The U.S. Department of Education announced on Wednesday that it told Columbia University’s accreditor that the school violated federal law over its handling of antisemitism and no longer meets the requisite criteria for accreditation. The department stated that both it and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services found that Columbia violated Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, because the school “acted with deliberate indifference towards the harassment of Jewish students.” The two departments concluded that Columbia “failed to meaningfully protect Jewish students against severe and pervasive harassment on Columbia’s campus and consequently denied these students’ equal access to educational opportunities to which they are entitled under the law.” Ari Shrage, co-founder of the Columbia Jewish Alumni Association, told JNS that he hopes federal pressure will encourage the university to make necessary changes. “It’s unfortunate that the government needs to threaten Columbia’s accreditation in order to protect Jewish students,” he told JNS. 
Trump admin tells certifier Columbia’s ‘severe, pervasive’ Jew-hatred violates its accreditation:
