(Jewish Group) Whatever happened to John Hopkins teaching assistant who wanted to punish 'Zionists'

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Whatever happened to that John Hopkins teaching assistant who wanted to punish ‘Zionist students?’

Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore has reportedly concluded its investigation into the actions of a teaching assistant who asked in a tweet last Nov. 15 if she could lower the grade of “Zionist students” because of their support for “ethnic cleansing.” But the university has not disclosed its findings nor replied to those asking what is being done to prevent future incidents.

“We are frustrated by the lack of public transparency by the university on the outcome of this investigation,” said Howard Libit, executive director of the Baltimore Jewish Council.

In a letter July 9 to Sunil Kumar, the university’s provost, and Shanon Shumpert, its vice provost, two national organizations asked the university to disclose the steps it has taken to comply with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act to “end the harassment, eliminate any hostile environment and its effects, and prevent the harassment from recurring.”

If the school’s investigation found that the threat of the teaching assistant, identified as Rasha Anayah, to fail her Zionist students was merely “an empty one,” they wrote, her actions “constituted harassment of those Jewish students for whom connection to Israel is a critical and deeply held component of their Jewish ancestral and ethnic identity. And by inviting others to agree with her, the TA actively sought to foster an environment hostile to these students at Johns Hopkins.”

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