Some Northwestern Students Boycotting Antibias Training

Some Northwestern students boycotting antibias training

Micol Bez has three weeks to make a choice. The Northwestern University graduate student has spent years studying political epistemology and abolitionism. Now, she is prepared to risk everything — her Ph.D. dissertation, her student status and her visa — in an act of protest she calls “a question of moral clarity.” Bez is part of a group of students boycotting Northwestern’s controversial antibias training video, which critics say conflates crit…

Dozens of Northwestern students face penalties for boycotting required antisemitism training video - Jewish Telegraphic Agency

After the Guardian reported on Sunday that hundreds of Northwestern University students were being blocked from classes after they refused to watch an antisemitism training video, the school offered a clarification on Monday: The real number of students penalized is less than three dozen. But other elements of the story remain unchanged: The students are boycotting the video over what they allege is “biased” content in the video that the univers…

Hundreds of Northwestern Students Refuse To Watch Anti-Semitism Training Video

At least 300 students at Northwestern University refused to watch an anti-Semitism training video that the school made mandatory amid President Donald Trump's crackdown on campus anti-Semitism.The post Hundreds of Northwestern Students Refuse To Watch Anti-Semitism Training Video appeared first on .