Merrick Garland, Kristen Clarke Silent on Campus AntisemitismJoel B. Pollak 26 Apr 2024
U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland and Department of Justice Civil Rights Division Chief Kristen Clarke have been notably silent on the issue of campus antisemitism as it has spread in recent weeks, threatening Jewish students.
Garland, who is himself Jewish, vouched for Clarke when she faced a contentious confirmation process as Senators raised concerns about her past, notably when she invited an antisemitic speaker to Harvard as a student in the 1990s.
The U.S. Department of Education has its own Office for Civil Rights that has been opening investigations into several universities for months. But the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division has been absent from the fight against what is clearly a coordinated effort, masterminded by several national and international groups, and well-funded by shadowy donors. The tactics of the campus encampments are the same; the timing is the same; even many of the tents are the same. And the protests, and the threats to Jews, have spilled well beyond the gates of the campuses into the streets beyond.
NGO Monitor has compiled a list of the known groups behind the ongoing campus disruptions. They include Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP); Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP); Within Our Lifetime (WOL); US Campaign for Palestinian Rights (USCPR); WESPAC (Westchester Peace Action Committee Foundation); and the Samidoun group.
Many of these groups are openly pro-terror; some have links to radical organizations, and Samidoun in particular is considered a terrorist organization in Israel, and has been banned in Germany. Samidoun’s founders spoke to anti-Israel students at Columbia University.
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