December 13, 2007

U. of California at Irvine Is Cleared in Civil-Rights Office's Investigation of Anti-Semitism Allegations

By Peter Schmidt

The U.S. Education Department's Office for Civil Rights has cleared the University of California at Irvine of allegations that it violated federal laws against discrimination based on national origin by failing to do enough to respond to anti-Semitism on its campus.

The civil-rights office had conducted an extensive investigation of the university's handling of alleged incidents of anti-Semitism in response to a complaint filed in October 2004 by the Zionist Organization of