“This is official recognition for Jewish students as human beings to be free to celebrate their Jewish identity. This helps take back a word [“Zionist”] that is being used in a derogatory way and sets up real, clear boundaries about what is antisemitism. It explains that Zionism is just like keeping kosher, just like keeping the Sabbath,” said Erez Cohen, executive director of the Illini Hillel, the university’s chapter of the Jewish student campus group.
Under the new policy it will now be considered a violation of the school’s conduct code to blame a student for the actions of other individuals of their actual or perceived shared identity. Likewise, one would be in violation of the code if they blamed another student for the policies of a particular government or country that the student is from or perceived to be from.
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