Rutgers under fire for numerous incidents of anti-Semitic activity Rutgers University announced it no longer employs the former Syrian diplomat who represented President Bashar al-Assad's regime in the United Nations and accused Israel of organ-trafficking, after the administration defended the hire publicly. Mazen Adi, who was hired as a part-time lecturer in 2015, is not currently teaching in the political science department and has not done so since the summer of 2017, Rutgers President Robert Barchi said in a Jan. 25 meeting with Jewish leaders to address anti-Semitic activity at the New Jersey school, New Jersey Jewish News reported. Adi...