anti-semitism

One of the responses Illinois Wesleyan University has made to a complaint of alleged antisemitism filed with the U.S. Education Department is to codify rules that satisfy both First Amendment protections of free speech and the priority to make sure discourse is civil.

Officials in the office on Thursday dismissed an attorney who admitted to posting antisemitic comments.

“In some ways, we think that we live in Illinois and somehow we’re immune to this,” said David Goldenberg, the Midwest director of the Anti-Defamation League that issued the “Hate in the Prairie State” report.

A new report from the Anti-Defamation League showed the number of anti-semitic attacks in the U.S. more than doubled from 2017 to 2018. Most recently, it…