The House Education and Workforce Committee launched an antisemitism investigation into Rutgers University on Wednesday, citing the school’s “failure to protect Jewish students.”
Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) sent a letter to six members of Rutgers senior leadership detailing allegedly antisemitic incidents and requesting documents related to communications, disciplinary action, and procedures involving antisemitism on campus.
Rutgers is now the fifth school in the country to be the target of the committee’s widening antisemitism inquiry of universities.
“I have grave concerns regarding the inadequacy of Rutgers’ response to antisemitism on its campuses,” Foxx wrote in the letter. “Rutgers stands out for the intensity and pervasiveness of antisemitism on its campuses. Rutgers senior administrators, faculty, staff, academic departments and centers, and student organizations have contributed to the development of a pervasive climate of antisemitism.”
Foxx highlighted a “pattern of deeply troubling
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