{"id":1907178,"date":"2023-03-30T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-30T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/george-washington-university-says-an-investigation-cleared-it-of-anti-semitism-why-wont-it-release-the-report\/"},"modified":"2023-03-30T05:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-03-30T09:00:00","slug":"george-washington-university-says-an-investigation-cleared-it-of-anti-semitism-why-wont-it-release-the-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/george-washington-university-says-an-investigation-cleared-it-of-anti-semitism-why-wont-it-release-the-report\/","title":{"rendered":"George Washington University Says An Investigation Cleared It Of Anti-Semitism. Why Won&#8217;t It Release The Report?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgeorge-washington-university-says-an-investigation-cleared-it-of-anti-semitism-why-wont-it-release-the-report%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1907178&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p> \t\t\t \t \t \t\t\t  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\tProfessor Lara Sheehi tweeted: &#8216;FUCK ZIONISM, ZIONISTS, AND SETTLER COLONIALISM.&#8217; That&#8217;s OK by GWU.\u00a0\u00a0 \t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p> \t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\tGeorge Washington University professor Lara Sheehi \/ Twitter\t\t\t \t\t\t \t\t\t\t \t\t \t\t\tGeorge Washington University on Monday trumpeted the results of an investigation that allegedly cleared the university and Professor Lara Sheehi of anti-Semitism. But the school won&#8217;t release the full report, penned by an outside law firm retained by the school, that it is claiming exonerates it.<\/p>\n<p> \t The announcement comes in the wake of a civil rights complaint filed with the Department of Education arguing that Sheehi, whose Twitter feed is littered with claims like &#8220;Zionists are the most boldfaced assholes,&#8221; created a hostile classroom environment for Jews and Israelis in her mandatory diversity course. GWU president Mark Wrighton said the law firm hired to investigate Sheehi&#8217;s behavior, Crowell &#038; Moring LLP, found &#8220;no evidence substantiating the allegations of discriminatory and retaliatory conduct.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> The university&#8217;s decision to bury the full report is eliciting blowback. StandWithUs, the anti-Semitism watchdog that in January filed the civil rights complaint against GWU on behalf of several students, is slamming the university for withholding the report.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;If the university wants its description of the results of the investigation to be taken seriously, it should release a full copy of the report, rather than the summarized &#8216;findings&#8217; publicized by GW itself,&#8221; said Jennifer Kutner, a spokeswoman for StandWithUs.<\/p>\n<p> According to the university, there is &#8220;no evidence that [Sheehi&#8217;s] discourse&#8221;\u2014which included telling a Jewish student that it is &#8220;not your fault you were born in Israel,&#8221; suggesting Zionism is racist, and alleging that Israelis use humanitarian work to whitewash their crimes\u2014&#8221;crossed the line into anti-Semitic speech.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> A spokeswoman for the school, Julia Metjian, told the Washington Free Beacon that the public will have to take George Washington University&#8217;s word for it. &#8220;The confidential report has been carefully reviewed, and the summary of the findings the university released accurately represents what the university learned through the investigation conducted by Crowell &#038; Moring,&#8221; said the university. &#8220;In the interest of protecting the privacy of our students and faculty, the confidential report will not be released.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> The school said that allegations about Sheehi&#8217;s anti-Semitic statements were &#8220;largely inconsistent with the recording of the event or significantly decontextualized,&#8221; but it did not say what context, if any, was missing.<\/p>\n<p> The investigation was conducted by Crowell &#038; Moring attorneys Laurel Pyke Malson and Sadina Montani, who have a background of representing universities and other employers against discrimination complaints, according to their online biographies. Malson says in her biography that her recent key representations include &#8220;Title IX litigation defending universities against claims brought by both complainants and respondents,&#8221; while Montani&#8217;s biography says she &#8220;represents employers in state and federal courts and before various administrative agencies, defending claims of race, sex, disability, and age discrimination.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> StandWithUs is raising questions about some of the findings described by the university, including the assertion that none of the students interviewed by investigators remembered Sheehi being dismissive of anti-Semitism claims raised by Jewish students.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;This is patently untrue,&#8221; Kutner told the Free Beacon. She also rejected GWU&#8217;s claim that Sheehi&#8217;s anti-Israel Twitter posts were &#8220;only briefly visible to the public.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;In reality, [Sheehi&#8217;s] Twitter feed, including her blatantly anti-Semitic rhetoric, was visible to the public for many years,&#8221; Kutner said. &#8220;It was only after StandWithUs filed its Title VI complaint that the virulently hostile and profane tweets were removed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> On Oct. 24, 2020, Sheehi posted: &#8220;FUCK ZIONISM, ZIONISTS AND SETTLER COLONIALISM using Palestinian lives as examples of their boundless cruelty and power.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> In other posts, Sheehi advocated for throwing rocks at Israelis, celebrated attacks on Israelis during the Second Intifada, and denied that Hamas was a terrorist group.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;If you see this and STILL entertain for even a split second that Hamas is the terrorist entity, there is literally zero hope for you, your soul, or your general existence as an ethical human being in this world,&#8221; she wrote on May 22, 2021. &#8220;There is no gray area here, I&#8217;m not sorry to report.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> In August 2020, Sheehi described supporters of Israel as &#8220;the most boldfaced assholes&#8221; who &#8220;cry victim when you call them on their shit. Get fucked, you and your racist ass.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> In October, she claimed that &#8220;Zionism is a form of fascist white supremacy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> In GWU&#8217;s statement exonerating itself, the school said that it &#8220;understands how these tweets, viewed at face value, are offensive and hurtful to some&#8221; but that such comments are permitted under its social media rules.<\/p>\n<p> \t &#8220;Although the tweets from what appears to be Dr. Sheehi&#8217;s personal account do not violate GW&#8217;s social media policy, the university strongly denounces the use of profane language directed at any group of people, including in private tweets,&#8221; said the school.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Lara Sheehi tweeted: &#8216;FUCK ZIONISM, ZIONISTS, AND SETTLER COLONIALISM.&#8217; That&#8217;s OK by GWU.\u00a0\u00a0 George Washington University professor Lara Sheehi \/ Twitter George Washington University on Monday trumpeted the results of an investigation that allegedly cleared the university and Professor Lara Sheehi of anti-Semitism. 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