Coral Springs Students Shocked by Antisemitic Material Taught in FIU Class

An adjunct professor at Florida International University gave students an online quiz containing anti-Israel content – an assignment that outraged the class’s Jewish students, including some from Coral Springs, and led to calls for better academic oversight.

The online, multiple-choice quiz given in Mario Reyes’ Terrorism and Homeland Security course this week included questions like, “When Israelis practice terrorism, they often refer to it as [blank].” The answer choices included “proactive attacks” and “terrorist defensive strategy.”

Another question asked students, “In which country did the Zionists purchase land to create their new homeland?”

The answer choices were Persia, Israel, Syria, and Palestine, but none of those answers are correct. According to the Jewish Virtual Library, before modern Israel’s establishment in 1948, the territory was ruled by the British and, before that, the Ottoman Empire.