The Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights has received more than 60 complaints about incidents of antisemitism and Islamophobia at colleges and K-12 schools nationwide in the aftermath of Hamas’s Oct. 7 terrorist attacks on Israel. The Office of Civil Rights is now investigating whether these incidents violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which protects people from discrimination based on race, color, and national origin while taking part in programs that receive federal funds.

While working through its new caseload, the Office of Civil Rights reached a settlement from a June 2023 complaint about repeated antisemitic harassment of a Jewish student at Red Clay Consolidated School District in Wilmington, Delaware.