Founding father Thomas Jefferson once told a delegate to the Continental Congress that he would “not hesitate a moment” to choose “newspapers without a government” if he couldn’t have both.
The public university founded by Jefferson feels differently, a federal Title VI civil rights complaint filed on behalf of a Jewish student suggests.
Matan Goldstein alleges the University of Virginia launched an honor code investigation against him for telling a reporter he was assaulted Oct. 25, 2023, while “peacefully attending” an anti-Israel protest as a counter-protester “and wearing a yarmulke and an Israeli flag,” the Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism told the Education Department this week.
