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Yisrael MedadDecember 13, 2019
Was that an anti-Semitic letter in ‘The New York Times’?
Once again, It’s the fault of the Jews ... Jews who are browbeaten, isolated, pushed, spat upon and their civil rights, including free assembly and speech, curtailed or even denied.
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Thane RosenbaumDecember 13, 2019
The moral obligation to protect civil rights
The president’s new executive order doesn’t reclassify Jews as a nationality or a race; it simply treats them as if they were, while denying federal funding to universities that attack Jewish students by disguising their anti-Semitism as anti-Zionism.
The Report, Nov. 11, 2019 Photo by Bruce Gilbert
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GOP congressman expresses concerns about anti-Israel ‘scholarship’ at Georgetown University
December 13, 2019
Rep. Denver Riggleman (R-Va.) cited a Middle East Forum report that stated “Georgetown University’s various Middle East Studies faculty have a reputation as the most intolerant, ideological, anti-Israel and pro-Islamist in the United States.”
Healy Hall at Georgetown University. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.
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Jewish and Israel-related groups react to Trump’s executive order on anti-Semitism
Jackson RichmanDecember 11, 2019
Alums for Campus Fairness executive director Avi Gordon told JNS, “This executive order reflects the thinking of past bipartisan efforts to stem the rising tide of anti-Semitism. We believe it’s time to act now to safeguard these Jewish students on and off campus.”
U.S. President Donald Trump signs an executive order on Dec. 11, 2019, requiring the U.S. government to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of anti-Semitism in responding to “prohibited forms of discrimination rooted in anti-Semitism as vigorously as against all other forms of discrimination prohibited by Title VI” of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Source: Screenshot.
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Endowment for Middle East Truth
Sarah N. SternDecember 11, 2019
An antidote to the metastasizing cancer of anti-Semitism in America
For far too long, a great deal of what amounts to anti-Jewish invective at our universities has been given a pass, using our First Amendment freedoms as a smokescreen to hide behind.
Sarah N. Stern
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Jonathan S. TobinDecember 11, 2019
Trump’s anti-Semitism order is a Rorschach test for Jews
If you are against federal action to stop anti-Semitic discrimination on college campuses just because Trump is doing it, then you’re the one with the problem.
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Trump to sign executive order addressing anti-Semitism in US education, namely on campus
Jackson RichmanDecember 11, 2019
Executive order to label Judaism as a nationality, so that it would fall under Title VI, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color and national origin in programs and activities that receive federally financial assistance.
President Donald Trump speaking at the Israeli-American Council National Summit, December 7, 2019. Photo by Noam Galai/Courtesy IAC.
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88 groups call on DeVos to prevent federal funding of anti-Israel Mideast programs
December 4, 2019
“It is unacceptable that federal funds could be used to implement an academic boycott that directly contravenes the purposes for which these funds have been granted. Area studies programs whose directors or affiliated faculty engage in such behavior should be ineligible to receive or renew Title VI funding.”
U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos. Credit: Flickr.
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