38-page report<\/a>, the student government alleged Hillel\u2019s participation in programs that send students to volunteer on military bases in Israel makes the entire student body complicit,\u00a0through\u00a0fees taken from tuition to fund all student groups.<\/p>\n\u201cTo continue to fund Hillel at the New School would mean that your student fees would be used to support violations of international law,\u201d the statement says. \u201cOur shared values require us to enforce our policies until Hillel agrees to affirm and abide by international law.\u201d<\/p>\n
The report also complained that Hillel, through its participation in the Birthright Israel program, allows students to tour and participate in recreational activities in occupied territories, including\u00a0jeeping\u00a0in the\u00a0Golan Heights.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Later Saturday, the school told The Post\u00a0 the student senate didn\u2019t have the authority to revoke funding.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe student senate does not have the authority to determine the recognition, funding eligibility, or official status of registered student organizations. That authority rests with university administration,\u201d a spokesperson said.<\/p>\n
The student government slammed programs that send students to volunteer on military bases in Israel. Instagram\/hillelatbaruch<\/p>\n
\u201cOur Hillel chapter remains, as it always has been, in good standing, eligible for funding, and supporting Jewish life at The New School.\u201d<\/p>\n
It wasn\u2019t immediately clear what, if any disciplinary action the school would take action against the senate students.<\/p>\n
\u201cHillel is not a political organization,\u201d said Mark\u00a0Treyger, CEO of the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York, who called the students\u2019 vote\u00a0\u201cdisgraceful and dangerous.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cTo target Hillel is to target Jewish identity and Jewish belonging on campus,\u201d he continued.\u201dJewish students should not be forced to justify their identity, heritage, or communal spaces in order to participate in campus life. At a moment of rising antisemitism across the country, stripping recognition or funding from Jewish student life sends a chilling and unacceptable message. \u201c<\/p>\n
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City Council Member Eric Dinowitz, chair of the higher education caucus and co-chair of the Jewish caucus, called the Friday vote \u201cdespicable.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is a direct attack on Jewish life on campus,\u201d he wrote Saturday on X. \u201cThe New School must not allow the student senate to be weaponized to target their Jewish population.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jewish alum were aghast by the vote.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs a Jewish alumni I am ashamed to have been a part of your school,\u201d wrote Nicole Mardkha on Instagram. \u201cUniversities should support all student communities equally which you clearly do not. I hear the school has trouble with enrollment of new students\u2026 wonder why! Goodluck with donations and enrollment. Jokes on you.\u201d<\/p>\n
The liberal private Manhattan university is the first school to cut funding for its Hillel chapters. Instagram\/hillelatbaruch<\/p>\n
Hillel International CEO and President Adam Lehman vowed Jewish students would not be denied a Hillel chapter.<\/p>\n
\u201cDemonizing Hillel with false charges rooted in age-old antisemitic tropes is wrong, plain and simple,\u201d Lehman said.<\/p>\n
Hillel serves a population of 700 Jewish students at The New School. Student fees \u2013 $8 per semester \u2013 are typically distributed among campus groups for events.<\/p>\n
Students at\u00a0the private university are the first\u00a0to vote to\u00a0cut ties with its Hillel chapter, but there\u2019s been\u00a0calls at other schools to stop funding<\/a>\u00a0since the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks.<\/p>\nIn 2024, Baruch College\u2019s Hillel was protested with a \u201cRally against Hillel\u201d in front of the Gramercy Park building, with organizers parroting leftist talking points such as \u201cHillel stands with Genocide.\u201d<\/p>\n
Students at Hunter College, the University of\u00a0Pittsburgh, Drexel University in Philadelphia and the University of California in Santa Cruz\u00a0have made similar demands to boycott Hillel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Students at NYC\u2019s woke New School voted to strip funding for its campus Hillel chapter \u2014\u00a0\u00a0an unprecedented move…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":769423,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,1258,99,373,5248,217964,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969,107],"class_list":{"0":"post-769422","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-funding","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-israel-hamas-war","12":"tag-metro","13":"tag-new-school","14":"tag-new-york","15":"tag-new-york-city","16":"tag-newyork","17":"tag-newyorkcity","18":"tag-ny","19":"tag-nyc","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-united-states-of-america","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","24":"tag-us","25":"tag-us-news","26":"tag-usa","27":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=769422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/769423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=769422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=769422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=769422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}