Campus Antisemitism
“The school year just started, and we already see an attempt to attack the Jewish state,” said Ilan Sinelnikov. “The anti-Zionist forces don’t take a break; neither do students equipped to fight back.”
“[D]oes academic freedom protect faculty who intentionally use their classrooms not to educate their students, but to indoctrinate them with propaganda consistent with their own political causes?”
Those who have completed Israeli military service, attended an Israeli undergraduate institution or worked at an Israeli company are eligible.
Koral Zaarur said the measure was in response to posters of Adolf Hitler and swastikas on campus, though it “turned into so much more.”
The university tweeted that Jessica Krug “has resigned her position, effective immediately. Her classes for this semester will be taught by other faculty members.”
A university spokesperson told JNS that “an invitation to a public figure to speak to a class should not be construed as an endorsement of point of view.”
In a 2014 interview with “Al Jazeera,” he stated: “I will never recognize Israel as a Jewish state.”
“When political speech crosses over into the harassment of an individual, whether in person or online, universities need to act swiftly,” says the Alliance for Academic Freedom.
Even though her semester will be online this fall because of the coronavirus pandemic, pro-Israel student and CAMERA Fellow Sophie Sklar of McGill University says she will “be writing as much as ever and fighting as much as ever for this cause I care so deeply about.”
FSU’s division of student affairs “will institute annual training for its staff surrounding anti-Semitism, religious discrimination and ways to foster a more inclusive campus for our Jewish students and employees.”
The Campus Climate Initiative will work with administrators to provide measurement tools, best practices, education and training designed to empower university leadership to understand ongoing threats.
Two Florida state lawmakers were denied the opportunity to speak by SGA senate president Ahmad Daraldik, who survived a vote of no confidence last month, 19-16-6, despite his past anti-Semitic posts.
