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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Lifestyle
Edward Helmore

House Republicans subpoena Harvard brass in campus antisemitism inquiry

A large gathering of students protesting the Israel incursion into Gaza.
Protests in support of Palestine on the Harvard campus, such as the one pictured on 14 October 2023, sparked charges of antisemitism. Photograph: Joseph Prezioso/AFP/Getty Images

Republicans in Congress have escalated their fight with Harvard University by issuing subpoenas to university leaders, six weeks after hearings into antisemitism on campus set in motion the resignation of Harvard’s president, Claudine Gay.

Virginia Foxx, a Republican from North Carolina who heads the House education and workforce committee that held hearings into the issue last year, ordered Harvard’s trustees to produce documents related to the issue.

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