Tag: Title VI
US Education Department investigating UCLA over anti-Semitism complaint
The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) notified StandWithUs (SWU) on Friday that it has accepted its complaint alleging that UCLA violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and has opened the matter for full investigation on the merits.
SWU alleged...
The executive order that defines and combats anti-Semitism without stifling speech
Is it anti-Semitism to support the destruction of the one and only Jewish nation-state—home to approximately half of the Jews in the world today? Is it anti-Semitism to say that Jews do not have...
President Trump’s executive order on anti-Semitism
U.S. President Donald Trump’s signing of an executive order on Dec. 11, 2019, applying Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act to Jewish Americans, is arguably the most significant single presidential action protecting...
GOP congressman expresses concerns about anti-Israel ‘scholarship’ at Georgetown University
Rep. Denver Riggleman (R-Va.) has called on the U.S. Department of Education to investigate whether Georgetown University’s Center for Contemporary Arab Studies violated Title VI of the 1965 Higher Education Act for allegedly having...
Trump’s anti-Semitism order is a Rorschach test for Jews
Demographers have spent a great deal of time in recent decades trying to learn more about the changing demographics of American Jewry. But whatever else he has accomplished, President Donald Trump has, albeit unwittingly,...
Trump to sign executive order addressing anti-Semitism in US education, particularly on campus
U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order on Wednesday addressing anti-Semitism amid the rise in hatred towards Jews in education in the United States, announced the White House in a...