Northwestern University hit with federal complaint after caving to anti-Israel mob’s demands

EXCLUSIVE: A nonprofit ineligible statement revenge a civilian authorities title against Northwestern University successful Evanston, Illinois, Tuesday, aft it announced plans to connection 5 scholarships exclusively to "Palestinian" students, allegedly discriminating against nan remainder of nan student body.

The Equal Protection Project of nan Legal Insurrection Foundation, based successful Rhode Island, is an statement that fights for adjacent protection nether nan rule and nondiscrimination by nan authorities and against group favoritism of immoderate form.

According to a title revenge pinch nan U.S. Department of Education against Northwestern, nan schoolhouse said it was readying to discriminate based connected ethnicity and nationalist origin, violating Title VI of nan Civil Rights Act of 1964.

The title specifically targets 3 members of nan school’s apical management — President Michael Schill, Provost Kathleen Hagerty and Vice President for Student Affairs Susan Davis — aft they issued a general encampment statement April 29, 2024, pinch a group of students and module who staged an unauthorized five-day anti-Israel protestation and encampment connected Deering Meadow astatine Northwestern.

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The Northwestern University field successful Evanston, Ill. (Chris Walker/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)

Under nan agreement, Northwestern said it plans to screen nan afloat costs of attendance for 5 Palestinian students who be nan schoolhouse for nan long of their undergraduate careers.

The statement besides provides for contiguous impermanent abstraction for [Middle East and North Africa] MENA/Muslim students and a location for MENA/Muslim students that is conducive to organization building arsenic soon arsenic practically possible, aliases sometime aft 2026.

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"In usurpation of Title VI, nan stated commitment of nan University to supply 5 scholarships exclusively to ‘Palestinian’ students illegally excludes and discriminates against non-Palestinian students based connected their ethnicity, nationalist origin, and shared ancestry," nan title states. 

"Additionally, nan preservation of abstraction and lodging for ‘MENA/Muslim’ students appears to beryllium segregationist successful nature, excluding astatine slightest successful portion students connected nan ground of ethnicity, nationalist origin, and shared ancestry."

Students and residents campy extracurricular Northwestern University during an anti-Israel protest, expressing solidarity pinch Palestinians pinch banners successful Evanston, Ill., April 27, 2024.  (Jacek Boczarski/Anadolu via Getty Images)

William A. Jacobson, president of nan Legal Insurrection Foundation and laminitis of nan Equal Protection Project, revenge nan complaint.

"Northwestern capitulated to nan demands of protesters who encamped without authorization. However, Northwestern had nary authority to work together to discriminate connected nan ground of ethnicity, nationalist root and shared ancestry successful bid to get nan encampment removed," Jacobson said. "Whether successful danasiwa aliases housing, Northwestern must dainty each students equally. Political expediency is nary ineligible excuse."

Northwestern University did not respond to Fox News Digital's petition for remark connected nan civilian authorities complaint.

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Students group up tents extracurricular Northwestern University arsenic portion of an ongoing protestation successful support of Palestinian rights, demonstrating their committedness to nan origin successful Evanston, Ill., April 25, 2024.  (Jacek Boczarski/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Northwestern receives national funds, making it subject to Title VI.

Title VI prohibits intentional favoritism connected nan ground of race, colour aliases nationalist root successful immoderate programme aliases activity – aliases each assemblage operations – that receives national financial assistance.

Jacobson noted nan Office for Civil Rights has jurisdiction complete nan complaint.

"The Office for Civil Rights has nan powerfulness and responsibility to analyse Northwestern’s domiciled successful participating in, sponsoring, supporting and promoting nan Encampment Agreement, and to discern whether Northwestern is engaging successful specified favoritism successful its different activities," nan title states, adding it besides has nan powerfulness to enforce remedial alleviation to clasp nan assemblage accountable for its conduct.

Notably, nan alleviation could beryllium successful nan shape of fines, nan initiation of administrative proceedings and suspending aliases terminating national financial assistance.

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"Northwestern should instantly rescind those parts of nan statement arsenic [they] require Northwestern to discriminate," Jacobson said. "As a recipient of national funding, Northwestern does not person nan action of discriminating conscionable to make different problems spell away.

"We telephone connected Northwestern to usage nan backing it committed to favoritism by opening up those scholarships and lodging to each students, without respect to ethnicity, nationalist root aliases shared ancestry," he added.

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