‘A disgrace,’ legal expert says of whistleblower claim that Trump admin unserious about Jew-hatred probes
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) said on Tuesday that he launched an investigation into whistleblower allegations that Trump administration officials manipulated federal Jew-hatred probes of several universities and withheld federal funding to pressure the schools into costly settlements.“Antisemitism at American universities and medical schools is real. It needs to be addressed seriously,” the Jewish congressman wrote to Harmeet Dhillon, assistant U.S. attorney general for civil rights.“But your ‘investigation’ into antisemitism was fake, a pre-baked frame-up operation thoroughly political in nature,” Raskin wrote. “The whole project was designed to harass professors and administrators at major universities, to curtail their freedom of speech and academic freedom and to strip targeted institutions of hundreds of millions of dollars in grants that they had already been awarded on the merits of their applications.”Lori Lowenthal Marcus, legal director for the Deborah Project, told JNS that Raskin’s characterization of the probes is a “hoax.”“It would be accurate…
Representative Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) has launched an investigation into whistleblower allegations that Trump administration officials manipulated federal probes into antisemitism at several universities, including Harvard, Brown, and Columbia. The whistleblower, former Justice Department attorney Haley Van Erem, claims that political appointees overrode career investigators, pursued predetermined outcomes, and disregarded evidence in Title VI investigations. Van Erem alleges that "the outcomes of the investigations were predetermined, without regard to the evidence" and that hundreds of millions of dollars were suspended from universities prematurely. Lori Lowenthal Marcus, legal director for the Deborah Project, called Raskin's characterization a "hoax" and a "disgrace" to "weaponize hatred of the administration against addressing antisemitism," expressing concern that these allegations could discourage institutions from seriously addressing legitimate complaints of Jew-hatred on campuses.
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