Jewish student suing Carnegie Mellon claiming discrimination

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A Jewish student is suing Carnegie Mellon University for discrimination and antisemitism.

The student says she was subjected to anti-Jewish discrimination at CMU's School of Architecture and her complaints were met with retaliation.

For example, Yael Canaan alleges a professor said her studio project should focus on “what Jews do to make themselves such a hated group.”

After the 23-year-old complained to administrators, she says other professors subjected her to a “systemic campaign of hostility.”

Bloomberg reports the lawsuit was filed Wednesday in federal court in Pittsburgh.

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