The U.S. Department of Education said on June 17 that the University of Michigan and New York’s City University system failed to adequately investigate and address complaints of anti-Semitic or anti-Palestinian harassment linked to campus protests over the Israel-Hamas war.
The Education Department’s Office of Civil Rights (OCR) has seen an increase in accusations of campus harassment after Hamas launched a surprise terror attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.
The agency found 75 instances of alleged discrimination and harassment based on shared Jewish ancestry and shared Palestinian or Muslim ancestry at the University of Michigan between the 2022-2023 school year and February 2024. It found nine at schools in the City University of New York (CUNY) system dating back to the 2019-2020 academic year. The investigation determined that the responses from Michigan and CUNY did not properly remedy a hostile environment, violating Title VI requirements….