Campus Antisemitism
“Distorting and blocking the flow of knowledge” is a violation of “the norms and standards of scholarly inquiry” and undermines “the university’s academic mission,” according to a detailed report by the campus watchdog AMCHA Initiative.
In his new role, he will build on the organization’s success in fostering Jewish life on 550 campuses across 18 countries.
With activities including research, governmental advocacy and public communications, support comes from thousands of Canadian families with diverse backgrounds and interests that empower the organization to address issues of concern to the Jewish community.
UCLA senior Shayna Lavi said during anthropology class, guest speaker San Francisco State University Professor Rabab Abdulhadi described the State of Israel as a racist endeavor, denied its right to exist and labeled Zionists as white supremacists.
It states: “The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is used by faculty and student groups to legitimize discrimination against Jewish and Israeli students because of the latter group’s race, religion and national identity.”
“For far too long, BDS has been able to masquerade as a social-justice movement in America, while spreading vile Jew-hatred, and inciting hate and violence,” says Liora Rez, executive director of StopAntiSemitism.org.
Rep. Denver Riggleman (R-Va.) cited a Middle East Forum report that stated “Georgetown University’s various Middle East Studies faculty have a reputation as the most intolerant, ideological, anti-Israel and pro-Islamist in the United States.”
Alums for Campus Fairness executive director Avi Gordon told JNS, “This executive order reflects the thinking of past bipartisan efforts to stem the rising tide of anti-Semitism. We believe it’s time to act now to safeguard these Jewish students on and off campus.”
Executive order to label Judaism as a nationality, so that it would fall under Title VI, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color and national origin in programs and activities that receive federally financial assistance.
“I’m sure many of the hard-left elements on campus reflexively pan Israel in order to demonstrate their ‘woke’ bona fides, without really understanding the situation there,” said junior David Esterlit. “I think a lot of it stems from an ahistorical perspective of Israel’s founding.”
“This is the first time that an Israeli university is collaborating with an elite American institution to offer a dual undergraduate program of this kind,” said Professor Raanan Rein, vice president of Tel Aviv University.
Alums for Campus Fairness “aims to combat bigotry, and promote honest and respectful debate at universities. Universities should be pillars of truth, academic freedom and open discourse.”
