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

The House Edu­ca­tion and the Work­force Com­mit­tee is amend­ing its anti­semitism hear­ing to include the pres­i­dents from North­west­ern Uni­ver­si­ty and Rut­gers Uni­ver­si­ty over “grave­ly con­cern­ing” agree­ments reached with pro-Pales­tin­ian pro­test­ers on their col­lege cam­pus­es.
Orig­i­nal­ly, the pres­i­dents from Yale, the Uni­ver­si­ty of Michi­gan, and UCLA were to tes­ti­fy before 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 (R‑NC) to change the wit­ness­es appear­ing on Capi­tol Hill.
“They have sur­ren­dered to anti­se­mit­ic rad­i­cals in despi­ca­ble dis­plays of cow­ardice,” Foxx said in a state­ment. “As a result of these grave­ly con­cern­ing actions, the Com­mit­tee believes it’s nec­es­sary to reeval­u­ate the scope of the May 23 hear­ing and bring in the pres­i­dents of North­west­ern and Rut­gers — along with UCLA — to tes­ti­fy before the Com­mit­tee.”

Then-Uni­ver­si­ty of Ore­gon Pres­i­dent Michael Schill talks dur­ing an inter­view in Portl …