Campus Protests Over Gaza War

The lawsuit was part of a wave of litigation against universities over accusations of antisemitism related to campus protests over the war in Gaza.

With the survivor generation shrinking and antisemitism on the rise around the world, Israel’s Holocaust memorial is stepping up efforts to safeguard its vast collection of artifacts and testimony.

Readers discuss a column by Pamela Paul. Also: Criticism of The Times’s Biden-Trump coverage; why voting matters; helping migrants in New York.

Sullivan & Cromwell is requiring job applicants to explain their participation in protests. Critics see the policy as a way to silence speech about the war.

Nemat Shafik, the university president, called the sentiments in the text messages “unacceptable and deeply upsetting.”

Readers discuss an article about how the Gaza war has been divisive at a hospital and medical school.

In her four years at the state university, Maurie McInnis drew criticism from faculty members who said some of her decisions violated academic freedom.

The one-minute commercial, which was created by a group formed by former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, seeks to bring attention to atrocities linked to Hamas.

An incident at Columbia suggests that schools beset with antisemitism are beyond salvation.

Doctors at the University of California, San Francisco, say that the workplace they once loved has been fractured by the Israel-Hamas war.

The Manhattan district attorney’s office cited a lack of evidence in deciding not to prosecute 31 of the 46 people charged in the takeover of Hamilton Hall.

Leaked images showed the trio sharing disparaging text messages during an alumni group discussion last month about Jewish life on campus.

One report documented antisemitic threats. The other, anti-Muslim threats. Both signaled that there may be little room for agreement.

I don’t like operating in unison, and I’ve never been much of a tribalist or a joiner.

Readers discuss preparations by progressive activists and others. Also: A nuclear threat; geoengineering; Gaza protests in Belgium; a tribe’s whale hunt.

Invoking Nazis and pogroms in discussing the Hamas attacks is wrong and offensive and helps the Israeli government avoid responsibility for its failures.

The department concluded that both schools failed to appropriately respond to complaints that campus protests had veered into antisemitism and anti-Arab discrimination.

Pro-Palestinian student activists at one Belgian university have borrowed from the U.S. playbook of encampments and slogans. The results, however, have been starkly different.

A tentative new contract at an Ohio battery maker on Monday was big for President Biden’s E.V. transition, but for some, the victory was upstaged by the U.A.W.’s activism on college campuses.

Readers discuss a column by Pamela Paul about college protesters’ job prospects and future careers.

It’s not a black-and-white morality tale.

A generation raised to believe it could change the world learns that the rest of the world may not share its vision.

The policy could ease pressure on the school to issue statements on current events. Officials were criticized for their handling of the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks.

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As students in Columbia’s class of 2024 received their diplomas, many of them were grappling with what intense activism on campus would mean to their futures.

La ceremonia de graduación es un raro ritual estadounidense que todavía tiene reglas y convoca la atención pública.

When the police dismantled a pro-Palestinian encampment at the University of Virginia, several professors put their own safety and job security on the line to protect student protesters. Now, faculty members give us a closer look into what happened.

Executive communications experts say the gig is becoming a harder sell for business leaders.

Edan On, an 18-year-old, was charged with assault. The police said he beat pro-Palestinian protesters with a wooden pole.

With speeches canceled, students at the CUNY School of Law ceremony chanted, carried signs and walked out.

The students were protesting Harvard University’s decision to bar 13 seniors from the ceremony in the wake of campus demonstrations over the war in Gaza.

Word of the broadened walkout at the University of California came on the same day that U.C.L.A.’s chancellor testified before Congress on his handling of an attack on a pro-Palestinian encampment.

Leaders of Northwestern, U.C.L.A. and Rutgers, drawing lessons from prior hearings, sought to avoid enraging either the Republicans on the committee or members of their own institutions.

The actions came as the university chancellor testified before Congress. The university said that it was not aware of the police making any arrests.

Commencement is the rare American ritual that still has rules. That’s why it’s ripe for disruption.

Even before the war in Gaza brought upheaval to college campuses, the Rutgers president was criticized over his response to an instructors’ strike and approval of a tuition increase.

Anger at the university’s decision to bar 13 seniors from the ceremony in the wake of campus demonstrations over the war in Gaza was a flashpoint for the protest on Thursday.

The leaders of Northwestern, Rutgers and the University of California, Los Angeles, appeared to have navigated their testimony before Congress without many significant missteps.

New York City will give schools the option to send eighth-graders on field trips to the Museum of Jewish Heritage as part of an effort to address antisemitism.

The heads of Rutgers, Northwestern and U.C.L.A. will be the first university leaders to testify since a wave of protest encampments roiled college campuses.