Jewish students at Rutgers University are accusing the Biden administration of striking what they see as a sweetheart deal with the university, freeing it from responsibility for allowing a culture of anti-Semitism to persist.

Requirements in the settlement agreement announced Jan. 2 by the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights Rutgers University will take a series of actions Between July 2023 and June 2024, 400 reports of hate incidents on campus were received, nearly three-quarters of which alleged discrimination and harassment against Jews or Israelis.

In one such incident, a student published an inflammatory post on social media encouraging violence against an Israeli who attended the university and providing information on how to find them. In another report, a Jewish student’s dormitory was found vandalized, with a swastika painted on the outside and the doorposts defaced. Members of the Jewish Brotherhood claim they were threatened for believing another report.

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As part of the settlement, Rutgers agreed to issue a statement to students and employees saying discrimination will not be tolerated on campus and to review past reports of discrimination to determine whether further action is needed to comply with Title IX.

However, many Rutgers students believe the agreement does not go far enough to protect them from the relentless onslaught of anti-Semitism on campus since October 7.

Camilla Vaynberg, vice chancellor for Rutgers Students for Israel, told Fox News Digital that the measures Rutgers agreed to are unlikely to stem the tide of anti-Semitism on campus and may even end with the current Principal Jonathan Holloway will not be executed later. Come down.

“I personally think the university is out of the woods, and that’s what we promised,” Weinberg said.

“Does the agreement between (Holloway) and his teachers and the Department of Education remain the same regardless of who takes his place?”

“A lot of what Rutgers agreed to involved ‘statements’ and ‘comments,’ but they’ve been stating and commenting on things left and right since October 7th, and yet the rate of anti-Semitic incidents at Rutgers remains It’s on the rise,” Ben Stern, 20, a sophomore political science major at the school, told Fox Digital News.

“The Department of Energy handled more than 400 reports of discrimination in one year and walked away with another non-binding agreement that offered virtually no protections to anyone. It’s official; this administration is thoroughly It’s a failure of the American Jewish community,” said Mark Goldfeder, director of the National Center for Jewish Advocacy.

“I think this solution is nowhere near the solution that is needed to address the problem of anti-Semitism at Rutgers,” Stern lamented.

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On May 21, 2024, students from Rutgers University set up a Gaza solidarity camp at Rutgers University in Newark, a New Jersey university on the Newark campus in the United States. (Photo by Lokman Vural Elibol/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Some critics claim the settlement is an attempt by the Biden administration to prevent the incoming Trump administration from taking more punitive measures against the university.

“It’s shameful to let universities, including Rutgers, off the hook in the final days of the Biden-Harris administration.” Rep. Tim Walberg (R-Mich.), chairman of the House Education Workforce Committee People) said in a statement on Thursday.

Trump vowed at a September conference on combating anti-Semitism in Washington, D.C., that his administration would revoke accreditation and federal support from universities if they did not stop teaching “anti-Semitic propaganda.”

“The Biden administration has proven once again that it doesn’t care about anti-Semitism in the United States. It’s no coincidence that (they) issued these long-awaited decisions two weeks before leaving office,” said former Rutgers Hillel director Andrew Getraer.

“It’s a weak deal,” Rutgers junior Joe Kindy told Fox News Digital.

“I am extremely disappointed that the Biden administration has reached this agreement with Rutgers. This agreement is far from an end to the hatred at our state universities,” Kindy said.

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Rutgers University students occupied tents and held a rally outside Murray Hall as part of a protest in support of Palestinians affected by the war in Gaza. (Alexander Lewis/MyCentralJersey/USA TODAY NETWORK)

Jewish students have been sounding the alarm about persistent anti-Semitism at universities since Hamas launched a genocidal attack on Oct. 7 in which the terror group killed more than 1,200 people and kidnapped hundreds more.

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“The message to Schaeffer and other Jewish students was clear: ‘Don’t support Israel, we know where you sleep,'” their complaint reads.

New Jersey attorney Rajeh A. Saadeh, a fellow at the Center for Security, Race and Rights at Rutgers University, often shares sickening videos on his Instagram of Hamas terrorists killing IDF soldiers, declaring in the caption It’s “hunting season,” According to the New York Post.

Rutgers, the Biden White House and the Department of Education did not immediately respond to requests for comment.