George Washington U. Claims an Investigation Cleared it of Accusations of Anti-Semitism but Won’t Release Report

George Washington U. Claims an Investigation Cleared it of Accusations of Anti-Semitism but Won’t Release Report

The school hired a law firm to conduct this investigation, but they’re not being transparent with the findings.

The Washington Free Beacon reports:

George Washington University Says an Investigation Cleared It of Anti-Semitism. Why Won’t It Release the Report?

Professor Lara Sheehi tweeted: ‘FUCK ZIONISM, ZIONISTS, AND SETTLER COLONIALISM.’ That’s OK by GWU.

George Washington University on Monday trumpeted the results of an investigation that allegedly cleared the university and Professor Lara Sheehi of anti-Semitism. But the school won’t release the full report, penned by an outside law firm retained by the school, that it is claiming exonerates it.

The announcement comes in the wake of a civil rights complaint filed with the Department of Education arguing that Sheehi, whose Twitter feed is littered with claims like “Zionists are the most boldfaced assholes,” created a hostile classroom environment for Jews and Israelis in her mandatory diversity course. GWU president Mark Wrighton said the law firm hired to investigate Sheehi’s behavior, Crowell & Moring LLP, found “no evidence substantiating the allegations of discriminatory and retaliatory conduct.”

The university’s decision to bury the full report is eliciting blowback. StandWithUs, the anti-Semitism watchdog that in January filed the civil rights complaint against GWU on behalf of several students, is slamming the university for withholding the report.

“If the university wants its description of the results of the investigation to be taken seriously, it should release a full copy of the report, rather than the summarized ‘findings’ publicized by GW itself,” said Roz Rothstein, cofounder and CEO of StandWithUs.

According to the university, there is “no evidence that [Sheehi’s] discourse”—which included telling a Jewish student that it is “not your fault you were born in Israel,” suggesting Zionism is racist, and alleging that Israelis use humanitarian work to whitewash their crimes—”crossed the line into anti-Semitic speech.”

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