Groups Back Bill to Monitor Universities

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Groups Back Bill to Monitor Universities

Washington — Risking a clash with civil libertarians, major Jewish communal organizations are lobbying the Senate to approve a bill that would tighten federal monitoring of government-funded Middle East studies programs at universities.

The bill, which passed the House of Representatives overwhelmingly, is pitting the Jewish organizational community against professors associations and leading international studies scholars as well as against traditional allies such as the American Civil Liberties Union.

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"It is very hard to change attitudes within the Middle East centers," said Lois Waldman, co-director of the Commission on Law & Social Action at the AJCongress. "Professors there, most of them, are people who come from the area and have certain sympathies created by their own ethnicity and their own family background."

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