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Report reveals universities likely violated Title VI, calls for increased ‘viewpoint diversity’

A U.S. House of Representatives committee report released Thursday detailed how universities likely violated Title VI by failing to protect their Jewish students on campus.

Following “a more than 7-months long investigation into antisemitism on American college campuses,” the Committee on Education and the Workforce found that administrators “refused to crack down on antisemitism,” states the 43-page Staff Report on Antisemitism.

“In fact, many colleges handed down disparate disciplinary actions for Jewish students versus their antagonists—the students who engaged in antisemitic behavior, encampments, and intimidating tactics such as campus checkpoints and tax-exempt organizations that enabled and funded violent campus protests, among other troubling findings,” it states.

The report also blames federal government departments and agencies for “entirely avoid[ing] any accountability for institutions to which they award millions of dollars annually.”

The key findings of the report include that universities “granted shocking concessions” to “antisemitic encampments” and neglected to “enforce their rules and impose meaningful discipline.”

Further, some “radical faculty” hindered meaningful action while “so-called university leaders expressed hostility to congressional oversight and treated campus antisemitism as a public relations issue, not a serious problem demanding action.”

The committee recommends that universities enforce conduct policies, “forcefully reject antisemitism,” “recognize that discrimination against ‘zionists’ is an unacceptable antisemitic civil rights violation,” and increase “viewpoint diversity.”

”The House-wide investigation has uncovered deeply troubling realities about how antisemitism has been allowed to fester unchecked, including in universities and institutions across the country, with little to no accountability or oversight to prevent its continued spread,” the report states.

It specifically cites Columbia University, University of California, Los Angeles, Harvard University, Northwestern University, University of Pennsylvania, Rutgers University, Yale University, and others as the schools responsible for some of the worst violations.

“Columbia stands out for its egregious failure to combat antisemitism on its campus, despite its president acknowledging that the University was in violation of its Title VI obligations,” the report states.

In February, the committee subpoenaed Harvard for withholding documents in the House’s antisemitism probe, The College Fix previously reported. Then in August, the committee subpoenaed Columbia requesting information on anti-Israel protesters’ Gaza Solidarity Encampment.

“On October 8th, the world saw that antisemitic hatred was alive and well at American institutions of so-called ‘higher’ education. As a result, the reputation of many of these schools has been in free fall,” Chairwoman Virginia Foxx stated in a news release announcing the new report.

“Stopping that free fall comes down to one word: accountability. We need accountability because without it, we cannot guarantee that Jewish students have the safe learning environment they deserve,” she stated.

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