Revealed: Emory University investigated over alleged anti-Muslim discrimination | Atlanta | The Guardian

Revealed: Emory University investigated over alleged anti-Muslim discrimination

(This is not surprising at Emory a school that has always tolerated a degree of racism)

"College under federal investigation after students with Palestinian and Muslim ancestry allege ‘hostile environment’, Guardian learns

Timothy Pratt

Students gather in a dining hall at Emory as they protest in support of Palestinians. Photograph: Elijah Nouvelage/Reuters

The US government has opened an investigation into Emory University’s alleged discrimination against students with Palestinian, Muslim or Arab ancestry since 7 October, the Guardian has exclusively learned.

The US education department notified the Council on American Islamic Relations, Georgia, or Cair-GA, and Palestine Legal, a national organization, on Tuesday that it would be investigating claims made in an 18-page complaint filed on 5 April on behalf of students at the university in Atlanta, Georgia, under title VI of the Civil Rights Act.

The complaint is one of at least six title VI claims made in recent weeks regarding discriminatory treatment of Palestinian, Muslim and Arab students on US campuses; others include Columbia, Rutgers, University of Massachusetts-Amherst and the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.

The students named in Emory’s complaint belong to the school’s chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), a group that has seen its share of controversy on campuses in recent months. Brandeis and Columbia suspended SJP chapters in December, after the national group called events of 7 October “a historic win for the Palestinian resistance”. PEN America, a freedom of expression group, called such language “deeply objectionable, and even incendiary … [but] typically protected by the first amendment and by many university policies”.

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