[ April 19, 2024 ]
Aviva Vogelstein, the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law (LBD) director of legal initiatives, told federal authorities that schools in America handle on average “30 incidents” each day of religious bullying.
And most of it is targeted at Jews, she said.
Vogelstein said federal authorities ought to confront the issue and start initiatives that put a stop to the bullying.
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The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law (LDB), a Jewish civil- and human-rights group, is urging the US government to confront religious bullying and harassment in schools across the country following an alarming report on the scope of such activity.
Aviva Vogelstein, LDB’s director of legal initiatives, who testified in front of the US Commission on Civil Rights earlier this month, told JNS that the government should approach the issue of religious bullying the same way it confronts other forms of harassment.
“No child should be bullied or harassed based on any grounds, including religion. With over 10,000 incidents in federally funded schools, our government needs to prohibit religious harassment—just like it prohibits other forms of harassment. It’s unconscionable that this type of hate has gone unaddressed for this long. We urgently need strong enforcement, better legislation, and more data,” she said.
In her testimony in front of the Civil Rights Commission, Vogelstein told the members that there is on average approximately “30 incidents per school day, 150 incidents per school week, and 602 incidents per school month” of religiously motivated harassment and bullying.
A US Department of Education report released last month, which included statistics on religiously motivated bullying and harassment, found an alarming 10,848 incidents based on religion in 2015-16.
According to the US. Department of Health and Human Services, bullying “is linked to many negative outcomes including impacts on mental health, substance use and suicide.” Kids who are bullied can experience negative physical, school and mental-health issues, and kids who bully others can engage in violent and other risky behaviors into adulthood.
The Brandeis Center recommended three steps to combat religiously motivated bullying and harassment. First, Congress must enact legislation to protect students from religious-based harassment. Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of “race, color or national origin,” does not protect students from harassment based on religion, absent an ethnic or ancestral component.
Second, the Department of Education should issue clear guidelines as to what is prohibited and what is permitted under Title VI.
Lastly, the Department of Education’s agreement to collect data is important, but the way the data is currently collected is not useful beyond general figures.
“Our government cannot continue to turn a blind eye to religious bullying taking place in our nation’s schools,” said Vogelstein. “Congress and the president must address the longstanding problem of religious hate crimes, harassment and bullying.”
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27 Comments
5 years ago
Teach martial arts classes in the schools so the kids are able to protect themselves.
5 years ago
Reply to
AlgorithmicAnalyst
That may work for some kids but what would be ideal is if TEACHERS or people in positions of authority would DISCIPLINE the bullies. What happened to common sense? I’d also like to know how they define bullying.
5 years ago
Reply to
AlgorithmicAnalyst
But will the Jewish kids take those classes, or will the bullies?
5 years ago
Reply to
NYgal
That’s a good point. In practice, the victims of the bullies benefit the most, for some reason.
5 years ago
Reply to
NYgal
Learning martial arts requires intense discipline and rigorous study, something bullies find difficult to easily master.
5 years ago
Reply to
R. Arandas
Maybe the lack of focus needed is because, (my guess) because most bullies are EMOTIONALLY driven.
5 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
Perhaps! I was just reading this article by the way on self-discipline and how to live your life to the fullest extent, I shared it in another thread:
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/05/the_rules_for_a_long_and_happy_life.html
https://disqus.com/home/channel/conservativelyspeaking/discussion/channel-conservativelyspeaking/the_rules_for_a_long_and_happy_life/
5 years ago
Though this article does not come out and state who is being bullied, I suspect that though this bullying is promoted against minority religions, my guess is that those of the Jewish persuasion are most likely to be subject to the hate that we define as anti-Semitism. Watching what has happened in this world in the last 50 years, I have stated on numerous occasions that wearing anything that will identify yourself as being one of Jewish persuasion will today potentially put that person at risk, something that really happened 50 years ago. I believe that this problem is directly related to those of the belief system that refers to Jews as being “apes and pigs,” and that things will get worse for these people as we ignore the hate that emanates from those of the Islamic persuasion. Though the Jewish people have always contributed to society, the failure of our leaders to take appropriate action against those haters, and close our borders to those people who bring with them Nazi like thinking, will exacerbate an already dangerous situation festering within the U.S.A. We need to face this reality and immediately take steps to stop this inane thinking. While I suspect that Muslims also face bullying, they brought the problem with them, as their belief system provides for no compromise or the ability to assimilate; therefore leaving them as a people who cannot live among us in a comfortable and accepting manner. My sympathies for them is essentially without solace, until they reject the Jihadi beliefs that their belief system promotes.
5 years ago
Reply to
Dennis
Today Anti-Semitism is back in the open, and again and is present both, on the left and on the right. While the left will fight against ‘islamophobia,’ they view Jews as expendable and shield their Jew hatred behind anti-Zionism and crazy theories that Jews are not the “real Jews.”
On the right, on the other hand, old prejudices, nursed for generations, now become easy to express and without any stigma attached, and justified with argument that Jews vote democratic, in addition to old slanders. The degree of hate is really depressing.
