Jewish academics are fighting back against the Trump administration’s attempts to silence criticism of Israel on college campuses. More than 100 Jewish scholars have signed an open letter to the U.S. Department of Education in response to its demand that the Duke-University of North Carolina Consortium for Middle East Studies modify its curricular programming or face defunding. The open letter to Education Secretary Betsy DeVos condemns the Education Department using Jews and our concerns over anti-Semitism to try and justify repressive policies. The letter also denounces the “shocking Islamophobia running throughout” the Education Department’s letter announcing the investigation’s findings.
— source 972mag.com | Oct 8, 2019