UW involved in title VI investigation, Ministry of Education claims anti-Semitism and Dachs Herald

The University of Wisconsin was one of 60 schools that the US Education Ministry warned Last Monday about a possible loss of federal financing if you do not protect Jewish students.

The list contains both public universities and Ivy League Colleges, namely Columbia University, which have lost grants and contracts of $ 400 million last week because, according to the press release, they tolerated anti-Semitism.

According to the press release, the 60 institutions listed does not meet their obligations Title VI of the civil rights law on the protection of Jewish students on campus by providing them with uninterrupted access to campus facilities and educational opportunities.

“UW Madison condemns anti-Semitism in all its forms and endeavors to promote an inviting campus environment for all members of the campus community, the free of discrimination, including harassment based on races, common ancestors, national origin or other protected categories,” says letter From UW on Tuesday, March 11th.

The letter follows a Complaint Made against UW in January 2024, which leads to a title VI Investigation.

Professor Emerita of Sociology Pamela Oliver wrote in an e -mail declaration that the universities' answers to protests against Gaza towards the demonstrators on campus were punishable and hard compared that the same universities treated protests against many other topics in the past.

This executive regulation seems to be an attack on freedom of speech and an attempt to destroy or at least intimidate institutions that could resist the current administration, says Oliver.

It seems that the current step is to use concerns about anti -Semitism as an excuse for the elite universities attacks, wrote Oliver.

UW Associate Professor Samer Alatout, Believe that the investigation is an attack on university formation.

Alatout belonged to those who protested with students during the camp, so loud The cap times.

Alatout believes that anti -Semestic incidents should be examined especially at the institution.

“We cannot connect the protest against Israel, which has operated a genocide in Gaza. Protests, on the other hand, should not conflict with the Jew. Many of those who protest in these protests are even Jews,” said Alatout. “What is anti -Semitic can be assumed that these people carry out camps or protest against the Israeli state.”

Alatout said the investigation of the Ministry of Education was McCarthyism -eraalso known as “red fear” in the 1950s.

“This is not about Palestine, it's not about Israel,” said Alatout. “It's not about anti -Semitism, it's about McCarthyism.”

During this time, many lost their work and were sent to prison, accused of participating in communist activism and identifying themselves as a communist.

“The problem with this language about the warehouse and the protests against Israel is that they are so inhumane that anyone who protests against Israeli work and the Israeli genocide becomes anti-Semitic or pro-Hamas … says again and again,” said Alatout.

According to Alatout, these warnings seem to make this a lesson for future protests that could do the students, the faculty, the employees or people on site.

This could mean that things become more difficult for those when protesting, said Alatout.

“I think this is part of this new redesign of American public life in a new way that redesigned the universities in a new way and takes away the voice of the contradiction of young people, especially students,” said Alatout.