Thursday, May 16, 2024
Rutgers University Student Files Suit Against Rutgers Charging ‘Hostile Environment’
A Jewish Rutgers University rising sophomore who has been subject to "a hostile school environment and discrimination" on campus has filed suit against the university.
Rivka Schafer, an Orthodox student from Bergen County, has been targeted with antisemitic posters left on the student's dorm door and throughout Demarest Hall on the university's New Brunswick campus. Schafer has also been taunted by pro-Palestinian students.
The suit was filed May 9 on behalf of the ecology major in the university's School of Environmental and Biological Sciences by the Roseland law firm of Mazie Slater Katz & Freeman.
"Rutgers has been a hotspot for antisemitism for a while," said Schafer's attorney Cory Rothbert."The lawsuit cites a number of incidents."
He said that Jewish students have been targeted on college campuses across the country. However, he noted that at Rutgers it is "open season" on Jewish students.
Among the incidents cited in the lawsuit is a dorm meeting the rising sophomore attended the week after the October 7 terrorist attack on Israel by Hamas where a student expressed appreciation for the high Israeli death toll and other students snapped their fingers, leaving Schafer shaken.
In another incident, Schafer was present at Rutgers President Dr. Jonathan Holloway's town hall meeting in early April, when it was disrupted by pro-Palestinian protestors chanting for the genocide of Jews. Holloway had to be escorted from the gathering by Rutgers Police.
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