The Colorado Advisory Committee of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, a nearly 70-year-old independent, bipartisan fact-finding federal agency, plans to hold three events about Jew-hatred in the state in July and August.
“We are committed to ensuring that our institutions of higher learning are places where all students feel safe, respected and free to fully participate in academic life,” stated Alvina Earnhart, chair of the commission’s Colorado committee.
On July 16, the committee is scheduled to hold a two-hour online panel about Jew-hatred on Denver’s Auraria Campus, which contains three schools: University of Colorado Denver, Community College of Denver and Metropolitan State University of Denver.
According to the commission, the event will feature testimony from legal scholar and blogger Eugene Volokh; Anti-Defamation League regional leader Jeremy Shaver; and Kenneth L. Marcus, founder and chairman of the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under the Law, and a former U.S. assistant secretary of education for civil rights.
The commission also intends to hold a two-hour panel on college and university administrators and a one-hour community forum on Aug. 20.
The Colorado committee voted unanimously to launch a year-long probe of the “presence and/or absence of antisemitism at Colorado universities and colleges, specifically at the Auraria Campus in Denver,” CBS News Colorado reported in May.
An anti-Israel encampment was set up on the campus for 23 days last year, and participants said the colleges were “standing with genocide,” CBS reported.
“After refusing to disperse, approximately 40 people were arrested by the Auraria Campus Police Department,” it wrote. “Eight Coloradans arrested by campus police later sued, claiming they weren’t given adequate warning that police would be making arrests and that their arrests were unjustified because they weren’t camping there.”
