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There was a push to equate justice for palestine movements to be classified as anti-Semitism. There was a big backlash to that proposal so the university backed down.
Students at the University of California (UC) are celebrating victory against the latest attempt to stifle advocacy for Palestinian rights under the banner of fighting “anti-Semitism.”
The university’s governing body, the Board of Regents, had been due to consider at its meeting this week whether to adopt as official policy the US State Department’s definition of “anti-Semitism.”
That definition “brands critics of Israel and advocates for Palestinian human rights as anti-Semitic by blurring the important distinction between criticism of Israel as a nation-state and anti-Semitism,” according to civil rights group Palestine Legal.
In an interview on WBUR radio in May, UC President Janet Napolitano had publicly declared her support for the State Department definition and insisted that UC Regents would vote on it this month.
But faced with a growing public outcry, Napolitano backed down and the definition was taken off the agenda.
Outcry forces Univ. of California to drop Israel lobby s anti-Semitism definition The Electronic Intifada
The university’s governing body, the Board of Regents, had been due to consider at its meeting this week whether to adopt as official policy the US State Department’s definition of “anti-Semitism.”
That definition “brands critics of Israel and advocates for Palestinian human rights as anti-Semitic by blurring the important distinction between criticism of Israel as a nation-state and anti-Semitism,” according to civil rights group Palestine Legal.
In an interview on WBUR radio in May, UC President Janet Napolitano had publicly declared her support for the State Department definition and insisted that UC Regents would vote on it this month.
But faced with a growing public outcry, Napolitano backed down and the definition was taken off the agenda.
Outcry forces Univ. of California to drop Israel lobby s anti-Semitism definition The Electronic Intifada