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Sara Coodin, of the AJC, told JNS that such claims “hew closely to the classic antisemitic canards of Jewish power, malicious influence and control.”
Kestenbaum and Company is also selling a copy of the “Jew Bill,” which finally gave Maryland Jews equal rights to Christians in 1826.
Matthew Mainen, of the National Jewish Advocacy Center, told JNS that a statute typically invoked for workplace discrimination should also be applied to Jewish students.
Linda McMahon, the U.S. secretary of education, stated that it was “another transformative commitment from an Ivy League institution to end divisive DEl policies.”
The state’s congressman said material for the class “directly attacks” the Antisemitism Awareness Act, “bipartisan legislation that I have led.”
Denise Katz-Prober, of the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law, told JNS that the school’s internal grievance process was weaponized against Jewish students.
The Jewish Alliance of Greater Rhode Island said that the investigation and the superintendent’s leave are a “significant step.”
“The untold story is how central Tel Aviv University has become to Israel’s future and how deeply that future is connected to the American Jewish community,” Pery told JNS.
Since Oct. 7, “there’s much greater interest in how scholars function and the internal debates that go on in academia,” the Center for Jewish History president told JNS.
A spokeswoman told JNS that the organization is now on disciplinary probation.
Felipe Avila, the student senator who sponsored the resolution, said it was a “profound moral failure” for the student government to vote it down.
Israeli Education Minister Yoav Kisch addresses the International Pro-Israel Summit in Budapest, thanking Hungary for its “zero tolerance toward antisemitism.”
