CSUN web page termed anti-semitic

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A Cal State Northridge professor's campus-based Web page calling for a boycott of Israel has sparked charges of anti-Semitism, but the school president and others are defending it as an expression of protected academic free speech. Dana Bartholomew in the Daily News,

CSUN President Jolene Koester, after receiving complaints about the "Boycott Israel Resource Page" by mathematics Professor David Klein, called for a full administrative review. It found no violation of California State University web use policy.

"While we recognize this finding will not satisfy everyone, the conclusions are based on the important tenets of academic freedom and free speech," the outgoing president wrote Dec. 5.


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