A senator with the Stanford student government claimed that saying Jews control banks and the media is merely a "political statement" and not anti-Semitic.
The Stanford Review reports that Gabriel Knight, a junior, spoke up during the discussion of a bill aimed at fighting anti-Semitism. "[The resolution] says: ‘Jews controlling the media, economy, government, and other societal institutions’ [is] a fixture of anti-semitism that we... theoretically shouldn't challenge," he said. "Questioning these potential power dynamics, I think, is not anti-semitism. I think it’s a very valid discussion"
The motion ultimately tabled after opponents removed the sections defining Zionism as "the belief in Israel's right to exist and the right of the Jewish people to self-determination in their ancestral homeland" and categorizing the delegitimization of Israel and double standards towards Israel as forms of anti-Semitism.