(The Center Square) – Federal committee action taken thus far against Columbia University has not achieved desired results if reports of text messages among administrators are proven true, says a North Carolina congresswoman.
Columbia, says Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-N.C., “doesn’t get it” when it comes to antisemitism.
Foxx chairs the House of Representatives’ Education and the Workforce Committee. Columbia President Minouche Shafik already has testified before them in April, one of seven leaders for higher ed institutions brought in to discuss their respective Jewish communities.
A release from the Education and Workforce Committee says the school’s reunion weekend May 30 and June 1 included university administrators exchanging “disparaging text messages downplaying antisemitism.”
Foxx, in her 10th term and gunning for a 11th in November, wants the text messages in front of her committee.
“I was appalled, but sadly…
