/life/books/2...

Northwestern University law profs argue that NU's "deal" with the Trump admin violates the First Amendment and federal antidiscrimination law. Moreover, the grant freeze Trump imposed on NU was unlawful and should have been challenged in court. www.theuniversityunderthreat.org/updates?fbcl...

Rümeysa’s abduction was a travesty and a crime. Hopefully this finally allows her to simply be a PhD student again.

“It has been heartbreaking to see legacy Jewish institutions stoke the flames of Islamophobia… motivated by perverse logic that they can only secure safety of Jewish Americans at the expense of our Muslim brothers & sisters, as if dignity were a zero-sum game.” www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2025...

Let's be clear, there is no evidence this professor's actions were motivated by antisemitism, or that he even knew there is a synagogue in the vicinity. Yet again, the Trump admin is exploiting antisemitism fears to persecute immigrants. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/04/m...

Today at 4pm: Teach-in on protecting campus expression in the Greater Boston area, by Massachusetts Peace Action, @aaup.org and @aft.org masspeaceaction.org/event/protec...

Northwestern's deal with Trump "is not and never has been about antisemitism. It is about punishing universities and the higher education sector. It is about repressing political opponents." Capitulating to these deals makes us all less safe. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/03/o...

“What might have been a model for the nation offers a cautionary tale that leaves Massachusetts even less equipped to contend with antisemitism in the Commonwealth and beyond” --CJFS co-founder @jpygold.bsky.social www.boston.com/news/politic...

“The Resolution states that “protections of Title VI apply to all individuals equally,”…and yet goes on to single out Jewish students for a special, disputed definition of their group membership (“shared ancestry”) and special protections.” This kind of “protection” makes everyone less safe.

Jewish faculty and staff in MA, if you’re concerned about the weaonization of antisemitism to silence free speech, consider joining @concernedjfaculty.bsky.social. Link to their shadow report below. #academicsky

"We need shadow universities to preserve academic values and academic freedom at a time when they are under attack by government officials and campus administrators." — John K. Wilson for Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com

"By importing the authoritarian tactics of President Trump, turning public hearings into a social media circus, trying to humiliate organized labor and Jewish educators, and by actively bullying non-Zionist Jews, the commission did not combat antisemitism." www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/27/o...

“Today, it’s Palestine. Tomorrow, is it the rainbow flag on my door, the fact that I talk about settler colonialism in the southwest, [or] my Black Lives Matter poster?” truthout.org/articles/edu...

anatomy of a smear campaign gone bad. a 🧵about what happened when #MA @aaup.org chapters organized against a pressure campaign designed to smear & shut down a @bostonu.bsky.social webinar on antisemitism. 1/5

It is incredibly dangerous that universities are signing agreements that tie purported measures against antisemitism to rolling back diversity in admissions and excluding trans people from basic facilities. This ends terribly for everyone.

“I think this initiative has as much to do with scientific research as the early [antisemitism] initiative had to do with protecting Jews. This is an extortionist move to try to hold institutions that are heavily dependent on federal funding, as research institutions are, to have leverage over them.

This commission, from its inception to its final report, has focused almost exclusively on silencing criticism of Israel, while ignoring the growing threat from right-wing antisemitic extremists. Its reckless approach will make us all less safe. www.wgbh.org/news/politic...

Glad to see @concernedjfaculty.bsky.social on here now. Follow them for takes from Jewish faculty who don’t want antisemitism involved in ways that actually endanger Jews!

New York Times coverage of lawsuit requesting names of Jewish employees at Penn. [Gift Link] www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/u...

If the government asks for a list of Jews in your organization, you have an absolute ethical obligation to refuse that request, regardless of who is asking or what they say it's for. They have no right to ask and you have no right to comply. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/u...

I signed this petition, and you can do the same here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/st...

"Over the course of a year of hearings, the Special Commission has perhaps irreparably merged the concept of antisemitism with criticism of Israel, which seems to have been the point." www.juancole.com/2025/11/spee...

The Trump admin is demanding that @upenn.edu release a list of Jews www.inquirer.com/education/up...

“The totality of the report—in the context of the commission leadership’s behavior—mainstreams the same narratives & endorses the same policies that Trump admin & allies like ADL wield to spread hate, silence dissent, & erode democratic norms that keep us all safe.” gazettenet.com/2025/11/21/m...

One of the worst aspects of the Commission's final report is a call for universities to prohibit boycotts against countries. The aim is obviously to prohibit boycotts of Israel. But the same language would also prohibit boycotts of Russia over Ukraine invasion, or of South Africa over apartheid.

The MA Antisemitism Commission has approved its final report conflating Judaism with Zionism. We respond: "The Commission has done more to fuel rising authoritarianism and antisemitism than to create the conditions that promote Jewish safety" www.concernedjewishfaculty.org/commission-s...

BREAKING: Shadow Report from @concernedjfaculty.bsky.social detailing how the #MA Antisemitism Commission is inviting an ADL/MAGA crackdown on civil rights and civil liberties. @marisakabas.bsky.social www.concernedjewishfaculty.org/commission-s...

Despite a more inclusive introductory framing, the MA Antisemitism Commission's draft report insists on the IHRA definition, declares "Zionist" to be a slur, and directs universities to prohibit academic boycotts and curtail protests Our response here: www.concernedjewishfaculty.org/mscca-draft-...

"As long as Jewish Zionist groups intervene every time that curricula veers even slightly toward acknowledging Palestinian human rights, the possibility for a robust cross-analysis of antisemitism within ethnic studies recedes farther from sight." jewishcurrents.org/in-californi...

"Pluralism asks us to share space. Restorative justice asks us to share responsibility. The first sustains dialogue; the second ensures that conversation leads to true change." Coauthored by CJFS member Aaron Shakow www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/17/o...

New report from @mesa1966.bsky.social and @aaup.org : Antisemitism lawsuits and investigations have skyrocketed over the past two years, largely driven by outside groups, and almost all focusing on criticism of Israel.