5 years ago
Reply to
NYgal
The left doesn’t view Jews as victims anymore, therefore between Muslims and Jews, they are unlikely to favor the latter.
5 years ago
Reply to
R. Arandas
Muslims see liberal Jews as tools. Muslims hate ALL Jews, Christians and other non believers. In the U.S. Jews are a small minority so maybe Muslims see them as easy to pick on. Muslims use blacks so why not liberal Jews?
5 years ago
Reply to
R. Arandas
The left views the world the way their leaders tell them to view it. It had always been that way.
The Left, as well as the Arabs, is very good at inverting the truth. The leftist have made a virtue out their suppression of the opponents, projecting their totalitarian and fascistic tendencies on those they oppress and attack; the Arabs shamelessly appropriated the history, religion and the achievements of others, while projecting their genocidal hate and violence to those they oppose.
I suppose, that’s why the ‘progressive’ left feels so much simpatico with backward Muslims.
5 years ago
Reply to
NYgal
I just don’t find it helpful when liberal Jews side with the anti-Semites and not expect the outcome of bullying etc.. BTW disagreeing with a position is not automatically “hate”. That’s become another PC silencer.
You have your liberal Jews that ALWAYS vote for DEMS. This is a long established fact. It is not anti-Semitic to state that. On the “right” you have people fed up with liberal Jews voting DEM when it should be against their own interests. Liberal Jews were protesting against Trump moving our embassy to Jerusalem!
So, trying to position any criticism against Jews that are misguided to put it nicely, is not being an anti-Semitic or hate speech. I believe Pam Geller also witnessed this and was miffed over Jews protesting Trump’s embassy move to Jerusalem.. Pointing out the confusion with liberal Jews and conservative Jews is not being anti-Semitic. There is a problem there. Ms Geller is all for the embassy move. Why aren’t other Jews for it? Why the Jewish sympathy for Palestinians?
‘Which Side Are You On?’:
Jewish Americans Protest Trump’s Jerusalem Move In New York
(in front of Chucky Schumer’s home who is also Jewish)
Duration: 02:10 12/8/2017
At the link below is the Chuck Schimmer protest by Jews for moving our embassy to Jerusalem.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/video/news/%E2%80%98which-side-are-you-on%E2%80%99-jewish-americans-protest-trump%E2%80%99s-jerusalem-move-in-new-york/vi-BBGnv4W
5 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
When you attack Jews as a group, you push them towards the Democrats. Frankly, you don’t know how Jews vote since far too many will lie so not to alienate their friends and acquaintances , who may also do exactly the same thing.
I remember having those huge discussion with a guy supporting Obama and claiming to have voted for him, only to find out from his wife that they dont even vote since they list their primary residence upstate, so that they could easier register and keep their guns (thats right, Second Amendment gun ownership supporters, too.)
That said, liberal Jews are beyond stupid – avoiding reality doesn’t alter it. Still, there are other groups that voted even more Democratic, as group, and I never see them singled out.
My district had always voted Republican, until now when the demographics have drastically changed, and it wasn’t the influx of liberal Jews that did the trick. The newcomers are wealthy, yet they vote Democratic.
Chuck Schumer knows that he is running out of Jews to vote for him in New York, so, without one scintilla of shame, he now caters to non-Jewish Democrats, many of whom are unabashed Jew-haters. But so do other Democrats, both Jewish and non-Jewish. Had he been supportive of Jewish issues, wouldn’t you be accusing him of being Israel-first – disloyal Jew?
In my family, Trump haters are on the non-Jewish side, but we avoid conflict by never talking politics, ever.
5 years ago
I find Brandeis University to be utterly confusing!
BRANDEIS: ANTI-ISRAEL YES, ANTI-ISLAMIST NO
The left celebrates attacks on Israel and Judaism,
but rejects any criticism of Islam
April 10, 2014 Daniel Greenfield
There are things that Brandeis University finds acceptable. And things that it finds unacceptable.
After facing growing pressure from faculty members, students, and an outside Muslim advocacy group, Brandeis University said Tuesday that it is rescinding its decision to award an honorary degree to Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a women’s rights activist and critic of Islam, over her “past statements that are inconsistent with Brandeis University’s core values.”
But in light of the school’s past decisions to honor American playwright and screenwriter Tony Kushner and South African Bishop Desmond Tutu, who have both made anti-Israel or anti-Semitic remarks, some are now accusing Brandeis of applying a double standard over the move to rescind Hirsi Ali’s honor for her remarks on Islam.
In a 2004 interview with Haaretz, Kushner called the creation of Israel a “mistake.” Yet in 2006, former Brandeis president Jehuda Reinharz defended Kushner’s honorary degree, saying, “Just as Brandeis does not inquire into the political opinions and beliefs of faculty or staff before appointing them, or students before offering admission, so too the university does not select honorary degree recipients on the basis of their political beliefs or opinions.” At the time, a prominent campaign led by the Zionist Organization of America and other Jewish groups called on Brandeis to pull Kushner’s honor, to no avail.
