Rabbi Levi Shemtov, who founded the GW Chabad, told JNS that the university hasn't handled Jew-hatred well since Oct. 7 but is making improvements.
George Washington University, an urban campus in Washington, D.C., with some 4,500 Jewish students, violated federal civil rights law in its “deliberate indifference” to antisemitic incidents on campus that were “objectively offensive, severe and pervasive,” the U.S. Justice Department said on Tuesday.
The private school ignored a “hostile educational environment for Jewish, American-Israeli and Israeli students and faculty,” the Trump administration said. “GW took no meaningful action and was instead deliberately indifferent to the complaints it received, the misconduct that occurred and the harms that were suffered by its Jewish and Israeli students and faculty.”
The Justice Department, which reportedly sought a settlement with University of California, Los Angeles worth $1 billion, said it will “seek immediate remediation with GW for its civil rights violations.”