Rutgers religious discrimination case reopened

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Rutgers wants to create a safe space for Jewish students? Doesn’t want them to be subject to insults and such on the basis of religion or ethnicity?

Seems OK to me, as long as the same goes for everyone else, including of course Palestinian students.

“Thus, for example, O.C.R. aggressively investigates alleged race or ethnic harassment against Arab Muslim, Sikh and Jewish students,”

But there are free speech issues, as there are with attempts to stop hate speech against gay people, black people, etc.

Sadly it seems these protections may not be equally applied.

Mr. Marcus supports scaled-back protections for transgender students and rejects that policies could have “disparate impact” on racial and other groups, and his organization has filed amicus briefs challenging affirmative action.

“Mr. Marcus expressed significant concern for a student who might be subject to harassment based on religion, but expressed no similar concern about a student’s right to be free from harassment based on their sexual orientation or gender identity,” the organizations, part of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, wrote of his nomination. “Mr. Marcus has sought to use the complaint process to chill a particular political point of view, rather than address unlawful discrimination.”