Prosecutors quit US Justice Department en masse over ‘sham’ UC antisemitism probe |
JTA — Nine federal prosecutors, including at least one Jew, recently resigned from the Justice Department over what they described as the Trump administration’s “fraudulent” handling of its ongoing antisemitism investigation targeting the University of California system.
Speaking to the Los Angeles Times last week, the attorneys described an “unserious” and “sham” investigation fueled primarily by Trump’s desire for retribution against higher education and increasingly untethered to legal standing.
“I am highly skeptical of whether this administration actually cares about Jewish people or antisemitism,” said Dena Robinson, a Jewish and Black former senior trial attorney who had volunteered to interview students on three UC campuses for the investigation. Several of the attorneys assigned to UC wound up accepting a deferred-resignation offer in May and left the investigation.
A separate investigation, released last week by ProPublica and the Chronicle for Higher Education, also found that the Trump Justice Department was pressuring investigators to “find” evidence that UCLA had tolerated antisemitism, beyond established legal and procedural norms for such cases.
This rare glimpse behind the curtain of federal antisemitism cases comes as Jewish........