Posted on 10/19/2025 8:20:20 AM PDT by Eleutheria5
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is suing Northwestern University on behalf of the school’s Graduate Workers for Palestine, alleging that subjecting students to a mandatory anti-Semitism training violates the Civil Rights Act of 1964, according to a complaint obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.
The complaint argues that the training violates Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, which prohibits any organization that receives federal funds from discriminating on the basis of race, color, or national origin—and says the training bans "expressions of Palestinian identity."
Campus CAIR Sues Northwestern, Alleging Anti-Semitism Training a Violation of Civil Rights Act The group, representing Northwestern Graduate Students for Palestine, argues that subjecting students to anti-Semitism training 'prohibit[s] expressions of Palestinian identity'
Anti-Israel protesters at Northwestern in 2024 (Scott Olson/Getty Images) Zach Kessel October 18, 2025 The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is suing Northwestern University on behalf of the school’s Graduate Workers for Palestine, alleging that subjecting students to a mandatory anti-Semitism training violates the Civil Rights Act of 1964, according to a complaint obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.
The complaint argues that the training violates Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, which prohibits any organization that receives federal funds from discriminating on the basis of race, color, or national origin—and says the training bans "expressions of Palestinian identity."
"Under the pretense of combating antisemitism, Defendant Northwestern University has enacted policies and practices that prohibit expressions of Palestinian identity, culture, and advocacy for self-determination and silence those, including Jewish students, who express solidarity with Palestinians or even engage in critical academic engagement with Zionism," the complaint reads.
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A very expensive lawsuit, legal fees-wise.
Follow the money.
This is completely true what you have written. They live for this.
How do I know? I listened to a yt and guest speaker was the son of a Hamas leader who rejected those beliefs and left that group of people ,
I wish i could remember his name.
Additionally, what he said about the negotiations even with Phase 1 he said Hamas could agree to any number of years to stop their terrorizing and that would in reality simply be a ceasefire because Hamas considers it. their duty to kill the jews.
These people can’t be serious! Muslims are the most intolerant people in the World. Some people in this country enjoy being scammed by Muslims.
I’ve seen some of those, but they are not referencing Palestine as a state, but rather as an area, much like we might say the Mississippi Valley. They are references to geography, not a political entity.
I have always wondered...
Complaint is here:
https://freebeacon.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/CAIR-Chicago-Complaint.pdf
Plaintiffs listed as:
Northwestern Graduate Workers for Palestine
(GW4P)
Ifeayin Eziamaka Ogbuli (individually
and on behalf of others similarly situated)
Marwa Tahboub (individually and on behalf of
others similarly situated)
Ogbuli has ties to North Korea:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/eziogbuli
Editorial Intern
Network for North Korean Democracy and Human Rights (NKnet)
Jun 2022 - Jul 2022 2 months
Seoul, South Korea
(1)Edited and revised 6 reports, including a report on extortion and bribery in North Korea that was sent to the new UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights.
(2)Supported Nknet and other North Korean rights organizations in Seoul to raise awareness of human rights violations domestically in Seoul and internationally by developing and providing feedback on advocacy material.
https://mts.northwestern.edu/students/
Marwa Tahboub
Marwa Tahboub is a Ph.D. student in the Media, Technology, and Society program. She works in the Network for Nonprofit and Social Impact [NNSI] lab led by Dr. Michelle Shumate. Her research interests surround nonprofits, community organizations, and activism. She received her M.A. from Northwestern, in which her thesis explored how Muslim nonprofits engage in social movements in the United States. She holds a B.A. in professional communication and psychology from the University of Michigan-Flint.
https://communication.northwestern.edu/faculty/michelle-shumate.html
Michelle is the founding director of the Network for Nonprofit and Social Impact (NNSI), the Delaney Family University Research Professor, and Associate Faculty at the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University. NNSI is dedicated to answering the question: How can government and nonprofit networks be rewired for maximum social impact?
Her research focuses on how to design interorganizational networks to make the most social impact. She is the author of Networks for Social Impact (2022, Oxford University Press). The National Science Foundation recognized her research with a CAREER award. Her research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and Army Research Office. Nonprofit Quarterly, Stanford Social Innovation, and the Conference board have featured her work.
Northwestern Graduate Workers for Palestine
(GW4P) looks to be a spinoff of this group:
https://nugradworkers.org/about-nugw/
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY GRADUATE WORKERS
Northwestern University Graduate Workers (NUGW) is an antiracist, feminist labor union fighting for better working and living conditions for all graduate workers. We understand that the material conditions of our academic lives, and the right to a collective voice in decisions that affect these conditions, are inherently issues of racial, gender, and decolonial justice. We are dedicated to building a diverse and democratic union that centers the needs of historically excluded and underrepresented graduate students, particularly Black, Indigenous, POC, queer, trans, undocumented, low-income, first-generation, parenting students and students living with disabilities or chronic illnesses.
