House campus antisemitism hearing sweeps up Northwestern and Rutgers: ‘Gravely concerning’

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Presidents from Northwestern University and Rutgers University will testify before the House Education and the Workforce Committee in May.

Originally, the presidents from Yale, the University of Michigan, and UCLA werebefore the committee on May 23 for a hearing titled “Calling for Accountability: Stopping Antisemitic College Chaos.” However, “shocking concessions” from Michael Schill, president of Northwestern, and Jonathan Holloway, president of Rutgers, pushed Chairwoman Virginia Foxx to change the witnesses appearing on Capitol Hill.

Then-University of Oregon President Michael Schill talks during an interview in Portland, Oregon, Nov. 11, 2015. from Jewish organizations after Northwestern became the first U.S. school to publicly announce a deal with pro-Palestinian encampment organizers on April 29, according to the. Several organizations, such as the Anti-Defamation League Midwest, StandWithUs, and the Louis D.

Calls for Holloway’s resignation also arrived after he and Rutgers Chancellor Francine Conway came to an agreement with protesters last week following a four-day standoff at Rutgers’s New Brunswick campus.

Instead, Salovey and Ono will appear before the committee to give transcribed interviews at a later date, “or risk deposition and subpoena.”

 

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