“That Brandeis withstood Zionist unhappiness in 2006, and went ahead to award an honorary degree to Tony Kushner, points to who today really has power in the United States—and even in the Jewish community,” Middle East Forum President Dr. Daniel Pipes, whose daughter attended Brandeis, told JNS.org on Wednesday.
Born in Somalia to a strict Muslim family and raised in Kenya, Hirsi Ali survived civil war, female genital mutilation, abuse, and an arranged marriage. She fled to the Netherlands in the early 1990s.
The left celebrates attacks on Israel and Judaism, but rejects any criticism of Islam and the Muslim world. And it should be called out for that hypocrisy.
Unlike Kushner, Ali has suffered for her beliefs. She’s a genuinely courageous individual who has faced odds that Kushner could not begin to imagine.
Yet to the left, Kushner is a hero because he hates America and Israel, while Ali is a villain because she tells the truth about the religion she left.
5 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
Left has been very successful in infiltrating all Universities and many churches and synagogues.
5 years ago
Reply to
NYgal
Brandeis University is a private research university founded by Jews and mostly Jewish. They do reach out also as a secular university. It was named after Louis Brandeis, the first Jewish Justice of the U.S Supreme Court. Yet they are PRO ISLAM and PRO anti Jewish groups. It’s baffling.
5 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
Being a Jewish University is exactly what had made that university a prime target to the infiltration.
After the 6-Day-War, Israel became an object of pride for Jews and admiration in the West. It had also became the object of hate for the Soviet Union and its satellite countries, which were closely allied with the Arabs. The Soviet Union took the Arab defeat very personal and immediately started it’s work to undo Israeli victory. On the military front, they started pouring their most sophisticated weapons to their Arab friends (which cost Israel almost a defeat during the Yom Kippur war) and on the propaganda front they had activated their leftist drones and sympathizers in the press, academia.
There may no longer be the Soviet Union, but we are still living with the results of the Soviet quiet war.
Yuri Bezmienov said in 1980s interview that it takes 3 generation to create a brainless and brainwashed society. Well, at least half of our country qualifies as such…. they voted for and supported Sanders and voted like drones for clearly corrupted and incompetent Hillary Clinton. Normal, logical people would never do such a thing. Students and professors of a historically Jewish institution being pro-Islam and anti-Israel are in the same category.
5 years ago
Left/Liberals can only destroy countries like this Left/Liberal utopia http://tinyurl.com/yavxfl4m
…where its Gun Free , govt terrorises citizens and they hunt cats and dogs for food !
5 years ago
According to a 2016 report by the FBI, Jews in America suffered 54% of all hate crimes in the United States despite making up 2% of the population:
http://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/249434/fbi-jews-subject-to-54-percent-of-religiously-motivated-hate-crimes-in-2016-despite-being-just-two-percent-of-u-s-population
5 years ago
Reply to
R. Arandas
Interesting and I don’t doubt that Jews experience the most crime. Of the two percent that are Jewish, I’d LOVE to know how that breaks down between liberal and conservative.
Excerpts from your link:
Today, the FBI released its annual report on hate crimes for the previous calendar year. As has been the case since the bureau began collecting these figures in 1992, Jews were again found to be the chief target of religiously motivated hate crimes. Despite constituting just two percent of the American population, Jews were subject to 54.4 percent of such attacks.
At the same time, as the Anti-Defamation League noted, “the greatest increase in religious-based crimes was those against Muslims; they increased 19 percent from 2015 to 2016.” In total, Muslims were the victims of 24.5 percent of religiously-motivated crimes, the next highest total after Jews, though this figure does not take into account the 1.3 percent of anti-Arab crimes which may also have been Islamophobic in nature.”
(Obama was still President in 2016…Trump wasn’t sworn in till January 20, 2017. I wonder if there is a correlation between more MUSLIMS being here and crimes against Jews going up!)
Moreover, it’s important to note, as the ADL did in its statement, that hate crimes overall remain severely under reported: “Nearly 90 cities with more than 100,000 residents either affirmatively reported zero (0) hate crimes or ignored the FBI request for their 2016 hate crime data.”
(I would also like to know the definition of a “hate crime” and the definition of “Islamphobia”.)
5 years ago
There is only one way to stop the bullying. The bully must be beaten up, but strangely, this is never addressed. Usually, a hard punch in the nose stops it.
And guess what? He’ll be your friend for life and will later thank you profusely for changing his life around. His mommy spoiled too much, his daddy didn’t care.
So YOU, get imprinted in his baby mind as BIG DADDY. Now he’ll follow you all around.
5 years ago
Plain and simple. Jews are easy targets. They seldom fight back and there will be no groundswell of outrage in the national (and world) media as there would be if an “approved” minority had been attacked. What’s more, the supposed “Jewish controlled” media will make excuses for the attackers, usually an approved minority themselves.
5 years ago
It seems like so many Jews are obcessed with Islamophobia…Maybe they out to take care of Jews under attack. No small part of it by moslems.
5 years ago
It seems to me that the left isn’t overly concerned about this because it’s against Jewish children ! Can the republicans put some pressure on to change this ?
