Feds to probe students' complaints of antisemitism at Brooklyn College

(New York Jewish Week via JTA) — A federal investigation has been launched into complaints by Jewish students at Brooklyn College that they have been subjected to “severe and persistent harassment” in the Mental Health Counseling master’s program.

The Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights last week informed the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law, which prepared the complaint, that it had opened the probe.

The complaint alleges that Jewish students in the MHC program have been “bullied and harassed in class discussions and on social media by student peers, who targe...