The Brandeis Center, Jewish Americans for Fairness in Education (JAFE) and the National Jewish Advocacy Center (NJAC), filed a Title VI complaint with the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) against the Fulton County School District (FCSD) over routine anti-Semitic bullying and harassment against Jewish and Israeli students since October 7, in the hallways, classrooms, buses and schoolyards of elementary, middle and high schools located across the District.

The complaint documents numerous incidents showing how FCSD has fostered a hostile climate that has allowed anti-Semitism to thrive in its schools. FCSD has ignored pleas from Jewish and Israeli parents whose children have faced increasing physical and verbal harassment that has led many of them to feel unsafe and unwelcome at school.