The Trump administration has escalated its fight with Columbia University, declaring the school doesn’t meet accreditation standards for its failure to protect Jewish students.
“After Hamas’ October 7, 2023, terror attack on Israel, Columbia University’s leadership acted with deliberate indifference towards the harassment of Jewish students on its campus,” US Secretary of Education Linda McMahon said in a statement Wednesday.
The US Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights said on Wednesday it notified the Middle States Commission on Higher Education – a nongovernmental association that conducts accreditation activities for higher education institutions – about Columbia University’s alleged violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, according to a news release from the Education Department.
The federal agency said its determination concluded the university “no longer appears to meet” the commission’s accreditation standards.
Columbia last month was accused of violating federal civil rights law by acting with “deliberate indifference” towards harassment of Jewish students on campus since October 7, 2023, coinciding with a terror attack by Hamas and its allies and Israel’s brutal war in Gaza.
The announcement was part of a series of actions by the federal government’s Joint Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism, which was created following a February executive order from President Donald Trump.
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