Glad to see these university sanctioned antisemitic groups are being challenged. Interesting comment about ethnic studies departments shielding faculty abuse.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/education/3236838/national-campaign-launched-against-anti-israel-faculty-group/
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/education/3236838/national-campaign-launched-against-anti-israel-faculty-group/
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National campaign launched against top anti-Israel faculty group
By Peter Cordi November 20, 2024 5:02 pm Washington Examiner
Universities with Faculty for Justice in Gaza chapters are under fire from a coalition of 120 civil rights and religious organizations led by the AMCHA Initiative.
They claim FJP members are "abusing" their faculty positions to "escalate antisemitism."
As part of the campaign, the organizations sent a letter to the presidents of 170 universities with a Faculty for Justice in Palestine chapter. AMCHA also released two educational videos: One on "the dangers of FJP" and another on "the harms of academic BDS."
"What I think should be center stage right now is this faculty organization, which is part of a national network linked to an international movement with a purely antisemitic mission and has dreadful consequences for Jewish students on college campuses," AMCHA Initiative co-founder Tammi Rossman-Benjamin told the Washington Examiner.
According to an AMCHA report, physical attacks on Jewish students are more than seven times more likely at college campuses with FJP chapters present, while threats of violence and death against Jewish students are more than three times more likely, and student demands for academic boycotts of Israeli faculty are nearly 11 times more likely.
Rossman-Benjamin said that tenured faculty is the "prime mover of so many of the acts of violent antisemitism that our report found increased" dramatically after the Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist attack on Israel. Physical assaults increased by 2500% and violent threats increased by 900%.
The next phase of the campaign will include a new ranking system that will rate schools based on "faculty abuse."
The AMCHA co-founder argued that the rise of ethnic studies departments has played a major role in shielding faculty from the consequences of violent or hateful speech under the guise of academic freedom. She said that while these departments may "call themselves disciplines, they are really political agendas" whose members consist of activists as opposed to educators......
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