Report Blames U. California Faculty for Driving Antisemitism on Campus

Report Blames U. California Faculty for Driving Antisemitism on Campus

This is likely true at many schools across the country. It needs to be addressed.

The College Fix reports:

Report blames U. California faculty for driving antisemitism

A recent report by the AMCHA Initiative reveals evidence of employees at the Universities of California propagating an “anti-Israel agenda that has fueled harassment, exclusion and intimidation of Jewish and pro-Israel students.”

Much of campus antisemitism is employee-driven because “faculty and staff possess something students do not: institutional authority … the academic legitimacy that signals to students what is morally respectable,” initiative Director Tammi Rossman-Benjamin told The College Fix.

AMCHA Initiative is a non-profit organization that investigates, documents, educates about, and combats antisemitism at American colleges and universities. AMCHA means “your people” in Hebrew.

The report, released in February, is titled, “When Faculty Take Sides: How Academic Infrastructure Drives Antisemitism at the University of California.”

It asserts that, although most of the focus on antisemitism has been on students, the “hostile or exclusionary campus conditions documented here reflect a governance breakdown.”

The University of California System says its leaders are reviewing the report.

“The University takes the findings in the AMCHA Initiative report seriously and is reviewing the incidents cited within it,” a spokesperson for the Office of the President told The Fix in a recent email. “Academic freedom and freedom of expression are core values at UC, but we will take action to respond to and counter antisemitism and hate incidents when they occur.”

The spokesperson additionally stated that the university system has taken “numerous steps” to combat antisemitism over the past few years. In January, its Board of Regents approved amendments to make disciplinary actions for faculty and staff faster and uniform across campuses.

However, the background section of the amendment document stated that a university workgroup focused on campus expression decided that “existing policies adequately address conduct involving free speech, campus safety.”

AMCHA’s report focuses on three universities in the University of California System: UC Santa Cruz, UC Berkeley, and UCLA, and specifically the supposed anti-Zionist and anti-Jewish faculty and staff within them.

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