RIGHT WING JEWS RECRUIT CIVIL RIGHTS COMMISSION TO MUZZLE CAMPUSES
MUZZLE WATCH - The US Commission on Civil Rights has launched a campaign
against anti-Semitism on campuses that appears to dwarf in importance
its other traditional activities like reporting on housing and voter
discrimination. According to Commission head Kenneth Marcus, "Usually,
we'll write a report, but in this case, we needed to get the word out,"
because students aren't sufficiently aware of their rights.
The result? An unprecedented campaign developed and or implemented with
partners including the American Jewish Congress, the Zionist
Organization of America, campus Hillels, the Anti-Defamation League,
Israel on Campus Coalition, and others, involving the internet, print
posters and postcards sent to college campuses across the country.
Back in April, 2006, Ron Kampeas of the JTA wrote:
The effort by an alliance of Jewish groups to hold government-funded
Middle East studies departments accountable took two strides forward in
recent weeks: one legislative and one moral. Congress came a step closer
to a mechanism that would monitor how Middle East Studies departments
spend federal money, and the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, an
advisory body, found that anti-Israeli activism could engender a hostile
atmosphere for Jews on campus.
A number of right-wing Israel advocacy groups have long targeted federal
funding for Middle East Studies, charging that federal funds are being
used to support what they call anti-American and anti-Israeli
professors. . .
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