DOJ springs antisemitism review on blue state college after 'Lebanese resistance' fundraiser

The U.S. Department of Justice's (DOJ) Civil Rights Division is opening an antisemitism probe into the University of Washington aft a pupil radical astatine the schoolhouse hosted a fundraiser for the "Lebanese resistance" group, Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon said Monday.

"Tomorrow, a pupil radical — SUPER UW — is holding a fundraising lawsuit for the "Lebanese resistance." This radical has a past of convulsive antisemitic enactment connected University of Washington’s campus," Dhillon wrote connected X Monday.

"On Friday, I authorized a Civil Rights probe of UW’s handling of antisemitism!" she concluded.

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Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon arrives for a quality league astatine the Justice Department successful Washington, D.C., connected Sept. 29, 2025. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

School officials rapidly distanced themselves from the radical that organized the event, noting that SUPER UW was nary longer affiliated with the University and that the lawsuit was being held disconnected campus, according to a study from Seattle Red.

The schoolhouse chopped ties successful May erstwhile SUPER UW, an acronym for Students United for Palestinian Equality and Return, took implicit a field gathering resulting successful spot harm and arrests, Seattle Red reported.

School President Ana Mari Cauce condemned the protesters astatine the time, calling their actions an "illegal gathering occupation."

The schoolhouse lawsuit went arsenic acold arsenic trying to get Facebook to halt the radical from utilizing the UW name, a petition Facebook has not complied with truthful far, according to the Washington State Standard.

Anti-Israel protesters show astatine the University of Washington successful March 2025. (Jason Redmond/AFP)

The University of Washington has already faced a Trump medication antisemitism reappraisal aft anti-Israel protests past May, the aforesaid protests that led to SUPER-UW's field expulsion.

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The schoolhouse is present reportedly cooperating afloat with the DOJ's probe aft being informed they were nether a "compliance review," according to Seattle Red.

The University of Washington field logo is displayed connected a gathering exterior amid accrued scrutiny and contention involving the university. (Karen Ducey/Getty Images)

Fox News Digital contacted the DOJ, University of Washington and Meta, which operates Facebook, for remark but did not instantly person a response.