UC Santa Barbara, where Jewish student president was accused of supporting 'genocide,' is subject of new Title VI invest

[Behind the Aegis]

The U.S. Department of Education is opening a discrimination investigation into the University of California, Santa Barbara a month after its student government president, who is Jewish, shared images of campus activists targeting her with inflammatory signs.

The UCSB investigation, which the department announced Tuesday, was the latest in a long line of federal Title VI “shared ancestry” investigations opened into colleges and K-12 school districts since the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war. The department also announced another new investigation this week, at Howard County Public Schools in the Baltimore area.

The reasons for the investigations were not immediately clear. The department’s Office of Civil Rights, or OCR, recently pledged to begin posting the complaint letters for all of its investigations online, but had not done so for this week’s as of Tuesday afternoon. Requests for comment to the Department of Education, UCSB and Howard County Public Schools were not immediately returned.

But UCSB had recently been the site of a very public incident of antisemitism, when its Jewish student body president, Tessa Veksler, posted images to Instagram of campus signs targeting her in February.

“You can run but you can’t hide Tessa Veksler,” one sign read. “Tessa Veksler Supports Genocide,” multiple signs declared. “Get these Zionist[s] out of office,” another read, with yet another accusing her of being “racist” and “Zionist.”

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[ripcord]

1. Colleges that allow this should be targeted under Title VI

They have become morally bankrupt.

[sarisataka]

2. Another thread that will sink

With minimal or no comment.

But be sure to not call it anti-Semitism, that offends people.

[Hekate]

6. I'll say it: ANTISEMITISM. Invite some friends over to the thread. Give it a kick tonight & tomorrow....

Help to let it be seen.
Thanks for understanding.

[sarisataka]

13. There are people thinking themselves clever

because they maintain they are only speaking about "Israel" or "Zionists" and there is nothing antisemitic in their statements. What they are not clever enough to realize is that they mirror those who say they are not being racist when they talk about "urban youth."

In each case they speakers do not realize the veil they are trying to hide behind is so sheer it is practically invisible.

[brer cat]

3. This is insane. The hatred runs deep and out of control in these antisemites.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

4. K&R

[Hekate]

5. UCSB was my workplace, my husband's alma mater, we lived within 3 miles of it for 40 years...

Hoped our grandsons would go there. WTAF.

It’s been an awful day, after reading your other post first thing this morning.

It’s not my tribe, so to speak, but I married into it, and this is my family that is at risk. My. Family.

To know without a doubt that the smoldering ashes of antisemitism were blown awake in my old age, and then the ill winds of history blew the flames into a conflagration is unbearable.

[betsuni]

7. K&R

[hardluck]

8. K&R

[Cha]

9. " The U.S. Department of Education is opening a discrimination investigation into the University of California, Santa.."

Barbara.. Thank Goodness!

These Evil Anti Semitics Need to be Held Accountable for Targeting and Attacking Jewish Students and Businesses.

[DFW]

10. My daughters went to college in the USA

Before going to school in the USA, they were in school in western Germany, where children are taught about the country’s past in detail. Their first school was the Anne Frank elementary school in our town near Düsseldorf. Though not Jewish, they would have been (and now are) appalled at the resurgence of that which they were taught from birth was the embodiment of evil.

[Hekate]

11. Thank you. I, too, am appalled.

[TheKentuckian]

14. Nazi garbage people doing Nazi garbage shit.

[DFW]

15. Nowhere near sophisticated enough to be real Nazis

Just sick hate groups looking to hurt people. Tattooing a swastika on your arm doesn’t make one a Nazi any more than tattooing an American flag on your arm makes you a marine. The NSDAP (National Socialist German Workers Party, or Nazi Party for short) really did espouse a version of socialism. Read some of Göbbels’ early writing. He was a true believer in socialism, although his version evolved into a convoluted one in which the government controlled everything, with him firmly in the middle of it. Ironically, not far from W’s being OK with a dictatorship, as ling as he was the dictator. W was making a bad CNN joke. Göbbels was deadly serious.

The difference is that the original Nazis were an organization with an ideology and a plan. These low lifes we see now may tattoo swastikas on their arms, but their sophistication ends at making up signs, posting hate on the internet, and doing physical harm to Jewish people. In the USA, half of them would be just as happy beating up Palestinians, if they were to find any in their midst.

[Ace Rothstein]

16. The Leftist-Islamist coalition is beyond toxic.

Our universities are a mess.