[aabaker99]

I did a little digging because I haven’t followed the news on this. Through a chain of links from the article is https://edworkforce.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?Docum... which is a report from the Committee on Education lead by Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) detailing anti-Semitic activity on university campuses.

It seemed to me a lot of the key findings were framed in a political way. I was hoping to see more specific damages that might justify these huge cancellations of grant funding. For example one key finding was “Northwestern put radical anti-Israel faculty in charge of negotiations with the encampment.” I admittedly don’t have time to read the full report but how is the labelling of faculty involved in the negotiation a clear case of discrimination for the violation of Title IV of the Civil Rights Act? Shouldn’t the key findings be more about the harms that were experienced by Jewish students?

It’s a shame this report is being used to justify suspension of research funding.

[djur]

The weaponization of antisemitism is especially repugnant coming from an administration that hires people like this:

https://www.npr.org/2025/03/06/nx-s1-5319995/kingsley-wilson...

[foobarchu]

Any time I hear this administration accuse someone of anti-Semitism, I have to wonder whether it's actual anti-Semitism or simply support for the existence of Palestinians.

[rickydroll]

I'll probably get downvoted for this. When I started dating a woman from Israel, her stories didn't jive with the stories we hear here. So I started digging into it and understood why she said it was such a mess and there was no way anybody outside of Israel could understand what was going on.

I'm not saying this as a form of both-sides-ism, but an acknowledgment that it's a shitshow and may never be untangled least of by US/EU.

[disgruntledphd2]

It is a complete shitshow, and one can like Israelis and believe that they are mostly good people, while also believing that what is happening to the Palestinians is super, super wrong.

[selimthegrim]

The book My Enemy, My Self by Yoram Binur from just before the first intifada I thought was a pretty penetrating insight.