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Whistleblower Exposes Trump Task Force's Antisemitism Probe | US News
A former Justice Department lawyer blew the whistle on a Trump-era task force that allegedly targeted Ivy League schools for antisemitism—not to enforce justice, but to extract political settlements and cash. Investigations at Brown, Harvard, and Columbia were rushed, ignored legal standards, and used funding freezes as leverage, with Brown settling despite no Title VI violation and Columbia paying $200 million based on flimsy evidence. The whistleblower, Haley Van Erem, quit over the politically driven, fact-free approach that also allegedly targeted Muslim professors. A federal judge even…
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