House Speaker Mike Johnson speaks alongside other members of House Republican leadership and committee chairs during a press conference on antisemitism at the U.S. Capitol, on April 30, 2024. | Francis Chung/POLITICO
Johnson is billing the efforts as a House-wide crackdown on antisemitism, especially as pro-Palestinian protests and antisemitic incidents have been roiling college campuses since Hamas’ October attack on Israel. Foxx, who was also at the press conference with other GOP leaders and a handful of committee chairs, announced an antisemitism hearing scheduled for next month. She is planning to haul the college presidents of Yale University, the University of Michigan and the University of California, Los Angeles to Capitol Hill on May 23 to testify on their efforts to address protests and antisemitism on campus.
The committee leaders said they want to scrutinize student visas of foreign students engaged in protests, research grants that universities receive, university tax-exempt status, foreign funding and gifts, and funding behind the protests on campus.