I asked Brandon, a Filipino student, “In the past decade the Philippine government has carried out thousands of extrajudicial executions, and I condemn this — does this mean that I am prejudiced against Filipinos? Am I creating a hostile classroom for you as a Filipino?” My students immediately understood the absurdity of this, that racial prejudice and criticism of a particular government’s policies are two very different things. Why is it that 17-year-olds can understand something that some modern critics of public education apparently cannot? Jews are among the most persecuted groups in human history, culminating in the Holocaust, and...
Monitoring Antisemitism Intel
