Education
The National Education Association “sends the message to the local and state affiliates that antisemitism is acceptable,” Marci Lerner Miller, of the Brandeis Center, told JNS.
“Ambassador Mike Huckabee is a true hero and friend of the United States, the State of Israel, the Jewish people and all people,” said Rabbi Ari Berman, president of Yeshiva University
The director of issues management told JNS that students found to have violated the law or university policy during a protest on campus will be held accountable.
Ilana Cohen, of Emet Legal Services, told JNS that “teachers don’t have the right to insert their personal discriminatory biases into the classroom.”
One professor who served on the committee that created the report said the Trump administration’s accusations of antisemitism at Yale “were a pretty serious exaggeration.”
“This veto is a profound failure of City Hall to demonstrate to all New Yorkers that our safety is a priority,” the groups said.
Sam Markstein, of the Republican Jewish Coalition, told JNS that Mamdani’s first veto as mayor “serves to accommodate vile antisemitic protests comes as no surprise.”
Elana Stern, of the firm Ropes and Gray, told JNS that “no student and no family should have to experience what Eden and Montana Horwitz have had to experience.”
“This student’s ability to exercise, freely, his religion should not be incompatible with his equally important right to fully participate in residential life at Williams,” Rachel Balaban, of the Brandeis Center, told JNS.
“No child should have to endure this kind of sustained harassment and exclusion for their religious identity in a public school or any school,” the Anti-Defamation League said.
“We have a state, we have an army and we are capable of standing against anyone who seeks to harm us,” said Yoav Kisch.
A spokesman for the private school told a reporter that the school considers the “definition and accompanying illustrative examples to the extent it may be useful in a particular case.”
