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The university construes antisemitism, Islamophobia, and caste to be included within the university’s current prohibitions on discrimination or harassment, which may be based on the protected classes of race, color, religion, creed, national origin or ancestry. All protected classes listed above encompass intersectional identities.

Intersectionality

Intersectionality is the complex, cumulative way in which the effects of multiple forms of discrimination (based on race, sex, age, disability, etc.) combine, overlap, or intersect. Discrimination based on protected class identity may intersect, and individuals don’t need to be certain about which identities are implicated to seek assistance from OIEC.

Antisemitism

Antisemitism is a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews. Rhetorical and physical manifestations of antisemitism are directed toward Jewish or non-Jewish individuals or their property or toward Jewish community institutions and religious facilities. Antisemitism irrationally charges Jews with conspiring to harm humanity and employs sinister stereotypes and negative character traits. 

Islamophobia

Islamophobia is a fear, prejudice, or hatred of Muslims that leads to provocation, hostility, or intolerance through threats, harassment, abuse, incitement, or intimidation of Muslims or those perceived to be Muslim, such as, but not limited to, Arabs, Sikhs, South Asians, Persians, Palestinians, or those from Southwest Asia and Northern Africa. Motivated by institutional, ideological, political, and religious hostility that transcends into structural and cultural racism, it targets the symbols and markers of being a Muslim. Manifestations of Islamophobia might include irrationally stereotyping Muslims as a geopolitical threat or a source of terrorism and employing other sinister stereotypes and negative character traits.

Caste

Caste is an individual’s perceived position in a rigid, hierarchical system of social stratification based on inherited status. Caste may include social barriers sanctioned by custom, law, or religion based on perceived status including, but not limited to, the inability or restricted ability to alter inherited status; socially enforced restrictions on marriage, dating, and relationships; private and public segregation and discrimination; and exclusion from social and professional resources and networks.

Caste-based identification and discrimination are not restricted to communities that practice any specific religion and can persist in environments and groups among people of South Asian, East Asian, European, Latin/South American, African, Middle Eastern, and Pacific region descent, and in various diaspora communities.