Dept. of Education Investigating Brown U. for Alleged Discrimination Against Jewish Students
“investigating a complaint alleging discrimination on the basis of national origin in regard to ‘incidents of harassment’ in Fall 2023”
Like many other Ivy League schools, Brown University has been a hotbed of anti-Israel activity since October 7th. In December alone, an anti-Israel student mob shouted down the university president Christina Paxson and more than 40 students were arrested when they refused to leave a campus building.
It’s not much of a stretch to believe that Jewish students at the school are facing discrimination on campus.
FOX News reports:
Brown University under investigation by Dept of Education over alleged discrimination against Jewish students
The Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights is opening an investigation into Brown University over alleged discrimination against Jewish students.
Conservative-leaning Campus Reform Editor-in-Chief Dr. Zachary Marschall recently filed a complaint with the government agency. The filing claimed that “pro-Israel students are targeted and threatened” on the Ivy League campus.
The Department of Education Office for Civil Rights responded to Marschall and notified him it would open an investigation into complaints filed against the school.
A Brown University spokesperson told Fox News Digital that the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights informed the University on Jan. 9 that it is investigating a complaint alleging discrimination on the basis of national origin in regard to “incidents of harassment” in Fall 2023.
“Our understanding from media reports is that the complaint originates from beyond Brown’s campus and specifically from an editor of the online publication Campus Reform. The letter characterizes the investigation as fact-finding, requests information from Brown and states clearly that ‘opening the complaint for investigation in no way implies that OCR has made a determination on the merits of the complaint,’” the spokesperson said.
Harvard is facing a similar investigation from Congress.
The Brown students who were arrested in December just had their court dates pushed back to February.
WLNE News reports:
Brown students arrested after pro-Palestine demonstration to appear in court next month
Dozens of Brown University students arrested after a pro-Palestine demonstration on campus are expected in court next month.
Brown University officials said 41 students will appear in court in mid-February.
This came after a sit-in protest at a building on campus in December.
Brown University President Christina Paxson said in a letter that the group of students were told they had to disperse by 5 p.m. before the building officially closed, or criminal charges could be filed.
“Willful trespass of a school building is unlawful per Rhode Island statute and a violation of Brown’s conduct code; implications include arrest, criminal charges and review per the University’s conduct procedures,” Paxson said in the letter.
It’s amazing how quickly some of our top schools tarnished their reputations over this issue.
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The way to stop this is expulsion for at least a year, & loss of tuition.
Great idea John Smith, but how do you propose this happening when the faculty is rooting for the terrorists and totally agree with them?
“Investigating”? Just like they’re “investigating” Hunter Biden?
Okay, I’d like a show of hands here. Everyone who trusts the U.S. Dept of Education, please raise your hands . . . higher please…! No, you have to raise more than one finger, c’mon!!!
These events have reached a crossroads. Either charge the participants of the criminal actions and impose the lawful sentence for their obvious crime or don’t. Should the ‘authorities’ continue to defer punishment due to the VISA/Immigration status of the offenders, as some have already done, then they further reinforce that some groups by virtue of group membership are above the equal application of the law.
That’s the real decision point here. I’m sure it comes as shock for some student offenders that they may be held accountable after their constant coddling on campus. Further that their actions were not only criminal but that those criminal violations will/may also be a breach of their VISA and may result in loss of VISA and deportation.
Sucks to be you, don’t FA and you won’t have to FO. Now if the authorities are willing to accept the consequences of not holding these individuals accountable and imposing normal standards of behavior b/c their ideology makes them overly sympathetic to potential for immigration violations and those separate but very foreseeable consequences that’s ok. However, they ain’t ok with the dynamic that would be unleashed namely that folks can do what they want with near impunity if ‘their’ partisan leaders are on ‘their’ side in the same manner. Oh heck no, they don’t want that. FWIW I don’t either but I do believe that may become an unavoidable destination for society if we don’t return to blind justice instead of partisanship.
If you’re a Jew at Brown:
Don’t be a schmuck.
Leave.
Imagine the heartburn at DOE, being forced by deplorable public opinion to pursue this.
I hope for a congressional or other investigation that goes further than this and details in plain view who is funding and pushing the anti-Jew/Israel activity on campuses.
Anyone who has looked at the US Dept of Education Office of Civil Rights under the Biden or Obama Administrations realize that their policy focus and procedures are deeply flawed. Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act will only be vindicated through private causes of action and Congressional investigations.
That is why equalprotect.org is so important. That is why the House Committee on Education and the Workforce is so important.
The basic Obama – Biden OCR approach is to have on campus procedures to handle complaints in a manner dictated by the utmost DEI ideology and a minimum of due process or objectivity.
Like Saul Alinsky said, use their rules against them.