George Mason University–located in the Northern Virginia suburbs of Washington, D.C.–has been added to a list of dozens of institutions of higher education under federal investigation for antisemitism on campus since the Hamas massacre in Israel occurred in early October.
The U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights announced on Dec. 22 that it had added the Fairfax County, Va.-based university to its list of institutions under Title VI for “shared ancestry investigations.”
The National Desk, a news outlet of Sinclair Inc., first reported the probe late last week.
Neither the Education Department nor GMU immediately responded to requests for comment from The Daily Signal on Tuesday.
After the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel, the university investigated an incident in which a student was seen tearing down posters on campus of Israeli…
