A House education panel is probing three blue state medical schools for allegedly failing to address repeated acts of antisemitism that has left Jewish students full of “fear,” The Post has learned.
The University of California’s programs in Los Angeles and San Francisco, and the University of Illinois College of Medicine have all come under fire for allowing an environment where Jewish students, faculty and patients routinely face hostility, House Education & Workforce Committee Chairman Tim Walberg (R-Mich) wrote in a letter to the deans of the three schools.
“It has not been demonstrated that the university has meaningfully responded to address and mitigate this problem,” Walberg wrote.
At UCLA, a mandatory medical school seminar, “Structural Racism and Health Equity,” allegedly featured antisemitic tropes — including describing Jews as “oppressors” and images of “capitalists” with long looked noses.
When students petitioned the school’s Medical Students Council in the fall of 2022 to establish a club called “Medical Students Against Antisemitism,” administrators allegedly called the effort unnecessary.
The lack of action only seemed to exacerbate the fear amongst Jewish students on campus.
One student told the dean she was no longer comfortable wearing her Star of David necklace out in public. And several Jewish students refused to be photographed while at a menorah lighting ceremony in December 2023 over fear of being doxed.
Dr. Kira Stein, founder and chair of the Jewish Faculty Resilience Group at UCLA, applauded the House investigation — saying for too long Jewish faculty, staff and students have endured “discrimination” and “intimidation.”
“These are not isolated incidents—they represent a disturbing pattern that has shaken our community to its core,” she said.
“Antisemitism at UCLA is common, corrosive, and continues to be met with silence and inaction from the university administration and local leaders.”
At UCSF, its cancer center was defaced in March of last year with antisemitic language that invoked the Holocaust — with the words “Free Palestine from Nazi Israeli Schweine!” sprawled across it.
Patients also allegedly heard calls for “intifada” from doctors and staff at an pro-Palestinian encampment set up in front of the medical center that May.
A month later, a UCSF worker allegedly wore a jacket with inverted red triangles, a symbol used to glorify Hamas, during a UCSF Staff Resource Fair. The same employee also reposted a tweet that said, “Would you have trusted Nazi doctors to provide healthcare to Jews in the 1930s and 40s? No. Then why would you trust Zionist doctors to provide healthcare to non-white, non-Jewish patients in the 2020s? Zionism = Nazism[.]”
The investigation comes while the Trump administration has yanked or threatened to pull federal funding from colleges and universities for failing to root out antisemitism, including at Columbia and Harvard.
At the University of Illinois College of Medicine, a student who sought to organize a formal discussion on antisemitism in medical school admissions was allegedly told by university deans that “now is not the time.”
Meanwhile, posters highlighting the Hamas-held hostages to raise awareness about the Oct. 7, 2023 attack on Israel and its aftermath have allegedly been repeatedly taken down.
Tim Lacy, UICOM’s director of student learning environment, was also identified as part of the problem, the probe found.
“The administrator tasked with addressing and mitigating the hostility and fear felt by Jewish students—is viewed by some Jewish students as contributing to the hostile environment felt by them,”
Walberg said.
“As a result, he is not suited to help UICOM effectively respond to this problem, which is a key component of his job.”
Higher education institutions that receive federal funding, Walberg pointed out, must comply with Title VI of the civil rights law to prevent and eliminate discrimination and hostile conditions.
The Michigan lawmaker has requested all documents and communications related to reports or complaints of hostile or antisemitic acts.
The medical schools did not reply to The Post’s requests for comment.
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