‘Anti-semitic rhetoric’ at Duke-UNC event prompts Rep. Holding to ask for federal probe

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‘Anti-semitic rhetoric’ at Duke-UNC event prompts Rep. Holding to ask for federal probe

Holding argued in his letter to the DOE that the event program contained a list of speakers with a clear “anti-Israel bias.”
Posted Apr 16, 2019 11:28 AM


Rep. George Holding has asked the Department of Education to investigate whether a joint conference on Middle East studies by Duke University and the University of North Carolina that allegedly contained “anti-semitic rhetoric” should be the basis for pulling federal funding from a consortium of university foreign language and studies programs.

In a letter to Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, Holding criticized the “Conflict Over Gaza: People, Politics, and Possibilities” conference in March in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, where he says he saw “reports of severe anti-Israeli bias and anti-Semitic rhetoric at a taxpayer-funded conference.”

The schools used $5,000 of federal grant money from DOE for the event, the News and Observer in Raleigh reported.

http://www.rollcall.com/news/rep-holding-wants-feds-to-probe-anti-semitic-rhetoric-at-duke-unc-event