I just read Judge Timothy Savage's opinion dismissing Professor Amy Wax's discrimination counts in her lawsuit against the University of Pennsylvania. One of Professor Wax's arguments was that Penn applied different disciplinary standards to her speech, which the university deemed racist, than to antisemitic speech by other Penn faculty and employees.
Judge Savage rejects this aspect of her claim for a variety of reasons, one of which I found pretty shocking, to wit: Judge Savage argues that the professors and other Penn employees Wax compares herself to "were not antisemitic; they were critical of Israel's treatment of Palestinians."
Put aside the issue of whether these statements were in fact antisemitic in a way comparable to the racism charges leveled against Wax. Most of them had nothing to do with criticism of "Israel's treatment of the Palestinians."
