{"id":7257,"date":"2024-01-28T17:52:25","date_gmt":"2024-01-28T12:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/28\/department-of-education-opens-investigation-on-northwestern-university-after-antisemitism-complaint\/"},"modified":"2024-01-28T17:52:25","modified_gmt":"2024-01-28T12:22:25","slug":"department-of-education-opens-investigation-on-northwestern-university-after-antisemitism-complaint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/28\/department-of-education-opens-investigation-on-northwestern-university-after-antisemitism-complaint\/","title":{"rendered":"Department of Education Opens Investigation on Northwestern University After Antisemitism Complaint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_82\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p>The U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights reportedly has opened an investigation into Northwestern University after a\u00a0complaint was filed by Campus Reform editor-in-chief Dr. Zachary Marschall over the university\u2019s handling of antisemitic\u00a0incidents.<\/p>\n<p>The complaint, filed January 10, claims that Northwestern\u00a0University has failed to appropriately respond to incidents of harassment of Jewish students following the October 7 Hamas terrorist attack.<\/p>\n<p>The filing also cites a vigil hosted on October 12 by Students for Justice in Palestine near the school\u2019s\u00a0Deering Library, where\u00a0colors from the Palestinian flag were displayed onto the building.<\/p>\n<p>More than\u00a0150 students also reportedly staged a walkout on October 25, demanding that the school move away from organizations supporting Israel, claiming that the country is engaging in \u201cgenocide.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">An antisemitism complaint involving Northwestern University has  triggered a federal investigation. The U.S.\u00a0Department of Education  opened a probe on Tuesday into allegations that the school has  discriminated against Jewish students.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OPwfWene9F\">https:\/\/t.co\/OPwfWene9F<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Allan John Sluis (@AllanJohnSluis) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AllanJohnSluis\/status\/1751012489083359661?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 26, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/americanfaith.com\/department-of-education-opens-investigation-on-northwestern-university-after-antisemitism-complaint\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights reportedly has opened an investigation into Northwestern University after a\u00a0complaint was filed by Campus Reform editor-in-chief Dr. Zachary Marschall over the university\u2019s handling of antisemitic\u00a0incidents. The complaint, filed January 10, claims that Northwestern\u00a0University has failed to appropriately respond to incidents of harassment of Jewish students following [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7258,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[]},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7257"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}