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Major university medical center accused of hiding DEI programs, influential Senator calls them out
FIRST ON FOX: Tennessee GOP Sen. Marsha Blackburn sent a letter Tuesday to Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) calling on the medical school to comply with President Donald Trump’s Executive Order on ending diversity, equity and inclusion programs at educational institutions.
The letter comes after VUMC reportedly took steps to hide many of its DEI resources as opposed to getting rid of them, following the president’s Executive Orders.
Consumers Research, a conservative nonprofit that was following medical schools’ responses to Trump’s orders on ending DEI discovered that VUMC was taking steps to hide some of theirs behind password-protected web pages. In response to criticism, a VUMC spokesperson told Fox News Digital at the time that it was undergoing «a thorough review» of its programs to figure out «where revisions may be required to remain in compliance, including updating information on websites and other public platforms.»
VANDERBILT MED CENTER ‘HIDING’ DEI RESOURCES BEHIND PASSWORD-PROTECTED WEB PAGES: REPORT
According to an updated review, VUMC’s Office of Diversity and Inclusion website remains behind a password-protected web page. Same with the DEI web page on VUMC’s Department of Medicine website, resources touting «climate care is health care,» and a web page for the school’s «Inaugural Climate Change Action & Sustainability Summit.» Other resources which had previously appeared to be hidden behind password protected web pages – rather than deleted – such as a YouTube video about «The War on DEI,» appear to have been deleted since criticism over the matter was unleashed against the school.
Conservative nonprofit Consumers’ Research has unveiled a new campaign against Vanderbilt University Medical Center, accusing it of hiding its DEI resources and climate activism behind password protected web pages online. (iStock)
«Offices such as the Office of Health Equity, the Office of Diversity and Inclusion, and the Office for Diversity Affairs are seemingly still active,» Blackburn said in her letter. «These offices have advocated for ‘collectively addressing systemic inequities’ and ‘confronting structural racism.’» Among the priorities of this program, was to hire «diverse biomedical researchers,» Black burn pointed out.
Blackburn also noted that VUMC was the recipient of more than $66 million this fiscal year from the National Institutes of Health – alone. Meanwhile, VUMC has invested over $17 million to support its «DEI and Belonging Program,» she said.
«This is only one of many examples of VUMC investing in DEI initiatives instead of lifesaving medical research,» Blackburn’s letter continued. «Additionally, VUMC’s track record on embracing harmful woke initiatives is grim,» Blackburn added. «VUMC has previously performed sex-change surgeries on minors before suspending the program after public outrage.»
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«This is only one of many examples of VUMC investing in DEI initiatives instead of lifesaving medical research,» Sen. Blackburn’s letter to Vanderbilt University Medical Center stated. (GETTY IMAGES/FOX NEWS)
VUMC was investigated by Tennessee’s Attorney General’s Office in 2023 amid allegations that a doctor at VUMC was manipulating medical billing codes to evade insurance coverage-limitations for transgender treatments. The investigation followed a video released in 2022, which allegedly showed a VUMC doctor touting transgender surgeries for minors as «huge money makers» and telling anyone with a religious objection to providing them should quit.
«President Trump has been clear on this issue. His recent executive orders correctly prohibited DEI programs at federally funded research institutions and ended the recognition of gender identity apart from biological sex,» Blackburn concluded in her letter.
«As a beneficiary of federal funding, VUMC has a responsibility to align with the President’s executive orders and return to a focus on lifesaving research as opposed to woke DEI initiatives. Instead of covering up VUMC’s DEI initiatives, I urge you to comply with President Trump’s effort to responsibility allocate taxpayer dollars and immediately cease all DEI initiatives.»
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The Senator told Fox News that «discriminatory» DEI programs, such as those at VUMC, actually serve to «do more harm than good.» She also urged VUMC to «put Tennesseans first» by fully complying with the president’s Executive Orders.
In a statement to Fox News Digital on Tuesday, VUMC said, «Vanderbilt University Medical Center is eliminating all DEI programs and is fully complying with Executive Actions on DEI. Shortly after the Executive Orders were issued, VUMC began removing related content on internal and external websites to reflect the termination of these programs. VUMC will continue to comply with federal mandates and directives.»
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El régimen de Irán lanzó una amenaza directa a los países europeos y a Estados Unidos en vísperas de una nueva reunión del Organismo Internacional de Energía Atómica (OIEA), prevista para este lunes en Viena. El portavoz de la Organización de Energía Atómica iraní, Behrouz Kamalvandi, advirtió el domingo que Teherán reducirá su cooperación con el organismo de control nuclear de la ONU si se aprueba una resolución que lo acuse de incumplimientos en su programa nuclear.
