Members of the Faculty Senate’s diversity, equity and inclusion subcommittee said the alleged discrimination supports an “inequitable culture” at GW.
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Faculty, student groups push back against officials after civil rights complaint
Student and faculty groups are pushing back against officials after a civil rights complaint filed earlier this month alleged that GW discriminated against Palestinian students.
University President Thomas LeBlanc issued a message Monday in support of Palestinian students after the advocacy organization Palestine Legal filed a complaint in D.C.’s Office for Human Rights alleging GW was “selective” in its offering of trauma services to Palestinian students following the June outbreaks of violence in Gaza. Faculty and students have criticized officials in the wake of the complaint, calling on GW to commit to providing Palestinian students with the same mental health resources as any other group on campus.
And why the Biden administration has taken unprecedented action against a company with such deep ties to the Israeli government.
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Apple has just filed a lawsuit against Israeli spyware company NSO for harming Apple and its users. Apple accuses NSO of “[weaponizing] powerful state-sponsored spyware against those who seek to make the world a better place,” thus indirectly incriminating Israel. This will further boost the case for banning all spyware.
The Biden administration’s decision earlier this month to “blacklist” NSO, whose infamous Pegasus software hacks smart phones, and another Israeli company, Candiru, which targets computers, may have been influenced by the growing outrage from US-based tech giants about how NSO’s spyware is undermining their own systems’ security, thus threatening their markets.
The United States sanctioning foreign companies is an old story. It happens all the time, usually in response to some commercial transactions deemed harmful to what Washington likes to call “US interests.” But while targeting Chinese and Russian companies is by now routine, going after high-profile Israeli corporations is unprecedented.