What started with a cafeteria worker’s complaint about a Jewish student handing out an Alan Dershowitz book, “The Ten Big Anti-Israel Lies,” threatens to become full-blown litigation between West Virginia University and the pro-Israel student as each demands the other correct and stop spreading purported falsehoods about the situation.
WVU general counsel Stephanie Taylor “respectfully” asked student Eliyahu Itkowitz’s advocates at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression to “reconsider and correct” its claim that WVU investigated Itkowitz for passing out the book “and send corrections to any media outlets with which you shared these incomplete claims,” in a letter WVU shared with Just the News.
WVU has “confirmed in writing” to Itkowitz’s adviser that handing out the book is constitutional and allowed by university policy, according to Taylor.
She said its investigation was limited to allegations of “following, recording, and confronting a specific individual – conduct which, if substantiated, could have reasonably constituted harassment regardless of the student’s viewpoints.”
In the telling of the civil liberties group, that refers to cafeteria worker Hannah Harper’s confrontation in January with Itkowitz, with Harper claiming Itkowitz had been banned from the dining hall for handing out the “anti-Muslim” book in December and Itkowitz recording Harper when she called campus police, who could find no evidence Itkowitz wasn’t allowed there.
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Author: Ray Hilbrich
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