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Jihadwatch.org published an article titled: Hamas-Linked CAIR-Chicago Sues Northwestern to Block antisemitism Training, Quickly Loses.
The Times of Israel published an article titled: Judge: Northwestern can block enrollment for students resisting antisemitism training. The article reports in part:
A federal judge in Chicago allowed Northwestern University to discipline students who refused to watch an antisemitism training video.
Judge Georgia Alexakis declined Monday to issue a restraining order in a lawsuit filed by Northwestern Graduate Workers for Palestine and two graduate students. The plaintiffs claimed that an antisemitism training required by the school for enrollment was biased and discriminatory toward Palestinian and Arab students.
“Northwestern University’s Training is not intended to foster a civil and collaborative workplace or remedy discrimination but rather is aimed at suppressing political anti-Zionist speech and speech critical of Israel,” the complaint read.
The “antisemitism Here/Now” training video, produced by the Jewish United Fund of Chicago, the city’s Jewish federation, did not ask students to agree with its contents. Fewer than three dozen students declined to watch it in protest.
Attorneys for Northwestern said that 16 students currently face enrollment holds for failing to watch the training, though they added that they were unsure if all students affected did so out of protest.
In her ruling, Alexakis acknowledged that the graduate students affected by the holds face “irreparable harm,” but said that the students’ lawyers had failed to prove Northwestern had a discriminatory motive in requiring the video.
“Because the plaintiffs have failed to meet teir burden in this threshold inquiry, we do not move on to conduct a balancing of the harms,” Alexakis said in her ruling, according to the school’s student newspaper, The Daily Northwestern. “For that reason, I have to deny the motion.”
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Florida Family Association has prepared two emails for you to send. One email thanks Northwestern University for successfully defending its antisemitism training for students. The second email thanks the federal judge for her decisive ruling.
Click here to send your email to thank Northwestern University for successfully defending its antisemitism training for students.
Click here to send your email to thank Judge Georgia Alexakis for ruling to allow Northwestern University to continue its antisemitism training for students.
Contact information:
Northwest University
Jeremy Johnson, President
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Dr. Barbara Petty, Board Chair
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Judge Georgia N. Alexakis
United States District Court Northern District of Illinois
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