Florida asks colleges to ‘flag’ anti-Israel classes

Florida state universities have been asked to look for “antisemitism or anti-Israeli bias” in their courses.

The chancellor and vice chancellor of Florida’s state university system sent the orders to the presidents of the 12 public universities Friday.

The board of governors sent The College Fix the email from Chancellor Ray Rodrigues on Wednesday in response to an inquiry. In the email, Rodrigues outlined the specifics of the review process.

“We are going to conduct a keyword search on course descriptions and course syllabi,” Rodrigues wrote. “Any course that contains the following keywords: Israel, Israeli, Palestine, Palestinian, Middle East, Zionism, Zionist, Judaism, Jewish, or Jews will be flagged for review … This review should flag all instances of either antisemitism or anti-Israeli bias identified and report that information to my office.”