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