https://nugradworkers.org/elected-leadership/
NUGW-UE Local 1122 Executive Board
President - president@nugradworkers.org
Vice President for Membership - vice.president@nugradworkers.org
Recording & Data Secretary - recording.secretary@nugradworkers.org
Communications Secretary - communications.secretary@nugradworkers.org
Financial Secretary - financials@nugradworkers.org
Treasurer - financials@nugradworkers.org
Campus Chief Steward - chief.steward@nugradworkers.org
Division Chief Stewards - grievance@nugradworkers.org
General Inquiry - nugraduateworkers@gmail.com
https://nugradworkers.org/about-nugw/mission-statement/
Mission Statement
Northwestern University Graduate Workers (NUGW) is an antiracist, feminist labor union fighting for better working and living conditions for all graduate workers. We understand that the material conditions of our academic lives, and the right to a collective voice in decisions that affect these conditions, are inherently issues of racial, gender, and decolonial justice. We are dedicated to building a diverse and democratic union that centers the needs of historically excluded and underrepresented students, particularly Black, Indigenous, POC, queer, trans, undocumented, low-income, first-generation, parenting students and students living with disabilities or chronic illnesses.
Crest of NUGW with the words “Northwestern University Graduate Workers” surrounding an icon of an open book with a lightbulb above it.
As research assistants, teaching assistants, and instructors of record, we play a vital role in the day-to-day functioning and long term success of Northwestern. We are united in the goal of achieving formal recognition from Northwestern’s administration so we can collectively bargain for an inclusive, collaborative workplace in which all graduate students flourish. Specifically, we advocate for:
A democratic union that empowers students to advance their interests as equal participants in the university’s decision making process and holds the university accountable to its core mission of research and education.
The needs of our diverse student body, especially the needs of historically excluded and underrepresented groups. We strongly oppose inequality, discrimination, and harassment in all forms.
Safe, reasonable, and comfortable working conditions, including increased protection from arbitrary termination, sexual harassment, and all forms of discrimination.
The financial security necessary to enable academic success, including adequate healthcare, childcare, and a living wage.
The intellectual and academic freedom of graduate students to teach and research topics of legitimate scholarly interest without fear of reprisal.
NUGW stands in solidarity with workers and students everywhere organizing for a just and equitable system of higher education, and with other workers at Northwestern University, including service workers, staff, adjuncts, and undergraduate student workers. We are committed to actively supporting other organizing initiatives across and beyond Northwestern’s campus, and to linking our common struggles. . .
NUGW-AFT Affiliation Vote & Negotiations
November 2016
After the Columbia decision, both the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) started organizing on campus. NUGW asked both unions for affiliation proposals with the plan of holding an affiliation vote among members. NUGW hosted a debate between AFT and SEIU leadership to help members decide who they would prefer affiliating with. Both unions presented their case at the debate, but only AFT provided an affiliation proposal. At this point, NUGW proposed amendments to AFT’s proposal, which aimed to codify the democratic autonomy of the union. A vote was held to decide between affiliating with AFT and remaining independent. After voting to affiliate, the NUGW bargaining committee held affiliation negotiations with AFT, in which most amendments were accepted. The membership accepted the amended changes and determined that affiliation should move forward. At that point AFT assigned organizers to NUGW’s recognition campaign.
NUGW Founded
September 2016
NUGW was founded in September 2016 by a group of Northwestern graduate workers, about a month after the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) Columbia decision, which confirmed that graduate workers at private universities are employees, and therefore can form labor unions. With a name and an email list, NUGW was born. Our first public meetings were held in the Evanston Public Library.
https://evanstonroundtable.com/2025/07/08/northwestern-postdoctoral-union-petition/
In an impassioned speech, NUGW President Mounica Sreesai encouraged NUPU members to continue their unionization fight and acknowledged the fear and anger that many researchers are feeling amid federal funding cuts.
https://anthropology.northwestern.edu/people/current-graduate-students/
Mounica Sreesai (She/Her)
Cultural Anthropology (Ph.D. Candidate 2025)
Regional Focus: India
Research Content: Mounica’s research interests lie in labor, gender, caste, capitalist relations, inequalities, politics, and social/political movements/mobilizations. She is currently interested in the subjectivities of working-class women participating in labor unions and movements consequential to the inherently gendered and unequal world of work. More specifically, how they reconstruct, navigate and negotiate these spaces. Her research focuses on their lived experiences of political participation and assertion, i.e., the conception, articulation, and performance of sisterhood networks, solidarities, and identities. Her project explores how they articulate (and the various forms this takes) work, labor, and struggle, and through the process, interrogate and transform them in the intertwined spaces of unions and movements, workplaces, and intimate-familial spheres. She probes how their presence and work alter the characteristics and culture of unions. Her attempt is to situate them in the intersection of labor and feminist studies by examining the emancipatory possibilities they see for themselves as women and as workers and how their membership in unions equips them to conceive of and articulate sociopolitical change.
Looks like almost all of their grad students are foreigners with a Marxist agenda.
For the Anthropology Department, but probably not just them.
More, they believe that opposition to antisemitism is inherently anti-palestinian. Which is anathema to the first amendment.
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