November 17, 2023
Round-up: Education Department Investigating Six Colleges for Discrimination Related to Israel-Hamas Conflict - Nov. 17
Civil rights investigations have been opened by the Department of Education against six colleges and universities since the start of the current Israel-Hamas hostilities on Oct. 7. The Department's Office for Civil Rights is looking for violations of federal law prohibiting discrimination based on “shared ancestry,” as defined by Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
The institutions under investigation are: Columbia University, the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, Cornell University, Lafayette College, the University of Pennsylvania, and Wellesley College. The list also included one high school, and the department’s news release said that five of the total of seven complaints allege antisemitic harassment and two allege anti-Muslim harassment.
Release of the list is “part of the Biden-Harris administration’s continued efforts to take aggressive action to address the alarming nationwide rise in reports of antisemitism, anti-Muslim, anti-Arab, and other forms of discrimination and harassment on college campuses and in K-12 schools since the October 7 Israel-Hamas conflict,” according to the news release.
Below is a round-up of select stories on colleges related to the Israel-Hamas conflict:
U.S. Lists Colleges Investigated for Bias Against Jews, Muslims
Inside Higher Ed (November 17, 2023)
Earlham College Responds to Israel-Gaza War in Middle East From a Quakers Perspective
Palladium-Item, Richmond, IN (November 17, 2023)
A.C.L.U. Sues DeSantis Over Crackdown on Pro-Palestinian Campus Group
The New York Times (November 17, 2023)
Hunter College Pulls Screening of Film Critical of Israel
The New York Times (November 17, 2023)
More Than 100 Harvard Professors Slam University President for Bowing to Donor ‘Pressure’ and Condemning Antisemitism
New York Post (November 16, 2023)
‘Doxxing Truck’ Blasts Names and Faces of Yale’s ‘Leading Antisemites’ Near Ivy League Campus
New York Post (November 16, 2023)
Universities Are Failing at Inclusion - Commentary
The New York Times (November 17, 2023)
Professors Shouldn’t Simplify the Conflict in Gaza – Commentary
The Chronicle of Higher Education (November 16, 2023)
The institutions under investigation are: Columbia University, the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, Cornell University, Lafayette College, the University of Pennsylvania, and Wellesley College. The list also included one high school, and the department’s news release said that five of the total of seven complaints allege antisemitic harassment and two allege anti-Muslim harassment.
Release of the list is “part of the Biden-Harris administration’s continued efforts to take aggressive action to address the alarming nationwide rise in reports of antisemitism, anti-Muslim, anti-Arab, and other forms of discrimination and harassment on college campuses and in K-12 schools since the October 7 Israel-Hamas conflict,” according to the news release.
Below is a round-up of select stories on colleges related to the Israel-Hamas conflict:
U.S. Lists Colleges Investigated for Bias Against Jews, Muslims
Inside Higher Ed (November 17, 2023)
Earlham College Responds to Israel-Gaza War in Middle East From a Quakers Perspective
Palladium-Item, Richmond, IN (November 17, 2023)
A.C.L.U. Sues DeSantis Over Crackdown on Pro-Palestinian Campus Group
The New York Times (November 17, 2023)
Hunter College Pulls Screening of Film Critical of Israel
The New York Times (November 17, 2023)
More Than 100 Harvard Professors Slam University President for Bowing to Donor ‘Pressure’ and Condemning Antisemitism
New York Post (November 16, 2023)
‘Doxxing Truck’ Blasts Names and Faces of Yale’s ‘Leading Antisemites’ Near Ivy League Campus
New York Post (November 16, 2023)
Universities Are Failing at Inclusion - Commentary
The New York Times (November 17, 2023)
Professors Shouldn’t Simplify the Conflict in Gaza – Commentary
The Chronicle of Higher Education (November 16, 2023)