NEW YORK (JTA) – A federal complaint has been filed against Columbia University accusing the school of anti-Semitic discrimination.
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It is the first case filed since President Donald Trump’s executive order on combating anti-Semitism, which grants Jewish students the same protections as other minority groups.
The complaint requests a formal investigation by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights into alleged anti-Semitic discrimination at Columbia. It was filed by the Lawfare Project on behalf of a Jewish Israeli-American undergraduate who says he has been a victim of anti-Semitic discrimination over the past year.
Jonathan Karten told The Jerusalem Post that he decided to go forward with the complaint after he learned that a well-known professor in the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies at Columbia had endorsed Hamas’ military wing, the al-Qassam Terrorist brigade, “with impunity.” Karten’s uncle, Sharon Edri, was kidnapped and murdered by a Hamas cell in Israel in 1996.
According to the Lawfare Project, Jewish students at Columbia “have endured systematic discrimination from tenured professors and anti-Israel groups,” including Students for Justice for Palestine and Columbia University Apartheid Divest. Columbia students and faculty also host Israel Apartheid Week, which has included bringing virulently anti-Semitic speakers to campus.
The university did not respond to media outlets seeking comment.
So this isn’t Alt Right, white supremms, correct? Nor at nationwide campuses as we speak.
Now the leftie Jews will shut up, can’t blame it on Trump.
Beautiful. Nothing scares them more than losing money. Go get em and maga!!!
Trump 2020
Could for him fighting the vicious anti semitism by the leftist anti Israel Jew haters fully supported by the democrats. This is why the democrats condemned the executive order.
Great about time. But why haven’t the Jewish donors stopped supporting this radical socialist agendathat supports anti semitism
Thank you Pres. Trump, the most courageous Pres in history and the biggest ohev Yisroel!
In today’s world LAWFARE has taken the place of WARFARE.
Sue their pants off.
The language of the pocket book is the only language they understand.
Thank you President Donald John Trump for putting into motion that which will beat back those institutions that discriminate against their Jewish students.
Only white, right leaning students are allowed to be discriminated against. Anyone else, is a major crime.
Not to beat a dead horse, but….we’ve always had white supremacists, the KKK, idiots in Idaho that hate basically everyone who isn’t their cousin. No one paid any attention to them because, guess what? They’re idiots. Except now you’ve got victim hood raised to an art form. You’ve got media that needs hysteria and headlines to gain eyeballs and they have us convinced (or some of us who have drunk their kool-aid) that there’s a KKK chapter on every street corner.
The truth is – this is the most diverse country in the history of the world. Ever. Period. It provides more economic (and other) opportunity through more of the social spectrum than any other country in history. Ever. If you can manage to tear your eyeballs away from your screen for a moment and take a look around you, you’ll see that the vast majority of us get along pretty well. No one really cares what you look like, where you came from, what your background is. They care about who you are. And you get to prove that every day by your actions and what you say.