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Robert Tait in Washington

House Republicans assail university head for negotiated end to Gaza protest

Image of four men sitting at table in suits, taken from slight angle, three white and one Black.
From left, Northwestern president Michael Schill and Rutgers president Jonathan Holloway in Washington on 23 May 2024. Photograph: Amanda Andrade-Rhoades/Reuters

Members of a Republican-led congressional committee confronted another set of university heads on Thursday over their approach to pro-Palestinian protests in the latest hearings on Capitol Hill on a reported increase of campus antisemitism.

Republicans on the House of Representatives’ education and workforce committee repeatedly clashed fiercely with Michael Schill, president of Northwestern University in Illinois, over his decision to negotiate an end to a tented protest community rather than call in police, as has happened on other campuses.

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