Last week, officials ordered several public universities in Florida to examine courses for “antisemitism or anti-Israeli bias,” reported The Chronicle.
The directive, issued on Friday, ordered the leaders of 12 public universities in the State University System of Florida to provide the system’s board of governors with a list of “related instructional materials” for any course whose description or syllabus contains the keywords Israel, Israeli, Palestine, Palestinian, Middle East, Zionism, Zionist, Judaism, Jewish, and Jews.
In a follow-up email sent later that day, the system’s chancellor, Ray Rodrigues, clarified that schools should instead have a faculty committee “review relevant course resources such as textbooks and test banks for either antisemitic material and/or anti-Israeli bias before the beginning of fall semester,” according to The Chronicle.
Rodrigues added that the goal was to “look at courses on terrorism,…
