Feds Open Antisemitism Probe of Yale After Jewish Students Are Barred From Anti-Israel Event

Professors speaking at the event said that ‘violent resistance movements often emerge in colonized spaces’ and that ‘the Israeli state cannot remain the state of the Jewish people.’

Courtesy Netanel Crispe.
Lisa Lowe, Yale's Samuel Knight Professor of American Studies and Professor of Ethnicity, Race and Migration, seeks to confiscate a Jewish student's phone outside an anti-Israel speaking event in New Haven, CT. Courtesy Netanel Crispe.

The Department of Education has opened a Title VI antisemitism investigation into Yale University, the school’s student newspaper reported on Friday. The investigation relates to a November 6 incident on campus when Jewish students were barred from a lecture series featuring a series of anti-Israel speakers. 

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