CONGRESS PROBES SUBSTANTIAL RISE OF CAMPUS ANTI-SEMITISM:

Citing reports of an increase in anti-Israel activity on college campuses, a bipartisan congressional task force on anti-Semitism asked USA Education Secretary John King to outline how his department is tracking anti-Jewish bias. The letter sent this week to King by 38 members of the USA House of Representatives cites reports of 500 anti-Israel programs on campuses in 2014-2015 and 29 Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaigns sponsored by student groups in the same period, which it said were respectively a 38 percent and 21% increase over the previous academic year. The signatories said in the letter that they "hope you share our view that any campus activity that threatens, harasses, or intimidates Jewish students should not be overlooked simply because it is presented as ‘anti-Israel’ or ‘anti-Zionist.’”
It asks King how many cases of anti-Semitism the department’s Office for Civil Rights is currently investigating; what instructions regional department staffers get to detect anti-Semitic bias, and whether they specifically receive guidance on how to ascertain whether discourse about Israel devolves into "hostile environments;” and whether staffers are told that according to a 2004 Department of Education directive, staffers may regard hostility targeting a faith group as equivalent to hostility targeting an ethnic group. (Times of Israel) Intercede for strong and influential voices to come out against anti-Semitism and anti-Israel bias on university campuses in the USA and across Europe. Pray against the demonic strongholds that fuel the increasing hatred of Israel and the Jewish people.