Columbia Violated Students' Civil Rights, Government Investigation Finds

[SouthBayDem]

Source: Wall Street Journal

Columbia University violated federal civil-rights law by ignoring the harassment of Jewish students by classmates, a government investigation found.

The school acted with “deliberate indifference towards student-on-student harassment of Jewish students” since the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas-led attack on Israel, the Department of Health and Human Services’ civil-rights office said Thursday.

The office said the university didn’t investigate or punish vandalism including repeated drawing of swastikas; didn’t enforce rules for protests; didn’t abide by its own policies when handling Jewish students’ complaints; and didn’t establish ways to combat antisemitism until last summer.

“The findings carefully document the hostile environment Jewish students at Columbia University have had to endure for over 19 months,” said Anthony Archeval, acting director of the civil-rights office. “We encourage Columbia University to work with us to come to an agreement that reflects meaningful changes that will truly protect Jewish students.”

Read more: https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/columbia-investigation-civil-rights-violate-0cc7b7d7?st=zxXjX2

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Odd how HHS and not Education led this investigation, as if they reverse merged into HEW (Health, Education, and Welfare - the cabinet that existed from Eisenhower to Carter).

[moniss]

1. Also of note is that harassment of

Muslim students and allowing outside groups to target them for "investigation" and coordinate that targeting with on campus groups is absent from any concern or coverage.