Columbia Standard

The House Committee on Education and the Workforce has announced its collaboration with the Senate Judiciary Committee Republicans in investigating Rutgers University and its Center for Security, Race and Rights (CSRR) due to concerns regarding its connections to anti-Semitic and pro-terrorism activities.

During a hearing, Rutgers student Joe J. Gindi expressed his concerns, stating, “Jew-hatred has become rampant at Rutgers University. And it has become clear that some members of the school’s administration and faculty are complicit in allowing—and even in encouraging—this hate to grow” and “at Rutgers University—like at many other campuses—there appears to be selective enforcement of [University] rules. They just don’t seem to apply when it comes to protecting Jewish students.”

The House Committee highlighted that “Rutgers-Newark’s Center for Security, Race and Rights (CSRR) has become notorious as a hotbed of radical antisemitic, anti-American, anti-Israel, and pro-terrorist activity. CSRR’s Director Sahar Aziz and numerous CSRR fellows and faculty affiliates have records of virulent antisemitism and support for terrorism.”

The investigation has also shed light on President Biden’s nominee for the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, Adeel Mangi, who served on the Advisory Board of the Rutgers CSRR. Senate Judiciary Committee records revealed that Mangi provided and facilitated over five percent of the donations received by the CSRR, amounting to a total of $19,500 since its inception in 2018.

Mr. Mangi’s nomination is facing opposition from Democratic Senators Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nevada), Jacky Rosen (D-Nevada), and Joe Manchin (D-West Virginia), seventeen law enforcement groups, several Jewish organizations, every Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, and ten Republican Members of Congress representing constituents in the Third Circuit.