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More than a dozen headstones were discovered desecrated at the German Hill Road Jewish Cemeteries in Dundalk, Md., over the July 4 weekend. (Courtesy of Eric L. Goldstein via JTA) (Jmore – Baltimore Jewish Living via JTA) — More than a dozen headstones were discovered vandalized with swastikas over the July 4 weekend at a Jewish cemetery in the Baltimore suburb of Dundalk, Maryland. “It’s something I’ve never seen in all my years of cemetery-going,” said Deborah R. Weiner, a Baltimore Jewish historian who discovered the vandalism at German Hill Road Jewish Cemeteries when she and ...

Johns Hopkins teaching assistant tweets about failing students who support Israel Julian Baron UP NEXT BALTIMORE (WBFF) - A pro-Palestine teaching assistant at Johns Hopkins University suggested on social media she would take points away from students who support Israel, prompting an investigation by the university's Office of Institutional Equity. In November, the teaching assistant posted a poll on her personal Twitter account asking if she should fail Zionist students because they "support [her] ethnic cleansing." Both the poll and the teaching assistant's Twitter account ...

Jewish organizations are condemning a Johns Hopkins University teaching assistant, who tweeted about giving Zionist students lower grades.

Illustrative -- The Maryland Hall at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland on Jan. 12, 2011 (Wikimedia Commons) JTA — A teaching assistant at Johns Hopkins University defended what she called her fair treatment of students after she debated online the merits of giving Zionists “all their points” in exams. Rasha Anayah, a graduate student in the chemistry department at the Baltimore school, launched into the debate on Twitter on Nov. 15, the Forward reported Thursday. “Ethical dilemma: if you have to grade a zionist students exam, do you still give them all their points even ...