The CJV issued a scorching letter to the President and Provost of Duke University condemning its student government’s veto of a charter for Students Supporting Israel (SSI). SSI was first approved. At that point, another student claimed the school was supporting “settler colonialism,” which is a direct attack on Jewish theology and all Jews who maintain the desire to return to Zion, found in prayers recited three times daily in synagogues worldwide. The President of the Duke Student Government vetoed SSI’s charter for daring to respond and offering to engage in dialogue.

Rabbi Menken told Fox News: “The right to reply when attacked is fundamental to civil discourse. Duke’s Student Government, to the contrary, decided it’s fine to slander a Jewish group but ‘unacceptable’ for that group to respond. It’s hard to deny the double standard at play.”

Read the letter, and the Fox News story: Rabbis condemn Duke student government’s ‘despicable double standard’ on ‘Jew-hatred.