The complaint is one in a growing number of federal civil rights complaints alleging antisemitism and Islamophobia in U.S. schools since Hamas' Oct. 7 attack on Israel and the subsequent war in Gaza.
The lawsuit describes a ‘history of antisemitism’ at the liberal arts college where students have been vocal in calls for ceasefire in Gaza.
The college also let students host an event claiming that Israel had intentionally infected Palestinians with Covid — claims the Jewish group compared to “medieval blood libels” that falsely accused Jews of murdering Christians. Lori Lowenthal Marcus, the firm’s legal director, said “dozens” of people are part of the Haverford group, though only students have standing to bring the case.
Several weeks later, after the Vermont shooting, pro-Palestinian students issued a “grievances” document that called the shooting “the direct result of the proliferation of anti-Arab and anti-Palestinian rhetoric on this campus and beyond.” They called Landau’s email “hateful,” and demanded the college acknowledge a “continued ethnic cleansing against the Palestinian people.”
When posters were then torn down in March advertising a Shabbat dinner and a discussion of Jewish identity, the lawsuit said, the college failed to condemn the act as antisemitic.April 9 acknowledging “growing concern about antisemitism on our campus,” Raymond, noted the posters’ removal but said “the movement of many of the flyers can be accounted for by benign mechanisms.” The college continued to investigate, she said.
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