The Education Department's Office for Civil Rights is investigating Rutgers University based on a complaint by the Zionist Organization of America that Rutgers administrators have done little to respond to anti-Semitism campus.
The federal civil-rights office has refused to investigate the university's response to some of the alleged anti-Semitic incidents cited in the complaint, however, mainly because the Jewish organization had not identified Rutgers students who would step forward to support the group's assertions that they were being harassed. The group is appealing those decisions in hopes of getting the federal agency to expand the scope of its investigation into whether Rutgers violated a federal law barring discrimination based on national origin.
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