Campus Antisemitism
“Publicly funded universities are barred from discriminating based on race, national origin or religion,” a U.S. Justice Department official stated.
“They’ll be paying about $500 million, and they’ll be operating trade schools,” the president said. “Then their sins are forgiven.”
Harvard violated federal law “by acting with deliberate indifference toward discrimination and harassment against Jewish and Israeli students,” the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said.
A spokeswoman for the public university system told JNS that it will “fully cooperate” with the federal investigation.
“Harvard does not appear to have disciplined, and instead has rewarded, two students who assaulted an Israeli Jewish student,” Reps. Tim Walberg and Elise Stefanik stated.
Leo Terrell, who chairs the U.S. Justice Department’s task force on Jew-hatred, said the anti-Israel student group is forcing Jews to “choose between defending their Zionist identities or observing their religion.”
“Anyone who crosses the line between peaceful protest and violence will be met with the full force of the law,” according to the Justice Department.
“Why would BU, which has an honorable reputation otherwise, allow someone who publishes violent social media posts about Jews to be held out as an anti-bigotry fellow,” Douglas Hauer-Gilad told JNS.
A school official said the incident “is abhorrent.” The local district attorney said it’s “not a foolish college prank and will not be treated as such.”
A spokeswoman for Fairleigh Dickinson University told JNS that it denies the allegations “categorically.”
“Resolutions voted on by the Student Government Association are student-led and reflect perspectives of voting members of the SGA,” a spokeswoman for the public school told JNS.
The six candidates for California governor, out of nine, who responded to questions from JNS said they agree with the bill.
