Ivy League anti-Semitism

 Newsmax:

The Trump administration has frozen roughly $210 million in federal funds to Princeton University amid an ongoing investigation into allegations of antisemitism, according to an administration official who spoke with the Daily Caller. The official said the funding pause is not the final outcome of the investigation.

"Princeton has perpetuated racist and anti-semitic policies," the official told the Caller, as reported by Reagan Reese on X.

The U.S. Department of Education launched the investigation in April of 2024 following a January complaint filed by Zachary Marschall, editor-in-chief of the conservative website Campus Reform, the Daily Princetonian reported.

Princeton joined several top universities, including Harvard and Yale, under investigation by the Department's Office of Civil Rights (OCR) under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits discrimination based on race or national origin at institutions receiving federal funding.

According to Campus Reform, Marschall's complaint referenced chants from an Oct. 25 walkout in support of Palestine, including "Brick by brick, wall by wall, apartheid has got to fall," along with language referencing the intifadas.

Marschall has filed at least a dozen Title VI complaints. The OCR received the complaints against Princeton and Northwestern on the same day. The Jewish Telegraphic Agency recently described Marschall as "the most prolific filer of antisemitism complaints filed under Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act since Oct. 7."

On campus, reactions have been mixed. Multiple Jewish students and staff told the Daily Princetonian at the time that while antisemitic and anti-Zionist rhetoric had been present, they did not believe it was a campus-wide problem.

"There has been rhetoric on Princeton's campus, as on many campuses, that has been deeply disturbing to some in the Jewish community, who feel that such rhetoric could create a hostile environment to Jewish people who support Israel's right to exist," Rabbi Gil Steinlauf, executive director of the Center for Jewish Life, wrote to the Daily Princetonian.
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I don't recall any such anti-Semitism when I was a student at the University of Texas.  I had Jewish friends on campus.  There may have been some on the fraternity scene, but it is not a campus-wide problem, and my Jewish friends had their own fraternity.  I was taking a heavy load to graduate in three years, so I did not have time for the party scene. I have always had Jewish friends and never understood why some people hated them.