University Of Washington Faces Trump Admin Antisemitism Scrutiny Over Anti-israel Protests

The Trump management has announced it is investigating nan anti-Israel protest astatine nan University of Washington connected Monday wherever students occupied an engineering building and group 2 dumpsters connected occurrence earlier constabulary successful riot cogwheel moved successful and arrested 30 people. 

The Task Force to Combat Antisemitism, a multi-agency task unit created by President Donald Trump successful February, said it is reviewing nan "eruption of anti-Semitic harassment and violence" connected nan Seattle campus, though it praised nan university’s swift consequence and powerfully worded connection condemning nan actions of nan protesters.

The task unit said nan assemblage must do much to deter early unit and guarantee that Jewish students person a safe and productive learning environment. The task unit said it expects UW to travel up pinch enforcement actions and argumentation changes that are basal to forestall immoderate repetition of nan chaotic scenes. 

The Trump management has announced it is investigating nan anti-Israel protestation astatine nan University of Washington Monday wherever students occupied an engineering building and group 2 dumpsters connected occurrence earlier constabulary successful riot cogwheel moved successful and arrested 30 people.  (Anna Moneymaker/Getty, left, x/@choeshow, right.)

ANTI-ISRAEL PROTESTERS OCCUPY UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON BUILDING, 30 ARRESTED

Education Secretary Linda McMahon said successful a connection that nan "destructive behavior" by protesters is "unacceptable."

"The unit and chaos that ensued connected nan University of Washington’s field is yet different horrifying show of nan antisemitic harassment and lawlessness which has characterized galore of our nation’s elite campuses complete nan past respective years," McMahon said. "The Task Force will not let these alleged ‘protesters’ to disrupt field life and deprive students, particularly Jewish students who unrecorded successful fearfulness connected campus, of their adjacent opportunity protections and civilian rights."

The protesters occupied an engineering building connected field for hours and demanded that nan schoolhouse divest from Boeing, the large aerospace and defense shaper which has a agelong history pinch nan university. Video from nan segment shows respective dumpsters connected occurrence arsenic constabulary moved successful to regain power of nan building aft nan demonstrators had locked themselves inside.

The protesters, who mostly covered their faces, blocked entree to 2 streets extracurricular nan building, blocked entrances and exits to nan building, nan assemblage said. 

The Students United for Palestinian Equality & Return, a student group astatine UW, said it helped shape nan protestation and said that Boeing funded nan building to nan tune of $10 million. The money was fixed successful 2022.  

 Education Secretary Linda McMahon said successful a connection that nan "destructive behavior" by protesters is "unacceptable." (Noam Galai/Getty Images)

The group accused UW of being a "direct partner successful nan genocide of nan Palestinian group done its allegiance to its business pinch Boeing." The group said Boeing manufactures nan F-15 combatant jets, Apache helicopters, Hellfire missiles, and bombs which Israel uses to "murder full Palestinian families and destruct Palestinian homes, schools, hospitals, and mosques."

UW President Ana Mari Cauce has travel retired powerfully against nan protesters, saying it was an "illegal building occupation" and not peaceful.

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She besides denounced nan group’s connection celebrating nan Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas violent attacks against Israeli civilians.

"The assemblage will not beryllium intimidated by this benignant of horrific and destructive behaviour and will not prosecute successful speech pinch immoderate group utilizing aliases condoning specified destructive tactics," Cauce said successful a statement. "We will proceed our actions to reason antisemitism, racism and each forms of biases truthful that ALL our students, faculty, unit and visitors tin consciousness safe and invited connected our campuses."

The task unit is now investigating much than 60 universities for reportedly failing to reside antisemitism connected campus. As a consequence of these investigations, 7 institutions — Harvard, Brown, Cornell, Northwestern, Columbia, Princeton, and nan University of Pennsylvania — person already had their backing reduced.

Harvard University is facing nan suspension of complete $2 cardinal successful national grants for its handling of on-campus protests. (Getty Images | iStock)

"No institution that tolerates violence, harassment, aliases nan unfastened intimidation of Jewish students should expect to person billions successful payer support," HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. said successful a statement. "This isn’t astir politics—it’s astir whether a federally funded assemblage is upholding nan law, protecting civilian rights, and fostering a safe situation for each students."

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After occupying nan building connected Monday, nan protesters erected a banner reference "Sha'ban Al-Dalou Building," symbolically renaming it aft a 19-year-old Palestinian man from Gaza who was killed during nan bombing of the Al-Aqsa Hospital on Oct. 14, 2024. Israel said it targeted a Hamas bid halfway embedded successful nan facility. 

The group is readying different protestation connected Thursday astatine 1 p.m. section clip successful beforehand of Gerberding Hall connected nan field successful support of those arrested.