An official of the Ministry of Justice is President Trump’s lance Battle against Harvard University – which led to several proceedings and that the school loses billions of federal funds – said that the administration intended to take the university of California at the brokers against alleged anti -Semitism.
Leo Terrell, senior lawyer for the Division of Civil Rights of the Ministry of Justice, leads a working group in several agencies on the fight against anti -Semitism and said in one Tuesday Fox News interview That there will be “massive pursuits against (the) UC system” and other colleges “on the east coast, on the west coast, in the Midwest”.
“Expect accusations of hatred crimes deposited by the federal government. Expect prosecution against title VII,” added Terrell, referring to the American law on civil rights which protects against discrimination in terms of employment based on “race, color, religion, sex or national origin”. The working group distinguished UCLA, USC and UC Berkeley in addition to Harvard and six other American campuses to investigate.
Express themselves separately in an interview with Syndicate of New JewsTerrell said that campuses – which also include Columbia, George Washington, Johns Hopkins, New York and the North West Universities and the University of Minnesota – have rejected investigators from the working group. The working group, announced in March, has not visited campuses, students and the police due to “resistance”, he said.
Terrell, a lawyer for civil rights that previously worked in Los Angeles and is a former Fox News personality, has not developed the commentary on the “resistance” and did not respond to an email of the Times asking for an interview and details on the in-suspending surveys and prosecution.
In a statement, a UC spokesman said that the university “hates anti-Semitism and works with diligence to fight, counter it and eradicate it in all its forms through the system.”
“We have been and plan to continue, cooperate with the administration. Anti -Semitism has no place in UC or elsewhere in society, “said Rachel Zaentz, principal director of strategic and critical communications. “The university remains entirely focused on strengthening our programs and policies aimed at eliminating anti -Semitism and all forms of discrimination.”
UC did not publish information on the question of whether the working group visited the campuses or the information it requested from the UCLA and the UC Berkeley.
A USC spokesman did not answer the question of whether the working group visited the campus.
“The University continues to publicly and unequivocally denounce anti -Semitism in all its forms and has taken solid measures to protect all our students – including members of our Jewish community – against illegal discrimination of all kinds,” the university said in a press release. “The USC is proud to attract one of the largest Jewish student bodies in the country. We are impatient to engage with the working group on USC’s efforts to combat anti -Semitism. ”
The Terrell group also said in February that it would meet the mayors of Los Angeles, New York, Chicago and Boston. A spokesperson for the office of the mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass, did not answer the question of whether the meeting of the took place. Terrell said on Fox News that he was “ecstatic” about a recent meeting with the mayor of New York, Eric Adams, which Terrell called a “new partner”.
In March, the Department of Education sent letters to sixty campus warning them to “protect Jewish students” or to “face the potential application”. They included four UC – San Diego, Santa Barbara, Berkeley and Davis campus – as well as USC, Pomona College, Stanford, Chapman University, Santa Monica College and the state of Sacramento.
This same month, the Ministry of Justice said it had launched a Civil rights survey In allegations of anti -Semitism at the University of California, claiming that his lawyers think that there is a “potential model” of discrimination against Jewish employees in the flagship of higher education.
Harvard was attacked by the White House, which accused the oldest university of anti-Semitism in the country in connection with the pro-Palestinian demonstrations of the war in Gaza, which was triggered by the attack on October 7 of Hamas against Israel.
Harvard continued the Trump administration after being cut billions of billions of federal medical research and other funding and after his ability to register foreign students was briefly revoked before a Boston -based federal judge issued an injunction last week. An audience on the case of foreign students will take place on Thursday.
Harvard said he was supporting concerns about anti-Jewish feeling, but thinks Trump threatens academic freedom through requests to redo his governance, admission practices, ideological diversity and student discipline.
Federal offices, including education, justice and health and social services services, have put dozens of colleges on allegations of anti -Semitism or discrimination this year, but Harvard and Columbia have faced the strongest actions.
