Harvard, Northwestern failed Jewish students during college campus protests: House report

A caller GOP-led antisemitism study revealed Harvard University refused to telephone Hamas’ Oct. 7 onslaught connected Israel "violent," and Northwestern University considered taking Sabra hummus disconnected campus. 

The 365-page study summarized a yearlong probe by the House Education and Workforce Committee, collected from much than 400,000 documents from 11 schools crossed the state into however they responded to a question of pro-Palestinian protests successful the aftermath of Hamas’ Oct. 7 attacks. 

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According to the report, portion drafting a nationalist connection to marque aft Oct. 7, Harvard University elder administrators edited retired the connection "violent" to picture the onslaught aft a dean complained it "sounded similar assigning blame." 

They mulled whether to disavow a declaration enactment retired by immoderate pupil groups that Israel was liable for the violence, but yet decided not to. 

Northwestern University President Michael Schill, who testified earlier the committee past spring, expressed an openness to removing Sabra hummus from field to appease protesters. 

The study said Schill appointed anti-Israel module to negociate with the students who camped extracurricular successful protestation of Israel’s violative successful Gaza. One suggested removing the fashionable hummus brand. 

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Hundreds of graduates walked retired of the 2024 Commencement successful Harvard Yard to telephone attraction to the plight of Palestinians. (Craig F. Walker/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

"It’s a precise sore spot for Palestinians due to the fact that it’s an Israeli hummus marque that’s penetrated astir assemblage campuses," helium said successful a substance message.

The provost responded, "I’m each for making a deal. Bargaining successful action!"

Another proposition taken nether consideration, according to the report, was hiring an anti-Zionist rabbi. 

However, Northwestern denied ever "seriously" considering boycotting immoderate Israeli company. 

Schill besides excluded Jewish members of his President’s Advisory Committee connected Preventing Antisemitism and Hate, according to the report. 

The study besides accused aggregate schools of withholding enactment from Jewish students and recovered it to beryllium intentional alternatively than negligent. 

"The Committee’s probe recovered that successful aggregate cases, these failures came not from specified ignorance oregon deficiency of forethought, but alternatively from intentional decisions by assemblage leaders not to supply their campuses’ Jewish communities the indispensable enactment needed to guarantee they felt harmless to unrecorded connected field oregon be classes," the study read.  

Claudine Gay resigned arsenic president of Harvard University connected Tuesday, Jan. 2, successful the aftermath of controversies that sullied the estimation of America's oldest and 1 of its astir prestigious universities.

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The study besides discovered Harvard President Claudine Gay, who resigned aft testifying connected antisemitism earlier the committee and accusations of plagiarism, asked the assemblage not to statement the operation "from the stream to the sea" antisemitic, disquieted they would past person to subject students who utilized it. 

At Columbia, the study revealed however administrators trying to bring an extremity to the pro-Gaza encampment considered making bigger concessions than they had antecedently fto on, including proposals to divest from companies "complicit successful violating planetary law" oregon that "manufacture definite categories of weapons" and partnering with a Palestinian assemblage "where Hamas is progressive connected campus." 

The study besides highlighted incidents erstwhile universities refused to punish students, including Columbia, which allowed immoderate students to spell without punishment aft they took implicit Hamilton Hall.

In a Dec. 10 committee meeting, 5 days aft Gay took the blistery spot earlier the committee, she sharply criticized Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., the House Republican league seat whose crisp enactment of questioning led successful portion to Gay's resignation. 

Columbia students signifier dueling memorials and rallies connected the one-year day of the Oct. 7 Hamas attack.

Gay told the committee it was hard to person the university's "moral core" called into question, "esp[ecially] by idiosyncratic who is simply a purveyor of hate" and "supporter of Proudboys."

The GOP-led study concluded the universities apt violated Title VI and demanded universities enforce much accountability. 

"Our probe has shown that these ‘leaders’ carnivore the work for the chaos apt violating Title VI and threatening nationalist safety. It is clip for the enforcement subdivision to enforce the laws and guarantee colleges and universities reconstruct bid and warrant that each students person a harmless learning environment," said Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-N.C. 

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Northwestern, successful a statement, objected to "unfair characterizations of our Provost and valued members of our module based connected isolated and out-of-context communications" successful the report.

"The Republican Staff Report remains focused connected events that were afloat debated successful the committee proceeding past spring, and it ignores the hard enactment our assemblage has enactment successful since past to amended our policies and procedures."