Rebranded DEI offices won’t ensure religious liberty

Published February 26, 2026 6:00am ET



My dean denied a routine travel-funding request. That’s hardly headline news — until you see what she approves. My university funds LGBTQIA+ activism and an entire “Center for Justice.” But when a Jewish law professor gets invited to testify before the bipartisan U.S. Commission on Civil Rights on religious discrimination and campus antisemitism, the system labels it a forbidden “political activity.”

Is being Jewish somehow partisan?

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