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College leaders play defense on antisemitism: Recap

by TheHill.com - 12/05/23 4:29 PM ET

The House Education Committee held a hearing Tuesday on “Holding Campus Leaders Accountable and Confronting Antisemitism” amid a slew of antisemitic incidents at U.S. universities.

“Over the past several weeks, we’ve seen countless examples of antisemitic demonstrators on college campuses,” Committee Chair Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.) said.

The leaders of Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania (Penn) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) testified in defense of their records.

Here is how the hearing unfolded:

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