University leaders from Yale, UCLA, and the University of Michigan have been called to testify on Capitol Hill over antisemitism on their campuses.
Foxx said during a Tuesday press conference with several House committee chairs that she has sent notices to appear to Presidents Peter Salovey ofand Chancellor Gene Block of the University of California, Los Angeles for an Education committee hearing on May 23 “on their handling of the most recent outrages.”
Former presidents from Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania and the current presidents of MIT and Columbia University have testified previously before the committee on the levels of antisemitism on their campuses.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan said Republicans on the committee sent letters to Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas asking “three fundamental questions”: how many students on visas are engaging in pro-Palestinian demonstrations; if that number is known, has the State Department been asked to revoke the visas; and if that has been done, has the Homeland Security Department begun removal proceedings.
Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith said the committee has written letters to universities asking them to disclose donations or funding they have received from foreign governments, as well as demanding whether any disciplinary action has been taken against those making death threats “while the university was telling folks they shouldn’t be worried.”
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