On a call Thursday evening, September 14, with hundreds of rabbis, White House Domestic Policy Advisor Neera Tanden commented on the Brandeis Center’s milestone Resolution Agreement with the University of Vermont, the first time the Biden administration applied Title VI of the Civil Rights Act to anti-Zionist discrimination. Tanden is the administration official responsible for overseeing the implementation of the newly-released U.S. National Strategy to Counter antisemitism, and she delivered public remarks on the plan for the first time: “Obviously, there’s been a rising concern on campus on anti-Semitism, and the strategy really propels action on the part of the part of the [Department of Education] and the Office of Civil Rights to really be aggressive in addressing antisemitism as we look at and investigate other issues of discrimination,” said Tanden, who pointed to the settlement the Department of Education reached with the University of Vermont — based on a Brandeis Center legal complaint — in April that said the university had not adequately responded to anti-Semitism on its campus.