Some University of Hawaii-Manoa students, including the director of Jewish student group Hillel Hawaii, have filed a federal complaint claiming folks protesting Israeli violence against Palestinians are making the campus “unsafe and hostile” to Jewish students (“Complaint alleges antisemitic rhetoric on UH-Manoa campus” Star-Advertiser, Feb. 19).
A group of Jewish students at the University of Hawaii have filed a Title VI complaint with the federal government claiming that words and acts of antisemitism have made the university’s Manoa campus an “unsafe and hostile environment” for them.
University of Hawaii President David Lassner has joined many university presidents in an abject failure to condemn terrorism. As a faculty member, and adviser to Hillel Hawaii at the University of Hawaii, I was extremely disappointed in Lassner’s statement on the situation in Israel.