Summary
The representative whose exchange with three college presidents at the December 5 House hearing into campus antisemitism Kenneth S. Stern analyses in Appendix A of his 2025 testimony: her insistence that the chant “From the River to the Sea” was a call for genocide, and that calls for genocide should be a disciplinary matter, is what Stern calls a bait and switch (Written Testimony of Kenneth S. Stern, PDF p.33).
Details
- Stern notes a survey in which 66 percent of Jewish college students heard the chant as a call for genocide but only 14 percent of Muslim students meant it that way, and the 1977 Likud platform’s statement on sovereignty between the Sea and the Jordan (PDF p.33).
- Advocating genocide should be robustly condemned, Stern argues in answer to her question, but mere expression should be countered, not disciplined (PDF p.34).
Related pages
Written Testimony of Kenneth S. Stern, Antisemitism, Academic freedom