Jonah S. Rubin
@jsrubin.bsky.social
Sr. Manager of Campus Organizing at jvp.bsky.social | Anthropologist of human rights, Forensic Science, Death, and News Literacy / "Fake News"
New report shows how Title VI civil rights law has become a tool to impose ideological priorities on US schools
Surge in antisemitism investigations at US universities after October 7 attacks, data shows
A report shared exclusively with the Guardian documents how a civil rights law has become a tool to impose ideological priorities on US schools
www.theguardian.com
November 6, 2025 at 12:05 PM
New report shows how Title VI civil rights law has become a tool to impose ideological priorities on US schools
Repression of Palestine Solidarity on Campus Enabled Anti-Migrant Escalation truthout.org/articles/rep...
Repression of Palestine Solidarity on Campus Enabled Anti-Migrant Escalation
Faculty are forming support networks to connect with each other to protect students and end the genocide in Palestine.
truthout.org
November 3, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Repression of Palestine Solidarity on Campus Enabled Anti-Migrant Escalation truthout.org/articles/rep...
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CAHE Antifascism caucus event on 11/19! Please register and share!
November 2, 2025 at 8:15 PM
CAHE Antifascism caucus event on 11/19! Please register and share!
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Come out on 11/6 in SF to listen to the preliminary injunction hearing in AAUP v Trump! Show the federal courts that we stand up for academic freedom and will not capitulate!
WE are the UC!
WE are the UC!
November 2, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Come out on 11/6 in SF to listen to the preliminary injunction hearing in AAUP v Trump! Show the federal courts that we stand up for academic freedom and will not capitulate!
WE are the UC!
WE are the UC!
In a landslide vote, McGill University professors and librarians endorse the academic and cultural boycott of Israel mondoweiss.net/2025/10/in-a...
In a landslide vote, McGill University professors and librarians endorse the academic and cultural boycott of Israel
In a 114-8 vote, the McGill Association of University Teachers endorsed the academic and cultural boycott of Israel. The win came after years of organizing, demonstrating the collective power of profe...
mondoweiss.net
October 23, 2025 at 8:29 PM
In a landslide vote, McGill University professors and librarians endorse the academic and cultural boycott of Israel mondoweiss.net/2025/10/in-a...
Arthur Waskow, rabbi who brought spirituality to progressive activism, dies at 92 jweekly.com/2025/10/20/a...
Arthur Waskow, rabbi who brought spirituality to politics, dies at 92
Waskow was arrested more than two dozen times for his activism. He also wrote more than two dozen books.
jweekly.com
October 21, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Arthur Waskow, rabbi who brought spirituality to progressive activism, dies at 92 jweekly.com/2025/10/20/a...
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You would think that if an American anti-antisemitism organization served any purpose, it would be to react strongly when the Vice President of the US defends people for praising Hitler. But you would in fact be wrong.
It's notable that, after text messages were revealed showing that substantial numbers of young Republican leaders are sympathetic to Nazism, the ADL is praising the few Republicans who denounced them - and is silent on the fact that the Vice President of the United States openly defended them.
October 16, 2025 at 11:37 PM
You would think that if an American anti-antisemitism organization served any purpose, it would be to react strongly when the Vice President of the US defends people for praising Hitler. But you would in fact be wrong.
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In light of the fact that students protested the university's participation in genocide, Cole argues that the university should reinstate disciplined students, ask NYC to drop criminal charges, and reopen campus gates to the public. All very reasonable points.
Former Columbia Provost Jonathan Cole asks the university to bravely admit where it was wrong:
www.columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2025...
www.columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2025...
Columbia must now show courage and empathy
Dear Columbia leaders,
www.columbiaspectator.com
October 16, 2025 at 3:30 AM
In light of the fact that students protested the university's participation in genocide, Cole argues that the university should reinstate disciplined students, ask NYC to drop criminal charges, and reopen campus gates to the public. All very reasonable points.
Boycotts are working.
Israeli researchers and universities face unprecedented wave of boycotts
Nearly one thousand scientists have signed a petition calling on CERN, the world's leading particle physics laboratory, to reconsider its cooperation with Israel.
www.lemonde.fr
October 15, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Boycotts are working.
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🎙️ Last week, a group of Columbia professors — most of them Jewish — took a stand. Risking reprisal, they publicly rejected the university’s recent incorporation of a controversial definition of antisemitism. Their statements, excerpted here, can be read in full at cu-standsup.org/events/free-....
October 9, 2025 at 5:01 PM
🎙️ Last week, a group of Columbia professors — most of them Jewish — took a stand. Risking reprisal, they publicly rejected the university’s recent incorporation of a controversial definition of antisemitism. Their statements, excerpted here, can be read in full at cu-standsup.org/events/free-....
‘They didn’t even read the book’: How children’s authors are being canceled over Palestine | Books | The Guardian share.google/MtU2QxEhy0Fr...
‘They didn’t even read the book’: How children’s authors are being canceled over Palestine
Authors tell of book bans, cancellations and harassment – ‘they’re trying to disconnect us from our stories’
share.google
October 9, 2025 at 1:42 PM
‘They didn’t even read the book’: How children’s authors are being canceled over Palestine | Books | The Guardian share.google/MtU2QxEhy0Fr...
