Campus Antisemitism
Seekonk Public Schools, Yonkers Public Schools and the Cheney, Wash. university are being probed for alleged Title VI violations.
The public school quietly excised the widely-used definition late last year, after initially pairing it with a fringe competing definition.
MIT “has demonstrated a clear double standard in how it has tolerated antisemitic harassment and intimidation,” Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.) wrote.
More than a dozen members of the group had attached items onto the school’s “Spirit Wall.”
The university in the Boston area said it was disappointed by and rejected a student government vote to divest from Israel.
They all face charges of discrimination; at one school, “globalize the intifada” was projected onto a building by Students for Justice in Palestine.
Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.) said many of the 2,500 pages that the university turned over to the committee are duplicates; others are heavily redacted.
Talia Khan, a student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said “in the past five months, I have become traumatized.”
The investigation took nearly a year before pointing to Hayden Pritchard, 22, and Sergio Delgado, 21, both lance corporals.
“Berkeley has students who are Hamas supporters and who flagrantly call for the destruction of Jews. Why were campus police not empowered to control this violent mob?” said Masha Merkulova, of Club Z.
“The eruption of antisemitism in Berkeley’s elementary and high schools is like nothing I’ve ever seen before,” said Kenneth Marcus, chairman of the Brandeis Center.
“There are students who have been spat upon, shoved, that have called horrible names, antisemitic slurs,” recounted lawyer Joel Nied.
