Why does the Middle East Studies Association (MESA), a nonprofit academic organization that says it commends efforts to "combat discrimination and harassment against Jewish, Muslim, Sikh and other students on U.S. college campuses," oppose the Anti-Semitism Awareness Act of 2018? At JNS.org, Campus Watch Fellow A.J. Caschetta examines MESA's justification and finds it wanting.
To read the entire article, please click here.In response to the near doubling of anti-Semitic incidents for the second year in a row, Congress has drafted the Anti-Semitism Awareness Act of 2018, or AAA. MESA's president and executive director responded with a sophomoric letter to the House and Senate Judiciary Committees, dated June 4, 2018, warning that the law will have a "chilling effect" on free speech and hinting that mysterious forces "outside of academia" are behind it.