By Meir Svirsky and Sean Savage, JNS
A Jewish student at Tufts University who claims that he has been the subject months-long campaign of anti-Semitic intimidation, harassment and discrimination is calling on the university to intervene.
Max Price, a junior who is a member of the Tufts Community Union Judiciary (TCUJ), which is tasked with fact-checking and removing bias student government legislation, has been outspoken against an SJP proposal to include its “Deadly Exchange Campaign” referendum in the student election ballot.
“Mr. Price has been subjected to anti-Semitic harassment targeting him on the basis of his ethnic and ancestral Jewish identity,” stated a letter written by Price’s lawyers to Tufts University president Anthony Monaco, Tufts general counsel Mary Jeka and Tufts provost Nadine Aubry.
Christopher and Residence Hall, Tufts University.
Tufts university’s Community Union Judiciary (TCUJ) member Max Price last week was issued a complaint seeking to have him removed from office for expressing Jewish identity. Attorneys from The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law (LDB) representing Price demanded Tufts university promptly intervene and halt the proceedings.
âMr. Price has been subjected to anti-Semitic harassment targeting him based on his ethnic and ancestral Jewish identity,” Price’s lawyers wrote Tufts President Anthony Monaco, General Counsel Mary Jeka, and Provost Nadine Aubry. “This harassment reached a peak a week ago when Mr. Price was provided with a complaint filed by Tufts Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) seeking to have him removed from the TCUJ. SJPâs position would mean that Black students may not participate in student government discussions related to race, Catholic students may not evaluate student government
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