Northwestern University’s mandatory anti-discrimination training relies on unverified data from the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) that inflate Islamophobic attacks, giving the false impression that those attacks vastly outpace anti-Semitic hate crimes. The training also questions anti-Zionism’s ties to Jew-hatred and explicitly addresses “anti-Muslim, anti-Arab, and anti-Palestinian biases,” but it doesn’t do the same for anti-Israeli or anti-Zionist sentiment.
All Northwestern students, faculty, and staff across all departments, must watch the nearly 20-minute video training, obtained by the Washington Free Beacon, and is part of a 3-hour online course created by the university.
“Reports from Northwestern University faculty and staff suggest that its so-called anti-discrimination training does the opposite of what it claims,” Coalition Against Antisemitism at Northwestern president Michael Teplitsky told the Free…
