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WASHINGTON — Today, Speaker Johnson released the following statement after Chairwoman Virginia Foxx and the House Education and Workforce Committee released a report concerning antisemitism on the nation’s “elite” college campuses. Read the full report about antisemitism at Harvard, UPenn, MIT, Yale, Columbia, Barnard, Rutgers, Northwestern, George Washington University, UC-Berkeley, and UCLA here.

“The trust placed in many of America’s once-great universities has been broken. Today’s thorough report from Chairwoman Foxx and the Education and Workforce Committee shows students why they may want to consider getting a degree elsewhere.

“Pro-Hamas encampments grew and were allowed to fester on college campuses in the aftermath of the horrific terrorist attack on October 7, 2023. Harvard chose not to stop students from shouting antisemitic phrases; Northwestern’s provost approved of boycotts of Israeli products and put radical anti-Israel faculty in charge of negotiations with pro-Hamas encampments; at Columbia, faculty obstructed plans to discipline antisemitic students who stormed a campus building; and at UCLA, officials stood by idly as illegal, antisemitic encampments endangered and violated the rights of Jewish students. In each instance, these institutions violated the law and their own codes of conduct. Across the board, too many of our ‘elite’ university classrooms have been transformed into training camps for anti-American and anti-Israel activism, subsidized by the taxpayer.

“I’m thankful for Chairwoman Foxx’s work to expose university leaders’ willingness to coddle antisemites and their abject failure to protect Jewish students. Today’s report will be an important tool for Congress to use as we reassess federal funding for higher education.”