The House Education and the Workforce Committee held a hearing to investigate how colleges and universities are handling anti-Semitism on their campuses. The hearing featured testimonies from the presidents of the University of Pennsylvania, Harvard University, and MIT, who all expressed condemnation of anti-Semitism and shared their efforts to combat it actively. New York Congresswoman Elise Stefanik questioned the school leaders on their institutions' approaches to addressing anti-Semitism, particularly asking if calling for the genocide of Jews violated their code of conduct or rules regarding bullying and harassment.
Three elite university presidents walk into Congress for a hearing on antisemitism. Only two still have their jobs. New York magazine reporter Nia Prater tells us what happened, and a Harvard professor of Jewish history explains why he thinks resignations won’t make campuses safer.
This episode was produced by Haleema Shah and Isabel Angell, edited by Amina Al-Sadi, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Patrick Boyd, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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