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House Ed Committee Hammers Columbia’s ‘Continued Failure’ To Protect Jews, Requests Fresh Disciplinary Docs

‘Columbia has failed to uphold its commitments,’ writes Tim Walberg

Pro-Palestinian protesters inside Hamilton Hall at Columbia University(Alex Kent/Getty Images)

The House Committee on Education and the Workforce requested a fresh round of disciplinary documents related to recent anti-Semitic demonstrations at Columbia University. The committee’s new chairman, Rep. Tim Walberg (R., Mich.), hammered the Ivy League school for its “continued failure to address the pervasive antisemitism that persists on campus.”

Walberg made the request in a February 13 letter to Columbia interim president Katrina Armstrong and Columbia board of trustees co-chairs David Greenwald and Claire Shipman. He instructed them to turn over a litany of internal records related to anti-Semitic incidents that unfolded during the ongoing fall semester.

On the first day of that semester, student…

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