by Tammi Rossman-Benjamin in the LA Jewish Journal

The Jewish community and its supporters helped dodge another dangerous ethnic studies bullet, and they likely don’t even know it.

By late October, the outrage of the Jewish community reached a boiling point. How could a group of UC faculty who refuse to acknowledge that the Hamas massacre was terrorism and contend that anti-Zionism and efforts to dismantle the Jewish state are core components of their discipline be trusted to establish state-wide ethnic studies standards for all California students? These were the sentiments expressed by 115 groups from the Jewish and allied communities in a letter to the UC Regents and other leaders, urging them to unequivocally reject the ethnic studies admissions requirement proposal…

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