“Ciertamente, el OIEA no debe esperar que la República Islámica de Irán continúe su amplia y amistosa cooperación”, declaró Kamalvandi en la televisión estatal.
La amenaza iraní se produce tras la publicación, el 31 de mayo, de un informe del OIEA que reaviva las sospechas sobre la dimensión militar del programa nuclear iraní. Un análisis del think tank estadounidense Institute for Science and International Security sostiene que Irán realizó y ocultó varias pruebas de implosión en 2003, paso clave en el desarrollo de un arma nuclear.
Según el instituto, estas pruebas en Marivan utilizaron sistemas hemisféricos de implosión a escala real, con explosivos capaces de generar una onda de choque esférica hacia el interior, que comprime un núcleo explosivo simulado de uranio natural o empobrecido, en lugar del altamente enriquecido. Estas “pruebas frías” serían indicativas de un plan avanzado para construir una bomba.
Además, el informe relaciona actividades en cuatro instalaciones clave —Marivan, Lavisan-Shian, Varamin y Turquz-Abad— con la desaparición de material nuclear cuya localización sigue sin esclarecerse. Pese a estas revelaciones, Teherán insiste en que su programa tiene fines exclusivamente pacíficos, aunque ya ha logrado enriquecer uranio hasta el 60%, un nivel sin justificación civil y cerca del 90% requerido para armamento nuclear.
Estados Unidos, junto con el grupo E3 (Francia, Alemania y Reino Unido), ha anunciado la presentación de un borrador de resolución que acusa formalmente a Irán de violar sus obligaciones legales como Estado miembro del OIEA. Aunque la resolución no remitirá de inmediato el caso al Consejo de Seguridad de la ONU, como ocurrió en 2006, representa un cambio significativo en el tono y contenido de las acciones diplomáticas.
Una fuente diplomática citada por la agencia EFE calificó el documento como un “paso grave”, pero aseguró que “no se está cerrando la puerta a la diplomacia”. El proyecto otorga a Irán un margen para responder a las demandas pendientes del organismo, bajo la advertencia de una posible sesión extraordinaria del OIEA durante el verano si no hay avances.
Desde Irán, la respuesta no se hizo esperar. El ministro de Exteriores, Abbas Araqchi, emitió un mensaje en la red social X calificando la maniobra occidental como “otro grave error estratégico”. Comparó la actual ofensiva diplomática con la situación de 2005, cuando un movimiento similar del E3, según él, precipitó el inicio del enriquecimiento de uranio en Irán.
“La culpa recae exclusivamente en actores irresponsables que no se detienen ante nada para ganar relevancia”, escribió Araqchi. “¿De verdad no ha aprendido nada el E3 en las últimas dos décadas?”
El canciller también señaló que las acusaciones actuales se basan en un informe “débil y politizado”, y denunció que Europa está optando por “acciones malignas” en lugar de continuar con la cooperación.
Estas declaraciones se producen en medio de contactos diplomáticos renovados entre Irán y Estados Unidos, los primeros desde que Donald Trump se retirara del acuerdo nuclear en 2018. Aquel pacto, firmado en 2015 con las principales potencias mundiales, impuso límites estrictos al programa nuclear iraní a cambio del levantamiento de sanciones económicas. Tras su colapso, Irán comenzó a superar sistemáticamente las restricciones impuestas por el acuerdo.
Ahora, en pleno intento de negociación de un nuevo entendimiento, la aprobación de esta resolución podría entorpecer los esfuerzos diplomáticos y escalar la confrontación entre Teherán y Occidente.
(Con información de EFE y AFP)
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Flashback: Biden repeatedly equated Islamophobia and antisemitism amid surge in attacks on Jews
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As violent instances of antisemitism break out around the country this year, Fox News Digital took a look back at former President Joe Biden’s penchant for equating antisemitism and Islamophobia.
While the former president rightly condemned hate directed at Jews in the wake of the Oct. 7, 2023, massacre of Israelis and the subsequent war in Gaza, Biden was almost always sure to draw an equivalency with anti-Muslim sentiment.
«In recent years, too much hate has given too much oxygen, fueling racism, the rise of antisemitism, Islamophobia right here in America,» Biden said, days after the war broke out, in a prime-time address from the White House. He added: «We can’t stand by and stand silent when this happens. We must, without equivocation, denounce antisemitism. We must also, without equivocation, denounce Islamophobia.»
