Posted on 02/23/2025 7:15:50 PM PST by SunkenCiv
A group of Jewish and Israeli psychology students at GW filed the civil rights complaint in 2023, saying the school failed to protect them after they were "singled out for repeated and persistent harassment" by anti-Israel professors and classmates in the program and later subjected to retaliation when they complained.
In the letter, the civil rights office said it had "concern that the students may have been placed on remediation plans in retaliation for asserting their rights" under the Civil Rights Act's Title VI anti-discrimination clause. It added that the decisions to place those students into a remediation program "appear to encompass [the students'] shared ancestry-related advocacy."
"Evidence provided to OCR indicated that the students made in-class statements during the course that constituted protected activity," the letter stated.
StandWithUs, the group that brought the complaint on behalf of the students, told the Free Beacon that the settlement letter was a positive step...
Sheehi also invited a guest lecturer who reportedly assailed "white Israeli racism" and praised a Palestinian terrorist who stabbed an Israeli child, according to the complaint. When some Jewish students pushed back on Sheehi's anti-Israel rhetoric in class, the professor allegedly argued that Zionism was racist and anti-Semitic.
Sheehi reportedly complained about the students to other professors in the psychology program, and "faculty voted to initiate disciplinary proceedings against [the students]," according to the complaint.
Sheehi -- who attacked Israel on social media as "racist" and "genocidal" -- has since left GW for Hamas-friendly Qatar. The university hired a law firm to investigate the allegations against her, which found "no evidence substantiating the allegations of discriminatory and retaliatory conduct," according to a statement from the firm.
(Excerpt) Read more at freebeacon.com ...
GW also ordered to conduct review of former psych professor Lara Sheehi's infamous social media posts
> The university hired a law firm to investigate the allegations against her, which found “no evidence substantiating the allegations of discriminatory and retaliatory conduct,”… <
What a complete joke. He who pays the piper calls the tune.
That law firm certainly wants repeat business from the university. So of course they’ll find no evidence of wrongdoing.
Pull all Federal Funding for GWU..............
The University hired a law firm (Abdullah, Abdullah and Aziz)to investigate and they shockingly found no evidence of discrimination.
“... The university hired a law firm to investigate the allegations against her, which found ‘no evidence substantiating the allegations of discriminatory and retaliatory conduct,’ according to a statement from the firm.”
Of course they didn’t. And how very convenient that the perp is no longer in the USA.
They learned that trick from Eric holder who “investigated himself for alleged wrongdoing” in the fast and furious crime, and lo,and behold he found thst he did nothing wrong
Tell me it ain’t so!!! GWU, like Penn State went off the woke deep end more than 30 years ago!
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