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Williams College under federal investigation for discriminating against Jewish students
UPDATEDResult of student government rejecting pro-Israel clubThe U.S. Department of Education is investigating Williams College over concerns that it violated antidiscrimination law when the student government refused to recognize a pro-Israel student group. Story continues below advertisementIn a May 31 letter, the Office for Civil Rights’ Boston office said it had accepted a complaint alleging the College Council violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act. That prohibits “discrimination on the basis of race, color, or national origin, including shared ancestry or ethnic characteristics.”
David Bernstein, a law professor at George Mason University, had filed the complaint May 2, alleging that the council is an “official arm” of Williams and thus covered by Title VI. (The government also accepts complaints filed by people who do not claim to be the victim of civil rights violations.)
The government letter is dated 17 days after the Williams administration voted to recognize the Williams Initiative for Israel, also known as WIFI, using a separate process that largely excludes the College Council.
It’s not clear whether the Office for Civil Rights knew about the administration’s action, or what effect that would have on the investigation. OCR’s Boston office didn’t immediately respond to College Fix queries Monday night.
In an email statement to The Fix, Williams spokesperson Greg Shook said that the college “welcomes the opportunity” to work with OCR.
“Our goal is to educate our students about governance and campus climate,” Shook said. “Partnering with OCR is a valuable way to move that effort forward.”
‘A charge so facially absurd it can only be explained by antisemitism’
The College Council voted to deny WIFI recognition as an official student organization during a secretive and controversial meeting April 23.
It was not livestreamed as usual, and speakers were not identified by name in the meeting minutes. An April 9 meeting that was livestreamed had drawn national attention because black student activists went on a profanity-laced rant against white students.
According to The Williams Record, WIFI was the first applicant in more than a decade to be rejected despite meeting all required bylaws.
The decision sparked a wave of outrage among Jewish groups and even the Williams administration, which cited the minutes as evidence that council members voted down WIFI because it supports Israel’s existence.
It also prompted David Bernstein, the George Mason University law professor, to file a discrimination complaint with the feds. His action was noted by the college’s local newspaper, The Berkshire Eagle, and Bernstein shared the complaint and response letter from OCR with The Fix upon request.
The professor wrote that the student government vote discriminated against Jewish students because the vast majority of American Jews support Israel. He cited a 2018 poll by a Jewish Democratic group:
92% of American Jews support Israel, and support for Israel is a bedrock platform of mainstream Jewish organizations, including Hillel that serves Jewish students. Discriminating against a student group organized by Jewish students for the purpose of supporting Israel constitutes discrimination against Jewish students on the basis of ethnicity or race. The antisemitic statements made in the course of the debate, as well as the unusual procedures undertaken, provide evidence of anti-Jewish motive.
Civil rights complaint against Williams College for discrimination against Jewish students by The College Fix on Scribd
MORE: Williams College bypasses student govt. to recognize pro-Israel group
Those anti-Semitic statements included accusations of genocide against Israel, Bernstein said, “a charge so facially absurd and contrary to facts that it can only be explained by antisemitism, and is resonant of historical blood libel.”
Those statements also constitute “antisemitic demonization of Israel, within the internationally accepted definition of antisemitism.”
Asked to specify that definition, Bernstein pointed The Fix to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, an intergovernmental agency with 32 member countries. It says anti-Semitism includes any criticism of Israel that draws comparisons to Nazis or claims that the existence of Israel is “a racist endeavor.”
Bernstein also told OCR that the College Council had recognized the anti-Israel group Students for Justice in Palestine. That means the council “has no policy, formal or informal, against recognizing student groups that take positions on foreign affairs in general, on the Middle East specifically, or on matters related to Israel or the Israel-Palestinian conflict.”
The Williams administration initially played down the College Council’s rejection of WIFI, saying the club could obtain “most” of the benefits of recognition without approval. President Maud Mandel retroactively revised her statement several days later to say it could get “all” the benefits.
That still wasn’t enough for free speech and Jewish groups, and the college eventually caved to the pressure and circumvented the student government. But Bernstein’s complaint to OCR was not withdrawn, and on Friday, the agency’s Boston office notified him that it opened an investigation.
OCR said it had not made any determination on the merits of the complaint, only that the complaint was filed in a timely manner and was within its jurisdiction.
Using its standard boilerplate in response letters, the agency said Bernstein had “a right to file a private suit in federal court whether or not OCR finds a violation.”
Molly Berenbaum, the student founder of WIFI, did not respond to a Facebook message from The Fix.
Roz Rothstein, CEO of pro-Israel nonprofit StandWithUs, said the organization was “encouraged” by OCR’s investigation in a statement to The Fix. But she said in another statement that the college refused to address “the ongoing problem on its campus,” which is the student government’s broad leeway over club recognition.
UPDATE: Comment from pro-Israel nonprofit StandWithUs has been added. The article has also been updated to reflect Williams College’s subsequent refusal to change its process for recognizing student clubs.
MORE: Mandel offers WIFI ‘most’ of the benefits of recognition
MORE: Is Williams College the next Evergreen State?
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4 years ago
Obama shut the investigation down. Trump reopened the investigation.
ANTI SEMITISM is an epidemic on college and university campuses across the U.S.!
