Virginia AG Jason Miyares Is Using a Disputed Antisemitism Definition to Silence Pro-Palestinian Students

United Voices is calling on Virginia public schools to reject outgoing Attorney General Jason Miyares’ push to adopt the controversial IHRA definition of antisemitism — warning that using it to punish students who criticize the Israeli government would violate the First Amendment and trigger legal action.

Organized Groups Are Showing Up at Muslim Student Prayer Events to Film, Mock, and Intimidate. Campuses Are Not Doing Enough.

Across Texas, Florida, and other states, anti-Muslim networks have been monitoring Muslim Student Association social media to track campus events — then showing up uninvited to harass students while they pray, film them without consent, and in one case burn a Quran. United Voices has written to more than 2,000 university leaders demanding immediate action to protect Muslim students.

Florida Republicans Want to Keep Sending Billions in Vouchers to Religious Schools — As Long as They’re Not Muslim

The Orlando Sentinel reports that Florida Republicans are calling for stripping voucher funding from Islamic schools while defending billions in public money for Christian ones. AG Uthmeier calls it a national security threat. There are roughly 24 Islamic schools in a program serving 2,278 campuses.

How Quebec’s Culture of Islamophobia is Seeping Into Public Schools

On March 7, 2023, in Anti-Muslim Hate, Canada, Civil Rights, by admin

Muslim Students Feel Increasingly Unsafe in Primary and Secondary Schools Ayeza Hussain is a 16-year-old Pakistani student from Antoine-Brossard High School in Brossard, Que. Though she finds her student body diverse, it has not stopped her from facing Islamophobic violence in school. During a lunch period, a white Québecois student approached her and began harassing […]

Family, Islamic group want action after teen’s hijab was removed at Kentucky school

On February 25, 2023, in Anti-Muslim Hate, Civil Rights, Hate Crimes, by admin

A Hardin County girl was suspended last fall following an incident after another student attempted to remove her hijab – a punishment her mother and the Council on American-Islamic Relations say was harsher than what was given to the boy they say initiated the confrontation. Kenneisha Turner Wright, said her 14-year-old daughter was suspended for […]

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