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Jordan Sekulow, executive director of the American Center for Law and Justice, said in a statement that his client’s employer had told her “not to display an Israeli flag in her office.”
Jennifer O’Connor previously provided her legal skills to aerospace company Northrop Grumman Corp. and the U.S. Department of Defense.
“The court must hold the university accountable for its reprehensible actions,” said the students’ attorney.
The House Veterans’ Affairs Committee chair is concerned by Jew-hatred’s impact on campus.
“They spend all their time protesting against Israel,” an MIT doctoral student and United Electrical Workers Local 256 member testified before Congress.
The job requires annual reports of disciplinary data to the Board of Trustees.
It also points to the Gulf state’s media outlets, which “periodically” carry antisemitic content.
Lawyers for the private university had argued that discrimination had fallen on campus since Oct. 7.
“Students deserve better, and Columbia is far from off the hook,” Rep. Virginia Foxx told JNS.
A former U.S. education senior adviser called the agreement “very vague on details” and asked if it was “a press release meant to show ‘accountability.’”
Schools that receive tax benefits “should be doing more than simply giving a slap on the wrist to perpetrators of hate,” said Rep. Nicole Malliotakis.
“These teachers are extremely upset. They’re fearful,” said their Vancouver-based lawyer, Paul Pulver.
