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Campus · Antisemitism
New School Student Senate Votes to Defund Hillel Chapter; University Rejects Move
The vote is the latest instance of campus anti-Israel activism targeting Jewish institutional life directly, raising questions about how universities police discrimination dressed as political protest.
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The student senate at The New School, a private university in New York, voted to end funding for the campus Hillel chapter. The vote was framed by its proponents as opposition to Israeli military conduct, citing Hillel's support for the IDF. The New School administration rejected the measure, stating that the University Student Senate lacks authority to determine recognition, funding eligibility, or official status of registered student organizations, and that Hillel remains in good standing.
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How it's being framed
Same facts, different stories. We name the frame instead of pretending neutrality.
Antisemitism on campus frame
"Defunding Hillel is not a policy critique of Israel but discrimination against Jewish students, part of a broader pattern targeting kosher restaurants, Chabad houses, and synagogues simply for being Jewish institutions."
NGO infiltration frame
"Terror-linked organizations are exploiting the protected status of human-rights NGOs to launder operations into Western civic institutions, with groups like al-Haq and the Hind Rajab Foundation supplying the ammunition for campaigns against Jewish communities."
Criminalizing Jewish practice frame
"Activists are now treating ordinary religious life — tying tzitzit for soldiers, studying in Israeli yeshivot, reciting memorial prayers — as evidence of war crimes, effectively trying to make the practice of Judaism itself legally suspect."