Letter to Governor Newsom Urging Him to Veto AB 715 which Still Conflates Antisemitism with Protected Speech Thus Censoring K-12 Education Critical of Israeli Government Policies and Actions by Conflating it with Antisemitism

September 13, 2025 Governor Gavin Newsom gavin.newsom@gov.ca.gov Dear Governor Newsom, On behalf of California Scholars for Academic Freedom,** an organization of over 200 scholars in higher education in California dedicated to the defense of academic freedom, we write to emphatically urge you to veto AB 715. The Senate Education Committee passed AB 715 on SeptemberContinue reading “Letter to Governor Newsom Urging Him to Veto AB 715 which Still Conflates Antisemitism with Protected Speech Thus Censoring K-12 Education Critical of Israeli Government Policies and Actions by Conflating it with Antisemitism”