[Newsweek] For several decades, Jewish college students have been sounding the alarm about rising antisemitism on college campuses. From "mild" episodes of graffiti to BDS activism, Torah | ...the Pentateuch, also called the Five Books of Moses (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy), whether in printed book form or scrolls handwritten by trained scribes on parchment in special Hebrew calligraphy... |
Rightly recognizing campus antisemitism as a blight on higher education and on America, former President Trump signed an Executive Order in 2019 on combatting antisemitism. Unfortunately, since then, not only has the campus situation for Jewish students not improved, it has taken a dramatic turn for the worse.
That this article is even appearing in Newsweak is astonishing to me.
This can be seen most acutely in a move made recently by law school students at one of America's most progressive university networks, in one of America's most progressive states. At the beginning of the current academic year, nine law school student groups at the University of California at Berkeley's School of Law amended their bylaws to ensure that nobody who supports Israel or Zionism is invited to speak. Given that the vast majority of Jews worldwide support the state of Israel, these student groups have in essence created a Jew-free zone in the hallowed halls of Berkeley Law.
The ruling would bar the law school's own dean, Erwin Chemerinsky, who identifies as a progressive Zionist—increasingly an oxymoron, if the progressives have their way.
| One wonders that Dean Chemerinsky did not immediately ban such bylaws as illegal, unethical clearly not being of interest to those students. |
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