College under federal investigation after students with Palestinian and Muslim ancestry allege ‘hostile environment’, Guardian learns
The US government has opened an investigation into Emory University’s alleged discrimination against students with Palestinian, Muslim or Arab ancestry since 7 October, the Guardian has exclusively learned.and Palestine Legal, a national organization, on Tuesday that it would be investigating claims made in an 18-page complaint filed on 5 April on behalf of students at the university in Atlanta, Georgia, under title VI of the Civil Rights Act.
One incident described in the complaint occurred in early October. An alumnus doxed Ibrahim and Hidaya, also a junior, along with other SJP members, on LinkedIn. The alumnus called the group “terror-affiliated”, urging readers of the post: “Name them, shame them, and don’t hire them.” He also urged the university to expel them, according to the title VI complaint.Students met on 12 October with a business school dean named Andrea Hershatter about the post.
The student filed a bias report to the administration, writing: “I have had to watch my people die every day, and yet these people are proud to rub in that my people are being eliminated … It hurts and I’m so, so tired … Emory needs to call out these incidents that have kept on happening since October.”
The Columbia complaint, filed on behalf of four students, three of whom are Palestinian, describes “six months of anti-Palestinian harassment and bigoted actions”, according to
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