The complaint of the federal anti -Semitism filed against Cal Poly Humboldt | Lost Coast Outpost

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A federal complaint for civil rights against Cal Poly Humboldt was filed today at the US Education Department, claiming that Jewish students have been subjected to “severe and persistent harassment” against demonstrations on the pro-Palestine campus.

The complaint, submitted in common by Louis D. Human Rights Center in accordance with the law and non -profit Jewish in campusclaims that administrators Cal Poly Humboldt have not been able to respond significantly to the hostile environment on Campus.

“The Jewish students were verbally and physically attacked, excluded and forced to leave the areas of the campus to which they have the right to access and are subjected to vicious anti-Jewish hatred,” the complaint shows. Quotes the behavior of the anti-Israel protesters from campus, including ugly graffiti, shouted slugs and, in a single instance covered by OutpostA man who throws fake blood to Jewish students.

“(I) to address themselves directly to anti-Semitism in campus, as they are asked to do in accordance with their legal obligations, the administration has encouraged Jewish students to hide their Jewish identity to avoid being targeted,” the complaint shows.

An example described in the complaints involved a confrontation that took place at the event to submit the Jewish club. A student was supposed to face the group, shouted that they were “children, genocide supporters and ground thefts” and grabbed the objects on the table. After that, the university would be “told the students to leave the event, rather than approaching the harassment” and failed to discipline the perpetrator.

The complaint cites several other harassment incidents, including anti -Semitic slopes painted by spray seen in the photo below and asks for the federal federal The Office for Civil Rights to launch an investigation by Cal Poly Humboldt for violating Title VI of the law on civil rights in 1964.

Outpost contacted the University and will update this post when we receive a record response.

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DOCUMENT: Complaint re: violations of civil rights at the State Polytechnic University of California, Humboldt

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from press release issued by the Brandeis Center:

(Washington, DC, March 6, 2025) Center Louis D. Brandeis for human rights in accordance with law has announced that it had submitted three federal complaints With the US Education Department against California State Polytechnics, the Scripps College and the Etiwanda School District of California, who claim that schools violate the 1964 civil rights law. The Brandeis Center is joined by leading Jewish organizations in each of the complaints.

“While an increasing number of schools Recognize that iswish students are being target both for their religious belliifs and due to their ancestral connection to Israel, and has taking necessary to address both classic and contemporary form of anti-Semitism, Some Shamefully Continue To A a A a A. Blind Eye, “Stated Brandeis Center Chairman Kenneth L. Marcus, a Civil Rights Expert Appointed by Presidents George W. Bush and Donald Trump to Run the Office for Civil Rights at the Department of Education. “The law and the federal government admit that the Jews share a common faith and I am a people with a common history and a rooted heritage in the land of Israel. Schools that continue to ignore any of the aspect of Jewish identity become dangerous reproductive lands for escalating anti-Jews and must be held accountable. “

Harvard University, in response to a process filed by the Brandeis center, has recently taken significant measures to protect their Jewish students from contemporary anti-Semitism. The University will apply the definition of anti-Semitism The International Holocaust Remember (IHRA) alliance with its examples for non-discrimination and anti-Bellying policies, will recognize the centrality of Zionism to Jewish identity and explicitly state that the targeting of Jews and Zionists is a violation of the school rules. Other schools have also established recent complaints with a similar concrete action.

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According to the complaint filed today against California State Polytechnic (Cal Poly), Humboldt by Brandeis Center and Jewish in campus, Jewish students were verbally and physically attacked, excluded and forced from campus areas and subject to vicious anti -Semitism. The protesters from the anti-Israel campus threw false blood to the Jewish students; Anti -Semitic graffiti painted by spray; they shouted with anti -Semitic slugs in Jewish students; Property from the vandalized campus, including frightening acts of violence, such as shattering glass doors; And they harassed Jewish students who celebrate a Jewish holiday shouting anti-Semitic invectives through a megaphone, glorifying Hamas and creating inflammatory anti-Semitic messages.

Instead of addressing anti-Semitism, Cal Poly’s administration encouraged Jewish students to hide their Jewish identity to avoid being targeted. In a case, a student Poly was close to Chabad, a group of Jewish students who are at a club fair. He began to shout that Jewish students were murders for babies, genocide supporters and ground thefts. The student grabbed the objects on the table and blocked other students to approach the table with his intimidating rhetoric and sitting in front of the table. The author was physically inserted between rabbi and students who engaged in discussions, blocking the conversations. Instead of addressing the anti-Semitic incident, the associated dean for the life of the students told the Jewish students that they should pack and leave the fair.

In another case, a ritual article was stolen from Jewish students and, instead of addressing the anti-Semitic act, the administration told Jewish students that they should take additional measures to avoid additional theft. These are just two examples of many in which the University encouraged Jewish students to keep their head down and withdraw. According to the complaint, ”