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Home Front: Politix

US congressional panel asks to see years of antisemitism complaints in Harvard probe

2024-01-10

[IsraelTimes] House Education Committee gives university 2 weeks to provide all reports of incidents on campus since January 2021 targeting ‘Jews, Israelis, Israel, Zionists, or Zionism’.

Oh dear.

A US House of Representatives panel on Tuesday asked Harvard University for a list of documents in relation to a probe on antisemitism at the school, and gave the school two weeks to produce the records.

Republican Representative Virginia Foxx, who chairs the House Education and the Workforce Committee, sent a letter to Harvard Corporation Senior Fellow Penny Pritzker and interim President Alan Garber requesting the documents.

Harvard and other US colleges have simmered with tension over responses to the October 7 Hamas
Hamas

...one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,...
attack on Israel and Israel’s subsequent offensive against it in the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
Strip.

Foxx said the panel, which last month also opened a review of Harvard’s handling of allegations of plagiarism by its then-president, wanted documents on all reports of antisemitic incidents on campus since January 2021, disciplinary processes to address allegations of hate and bias, and Harvard’s response to recent pro-Paleostinian protests and activities.

The documents requested include any list of "posts by Harvard students, faculty, staff and other Harvard affiliates on Sidechat and other social media platforms targeting Jews, Israelis, Israel, Zionists, or Zionism."

A Harvard spokesperson said the university was reviewing the letter and will be in touch with the committee over its request.

The House committee, in its letter, cited the oversight powers of Congress "derived from the US Constitution. "Under House Rule X, the Committee has legislative and oversight jurisdiction over ’education or labor generally,'" the letter said.

The committee, in its letter to Harvard last month over its plagiarism probe, had noted that "federal funding to Harvard is conditioned upon the school’s adherence to the standards of a recognized accreditor," and the need to show that it "works to prevent cheating and plagiarism."

Oooooooohhhh SLAP!!

Some critics of Israel, its control of territory internationally recognized as Paleostinian, and its isolation of the Gaza Strip, have said they risk being unfairly branded if criticism of Israel’s policies were labeled antisemitic.

If you criticize other countries on the same terms as you do Israel, that’s fair. But if only Israel is criticized, that is Jew-hate pretending to be something slightly less evil — Nazis vs Stalinists, if you will.

Others like the World Jewish Congress argue that anti-Zionism is antisemitic because it seeks to deny Jewish people "the right to self-determination in their ancestral homeland."

Claudine Gay resigned as president of Harvard last week following the allegations of plagiarism and backlash over her congressional testimony on antisemitism. Gay and two other university presidents who also testified had declined to give a definitive "yes" or "no" answer to a question on whether calling for the genocide of Jews would violate their schools’ codes of conduct regarding bullying and harassment, saying it would have to be balanced against free-speech protections. University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill also resigned following the congressional hearing.

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