The Council on American-Islamic Relations and American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee have designated Emory University as an “institution of particular concern” due to its “hostility” towards anti-Israel student activists.
According to The Emory Wheel (which follows CAIR’s lead and refers to the activists as “anti-genocide”), the groups allege that Emory, along with George Washington University and UCLA, “set the standard for creating a thoroughly hostile and dangerous environment” for Muslims and Palestinians.
Back in April, CAIR-Georgia and Palestine Legal filed a federal civil rights complaint on behalf of Emory’s Students for Justice in Palestine, alleging the school created a “hostile anti-Palestinian and Islamophobic environment.”
Two months later, CAIR-Georgia claimed Emory was “tokenizing” and “furthering a pattern of exclusion” against Muslim students because its search for a full-time Muslim chaplain wasn’t “inclusive” enough.
At a recent press conference, CAIR’s Farah Afify alleged Emory has cultivated a “culture in which discrimination and harassment towards Palestinian Arabs and Muslims was reportedly permitted and even enabled.”
Afify added “It’s really important for university administrators especially to stand up against Islamophobia, anti-Palestinian and anti-Muslim sentiment instead of stoking the flames of more discrimination and harassment targeted at people who are standing up against genocide.”
A board member of the SJP claimed Emory is “very isolating” for Muslim, Arab and pro-Palestine students.
“I remember thinking last year, if I was a freshman, I would have transferred,” the board member said. “We have each other as a community, but to feel that your own administration, your own school, is repressing you is a very, very tough feeling to get used to.”
CAIR claimed Emory officials had “justified [the] harassment” of Muslim and Palestinian students by informing them that saying “Free Palestine” meant “associating themselves with terrorism.”
It also alleged the school used “tasers, tear gas, and rubber bullets” against students at a “peaceful” sit-in demonstration.
The Columbia Spectator reports CAIR also recently sent that university’s president a warning about “legal action” if the school divulges disciplinary records of pro-Hamas student activists to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce. CAIR claims doing so would violate the students’ First Amendment rights.
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