Home – Alums for Campus Fairness

A group of Jewish Studies faculty members at Johns Hopkins University wrote a letter expressing concerns about antisemitic incidents at the school and recommending ways to mitigate the problem. The latest incident involves a teaching assistant who discussed giving lower grades to Zionist students.

“As scholars of the Jewish experience, we understand the protean character of antisemitism and the ease with which people can convince themselves and others of the collective guilt of targeted groups and the ‘need’ to ‘punish’ them,” the letter signed by seven faculty members states. “We hope all faculty and students at Hopkins, regardless of field, share our view that there can never be any justification for using a student’s background, identity or politics as a factor in grading,” it continues.

We commend these faculty members for speaking out against this troubling antisemitic incident. Johns Hopkins University must conduct a full investigation into the teaching assistant’s prior grading and commit to combating antisemitism in all of its forms. Sign this petition to stand against antisemitism at Johns Hopkins: www.campusfairness.org/action/?johnshopkins ... See MoreSee Less

Letter to the Editor 01/09/2021

www.jhunewsletter.com

As faculty affiliated with the Jewish Studies Program at Hopkins, we are deeply troubled by reports that a Hopkins teaching assistant spoke of penalizing students in her class on the basis of their id...

Pin It on Pinterest