Columbia Added to House Antisemitism Probe of Ivy League
The Columbia University campus in New York.
Photographer: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg
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Columbia University became the latest school to come under scrutiny by a US House committee over its response to antisemitism on campus, as the panel widens an inquiry beyond two Ivy League colleges that have both replaced their presidents.
The House Education and the Workforce Committee on Monday sent a letter to Columbia and its trustees requesting documents and information regarding various incidents it says shows the school’s failure to protect Jewish students in the wake of the Oct. 7 attack on Israel by Hamas.