The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has filed a civil rights complaint against the University of Massachusetts–Amherst (UMass–Amherst), alleging that the state college has condoned and, at times, fostered a violent, anti-Semitic climate on campus.
“UMass–Amherst has permitted numerous anti-Semitic incidents to occur on campus with impunity. While we do not have information demonstrating that all the incidents were reported, they all are widely known on campus, and speak to the climate of anti-Semitic harassment that has become commonplace at UMass–Amherst,” the complaint states.
“UMass–Amherst has engaged in deliberate indifference towards the antisemitism currently festering on its campus,” the complaint asserts.
The university did not respond to inquiries from The Epoch Times about the ADL civil rights complaint by press time.
The 60-page complaint includes screenshots of several anti-Jewish sentiments and ethnic slurs that a UMass–Amherst student allegedly posted on social media.
One of the more vulgar messages allegedly posted by the student boasts about using the Israeli flag as toilet paper. Some posts mock and insult the physical characteristics of Jewish people.
OCR is responsible for investigating Title VI discrimination complaints.
The global anti-hate group filed its complaint against UMass–Amherst in partnership with The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law, the Washington-based civil rights law firm Holtzman Vogel Baran Torchinsky & Josefiak, and the Boston criminal justice law firm Libby Hoopes Brooks & Mulvey.
The complaint against UMass–Amherst outlined several other allegedly anti-Semitic incidents at the college.
