On October 25, 2023, Parents Defending Education (now Defending Education) joined a coalition of 115 organizations in an open letter to the University of California (UC) Regents, President, and Chancellors. The letter urges UC to reject its Ethnic Studies Faculty Council’s proposal for an ethnic studies admissions requirement, after the council issued a letter justifying terrorism and supporting the antisemitic Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement.
UC faculty who cannot acknowledge that the Hamas massacre is terrorism and a crime against humanity, and who state that anti-Zionism and the elimination of the Jewish state is a core value of their discipline, must not be trusted to establish state-wide ethnic studies standards for California students. The UC Ethnic Studies Faculty Council’s disastrous admissions requirement proposal must be immediately rejected.
Read the full letter below:
