{"id":2238672,"date":"2024-05-06T19:03:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-06T23:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-campus-antisemitism-hearing-sweeps-up-northwestern-and-rutgers-gravely-concerning\/"},"modified":"2024-05-06T19:05:32","modified_gmt":"2024-05-06T23:05:32","slug":"house-campus-antisemitism-hearing-sweeps-up-northwestern-and-rutgers-gravely-concerning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-campus-antisemitism-hearing-sweeps-up-northwestern-and-rutgers-gravely-concerning\/","title":{"rendered":"Northwestern and Rutgers Gripped by Alarming Campus Antisemitism Hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhouse-campus-antisemitism-hearing-sweeps-up-northwestern-and-rutgers-gravely-concerning%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2238672&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The House Committee adjusts its antisemitism hearing to involve Northwestern and Rutgers \u2064presidents \u2063due to controversial dealings with pro-Palestinian groups\u2063 on campuses. Initially, Yale, U.\u2063 of Michigan, and UCLA presidents were set to\u200d testify but were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-russias-only-aircraft-carrier-seems-doomed\/\" title=\"Why Russia\u2019s Only Aircraft Carrier Seems Doomed\">replaced due<\/a> to \u201cshocking concessions\u201d by\u200c Northwestern and Rutgers presidents. Foxx, the \u200bChairwoman, expresses concern over the actions necessitating a reevaluation of the hearing scope.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/house-education-and-the-workforce\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"House Education and the Workforce Committee\">House Education and the Workforce Committee<\/a> is amending its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/antisemitism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>antisemitism<\/a> hearing to include the presidents from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/northwestern-university\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Northwestern University<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/rutgers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Rutgers University<\/a> over \u201cgravely concerning\u201d agreements reached with pro-<a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/palestinian\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Palestinian<\/a> protesters on their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-china-threat-is-real-and-upon-us\/\" title=\"The China Threat is Real and Upon Us\">college campuses<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Originally, the presidents from Yale, the University of Michigan, and UCLA were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/2985325\/house-invites-more-university-leaders-part-of-crackdown-antisemitism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"set to testify\">to testify<\/a> before the committee on May 23 for a hearing titled \u201cCalling for Accountability: Stopping Antisemitic College Chaos.\u201d However, \u201cshocking concessions\u201d from Michael Schill, president of Northwestern, and Jonathan Holloway, president of Rutgers, pushed Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) to change the witnesses appearing on Capitol Hill.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey have surrendered to antisemitic radicals in despicable displays of cowardice,\u201d Foxx said in a statement. \u201cAs a result of these gravely concerning actions, the Committee believes it\u2019s necessary to reevaluate the scope of the May 23 hearing and bring in the presidents of Northwestern and Rutgers \u2014 along with UCLA \u2014 to testify before the Committee.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure><figcaption>Then-University of Oregon President Michael Schill talks during an interview in Portland, Oregon, Nov. 11, 2015. (AP Photo\/Don Ryan, File)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Schill recently <a href=\"https:\/\/dailynorthwestern.com\/2024\/05\/06\/campus\/breaking-university-president-michael-schill-to-testify-before-congress\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>came under fire<\/a> 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 <em>Daily Northwestern<\/em>. Several organizations, such as the Anti-Defamation League Midwest, StandWithUs, and the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law, called for Schill\u2019s resignation for what they said was an inadequate response to the levels of antisemitism at the university.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNorthwestern\u2019s foremost responsibility is ensuring the safety of our students,\u201d Jon Yates, spokesman for Northwestern, said in a statement to the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em>. \u201cWe are confident in the actions we have taken to address antisemitism on our campus and President Schill looks forward to discussing them with the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Calls for Holloway\u2019s 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\u2019s New Brunswick campus. <\/p>\n<p>Rutgers leaders <a href=\"https:\/\/www.northjersey.com\/story\/news\/education\/2024\/05\/03\/rutgers-new-brunswick-and-gaza-student-protesters-reach-agreement-end-encampment\/73557444007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"agreed to several requests\">agreed to several requests<\/a> on a\u00a010-point list\u00a0of demands from the protesters, including implementing support for 10 displaced Palestinian students to finish their education at Rutgers and reviewing the student movement\u2019s main demand that universities divest from companies with business interests in Israel, according to NorthJersey.com. An encampment at Rutgers\u2019s Newark campus is still active as of May 3.<\/p>\n<p>UCLA Chancellor Gene Block, one of the original witnesses, will still testify on May 23. However, Foxx said the other two original witnesses, Presidents Peter Salovey of Yale University and Santa Ono of the University of Michigan, are \u201cby no means off the hook.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Instead, Salovey and Ono will appear before the committee to give transcribed interviews at a later date, \u201cor risk deposition and subpoena.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure><figcaption>Signs are displayed outside a tent encampment at Northwestern University on Friday, April 26, 2024, in Evanston, Illinois. Students want the university to divest from funds connected to Israel or that profit from its war in Gaza. (AP Photo\/Teresa Crawford)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Foxx announced last week she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/2992436\/gop-rep-dan-newhouse-facing-primary-challenge-tiffany-smiley\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"sent notices to appear\">sent notices to appear<\/a> to Block, Ono, and Salovey in the wake of rising antisemitism on university and college campuses over the war between Hamas and Israel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs Republican leaders we have a clear message for mealy-mouthed, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-invites-more-university-leaders-to-congress-as-part-of-gop-crackdown-on-antisemitism\/\" title=\"House GOP urges additional university leaders to testify in Congress as part of crackdown on antisemitism\">spineless college leaders<\/a>: Congress will not tolerate your dereliction of duty to your Jewish students,\u201d Foxx said last week. \u201cAmerican universities are officially put on notice that we have come to take our universities back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>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. Following their testimonies on Capitol Hill, University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/2445423\/upenn-president-resigns-in-the-wake-of-controversial-testimony\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">resigned<\/a> in December last year and Harvard President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/education\/2710097\/harvard-president-claudine-gay-resigns-following-weeks-of-scandal-and-scrutiny\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Claudine Gay resigned in January<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Several House Republicans, including Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), have called on Columbia President Minouche Shafik to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/2978428\/johnson-stares-down-jeers-at-hostile-columbia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">resign \u201cin disgrace\u201d<\/a> due to the encampments sprouting up on the campus\u2019s lawn.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Washington Examiner<\/em> reached out to Rutgers for comment.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The House Committee broadens its antisemitism hearing to involve Northwestern and Rutgers presidents due to worrisome pacts with pro-Palestinian groups on campuses. 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