J. Christian Adams appears in PJ Media, explaining why the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights (USCCR) must take action and investigate antisemitism on college campuses.
This is why in 2024, as a Commissioner on the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights (USCCR), I asked twelve prominent colleges for information regarding antisemitic protests on campus. I wanted a catalog of the protests as well as any measures or actions taken against individuals or groups who violated the civil rights of Jewish students.
Not a single school or administrator responded to the substance of my request. Not even UCLA which, you might think, would want to explain how they fought the “Jew exclusion zones” on campus.
If you didn’t know any better, you would think that the Civil Rights Commission has an investigation of the Trump Administration. Not true.
Here’s the truth. On October 2, 2024, the four Republican commissioners on the USCCR — as a result of an NBC News article,“Five Jewish college students report being assaulted in the last month as Oct. 7 anniversary approaches” — discovered that 23 bipartisan members of Congress led by Rep. Jake Auchincloss (D) and Rep. Kevin Kiley (R) had written to Commission Chair Rochelle Garza. They asked the Civil Rights Commission to convene a briefing on “the alarming rise in antisemitism on college and university campuses.” The news article stated that a commission spokesperson said the Congressional request was under review.
It turns out the Congressional request was being hidden from most of the commissioners, especially the Republican ones.
Read the full article here.