EEOC signals crackdown on anti-Jewish bias
And you thought they’d be asleep the next four years. This week, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issued a press release indicating that the EEOC would be cracking down on antisemitism in the workplace, with special emphasis on college and university workplaces. Although institutions of higher education are the primary focus of the EEOC, the press release made clear that no employers should tolerate antisemitic harassment or discrimination. (The EEOC does not have jurisdiction over antisemitism that targets students, but of course other government agencies do.) The press release quotes Acting EEOC Chair Andrea Lucas as follows: In the wake of the . . . Hamas terror attacks in Israel, news coverage of the severe outbreaks of antisemitism at our country’s leading universities focused on the students affected . . .. But universities are workplaces, too, and large-scale employers. In addition to Jewish professors on campus, universities employ ...