The recommendations of the antisemitism commission focus on Jewish students, because that is they who have an unprecedented need for timely, effective intervention.
Antisemitism
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The state commission on antisemitism doubles down on its mistakes
The report’s concern is not with universal rights but with how anti-Israel speech makes some Jews feel, an approach that can only make antisemitism worse. It distracts from the interests that Jews share with all minorities in vigorous civil rights guarantees.
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I’ve seen hate up close. The antisemitism commission’s recommendations can help stop it.
We know from our own lives that antisemitism, if left unchecked, doesn’t stay contained. We must confront it with interventions that work, and the state commission offers reasonable, practical, common-sense safeguards against allowing yesterday’s hate to masquerade as today’s education.
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Massachusetts lawmakers must reject the antisemitism commission’s flawed recommendations
The question isn’t whether to fight antisemitism. It’s how to fight it without sacrificing the democratic rights that actually keep Jewish people—and everyone else—safe.
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State commission to combat antisemitism misses the mark
Education requires that teachers and students feel free to try out ideas without fear that they will immediately be accused of bias and prejudice. Yet teachers will be forgiven for thinking it is too risky to discuss what American Jews and Israelis openly discuss as part of a genocide education unit.
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Jewish senators criticize comments of Miranda
Top Senate leaders who are Jewish say they’re disappointed and saddened by a colleague’s remarks on the Israel-Hamas conflict that seemed to invoke antisemitic tropes.