Anti-Israel protesters Columbia University filed a civil rights complaint with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) on Thursday, alleging “discriminatory treatment of Palestinian students and their allies” after NYPD officers arrested more than a hundred protesters this week. An investigation was demanded.
The group said students “protesting peacefully Israel’s Genocide.”
“Columbia’s brutal crackdown on student protests amid the ongoing genocide for Palestinian independence should concern all of us. Students have always been at the forefront of the most important social issues,” Sabiya Ahmed, Palestine’s legal counsel, said in a statement. ” “We urge federal civil rights officials to do what Columbia has shamefully failed to do: ensure that the rights of Palestinian and allied students are protected at a time when their voices are most essential.”
The complaint alleged “discrimination, intimidation, harassment, stereotyping, disparate treatment, and racial profiling” against “Palestinian students, Arabs, Muslims, students considered Palestinian, and students associated with or advocating for Palestinians” over the course of six months. Has gone.
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Anti-Israel protesters rally outside Columbia University in New York City on April 23, 2024. (Gina Moon/Getty Images)
Palestine Legal – a non-profit legal group that defends people who advocate for the “Palestine solidarity movement” – filed the complaint on behalf of four students and the student activist group Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP).
“Columbia has actively contributed to widespread racism and discrimination against Palestinian students on campus, causing both mental and physical harm,” the legal group said. “For example, students have been arrested, assaulted, suspended, locked out of campus and their classes, forced to seek medical attention, and classes Have been forced to drop out and delay my own graduation.”
The complaint comes as a large number of students from American colleges and universities are forming anti-Israel protest camps with a unified demand that their schools stop doing business with Israel. Negotiations between Colombia administrators And protesters have continued since Friday morning to clear the “Gaza solidarity camp”.
Since the October 7 attacks, the legal group claims it has received reports of “more than 1,800 incidents, five times the number we received in all of 2022, marking an uptick in anti-Palestinian repression across the U.S.” “Reflects an increase from”
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Pro-Israel counter-protesters watch as hundreds of anti-Israel protesters demonstrate outside NYU’s Stern School of Business on Monday, April 22, 2024 in New York. (Julia Bonavita/Fox News Digital)
Inspired by the ongoing protests and the arrests of over 100 students last week Columbia University In New York City, the epicenter of the ongoing protests, students from Massachusetts to California and Tennessee to Texas are now gathering in their hundreds and promising to stay on campus until their demands are met.
The so-called protests have turned into unrest across the university campus as anti-Israel agitators were heard chanting, “We are Hamas,” the Islamic extremist terrorist group that attacked innocent Israelis on October 7, and the school’s president All classes shifted to virtual learning on Monday amid security concerns.
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University of Michigan students were also given pamphlets by protesters titled “10 Anarchist Principles on Palestine Solidarity in the United States”, which included a page that stated, “Freedom for Palestine means death for America.”
The Israel-Hamas war also passed the six-month milestone earlier this month, resulting in thousands of civilian Palestinian deaths. Yale, MIT, UC Berkeley, University of Southern California, Princeton, Harvard, Stanford, Northwestern University, Vanderbilt University, University of Michigan, University of North Carolina, and University of Virginia are some of the campuses where major demonstrations took place. This week.
Columbia University, where students have set up what is referred to as a Gaza solidarity camp, is shown in New York on April 24, 2024. (Getty Images)
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Fox News’ Lawrence Richard and Michael Ruiz contributed to this report.
