Professor Michael Zank Publishes Op-Ed in BU Today
Responding to President Trump’s executive order targeting Anti-Semitic speech on college campuses, Religion Professor and Director of the Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies Michael Zank published an opinion piece in BU Today. The president’s order, Prof. Zank writes, “merely instigates a new era of government interference in American campus life and policing of speech that feels like the beginning of a new McCarthyism.” Moreover, “[Trump’s] intention, and that of the most vigorous supporters of the measure, is to create equivalence between anti-Zionism and anti-Judaism…it is now possible to threaten colleges and universities with withdrawal of federal funding if they are found to be critical of Israel.”
Read the full POV here.