(New Brunswick, NJ) A Rutgers University chancellor and provost are apologizing after speaking out against an increase in anti-Semitism. Rutgers University-New Brunswick provost Francine Conway and Chancellor Christopher Molloy sent an email to the student body condemning the recent rise in anti-Semitism attacks in America as the conflict between Israel and Hamas raged on.
Chancellor Christopher J. Molloy (left) of the New Brunswick campus issued his apology on Thursday, a day after sending a message condemning a resurgence of anti-Semitism in the U.S.
The chancellor and provost of Rutgers University-New Brunswick issued an apology Thursday following a May 26 statement condemning the rise in antisemitic violence and hostile sentiments across America.
A Wednesday statement from Chancellor Christopher J. Molloy and Provost Francine Conway said recent incidents were greatly concerning and a reminder of “what history has to teach us,” addressing the upward trend of antisemitism, continual racial injustices against minority groups and the increasing violence in the Middle East.
“This recent resurgence of antisemitism demands that we again call out and denounce acts of hate and prejudice against members of the Jewish community and any other targeted and oppressed groups on our campus and in our community,” they wrote.
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Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson is speaking as Douglass College’s 2021 Blanche, Edith, and Irving Laurie Chair in Women’s Studies. Joe Henson
Wilkerson, author of
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America s Great Migration (2010) and
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (2020), is speaking as the Douglass College’s 2021 Blanche, Edith, and Irving Laurie Chair in Women’s Studies. Through her role at Rutgers this spring, Wilkerson has participated in private events with students in the Department of Women s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and a round table discussion with directors from the Institute for Women s Leadership.