Biden admin’s DOE investigating Emory University for alleged anti-Muslim discrimination

The U.S. Department of Education's (DOE) Office for Civil Rights is investigating Atlanta's Emory University for alleged anti-Muslim favoritism connected campus. 

The investigation comes arsenic assemblage campuses crossed America are being engulfed by disruptive, chaotic and often convulsive anti-Israel protests — leaving galore Jewish students pinch no prime but to fly campus aliases fearfulness for their safety.

The DOE’s investigation comes aft nan Georgia section of nan Council connected American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-Georgia) and Palestine Legal revenge a civilian authorities title against nan schoolhouse connected behalf of Emory Students for Justice successful Palestine. 

The groups declare that Palestinian, Arab and Muslim students person been called "terrorists," "fake Muslims" and endured terrible harassment, intimidation and favoritism connected field and online. It claims students had their flyers, noting nan number of Palestinians killed by Israeli forces, ripped down aliases thrown successful nan trash.

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Students chant during an anti-Israel protestation astatine Emory University connected April 25 successful Atlanta.  (Elijah Nouvelage/AFP via Getty Images)

"The past 6 months astatine Emory University person been difficult for Palestinian, Arab and Muslim students. We want nan Department of Education to do what Emory grounded to — which is [to] analyse our reports of bias properly, perceive to our voices, and clasp Emory accountable, truthful we tin safely advocator for Palestinian authorities without fearing for our information connected campus," Emory Students for Justice successful Palestine said successful a merchandise from CAIR-Georgia astir nan complaint. "No student should ever consciousness marginalized, intimidated and unsafe for illustration we person been feeling. We are present to learn, and we should beryllium capable to do truthful successful bid without being threatened, harassed and dox[x]ed simply for being Palestinian, Muslim, Arab aliases a protagonist of Palestinian rights."

When reached by Fox News Digital, Emory University said it received nan title from nan DOE and will respond, but said it is incapable to talk an unfastened investigation. 

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Similarly, nan DOE confirmed nan investigation, but told Fox News Digital it "does not remark further connected pending investigations."

CAIR-Georgia — a group whose main section apical executive said he was "happy" to witnesser the Oct. 7 violent attack connected Israel — praised nan DOE’s investigation into Emory. 

"It is unconscionable that students person been made to suffer an unsafe and unwelcome learning situation without recourse contempt asking nan University for thief aggregate times," Azka Mahmood, CAIR-Georgia's executive director, said successful a property release. "We dream that this investigation will compel Emory University management to reside nan harassment and systemic favoritism faced by Palestinian, Muslim, and Arab students."

The DOE’s investigation into anti-Muslim favoritism comes arsenic students and extracurricular agitators person staged often-violent anti-Israel encampments astatine universities crossed nan U.S.

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At Emory, astatine slightest 28 group were arrested during a caller objection astatine nan Emory Quad. The schoolhouse said its Police Department "issued criminal trespass warnings to six individuals suspected of committing caller acts of vandalism connected campus" and "confirmed that nary of these individuals are affiliated pinch Emory."

Video taken connected field showed constabulary officers equipped pinch Tasers, tear state and capsicum balls attempting to bring nan rowdy anti-Israel agitators nether control. 

Former FBI Special Agent and Fox News contributor Nicole Parker said nan DOE investigating alleged anti-Muslim favoritism connected Emory’s field and not antisemitism is conscionable par-for-the-course pinch nan existent national criminal justness strategy under nan Biden administration. 

"It seems that erstwhile it comes to investigating members of nan wide progressive movement, nan FBI and DOJ almost move a unsighted eye," Parker told Fox News Digital. "But yet they driblet nan hammer connected those connected nan blimpish extremity of nan spectrum."

Parker stressed that she cannot speak astir nan DOE, but said nan national criminal justness strategy successful wide "picks and chooses who they are going to protect."

"The FBI claims that nan convulsive and vulnerable actions against Jews connected assemblage campuses nan past mates of weeks are simply an workout of first amendment rights," Parker said. "If those activities don’t represent usurpation of civilian authorities aliases a dislike crime — I’m not judge what a dislike crime is."

She pointed to nan FBI’s meaning of a dislike crime. On its website, nan FBI defines a dislike crime arsenic a "criminal discourtesy against a personification aliases spot motivated successful full aliases successful portion by an offender’s bias against a race, religion, disability, intersexual orientation, ethnicity, gender, aliases gender identity."

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When antecedently reached by Fox News Digital astir nan anti-Israel and often blatant antisemitic demonstrations connected assemblage campuses, nan FBI released nan pursuing statement:

"The FBI is successful adjacent interaction pinch authorities and section rule enforcement partners and, arsenic we do successful nan normal people of business, we will stock immoderate accusation regarding imaginable threats. We respect nan authorities of individuals to peacefully workout their First Amendment authorities and nan FBI investigates individuals who break national rule done unit aliases different criminal activity."

Parker encouraged immoderate students who consciousness they person been nan unfortunate of a dislike crime to interaction nan FBI by calling 1-800-CALL-FBI aliases taxable a extremity online astatine tips.fbi.gov. 

She said "hold them accountable."

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"First amendment free speech is embraced successful our blessed nation, but violence, terroristic threats and demolition are not. In fact, those are superior crimes and should beryllium prosecuted to nan fullest grade of nan law," she said.

Fox News Digital reached retired to Emory Students for Justice successful Palestine, but has not yet heard back.

Fox News Digital's Greg Norman and Timothy Nerozzi contributed to this report.