Antisemitism Probe at Penn Was Wrongfully Cut Short, Suit Claims

The US Department of Education fell short of its obligation to investigate claims of civil rights law violations by dropping its probe into complaints of antisemitism at the University of Pennsylvania, according to a complaint filed Tuesday.

The department’s Office for Civil Rights “is statutorily charged with protecting students from precisely the type and manner of pervasive discriminatory harassment and intimidation that Jewish students have been subject to at Penn and are now suffering on campuses across the country,” according to the complaint filed in the US District Court for the District of Columbia.

The department launched an investigation into ...