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How “nonviolent” are nonviolent protests? The cliché from left-wing politicians and academia is that the last two months’ worth of campus mob actions have been a marvel of nonaggression.

Toronto Police Service investigates suspected hate-motivated arsons targeting signs, including one at a synagogue, sparking outrage and calls for action against antisemitism.

Danielle Kaminsky, a teacher who teaches at a high school in New York City’s Brooklyn, allegedly received anti-semitic terror threats like swastikas, death threats, Nazi salutes and Hitler-loving comments and the school authorities did not take any concrete steps to prevent it.

Amid the pro-Palestinian protests at UNC-Chapel Hill and on college campuses across the country, North Carolina state House Speaker Tim Moore (R) filed a bill this week that would define antisemitism in state law.

As Jews are fighting a war of self-defense against Hamas, the PLO, and other terrorist organizations, Israel is accused of genocide, war crimes, and perpetrating a Holocaust.

The Michigan Educators Rank-and-File Committee and the International Youth and Students for Social Equality at the University of Michigan call on members of the Lecturers’ Employee Organization to vote “No” on the sellout contract announced by the LEO leadership and organize a strike to halt the repression of peaceful student protests at U-M and nationwide against US/Israeli genocide in Gaza.

Police have arrested 30 people related to anti-Israel protests at Portland State University in Oregon, where authorities also detained a driver who accelerated toward a crowd of demonstrators and allegedly sprayed them with mace or pepper spray. 

New York State Senate Republicans urge Democratic colleagues to address antisemitism legislation before legislative session ends, proposing measures to combat hate on college campuses.

Pro-Palestinian activists establish encampment at University of Victoria, demanding divestment from Israel, echoing similar movements and advocating for broader liberation causes.

Brown University caved to radical anti-Israel demonstrators this week, promising to hold a vote on divestment from Israel.