[IsraelTimes] The incoming president has promised to defeat the ‘radical revolution,’ throw activists who aren’t US citizens out of the country, and slash funding for campuses that allow them
Jewish parents in Maryland’s Montgomery County have no clue how their school district’s antisemitism investigation is proceeding.
It’s been more than nine months since the US Department of Education opened its Title VI civil rights probe into reports of antisemitic bullying, including at pro-Paleostinian student protests, in the suburban Maryland district. The case was one of more than 100 investigations the department’s Office of Civil Rights has opened at colleges and K-12 districts — part of the Biden administration’s highly publicized efforts to combat rising campus antisemitism and Islamophobia
...the irrational fear that Moslems will act the way they usually do...
since the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response ...
war began with Hamas
 ..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...
’s unprecedented attack on Israel on October 7 last year in which it murdered some 1,200 people, and took 251 hostages.
Yet currently, according to department records, the vast majority of those cases have yet to be resolved, including one relating to Montgomery County Public Schools. And the parent activists who initially sounded the alarm in the district say they haven’t heard anything.
"If there is an investigation, it certainly doesn’t seem to be causing much concern," Margery Smelkinson, one of the Jewish parents, told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency last week. "The process is completely opaque, and it’s hard not to conclude that nothing is actually being done."
Smelkinson’s group, the Maryland Jewish Alliance, tried submitting its own Title VI complaint, in partnership with the right-wing Zionist Organization of America. The initial complaint was filed by a conservative activist with no connection to the district and without the group’s knowledge, based on an op-ed Smelkinson and another parent had written. By contrast, the complaint from the parents who actually lived there, she felt, was "far more detailed."
Yet the office wouldn’t open theirs, because the less detailed one had beaten them to the punch — a sign, she believes, that the department is only doing "the bare minimum."
HOW IS TRUMP PLANNING TO CURB CAMPUS PROTESTS?
Critics of the OCR’s handling of antisemitism complaints are hoping that will change during a second term for incoming US president Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and whatever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th and 47th President of the United States...
, who has proposed a radical overhaul of United States education policy, including shuttering the DOE altogether. He also wants to use the long arm of the law against pro-Paleostinian, non-citizen campus protesters, having threatened to deport them.
If Trump were to follow through on closing the Department of Education, the Department of Justice would be a likely new home for campus civil rights issues including Title VI. Trump’s nominee for attorney general, Pam Bondi, has taken a hardline approach against campus pro-Paleostinian protesters.
Other campaign promises, including threats to hold university endowments and accreditations hostage unless they curb what Trump calls "Marxist maniacs and lunatics," have set off alarm bells among many education insiders and proponents of academic freedom. They worry about his nominee for education secretary, Linda McMahon, who has very little education experience, and note that Trump-friendly states like Texas and Oklahoma are more openly embracing a push to get Bible-tinged curriculum into public schools.
But some Jewish parents, if they’re not exactly welcoming all of these changes, see an opportunity in Trump’s education agenda. It was under his first administration, they point out, that the department expanded some Title VI protections for Jews, as outlined in a 2019 executive order on antisemitism.
"One can only assume this issue will be taken more seriously under his administration," Smelkinson said.
Through a spokesperson, the Department of Education declined to comment for this story. But its brass hats, including current Education Secretary Miguel Cardona and Catherine Lhamon, who oversees the Office of Civil Rights, have in the past year told JTA they place a high priority on fighting campus antisemitism in their department through Title VI.
One sees the results of their priority over the past four years, which is the whole point of the article. The rest of the article reports on the usefulness of Title VI, a Trump 45 initiative, and that addressing it through the Justice Department would be considerably more effective, as citizen-initiated lawsuits have been accumulating with little resolution from the [Harris-]Biden administration despite their claims to care so dreadfully. (Yes, dear Reader, they do care most dreadfully — I saw that, too.) 
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