Biden added during a Human Rights Campaign event in October 2023: «We have to reject hate in everything, because history has taught us again and again, antisemitism, Islamophobia, homophobia, transphobia, they’re all connected. Hate toward one group left unanswered opens the door for more hate toward more groups, more often, regularly.»
Instances of antisemitism spiked to new highs last year, with the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) finding in a new report that there were 9,354 antisemitic incidents in 2024, a 5% increase from 2023 and a staggering 926% increase since it began tracking such data in 1979.
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Former President Joe Biden speaks at a news conference on the final days of office. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)
The war in Israel initially fanned the flames of antisemitism on campuses in the form of protests, menacing graffiti and students reporting that they felt as if it was «open season for Jews on our campuses.» The protests heightened to the point that Jewish students at some schools, including Columbia University, were warned to leave campus for their own safety.
Agitators and student protesters flooded college campuses nationwide last school year to protest the war, which also included spiking instances of antisemitism and Jewish students publicly speaking out that they did not feel safe on some campuses.
Protesters on Columbia University’s campus in New York City, for example, took over the school’s Hamilton Hall building, while schools such as UCLA, Harvard and Yale worked to clear spiraling student encampments where protesters demanded their elite schools completely divest from Israel.
ANTISEMITIC VIOLENCE ERUPTS IN AMERICA AS SOME INVOKE INTIFADA AND TARGET JEWS
Anti-Israel protesters link arms on the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, May 6, 2024, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. (AP Photo/Steve LeBlanc)
As the protests hit a fever pitch last year, Biden again equated antisemitism with Islamophobia, even though it was clear that Jews were the group being targeted with harassment and violence.
«There should be no place on any campus, no place in America for antisemitism or threats of violence against Jewish students. There is no place for hate speech or violence of any kind, whether it’s antisemitism, Islamophobia, or discrimination against Arab Americans or Palestinian Americans,» Biden said from the White House in May 2024 as the protests on college campuses continued.
«It’s simply wrong. There is no place for racism in America.»
Biden faced condemnation from conservatives and other critics for not simply denouncing antisemitism as Jews in the U.S. faced protests and instances of antisemitism.
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«At a time when no college campus is on lockdown over Islamophobia, Joe Biden felt the need to spend as much time in his speech denouncing Islamophobia and ‘discrimination against Arab Americans’ as he did antisemitism. He is never able to just call out antisemitism,» radio host Erick Erickson commented on X in May 2024 as campus protests against Israel raged.
Anti-Israel protesters rally outside of New York University’s campus in New York City on May 3, 2024. (Rashid Umar Abbasi for Fox News Digital)
«Biden repeats his both-sideisms,» veteran James Hutton wrote last year of Biden’s previous comments. «Only the Jewish students are being violated. Biden knows that, but he really wants those votes in Michigan.»
«Biden is incapable of simply condemning antisemitism. Yet another equivocation. This administration is an embarrassment,» Kerry Rom, deputy communications director for Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., wrote on X last year.
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Family and friends gather outside Congregation Beth Torah after a funeral for Sarah Milgrim, a staffer at the Israeli Embassy who was killed outside a Washington Jewish museum, May 27, 2025, in Overland Park, Kansas. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
This year, the Trump administration is cracking down on antisemitism and attacks on American Jews, which were underscored by a shooting that left a Jewish couple dead on the streets of Washington, D.C., last month outside of a Jewish museum, as well as a terror attack in Boulder, Colorado, last Sunday when an Egyptian national identified as Mohamed Sabry Soliman allegedly hurled Molotov cocktails at people participating in a solidarity event for Israeli hostages still in Hamas captivity.
Boulder firebomb attack and suspect Mohamed Sabry Soliman (Storyful/KDVR)
Soliman’s charging documents stated that he «traveled to Boulder, Colorado, in his vehicle with the Molotov cocktails and threw two of the cocktails at individuals participating in a pro-Israel gathering. He also stated that he picked up gas at a gas station on the way to Boulder. He stated that he wanted to kill all Zionist people and wished they were all dead.»
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Democratic Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro – the Keystone State’s third Jewish governor – faced his own instance of antisemitism when a suspect set fire to the governor’s residence while he and his family were asleep on the first night of Passover.
President Donald Trump’s administration has taken steps to crack down on antisemitism in the U.S. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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President Donald Trump meanwhile, signed an executive order on «Additional Measures to Combat Anti-Semitism» in January as his administration launched its crackdown on antisemitism. While federal law enforcement officials have arrested individuals allegedly tied to the widespread anti-Israel protests last year, the White House has threatened to end federal funding to universities that allow violent anti-Israel protests and is investigating immigration status of those accused of leading campus protests or carrying out antisemitic attacks.
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