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Anti-Israel agitators astatine Columbia University filed a civilian rights ailment with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) connected Thursday demanding an probe of "discriminatory attraction of Palestinian students and their allies" aft NYPD officers arrested implicit a 100 demonstrators this week.
The radical said the students had been "peacefully protesting Israel’s genocide."
"Columbia’s vicious crackdown connected pupil protests calling for Palestinian state amidst an ongoing genocide should alarm america all. Students person ever been astatine the forefront of the astir pressing societal issues of the day," Palestine Legal lawyer Sabiya Ahamed said successful a statement. "We impulse national civilian rights officials to bash what Columbia has disgracefully failed to: guarantee the rights of Palestinian and allied students are protected astatine a infinitesimal erstwhile their voices are astir essential."
The ailment alleges "discrimination, intimidation, harassment, stereotyping, disparate treatment, and radical profiling" against "Palestinian students, Arabs, Muslims, students perceived to beryllium Palestinian, and students associated with oregon advocating for Palestinians" implicit the people of six months.
Anti-Israel agitators rally extracurricular Columbia University connected April 23, 2024, successful New York City. (Jeenah Moon/Getty Images)
Palestine Legal – a nonprofit ineligible radical defending radical who advocator for the "Palestine solidarity movement"— filed the ailment connected behalf of 4 students and the pupil activistic radical Columbia Students for Justice successful Palestine (SJP).
"Columbia has actively contributed to pervasive racism and favoritism against Palestinian students connected campus, causing some intelligence and carnal harm," the ineligible radical said. "For example, students person been arrested, assaulted, suspended, locked retired of field and their classes, forced to question aesculapian attention, and forced to driblet classes and hold their ain graduation."
The ailment comes arsenic students astatine a increasing fig of U.S. colleges and universities are forming anti-Israel protestation encampments with a unified request that their schools halt doing concern with Israel. Negotiations betwixt Columbia administrators and demonstrators to wide the "Gaza Solidarity Encampment" are ongoing arsenic of Friday morning.
Since the attacks aft October 7, the ineligible radical claimed it "has received reports of implicit 1,800 incidents, implicit 5 times the fig we received successful each of 2022, reflecting an exponential emergence successful anti-Palestinian repression crossed the U.S."
USC CLOSES CAMPUS ‘UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE’ FOLLOWING ANTI-ISRAEL PROTEST, 93 ARRESTED FOR TRESPASSING
Pro-Israel counter-protesters ticker arsenic hundreds of anti-Israel agitators signifier a objection extracurricular of NYU’s Stern School of Business successful New York, connected Monday, April 22, 2024. (Julia Bonavita/Fox News Digital)
Inspired by ongoing protests and the arrests past week of much than 100 students astatine Columbia University successful New York City, seen astatine the epicenter of the ongoing demonstrations, students from Massachusetts to California, and Tennessee to Texas, are present gathering by the hundreds and are pledging to enactment enactment connected field until their request is met.
The alleged protests person devolved into unrest crossed assemblage campuses arsenic anti-Israel agitators person been heard chanting, "We are Hamas," the Islamic militant violent radical that attacks guiltless Israelis connected October 7, and the school’s president moved each classes to virtual learning connected Monday amid information concerns.
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY MOVES TO HYBRID LEARNING ON MAIN CAMPUS AMID ANTISEMITIC PROTESTS
University of Michigan students were besides fixed pamphlets by demonstrators titled "10 anarchist theses connected Palestine solidarity successful the United States," which included a leafage that stated, "Freedom for Palestine means Death to America."
The Israel-Hamas warfare besides surpassed the six-month milestone earlier this month, which has resulted successful tens of thousands of civilian Palestinian deaths. Yale, MIT, UC Berkeley, the University of Southern California, Princeton, Harvard, Stanford, Northwestern University, Vanderbilt University, the University of Michigan, the University of North Carolina and the University of Virginia are immoderate of the campuses wherever large demonstrations broke retired this week.
Columbia University, wherever students person acceptable up what is being referred to arsenic a Gaza Solidarity Encampment, is shown successful New York connected April 24, 2024. (Getty Images)
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Fox News' Lawrence Richard and Michael Ruiz contributed to this report.
Jamie Joseph is simply a writer who covers politics. She leads Fox News Digital sum of the Senate.
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