April 14, 2006

Civil-Rights Panel Urges Federal Monitoring of Campus Anti-Semitism

By JENNIFER JACOBSON

The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights voted last week to recommend that Education Department officials protect college students from anti-Semitism by "vigorously enforcing" Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. It also called on university leaders to denounce hate speech on their campuses and to ensure that all academic units, including departments of Middle East studies, "respect intellectual diversity."

Meeting by conference call, the commission approved the recommendations on a

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