Submitted by Nora Barrows-Fr... on Wed, 12/12/2012 - 22:23
A letter sent Monday to the Department of Education from the ACLU states that Israel-aligned groups’ complaints of discrimination because of Palestine activism “raises constitutional red flags that are significant and alarming.”
The real intention of various lawsuits alleging anti-Semitism in universities is to chill Palestine solidarity activism and censor open discussions about Israeli policy in classrooms.
A number of new initiatives to curtail freedom of speech by conflating opposition to Israeli crimes with anti-Semitism are underway in the United States and Canada.