Education Department reopens probe of anti-Semitism allegations at Rutgers University
By Ben Sales September 7, 2018
NEW YORK (JTA) — An investigation into an allegedly anti-Semitic incident at Rutgers University is being reopened by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights.
Kenneth Marcus, the department’s new assistant secretary for civil rights, wrote in a letter last week that a pro-Palestinian event at the New Jersey state school in January 2011 may have discriminated against Jewish students by charging them admission while allowing others in for free.
The new investigation, responding to a complaint originally made by the Zionist Organization of America in 2011, will also look into whether students at the university currently experience anti-Semitism.
In reopening the Rutgers probe, Marcus employed the State Department’s definition of anti-Semitism, which includes some types of anti-Israel activity, like holding Jews collectively responsible for Israel’s actions. The definition was composed by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance.
Susan Tuchman, director of the ZOA’s Center for Law and Justice, sees that as an important precedent.
“OCR for the first time is going to be using the State Department’s definition of anti-Semitism when it is accepting and deciding Title VI cases,” Tuchman told JTA on Friday. “It’s important because that State Department definition recognizes that some anti-Israelism and anti-Zionism crosses the line into anti-Semitism.”
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https://www.jta.org/2018/09/07/united-states/education-department-reopens-probe-of-anti-semitism-allegations-at-rutgers
4 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
When all is said and done, our enemies out there, Iran, Russia, North Korea, China, and other Islamic countries are wringing their hands in delight with what is going on in this country, all of which I sincerely believe is directly related to the Islamic immigrants whose belief system has opened up a Pandora’s box of haters, many of them having been silent over the last decades, but now believe they can express their bigotry and racism with impunity. The blacks have forgotten that when the civil rights movement was active in the 20th century, it was the Jews who gave their support, and some died doing that. Those of Islamic descent simply are taught by their satanic belief system to hate and commit violence against the Jews, which starts with a concerted attempt to falsely blame Israel for all adverse conduct that is essentially directly related to Arab conduct, never acknowledging that Islamic nations are actually the ones that commit apartheid and discrimination within their borders. These haters are responsible for causing many of our youth to have lost their way, forgetting that American’s practice due process, equal protection and opportunity to those who pursue those opportunities, good neighborliness and tolerance. I am disgusted with what is going on, all of which I relate to a belief system that world-wide is committing conduct that leads to and promotes violence against innocent people. When will our leaders see this phenomenon?
4 years ago
Reply to
Dennis
Agree.
And the first Muslim democrat/socialist gay president imported 200,000 yearly legal and illegal muslims and deported christians back to ISIS to be slaughtered after they tried to make it to America
http://offtrade.net/cnmnews/islamonazi-deports-christians/
And those who dared to help were threatened to shut up and MSM would not cover it !
4 years ago
Reply to
Dennis
The first step is to teach and recognize that Islam Is not a religion. These are not”people of the book”unless you are thinking of the Canaanites.It is a political criminal cult that masquerades as a religion,and once this simple fact is recognized it can be proscribed much like a drug gang or he mafia or any organized criminal endeavour.
4 years ago
Reply to
John Acord
Jefferson and his compatriots are rolling in their graves, seeing Muslims claim rights at our expense under the Constitution they wrote. There has to be a distinction in this case.
4 years ago
Reply to
David
Let’s Face an indelible fact. Our Republic was founded by Anglo Saxons with a long tradition of self-rule and equitable justice.and the complete antithesis of Islamic culture,teachings and traditions. They simply cannot exist side by side. There is no traditon whatsoever in Islam for self-sule.It is all about submnission to Allah and to their rulers,not exactly the tradition of the Anglo saxons who curtailed and controlled the powers of their rulers for thousands of years.
4 years ago
Reply to
John Acord
Yeah, and more concretely, they (the Barbary pirates) took Americans as slaves.
4 years ago
This shows that the current Left has fallen into addiction to that most intoxicating of drugs, self-righteousness.
4 years ago
This is only going to be getting steadily worse and stopping it will turn into a futile game of wack-a-mole because the cause of this growing antisemitism will never be addressed.
4 years ago
The “technique” of anonymous voting by a student council is the same one tried at Cornell which almost secured a vote in favor of BDS. Anonymity is also what Liel Liebovitz ran into at NYU, trying to understand how an anti-Israeli organization, SJP, won a prestigious university award. These antisemites are acting like spies, but in a coordinated action. We don’t know what they’ll do next (we really need some inside contacts) but they will remain aggressive, subversive and coordinated.
4 years ago
Schmuck philanthropist Jews who are delusional. It’s like when Jews were donating to the Black Panthers years ago.
4 years ago
One thing is certain, this investigation would not have occurred under Obama or Hillary. Instead, Williams would have received more grant money from the feds. What bothers me Is the brainwashed students at this once well-regarded school who would not even allow on campus an organization with a viewpoint that may be different from theirs. This is pure Bolshevism, pure evil, rejection of the very essence of academic and individual freedom of speech, and it must be nipped in the bud.
4 years ago
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4 years ago
NYU’s recent graduation speech, Israel is labeled as an “apartheid state”:
https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium-israel-labelled-apartheid-state-at-new-york-university-graduation-ceremony-1.7280956
