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ENDING CAMPUS ANTI-SEMITISM PUBLIC EDUCATION WEB SITE TO BE LAUNCHED BY U.S. COMMISSION ON CIVIL RIGHTS
Published in: PRNewswire-USNewswire April 10, 2007


WASHINGTON, April 10 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On Friday, April 13, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights will launch a Web site that contributes to ending campus anti-Semitism by educating college students and others about anti-Semitism, urging victims and witnesses of anti-Semitism to report such incidents, and listing sources of assistance for students. This Web site is part of a campaign that the Commission undertook following the occurrence of anti-Semitic incidents on many of the nation's university and college campuses and receiving testimony from a panel of experts that too many college students are unaware of their rights and protections against anti-Semitic behavior. Campaign materials include the Commission's recent report Campus Anti-Semitism
(http://www.usccr.gov/pubs/ 081506campusantibrief07.pdf ), and posters, postcards, and e-messages that will direct students to the Web site.

When: Friday, April 13, 2007, 9:30 a.m.

Where: U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, 624 Ninth Street NW, Room 540

Washington, D.C.

The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights is an independent, bipartisan agency charged with monitoring federal civil rights enforcement. Members include Chairman Gerald A. Reynolds, Vice Chairman Abigail Thernstrom, and Commissioners Jennifer C. Braceras, Gail Heriot, Peter N. Kirsanow, Arlan D. Melendez, Ashley L. Taylor, Jr., and Michael Yaki. Kenneth L. Marcus is Staff Director. Commission meetings are open to the media and general public.

SOURCE U.S. Commission on Civil Rights
Hulkagaard | 04.12.07 - 5:13 pm | #

Hulkagaard, this is monstrous. Are they planning a project to educate people about Islamophobia, too?

Mark, thanks for the article in the San Diego paper. Have sent it to all my lists. You say you hope the writer isn't anbitious. But wouldn't a higher-up editor have had to okay the piece, too? But wow, surely not the first MSM paper in which I'd expect to see such an article. Why, I'd expect to see it in the NYTimes, or the WaPo. Yeah, in there.
Catherine | 04.12.07 - 7:20 pm | #

It is a conflict about land – and the power of one group of people to seize and control the land of another.

Truth will out.

Mr. Fields deserves every praise and encouragement.
Mooser | Homepage | 04.12.07 - 7:41 pm | #

A few months ago the U.S. Public Broadcasting channel ran a so-called documentary on Anti-Semitism that was just a hatchet job against Arabs. After the broadcast here in Houston they had the usual pointless discussion group. A local Rabbi cheerfully announced that if Israel wanted to it could liquidate the Palestinians--as if the only thing stopping them was that they're such princes of virtue. Of course no one challenged him on it.
Montag | 04.13.07 - 6:56 am | #

A local Rabbi cheerfully announced that if Israel wanted to it could liquidate the Palestinians--

We've gone right around the bend, haven't we.
Mooser | Homepage | 04.14.07 - 7:11 pm | #