Protesters Interrupt Congressional University Hearing

Republican lawmakers, grilling the leaders of Georgetown University, the City University of New York, and the University of California, Berkeley for more than three hours over campus antisemitism, were interrupted at times by protesters shouting out about the proceedings.

The demonstrators, using a stretched-out approach with their interruptions of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce hearing, accused lawmakers of being “complicit in the genocide of Palestinians,” and used other slogans, reports The New York Times on Tuesday.

The fourth protester, however, was stopped by Rep. Randy Fine, R-Fla., who shouted at a fourth protester who interrupted his time on the floor.

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