Add the University of California, Berkeley, to the list of elite universities facing congressional probes over their handling of rising campus antisemitism.
Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-N.C., chair of the House Education and the Workforce Committee, testifies before the House Rules Committee as Republicans advance the “Parents Bill of Rights Act,” at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, March 22, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott …
“Anti-Israel activists assaulted Jewish students and shattered glass windows, forcing the cancellation of an Israeli speaker’s lecture,” said Ms. Foxx in her letter to Berkeley Chancellor Carol Christ, President Michael Drake and Board of Regents Chairman Richard Leib., expressed “great sadness, concern and dismay” after the attack, saying the university had sought to protect the speaker by moving the event’s location and increasing security.
Mr. Bar-Yoshafat, an Israeli attorney who was invited by Tikvah: Students for Israel, returned Monday to deliver his speech at the Pauley Ballroom, saying the anti-Israel protesters fall into two camps: “useful idiots” and “antisemitic Jew haters.” She added, “UC Berkeley’s failure to address this activity breaches a specific and longstanding university commitment to keep the gate unobstructed as part of a legal settlement and constitutes a selective dereliction of duty to enforce university rules against harassment.”
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