The Chicago chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations filed a lawsuit against Northwestern University in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois on Oct. 15, alleging that the private school’s mandatory antisemitism bias training program violates federal civil rights law.

Some 300 students at the Evanston, Ill., school, who declined to watch the bias training video, were reportedly unable to register for classes. CAIR and others filed the suit on behalf of Graduate Workers for Palestine, a student group at the school.

The suit alleges that the 17-minute video, which Jewish United Fund created, “repeatedly conflates Zionism and Judaism in order to render Zionism impervious to critique” and is “discriminatory,” preventing students from “advocating for Palest

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