Trump admin alleges Columbia violated civil rights law with 'deliberate indifference' to campus protests

The Trump administration on Thursday accused Columbia University of having violated federal law through its deliberate indifference toward anti-Israel protests that have been taking over the campus since Oct Investigative findings from the Department of Soundness and Human Services' Office for Civil Rights OCR allege that Columbia's handling of student-on-student harassment of Jewish students over the past months violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of HHS explained Title VI prohibits a recipient of Federal financial assistance from discriminating in its programs and events on the basis of race color or national origin which includes discrimination against individuals that is based on their actual or perceived Israeli or Jewish identity or ancestry ANTI-ISRAEL PROTESTERS TORCH DIPLOMAS OUTSIDE COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY ON GRADUATION DAYHHS alleged that Columbia continually failed to protect Jewish students by allowing the hostile circumstances created by particular of its students to continue The Ivy League's campus has been a major hotspot for anti-Israel and pro-Hamas protests and gatherings since the terrorist group launched its attack on Israel in October In the months since campus buildings have been taken over or damaged by large groups of people chanting antisemitic phrases and demanding that the university divest from Israel The OCR's Notice of Violation alleged that Columbia failed to combat antisemitism in various approaches including by not properly abiding by its own policies and procedures when responding to complaints from the Jewish apprentice population or when governing trainee misconduct towards Jewish students MOOD FLIPS AT COLUMBIA U AFTER QUASHING OF LATEST PROTEST TRUMP PRESSURE TAKES HOLD HHS disclosed it took the university until summer to establish effective reporting and remediation mechanisms for antisemitism Even then the university is accused of not reviewing or punishing vandalism such as swastikas and other hate images in classrooms The office also commented the university did not enforce its own time place and manner restrictions for on-campus protests especially in academic buildings residence halls and libraries The findings scrupulously document the hostile conditions Jewish students at Columbia University have had to endure for over months disrupting their development safety and well-being disclosed Anthony Archeval Acting Director of the OCR at HHS We encourage Columbia University to work with us to come to an agreement that reflects meaningful changes that will truly protect Jewish students CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP Thursday's announcement comes one day after a meager Columbia graduates set their diplomas on fire in protest of former aspirant Mahmoud Khalil's detention Khalil was arrested by immigration agents in March and is at exposure of being deported by the Trump administration after he was accused of leading the anti-Israel movement at Columbia Columbia is also down million in federal funding after the Trump administration slashed budgets at universities accused of mishandling antisemitism on campus Fox News Digital has reached out to Columbia University for a response to the OCR's findings The school communicated The New York Times in response to the findings that it plans to work with the Trump administration to combat antisemtism on campus We understand this finding is part of our ongoing discussions with the ruling body a spokesman recounted the paper