Public colleges and universities in Florida are being directed to assign faculty committees to review educational materials for antisemitic or anti-Israel bias and to create a process by which professors can ensure that they have checked their own course materials for Jew-hatred.
“We are going to conduct a keyword search on course descriptions and course syllabi. Any course that contains the following keywords: Israel, Israeli, Palestine, Palestinian, Middle East, Zionism, Zionist, Judaism, Jewish or Jews will be flagged for review,” wrote Ray Rodrigues, chancellor of the state university system of Florida, to presidents of the state’s universities.
“This process will ensure that all universities are reviewing the same courses, and nothing falls through the cracks,” Rodrigues added in the letter, which the university system shared with JNS.
“The most important thing is that we get this right,” he wrote.
