President Trump receives high-fives from students as he arrives at Dallas Love Field on Oct. 25, 2017. (Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images)The man President Trump has tapped for the critical job of chief of civil rights in the Education Department is the president of a Jewish center for human rights who has been critical of campus supporters of a Palestinian-led campaign to divest from Israel and who previously served in the George W. Bush administration. Kenneth L. Marcus of Virginia is being nominated as assistant secretary for civil rights at the education agency, taking over the same responsibilities that he filled under Bush and that have been carried out for months in an acting capacity by the controversial Candice Jackson. In an email, Marcus said he would refer queries about his nomination to the Education Department. In 2016, he wrote a piece published by Newsweek calling BDS’s academic boycott “arguably anti-Semitic” and criticized academic organizations that supported it.

Source: Washington Post October 26, 2017 21:00 UTC