ABSTRACT
Prior to May of 1991, the advocates of multiculturalism and diversity at University of Washington had encountered the Jewish question but once, and had not answered it very adroitly. The stated purpose of such courses and of the Ethnic Studies Requirement (ESR) would be to "sensitize" the American majority toward this country's minority groups and in this way combat racism. The Task Force had already denied most-favoured minority status to such "white" candidates as Italian and Irish Americans; now it was the turn of the Jews to be measured. The prize for semantic juggling was won not by the students, however, but by the two professorial representatives of the Ethnic Studies program itself, both of whom had also presided over Afro-American Studies. One is Professor Joseph Scott and other is Professor Johnella Butler. The multiculturalists do not recognize anti-Semitism as a form of racism.
