Wasaaradda Cadaadda Maraykanka ayaa ka jawaabtay eedaha xayeysiis-yaqaanka ku saabsan baaritaannada khubarrada anti-Semitism
Xayeysiis-yaqaan Maraykan ah ayaa sheegay in baaritaannada hay'adda Cadaadda ee dowladda Trump ay ahaayeen kuwo 'ka hor go'aansaday' si loo xadgudbo heshiisyo lacageed oo ku saabsan jaamacadaha ugu waaweyn dalka, halka wasaaraddu ay sheegtay in xayeysiis-yaqaanku uusan ka shaqayn baaritaannadaas.
Eedaha xayeysiis-yaqaanka iyo jawaabta wasaaradda
Haley Van Erem, xayeysiis-yaqaan hore ee hay'adda Cadaadda, ayaa gudbiyay eedeyn ku saabsan in baaritaannada hay'adda Cadaadda ee dowladda Trump ay ahaayeen kuwo 'ka hor go'aansaday' si loo xadgudbo heshiisyo lacageed oo ku saabsan jaamacadaha ugu waaweyn dalka, halka wasaaraddu ay sheegtay in xayeysiis-yaqaanku uusan ka shaqayn baaritaannadaas.
Waxayna eedeyntu sheegtay in xubnaha siyaasadda ee hay'adda Cadaadda ay ku wareejiyeen baaritaannada xayeysiis-yaqaannada dhaqanka, iyagoo ku eedeeyay inay u adeegsadeen diin iyo dhinaca qowmiyadda, taas oo keentay inay ka baxdo shaqadeeda May 2025.
Heshiisyada jaamacadaha iyo go'aamada maxkamadaha
Jaamacadaha Brown iyo Columbia ayaa heshiis la gashay dowladda, iyadoo Columbia ay bixisay $200m, halka Brown ay ku bixisay $50m, iyadoo baaritaannada hay'adda Cadaadda ay sheegeen in aan la xaqiijin karin in jaamacaduhu ay dambi gelin.
Maxkamad federaal ah ayaa sidoo kale amartay in dowladdu dib u ceshato ka joojinta $2.6bn ee lacagta bixinta jaamacadda Harvard, iyadoo sheegtay in dowladdu ay 'isticmaashay anti-Semitism si ay uga fogaato dagaal ideolojiyad ku salaysan'.
Go'aaminta Raskin iyo xaaladda guud
Xildhibaanka Raskin ayaa furay baaritaan ku saabsan eedeymaha xayeysiis-yaqaanka, isagoo sheegay in baaritaannada dowladdu ay ahaayeen kuwo 'xadgudub ku salaysan' si loo xadgudbo heshiisyo lacageed oo ku saabsan jaamacadaha ugu waaweyn dalka, halka wasaaraddu ay sheegtay in xayeysiis-yaqaanku uusan ka shaqayn baaritaannadaas.
Waxayna eedeyntu sheegtay in xubnaha siyaasadda ee hay'adda Cadaadda ay ku wareejiyeen baaritaannada xayeysiis-yaqaannada dhaqanka, iyagoo ku eedeeyay inay u adeegsadeen diin iyo dhinaca qowmiyadda, taas oo keentay inay ka baxdo shaqadeeda May 2025.
A former Department of Justice lawyer has accused the Trump administration of predetermining outcomes in its anti-Semitism investigations at elite universities, prompting a sharp denial from the Justice Department.
Whistleblower Allegations
Haley Van Erem, a civil rights attorney who spent nearly a decade in the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, filed a formal complaint alleging that the Trump administration's Joint Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism was marked by extraordinary procedural irregularities and predetermined outcomes without factual or legal support. Van Erem, who was involuntarily assigned to the task force last year, ended her role in May 2025 because she was unwilling to participate in politically motivated investigations unsupported by facts and contrary to law.
The complaint further accuses the task force of targeting Muslim professors and pushing for multimillion-dollar settlements with Ivy League universities despite government investigations that failed to establish any legal wrongdoing. Van Erem described the work as a politically mandated effort that discarded standard investigative procedures, with political appointees overruling career investigators and targeting professors based on religion and ethnicity.
DOJ Pushes Back
A spokesperson for the Department of Justice told Al Jazeera that former DOJ lawyer Haley Van Erem did not work on university investigations during her tenure at the department. The DOJ spokesperson stated they stand behind the integrity of these investigations, directly contradicting the whistleblower's claims of procedural misconduct and predetermined outcomes.
The task force was launched by the Justice Department under then-Attorney General Pam Bondi in February 2025, created by Trump via an executive order to root out antisemitic harassment in schools and on college campuses following protests that broke out at institutions across the country as Israel waged its genocidal war in Gaza.
Congressional and Legal Fallout
Representative Jamie Raskin, ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, has launched an investigation into the whistleblower allegations that the Trump administration's political appointees grossly manipulated federal anti-Semitism investigations to target certain American universities, punish protected speech and force schools into settlements despite government investigators finding insufficient evidence to verify any Title VI violations. Raskin wrote that from the start of the Trump Administration's ferocious attack on universities, it has been apparent that its investigations have be
Both Brown and Columbia settled with the administration. Columbia agreed to pay $200m over three years, and Brown agreed to spend $50m on Rhode Island workforce development, even though the task force found no formal admission of university misconduct. A federal judge last year ordered the Trump administration to reverse its cuts of more than $2.6bn in research funding for Harvard, saying the government used antisemitism as a smokescreen for a targeted, ideologically-motivated assault on this country's premier universities.
