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Protection On
Campus Needed

T

he U.S. Senate unanimously
passed the bipartisan "Anti-
Semitism Awareness Act"
on Dec. 1, which will improve the
enforcement of Title VI of the Civil
Rights Act to protect Jewish stu-
dents from anti-Semitic harassment
and intimidation at federally funded
schools. A companion bill has been
introduced in the House.
The legislation would require the
Department of Education (DOE)
to consider that Title VI might be
violated if Jewish students were
subjected to a hostile environment
engendered by anti-Semitism that is
also expressed as anti-Israelism or
anti-Zionism, such as the demoni-
zation of Israel (comparing Israeli
policy to that of the Nazis), the
imposition of an impossible double
standard on Israel and the delegiti-
mization of Israel (i.e., denying the
Jewish people their right to self-
determination and denying Israel
the right to exist).
Today's college students face
hate groups on campus that call
for an intifada and for Israel's
destruction. They blame "Zionists"
for high tuition and other prob-
lems, and they engage in vicious
and hurtful name-calling against
Jewish students, falsely accusing
them of being racists and baby-
killers, according to the Zionist
Organization of America (ZOA),
which has been lobbying for the
legislation.
"For many years, the State
Department has appropriately
recognized this kind of conduct as
anti-Semitism, and the ZOA has
been calling on the DOE to do the
same. This legislation will accom-
plish what we've been fighting for,"
ZOA leaders said in a statement.
They are now working with mem-
bers of the House to urge them to
move quickly to pass the bill into
law.
Since its founding in 1942, the
Jewish News has been a proud and
uncompromising voice in support-
ing the establishment of a Jewish
state, celebrating its achievements
and defending its existence. We
urge the House to provide the
same bipartisan support for the
legislation, which will afford Jewish
college students reasonable and
appropriate protection against anti-
Semitism that masquerades as anti-
Israelism. *

We're here to listen.

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