Education
A Jewish student told JNS that anyone who voted for the resolution is “blinded by hatred for Israel.”
“The NEA owes educators, parents and the public a full explanation and a sincere apology,” Steve Rosenberg, of the North American Values Institute, told JNS.
“Publicly funded universities are barred from discriminating based on race, national origin or religion,” a U.S. Justice Department official stated.
“They’ll be paying about $500 million, and they’ll be operating trade schools,” the president said. “Then their sins are forgiven.”
“Parents are entitled to see what their children are being taught,” Lori Lowenthal Marcus, of the Deborah Project, told JNS.
“Our hope is that they will continue investing in all children’s education, whether they attend public, charter, Jewish, faith-based or otherwise,” Sydney Altfield, of the Orthodox Union Teach Coalition, told JNS.
“Why would BU, which has an honorable reputation otherwise, allow someone who publishes violent social media posts about Jews to be held out as an anti-bigotry fellow,” Douglas Hauer-Gilad told JNS.
A school official said the incident “is abhorrent.” The local district attorney said it’s “not a foolish college prank and will not be treated as such.”
A spokeswoman for Fairleigh Dickinson University told JNS that it denies the allegations “categorically.”
“We dodged protests erupting on campus, urging students to vote a certain way,” Joel Harris, a UConn student senator, told JNS.
The department told JNS that it is committed to “reinvigorating” enforcement of a law requiring that U.S. schools report their foreign funding.
This “is a powerful model that sets the standard for building strong, respectful collaborations with every community we serve,” said the school’s vice president of inclusive excellence.
