The head of Florida’s state university system has ordered all 12 public universities to review their teaching materials for content that may contain anti-Semitic or anti-Israeli bias.
“We are going to conduct a keyword search on course descriptions and course syllabi,” Chancellor Ray Rodrigues, a former Republican lawmaker who oversees the public university system, told the universities’ presidents in an Aug. 4 email. “Any course that contains the following keywords: Israel, Israeli, Palestine, Palestinian, Middle East, Zionism, Zionist, Judaism, Jewish, or Jews will be flagged for review.”
