FIGHTING ANTI-SEMITISM UNDER TITLE VI. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 contains a tool that can now be used when free speech is used as an excuse to intimidate on campus.

New legal tools fight anti-Semitism, CLJ's Susan Tuchman says
By Toby Tabachnick
Chronicle Correspondent

...That legal tool is Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Thanks in part to the efforts of Tuchman, anti-Semitism can now be challenged under Title VI.

...Tuchman explained that Title VI provides a legal recourse with which to battle campus anti-Semitism. Title VI requires that recipients of federal funding must ensure that their programs are free from harassment, intimidation and discrimination on the basis of race, color and national origin, or risk losing that funding. Historically, anti-Semitism did not fall within Title VI because it was viewed to be discrimination based on religion, which was not protected by the Act.

...In the fall of 2004, the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) clarified how it would interpret the law, and said that because Jews shared a common ethnicity, they would be protected under Title VI.

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