Should an anti-Israel activist lead an anti-Semitism committee?
Gee, we don’t know. Should a snake lead a committee of cuddly bunnies?
Manzar Foroohar, a professor connected to the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, has been selected to chair a committee aimed at combating anti-Semitism in the California State University (CSU) system.
Foroohar, who teaches modern Middle East and Latin American history at California Polytechnic State University, was tabbed to chair a CSU Academic Senate 2012/2013 committee tasked with implementing the “Governor’s Task Force on Tolerance and Anti-Semitism,” an effort that began in 2010 to address anti-Semitism at California schools.
The professor, however, serves on the organizing committees of two prominent BDS groups, the U.S. Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel and the Israel Divestment Campaign.
“Her selection defeats the whole purpose of the task force. We urge the [CSU] Academic Senate to take its responsibility seriously, and replace Professor Foroohar with someone more suitable for this role,” Roz Rothstein, CEO of the pro-Israel education group StandWithUs, told JNS.org.
What does it mean when one of the largest university systems in the world picks a Israel divestment activist to lead its efforts to counter anti-Semitism? It means its efforts to counter anti-Semitism are a joke.
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