Advocacy group Palestine Legal accused the university of 'extreme anti-Palestinian, anti-Arab, and Islamophobic harassment.'
Student protesters demonstrate at the entrance gates of Columbia University on April 30. Photo: Mary Altaffer-Pool/Getty ImagesAn Education Department spokesperson confirmed to Axios that its Office for Civil Rights opened a Title VI investigation into Columbia but said it does not comment further on pending investigations.
Palestine Legal is representing four students along with student group Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine, who say they have all been the target of anti-Palestinian discrimination and harassment by fellow students, professors and university administrators. The complaint alleges that the university has allowed and contributed to such an environment through incidents involving students receiving death threats, being harassed for wearing keffiyehs or hijabs, being doxxed, suspended and locked out of campus.The investigation comes as Columbia was propelled into the spotlight for being a catalyst to nationwide protests on college campuses over the Israel-Hamas war.
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