Broader View

Enthusiastic Antisemitism at the University of Washington by Paul Burstein, Jewish Journal, November 20, 2024

We can only hope that the UW will take its commitments seriously. Perhaps the recent pro-Hamas off-campus vandalism will focus people’s minds.

UW President, Provost commit to new processes, policies, training and more in response to antisemitism and Islamophobia task force reports, UW News, November 4, 2024 (see also letter to the co-chairs of the task forces)

UW President Ana Mari Cauce interview, The Daily, October 18, 2024:

• “People should also be aware that this is a pulse survey.”
• “Certainly disrupting meetings so that the meetings can’t take place is testing the limits of free speech.”
• For future board of Regents meetings, “we certainly will be making sure that there is a clear plan for there being another room where we can continue the meeting if it does need to be moved.”

“… But They’re Doing Great” at UW by David Schraub, The Debate Link, October 17, 2024

“Jewish Response to the UW Campus Antisemitism Panel Report,” October 16, 2024

Climate Assessment and Reports from the Antisemitism and Islamophobia Task Forces at the University of Washington, October 15, 2024

Title VI federal complaint, The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law, September 24, 2024 (see also Brandeis Center press release, October 1, 2024)

Special Meeting of the UW Board of Regents, September 24, 2024 (public portion ends at 41’51”)

• Carol Schiller (12’21” – 16’05”)
• Gwenyth Parmar (27’05 – 31’42”)

Sen. Ted Cruz comments at Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on combating hate crimes about antisemitism at the University of Washington, September 24, 2024 (cued to the beginning of brief UW comment)

Can the UW Protect Jewish Students? by Emily Alhadeff, The Cholent, September 20, 2024

University of Washington Regents Meeting, September 12, 2024

• Audio recording (1:15’, cued to the beginning of the relevant section at 40’32”)
• Minutes
• Divestment proposal (Agenda item G-1, pp 15-557)
• UW Statement on Board of Regents meeting disruption and adjournment
• Letter from Solly Kane, President & CEO, Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle
• Pro-Palestinian students disrupt UW Board of Regents meeting, demanding divestment by Denise Whitaker, KOMO News, September 12, 2024 (with video, 2’23”)
• UW Board of Regents cancels meeting due to protest, by Lauren Girgis, The Seattle Times, September 12, 2024
• Jewish students, faculty evacuated from University of Washington building after anti-Israel activists take over meeting by Ari Hoffman, The Post Millennial, September 13, 2024

uw_divest_news on Instagram posts

• Sept. 12, 2024: “Join us to confront the Board of Regents as the vote on our divestment proposal!”
• Sept. 12: “UW Board of Regents forced to end meeting early after peaceful protestors disrupt meeting.” “The protestors took over the board’s seats after they left, and established the people’s board which voted in favor of divestment, cutting ALL ties with Boeing, and pay raises to all workers at UW!!!!” Also image of “BoR running away WITH THE Zionists from public comment when confronted with the consequences of their actions.”
• Sept. 13: “Being Booed Isn’t Repression of Speech. Being Arrested Is. How the University of Washington is continuing to suppress the pro-Palestine movement. A statement on the 9/12 Board of Regents confrontation and the following arrest.”

Resolution to the encampment in the Quad, UW President Ana Mari Cauce, May 17, 2024

October 12, 2023 (five days after the massacre): Susan Brotman, a major UW donor, alerted UW President Ana Mari Cauce to an email sent to Washington State Governor Jay Inslee about “a mob of terrorist supporters” planning “to hold a [pro-Hamas] rally on campus, creating a hostile and unsafe environment for all Jewish and Israeli students.” President Cauce forwarded the message to Randy Hodgins, the university’s VP of the External Affairs, who responded, “First amendment is hard sometimes.”