Education
How a former bank executive and an Australian philanthropist are changing hundreds of lives in Israel.
The state’s education department, rather than its coordinator under the 1964 Civil Rights Act, is also responsible for reporting annually on incidents of antisemitism.
Lori Lowenthal Marcus, of the Deborah Project, told JNS that the settlement requires of Sequoia Union High School District “policies of transparency, unbiased decision-making and concrete protections from antisemitic indoctrination and bullying.”
District leaders ought to be “ashamed of themselves for giving such a dangerous group unfettered access to their schools and students,” Casey Ryan, of Defending Education, told JNS.
Israel is erased from maps, with all the territory labeled as “Palestine.”
Among this year’s recipients was Brit HaNegev VeHa’ar, an initiative that brings together residents of the Western Negev and Gush Etzion.
The public university stated that the graduate student violated rules that were sent out prior to graduation and that several participants were removed from various ceremonies for carrying different flags, including U.S. and Ukrainian ones.
Implementation is scheduled to begin in September and will be phased in gradually.
Isaac Herzog made no mention of recent opposition to his receiving an honorary doctorate and addressing students in his letter to the Conservative Jewish seminary.
“At commencement this year, we want to support and uplift Palestinian students, faculty and the broader community,” per the order form. “Students nationwide have been suspended, expelled, arrested and now deported for their support of Palestinians’ human rights.”
Kimberly Richey, assistant U.S. secretary of education for civil rights, stated that “such institutional neglect will not be tolerated.”
The governor’s office is awaiting information from the federal government about whether there are any “poison pills that could harm New York’s education system,” a spokesman told JNS.
