The U.S. House of Representatives has issued a scathing report exposing how America’s elite universities systematically failed to protect Jewish students in the aftermath of Hamas’s October 7 massacre on Israel.
Compiled by six House committees, the devastating report reveals that university administrators deliberately chose to protect their institutional brands rather than address rampant antisemitism on their campuses. At prestigious institutions like Harvard, Columbia, and the University of Pennsylvania, administrators routinely downplayed antisemitic incidents while simultaneously punishing Jewish students for minor infractions.
At Columbia University, Jewish students were suspended for up to 18 months over an unproven “fart spray” incident, while students engaging in antisemitic harassment faced no comparable discipline. Harvard University, despite public posturing, ultimately granted amnesty to students who participated in disruptive “Gaza Solidarity Encampments” that intimidated Jewish students.
Behind closed doors, university leaders mocked congressional oversight as “Capitol Hill nonsense” and strategized about how a Democratic majority might shield them from further scrutiny, according to internal communications cited in the report.
Rep. Virginia Foxx (R., N.C.), who chairs the House Education and Workforce Committee, said the findings demonstrate how America’s supposedly elite institutions have lost their way.
“On Oct. 8, the world saw that antisemitic hatred was alive and well at American institutions of so-called ‘higher’ education,” Foxx said. “Stopping that free fall comes down to one word: accountability.”
All six committees overwhelmingly recommended that the incoming Trump administration freeze federal funding for universities that fail to combat antisemitism under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act.
