(Aug. 18, 2026 / JNS)
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) said on Tuesday that he launched an investigation into whistleblower allegations that Trump administration officials manipulated federal Jew-hatred probes of several universities and withheld federal funding to pressure the schools into costly settlements.
“Antisemitism at American universities and medical schools is real. It needs to be addressed seriously,” the Jewish congressman wrote to Harmeet Dhillon, assistant U.S. attorney general for civil rights.
“But your ‘investigation’ into antisemitism was fake, a pre-baked frame-up operation thoroughly political in nature,” Raskin wrote. “The whole project was designed to harass professors and administrators at major universities, to curtail their freedom of speech and academic freedom and to strip targeted institutions of hundreds of millions of dollars in grants that they had already been awarded on the merits of their applications.”
Lori Lowenthal Marcus, legal director for the Deborah Project, told JNS that Raskin’s characterization of the probes is a “hoax.”
“It would be accurate to say it’s a hoax for members of Congress to say that it’s a hoax for the Justice Department to make up claims about antisemitism on college campuses,” she said. “That’s the hoax.”
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