Jewish leaders and students called on the Biden administration Tuesday to set up a tracking system for complaints of antisemitism on college campuses under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act.
Jewish students gather at the Helene G. Simon Hillel Center at Indiana University in Bloomington, Ind., Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2024. An Indiana bill to address antisemitism on college campuses lost support from some members of the Jewish community after an …to establish a Zero Tolerance National Reporting System that would regulate how the Office of Civil Rights enforces Title VI anti-discrimination provisions and set up a national process for complaints.
He cited the case of Harvard Divinity School graduate student Shabbos Kestenbaum, who said his 40 emailed complaints to Harvard’s antisemitism task force “got zero responses.” Logan Swerdloff, a 20-year-old junior at the State University of New York at Binghamton, said her school had been firm on supporting its Jewish students, but the reactions of supporters of Palestinians were vehement and surprising.
“I spoke out and within maybe a day, I was getting comments of swastikas, I was getting private messages of people telling me that they wanted me dead, that they knew where I live. They were going to come to my house and kill me; that they knew I went to Binghamton,” she said.
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