Legal Affairs
“The participation of organizations with which we may strongly disagree does not automatically preclude ours if we are deeply committed to the cause,” an American Jewish Committee spokesman told JNS.
“When it comes to antisemites, our philosophy is simple: Gotta catch ’em all,” Mark Goldfeder, of the National Jewish Advocacy Center, stated.
Many of the posts, which included death threats, also used antisemitic language, referring to the state judiciary as the “JEW-dicial” branch, authorities said.
Tal Ben-Zvi says the Stevens Institute of Technology denied religious accommodations and retaliated after he filed a federal Jew-hatred complaint.
The city Department of Education’s decision ends a decades-long practice of granting a designated day off for holiday preparations, requiring teachers to use personal or vacation days instead.
“One of the main perpetrators is in control of the Iranian regime’s terror arm,” the American Jewish Committee said of Ahmad Vahidi, who has long been linked to the Jewish community center terrorist attack.
The settlement helps “to ensure that Jewish and Israeli students and faculty are treated as equal and valuable members of the campus community,” Oleg Ivanov, of the StandWithUs Center for Legal Justice, told JNS.
The 32-year-old also waived his right to a speedy preliminary hearing, and no bail was granted.
The ruling “ensures parents, not government bureaucrats, have the final say in how their children are raised,” Eric Baxter, senior counsel at the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, stated.
“No activist judge, not this one or any other, is going to stop us from” revoking the privilege of being granted a U.S. visa or green card, a spokesperson for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security told JNS.
Jeff Rosen, district attorney for Santa Clara County, told JNS that the group’s actions were illegal, “and that is why we will retry the case.”
“We are glad to see the court rejected FDU’s efforts to rewrite the law, rewrite history, and rewrite the definition of Jew-hate for the 21st century,” litigation counsel for the National Jewish Advocacy Center stated.