UCSF Chancellor emailed the whole campus to say that anything that "politicizes Zionism" - a political ideology - is somehow antisemitic. We live in absurdist times.
chancellor.ucsf.edu/news/antisem...
chancellor.ucsf.edu/news/antisem...
Antisemitic Flyer Distributed at UCSF | Office of the Chancellor
chancellor.ucsf.edu
October 7, 2025 at 9:59 PM
UCSF Chancellor emailed the whole campus to say that anything that "politicizes Zionism" - a political ideology - is somehow antisemitic. We live in absurdist times.
chancellor.ucsf.edu/news/antisem...
chancellor.ucsf.edu/news/antisem...
"The Trump admin’s “deals” turn Jewish studies into the court Jew of old. Left unchecked, this spells disaster for the field....Jews will not fare well. They will become exactly what the Trump administration sees them as: symbols to be manipulated, paraded & blamed to explain the ills of the world."
Jewish-Studies Scholars, Beware: Trump’s Deal Will Corrupt You
We must all resist being turned into court Jews.
www.chronicle.com
October 7, 2025 at 9:59 PM
"The Trump admin’s “deals” turn Jewish studies into the court Jew of old. Left unchecked, this spells disaster for the field....Jews will not fare well. They will become exactly what the Trump administration sees them as: symbols to be manipulated, paraded & blamed to explain the ills of the world."
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New on Academe Blog: academeblog.org/2025/10/03/o...
On Higher Ed “Boards of Trustees,” a Preliminary Statement from the JVP Academic Council
BY LAURA GOLDBLATT AND DAN SEGAL With scant exceptions, US colleges and universities have a board of trustees that is the institution’s highest decision-making or governance body. In response to t…
academeblog.org
October 3, 2025 at 2:31 PM
New on Academe Blog: academeblog.org/2025/10/03/o...
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WE WON: "This case -– perhaps the most important ever to fall w/in..this district court squarely presents the issue whether non-citizens lawfully present here in US..have the same free speech rights as the rest of us. The Court answers this Constitutional question unequivocally “yes, they do.”"
October 1, 2025 at 12:03 AM
WE WON: "This case -– perhaps the most important ever to fall w/in..this district court squarely presents the issue whether non-citizens lawfully present here in US..have the same free speech rights as the rest of us. The Court answers this Constitutional question unequivocally “yes, they do.”"
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Pls read the 161 page opinion.
I want to highlight some information that came out in discovery & at trial that folks might have missed.
(1) Asst Director Hatch, is the senior director in the Office of Intelligence. He oversees intelligence reports known as Reports of Analysis (ROA)....
I want to highlight some information that came out in discovery & at trial that folks might have missed.
(1) Asst Director Hatch, is the senior director in the Office of Intelligence. He oversees intelligence reports known as Reports of Analysis (ROA)....
October 1, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Pls read the 161 page opinion.
I want to highlight some information that came out in discovery & at trial that folks might have missed.
(1) Asst Director Hatch, is the senior director in the Office of Intelligence. He oversees intelligence reports known as Reports of Analysis (ROA)....
I want to highlight some information that came out in discovery & at trial that folks might have missed.
(1) Asst Director Hatch, is the senior director in the Office of Intelligence. He oversees intelligence reports known as Reports of Analysis (ROA)....
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If you are a member of MLA, please sign on to support the proposed resolution 2026-1. We need 100 signatures by 10/1. www.mla.org/About-Us/Gov...
September 29, 2025 at 3:43 PM
If you are a member of MLA, please sign on to support the proposed resolution 2026-1. We need 100 signatures by 10/1. www.mla.org/About-Us/Gov...
So glad that very serious centrists devoted so much time between Trump terms to the urgent national issue of someone being mean on Twitter. As always, finger on the pulse of threats to the First Amendment.
September 18, 2025 at 3:49 AM
So glad that very serious centrists devoted so much time between Trump terms to the urgent national issue of someone being mean on Twitter. As always, finger on the pulse of threats to the First Amendment.
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The Head of Trumps's Combatting Antisemitism Task Force Leo Terrell celebrates the corrupt ruling to deport Mahmoud Khalil. If the ruling combined with this clown's social media post don't sum up the incredibly sorry state of affairs of this country, I don't know what does.
September 18, 2025 at 3:30 AM
The Head of Trumps's Combatting Antisemitism Task Force Leo Terrell celebrates the corrupt ruling to deport Mahmoud Khalil. If the ruling combined with this clown's social media post don't sum up the incredibly sorry state of affairs of this country, I don't know what does.
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Today, the UN officially designated Israel’s assault on Gaza as a genocide.
As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire.
End the genocide. Ceasefire now.
As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire.
End the genocide. Ceasefire now.
September 16, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Today, the UN officially designated Israel’s assault on Gaza as a genocide.
As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire.
End the genocide. Ceasefire now.
As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire.
End the genocide. Ceasefire now.