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.
By Matt DiSanto and Geoff Rushton
Penn State University Police and Public Safety is investigating after a “Zoom bombing” incident on Monday night in which an unidentified individual joined a virtual diversity event at University Park and directed hate speech and “horrific” gestures at guests.
A similar incident occurred during an online diversity event at Penn State Brandywine on Monday night, according to the university.
Both attacks come a little more than two weeks after dozens of unauthorized users joined a
Penn State Black Caucus event on Zoom and directed racist, anti-Semitic and homophobic hate speech and gestures at participants.