The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights has opened an investigation into a complaint submitted by The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law on behalf of Rose Ritch, the University of Southern California (USC) Undergraduate Student Government (USG) vice president, who was the victim of a vicious campaign of anti-Semitic harassment by USC students; they publicly castigated Ritch as a Zionist and sought to exclude her from the USG on the basis of her Jewish ethnic identity.  The complaint alleges that USC allowed a hostile environment of anti-Semitism to proliferate on its campus and failed to take prompt and effective steps to end the harassment or eliminate the hostile environment in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. As a result of the University’s refusal to protect Ms. Ritch from the discriminatory harassment, Ms. Ritch was ultimately forced to resign from the USG in August 2020.