Lawmakers: Rutgers Ignored Pleas of Jews on Campus

Rutgers University administrators failed to address concerns of on-campus antisemitism months before anti-Israel protests began at the school, according to two New Jersey lawmakers.

U.S. Reps. Donald Norcross, D-N.J., and Josh Gottheimer, D-N.J., sent a letter to Rutgers President Jonathan Holloway saying the university had “largely ignored” a December request from a group of Jewish faculty members who asked Rutgers administrators for several protections and other requests on campus.

Meanwhile, Pro-Palestinian student protesters got concessions from Rutgers last week after a three-day encampment, with university administrators agreeing to meet many of their demands, NJ.com reported.

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