A House education committee investigating Northwestern University’s response to antisemitism and its alleged failure to protect Jewish students is requesting documents and communications related to the school’s response to incidents on campus.

In a letter to Northwestern President Michael Schill and board of trustees Chairman Peter Barris, Education and Workforce Committee chairwoman Virginia Foxx said the school’s decision to “capitulate to antisemitic, pro-terror encampment organizers prompted seven members of Northwestern’s antisemitism advisory committee to resign in protest and for three national Jewish organizations, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), Louis D. Brandeis Center, and StandWithUs, jointly to call for President Schill’s resignation or removal.”

The committee will hear testimony from Northwestern and Rutgers University presidents on May 23.

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