DOJ accuses George Washington University of indifference to anti-Semitism

Trump medication accuses assemblage of creating a hostile ambiance for Jewish, American Israelis, and Israeli students.

The United States Department of Justice has accused George Washington University of deliberate indifference to anti-Semitism, making the Washington, DC-based instauration the latest to find itself successful the crosshairs of the medication of President Donald Trump.

In a connection issued Tuesday, the Justice Department said the schoolhouse violated national civilian rights by creating a “hostile acquisition environment” for Jewish, American-Israeli, and Israeli students and faculty.

“The Division finds that GWU took nary meaningful enactment and was alternatively deliberately indifferent to the complaints it received, the misconduct that occurred, and the harms that were suffered by its Jewish and Israeli students and faculty,” the connection says.

It added that the section volition question “immediate remediation”, though nary further details are given.

In a missive to the university, the Justice Department accused GWU of being “deliberately indifferent” to complaints it received from students and faculty, saying they failed to forestall oregon remedy abuses contempt knowing of them.

Dozens of universities whitethorn look investigation 

The Justice Department announcement comes arsenic the Trump medication has intensified unit connected institutions of higher acquisition implicit allegations that they person allowed anti-Semitism to fester, peculiarly arsenic pro-Palestinian protests and encampments dispersed crossed US assemblage campuses successful 2023 and 2024. Critics person accused the medication of utilizing accusations of anti-Semitism arsenic a fig leafage successful its warfare against higher education.

In February, the Justice Department launched a national task unit to analyse allegations of anti-Semitism astatine 10 assemblage campuses: Columbia University; George Washington University; Harvard University; Johns Hopkins University; New York University; Northwestern University; the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA); the University of California, Berkeley; the University of Minnesota; and the University of Southern California.

Sixty universities were aboriginal warned by the Department of Education that they could look enforcement enactment against them if they bash not instrumentality steps to support Jewish students.

Last, week, the Trump medication suspended $584m successful national grants to UCLA and past requested a $1bn colony to resoluteness accusations stemming from the school’s handling of pro-Palestine protests.

Columbia University, similarly, saw $400m successful grants cancelled and billions threatened; which were reversed only aft it settled with the medication for $220m. Harvard University is successful negotiations to unfreeze more than $2bn successful grants; with the New York Times this week reporting they are nearing a $500m settlement.