The Justice Department (DOJ) announced Wednesday is launching a civil rights investigation into allegations of antisemitism at the University of California.
According to
a press release, the department, on the basis of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, will probe whether the university engaged “in a pattern or practice of discrimination based on race, religion and national origin against” worker by letting “an Antisemitic hostile work environment to exist” at the system’s schools.
“Following the October 7, 2023 Hamas terror attacks in Israel, there has been an outbreak of antisemitic incidents at leading institutions of higher education in America, including at my own alma mater at the UCLA campus of UC,” Leo Terrell, a top member of the Federal Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism and senior counsel to the assistant attorney general for civil rights, said in the release.
“The impact upon UC’s students has been the subject of considerable media attention and multiple federal investigations,” Tarrell continued.
