Education
The Preventing Antisemitic Harassment on Campus Act strengthens and clarifies students’ civil-rights protections.
A report offered a 13-point plan endorsed by the governor.
A previous discrimination complaint at the Texas college opened in July.
Catherine Lhamon, the assistant secretary of education for civil rights, told legislators about the many hurdles in revoking a school’s government funding.
“Our role is not only in higher education and groundbreaking research,” said Daniel Chamovitz, professor and president of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. It’s also about “building a cosmopolitan, attractive society the youth of Israel want to be a part of.”
“This report pinpoints the caustic, antisemitic ideology that has consumed many unions,” stated Rep. Virginia Foxx, the House committee’s chair.
The focus on a well-rounded education is encapsulated in the institution’s name; in Hebrew, shefa means “abundance.”
A contentious debate surrounded the idea that American Jews were not a historically oppressed people.
“This decision is my own and reflects my own rumination about how best to be of service,” said Jonathan Holloway.
Joining them were representatives of major American Jewish organizations to help determine how to increase security on campus.
Rep. Claudia Tenney told the “New York Post” that she is “deeply disgusted” that the Ivy League school is still employing Russell Rickford.
A board meeting at the public school featured the “most vile, outrageous displays of antisemitism to be witnessed at a public meeting in the United States of America in recent memory,” JFNA said.
