Johns Hopkins Off the Hook for Anti-Semitism in Latest Biden Ed Department Settlement

Free Beacon ^ | January 7, 2025 | Lexi Boccuzzi

[SunkenCiv]

President Joe Biden's Department of Education reached an agreement with Johns Hopkins University to settle civil rights complaints that alleged widespread campus anti-Semitism in the wake of Hamas's Oct. 7 terror attack. The agreement will see Hopkins, which did not admit wrongdoing, implement underwhelming reforms like general anti-discrimination training...

Anti-Semitism at Hopkins especially reared its head in May when an Israeli Ph.D. student said she was "hit by a girl holding a Palestinian flag, right at the campus entrance." The girl "shouted at me to go back to Europe and hurled insults at me and Israelis," the Israeli student said in a recent interview about Hamas's Oct. 7 terrorist attacks.

In another example, a campus protester held a sign that read, "Go Hamas, from the river to the sea, finish the job" and featured a swastika, according to the Department of Education's investigation. On the anonymous campus social media platform Sidechat, one user described a Jewish student as a "witch," and another user described Jews as "people with more pointy noses."

...The Hopkins settlement closely resembles other anti-Semitism settlements the department reached in the last month with both Rutgers University and the University of California system. Both schools refused to admit wrongdoing and agreed to provide training to employees engaged in discrimination oversight...

While the Biden Department of Education has opened scores of anti-Semitism investigations targeting other schools, many remain unresolved. In other cases, like the one at Hopkins, settlements have brought insignificant changes.

[SunkenCiv]

The agreement settled three civil rights complaints but involved nearly 400 reports of discrimination against Jewish students. In one instance, an anti-Israel protester identified where a Jewish student lived and called for him to be killed. In another, a swastika was drawn on a Jewish student's dorm room door.

The settlement comes in the wake of widespread anti-Semitism that has gripped Rutgers's campus since Hamas's Oct. 7, 2023, terror attack on Israel. For instance, in March, the face of a Jewish freshman was plastered on flyers for an anti-Israel referendum in the dormitory where the student lives. A member of one of Rutgers's advisory boards has regularly posted pro-Hamas content on his social media accounts, including several posts hailing attacks on Israeli troops as "hunting season."

Last month, two Rutgers faculty unions adopted an anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions resolution, with approximately 60 percent of the groups voting in favor. The resolution accused Israel of apartheid and ethnic cleansing and urged the university to divest its endowment from companies and organizations linked to the Israeli government. The measure furthermore called on Rutgers to terminate its partnership with Tel Aviv University and to "disallow any future collaboration on Israeli military or intelligence technology." Such a boycott, illegal in the state of New Jersey, was not mentioned in the settlement.

Biden Ed Department Approves Another Toothless Anti-Semitism Settlement, This Time With Rutgers | Jessica Costescu | Free Beacon | January 2, 2025

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks for the links.

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THEE IS A SPECIAL PLACE IN HELL FOR THE BIDEN ADMIN

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THERE IS A SPECIAL PLACE IN HELL FOR THE BIDEN ADMIN

[SteveinSATX]

I like how they use the term antisemitism to disguise the fact that it’s really racism.I would think that some in the Afro community would be more aware but they actively condone and foster it...

[thegagline]

Anti-Semitism is protected under the First Amendment.