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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Alice Speri

Jewish faculty decry Republican panel members ahead of antisemitism hearing

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Representative Tim Walberg of Michigan, the chair of the House committee on education and workforce. Photograph: Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call/Getty Images

A number of Republican legislators set to grill university presidents in a congressional hearing on antisemitism this week are associated with calls for Jews to convert to Christianity, have quoted Adolf Hitler, or have reportedly threatened to burn a synagogue to the ground.

A group of Haverford professors, most of them Jewish, has raised concerns about the legislators, pointing to statements they have made in the past and antisemitic incidents in their districts that the professors say they have not forcefully condemned.

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