Campus Antisemitism
“They’re not so big and powerful that they can’t ignore what the federal government can and might do to them,” Jay Greene, of Defense of Freedom Institute, told JNS.
Education officials have their “hearts and minds are in the right place,” Tal Fortgang, of the Manhattan Institute, told JNS. “It’s a matter of execution.”
“In most countries, the only space where teachers receive any training, support or guidance on teaching about antisemitism is in history education, and in particular through Holocaust education,” UNESCO told JNS.
The “mission of a university is the pursuit of truth, but we are seeing that mission give ground to a culture of anti-Israel indoctrination,” Kurt Schwartz, of CAMERA, stated.
The Anti-Defamation League said it was “appalled to hear that a student was subjected to antisemitic slurs.”
A university spokeswoman told JNS that the private school wouldn’t comment on pending litigation.
Kenneth L. Marcus, of the Brandeis Center, told JNS that the crowd-sourced encyclopedia quotes him out of context.
The National Education Association “used a webinar meant to commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day to instead make links to events in Minnesota and call for activism,” the North American Values Institute said.
“We strongly support our students’ rights to freedom of expression,” the private school stated. “However, we understand that lines can be crossed.”
Rep. Tim Walberg is seeking a briefing from Daniel Biss, mayor of Evanston, Ill., over his “failure to protect Jewish students” after withholding support amid antisemitic activity at the university.
“There was nothing that explicitly connects antisemitism studies, which is a subdiscipline more popular in Europe, with the discipline of Holocaust studies,” Professor Adam Rovner told JNS.
“Imagine for Black History Month not letting the Black Student Union sponsor the resolution because they’re ‘political,’” Rabbi Daniel Levine, of the school’s Hillel, told JNS.
