Yesterday, Republicans on the House Committee on Education and the Workforce released a lengthy report on the wave of campus anti-Semitism that broke out after Hamas’ 10/7 attack last year. The core of the report are emails in which administrators argued over how to respond to the attack and to the campus protests that followed.
The resulting report draws on internal emails, texts, chats and edits to documents that show administrators feeling vulnerable to criticism on multiple fronts. (“Please do not forward. I think this isn’t going to work,” one university president reportedly wrote.) It includes disciplinary notices sent to protesters, an internal analysis of why the discipline process was broken at one school, and debate over how to handle public statements about the conflict and divisive slogans such as “from the river to the sea.”
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