Harvard University’s president and other school leaders were put on blast by Congress members at a Tuesday hearing after antisemitism has spiked on college campuses in the wake of the Hamas terrorist attacks in Israel.
Harvard University’s president and other school leaders were put on blast by Congress members at a Tuesday hearing after antisemitism has spiked on college campuses in the wake of the Hamas terrorist attacks in Israel.
The leaders of Harvard, MIT and the University of Pennsylvania testified in front of Congress following repeated reports of Jewish and Israeli students being threatened and assaulted on campuses since the Oct. 7 terror attacks.
Harvard has been at the epicenter of these campus clashes, with dozens of student groups blaming Israel for the Hamas terrorist attacks and then continued pro-Palestinian protests with students chanting antisemitic phrases. Classes were recently disrupted by such protests, and the Cambridge campus is now facing a federal civil rights investigation for antisemitism.
“I have sought to confront hate while preserving free expression,” Harvard President Claudine Gay testified on Tuesday. “This is difficult work, and I know that I have not always gotten it right.”
During the House Committee on Education and the Workforce hearing, protest videos from Harvard were shown of students chanting, “Globalize the intifida” and “Long live the intifida.
