(JTA) — Brandeis University is revoking recognition of the campus chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine, saying the group “openly supports Hamas.”
“This decision was not made lightly, as Brandeis is dedicated to upholding free speech principles,” the university wrote in its letter, which the Jewish Telegraphic Agency obtained.
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A few weeks after the Hamas terror attack in which 1,400 innocent Israeli civilians were killed and 220 taken hostage, our collective Jewish family has now had to face another troubling enemy an alarming rise in antisemitism and misinformation across the country, particularly on college campuses. Anti-Israel protests on campuses and hostile environments against Jews have
Missives aim to demonstrate that recent vote by legislative body not representative of majority view at the university founded in 1948 by US Jewish community leaders