In an explosive House subcommittee hearing Wednesday, Republicans pressed the leaders of three major public school districts about their responses to antisemitic incidents.
Rep. Kevin Kiley, R-Calif., presented Enikia Ford Morthel, superintendent of Berkeley Unified School District in California, with a report on antisemitic incidents in her school district.
“You gave us a statement in your testimony when you said that ‘any suggestion or assertion that antisemitism is pervasive in the [district] is false,’” Kiley said. He then proceeded to quote a news release from the Anti-Defamation League and the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law, which filed a civil rights complaint against the district.
“Incidents include students repeatedly hearing antisemitic comments in classrooms and hallways, such as ‘kill the Jews’; non-Jewish students…
