Jewish students at Northwestern University are petitioning Congress to launch a formal investigation into the school over its failure to stymie an outbreak of anti-Semitic incidents that include “intimidation, bigotry, vandalism, and other alleged hate crimes” that have transformed the campus into a hotbed for Jew-hatred, the Washington Free Beacon has learned.
The letter, sent this week to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, outlines an eruption of anti-Semitic hatred on campus that has endangered Jewish students and failed to garner an adequate response from the school’s administration, including university president Michael Schill.
“We respectfully call on the Committee to exercise its oversight powers and investigate Northwestern’s: (i) pervasive antisemitism on its campus; and (ii) failure to protect and hostile environment toward Jewish and Israeli students, faculty, and staff,” the students wrote,…
