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Someone called Oct. 7 “a beautiful day” at a University of North Carolina event. The Faculty Council then “indefinitely postponed” a resolution that would have condemned the statement. Nearly two months after the start of the war between Hamas and Israel last fall, a speaker at an event sponsored by an academic department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill uttered these words: “Oct. 7, for many of us from the region, was a beautiful day.”

A free speech rights group has lodged a complaint against anti-Israel activists with Students for Justice in Palestine, for disrupting an event at the University of North Carolina campus.

(JTA) – Earlier this month, a lawyer acting on information from a pro-Israel group of North Carolinians told the federal government that their state’s flagship public university should be investigated for allowing anti-Israel rhetoric on campus. Now the government has acted on it. The U.S. Department of Education announced recently that it has opened a […]

(JTA) – Earlier this month, a lawyer acting on information from a pro-Israel group of North Carolinians told the federal government that their

The federal government has opened an investigation into UNC-Chapel Hill following a complaint about two incidents there this year.

The DOE’s civil rights office has doubled down on antisemitism- and Islamophobia-related complaints.

The Department of Education told a pro-Israel group it was investigating allegations of antisemitic speech at UNC.

(JTA) – Earlier this month, a pro-Israel group of North Carolinians told the federal government that their state’s flagship public university should be investigated for allowing anti-Israel rhetoric on campus.