Department of Education Investigating Anti-Semitism at 5 Colleges, Including Columbia – EVOL

The Department of Education announced the investigations on Feb. 3.

The U.S. Department of Education said in a Feb. 3 statement that it is investigating allegations of anti-Semitism at five colleges, including Columbia University and the University of California, Berkeley.

The department’s Office for Civil Rights is launching the investigations in response to what it described as an explosion of anti-Semitism on American university campuses following the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas-led terrorist attack against Israel.

Officials are probing Northwestern University, Portland State University, and the University of Minnesota Twin Cities, in addition to Columbia and Berkeley.

“Too many universities have tolerated widespread antisemitic harassment and the illegal encampments that paralyzed campus life last year, driving Jewish life and religious expression underground,” Craig Trainor, acting assistant secretary for civil rights, said in a statement.

“Today, the Department is putting universities, colleges, and K-12 schools on notice: this administration will not tolerate continued institutional indifference to the wellbeing of Jewish students on American campuses, nor will it stand by idly if universities fail to combat Jew hatred and the unlawful harassment and violence it animates.”

A U.S. House of Representatives committee concluded in a 2024 report that administrators at universities made concessions to organizers of

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