The U.S. Committee on Education and Workforce is demanding that Harvard University provide more information as part of its ongoing investigation into campus antisemitism, according to a Monday letter.
The information is due by October 13. It includes detailed records and internal communications from Harvard about antisemitism. That includes an updated disciplinary chart of reports or complaints of antisemitism and documents or communications about changes to curricula or classes in response to concerns raised by internal working or taskforce groups.
“Obtaining these documents will aid the Committee in considering whether potential legislative changes, including legislation to specifically address antisemitic discrimination, are needed,” the letter said.
The letter was sent by the committee’s chairman Tim Walberg (R-Mich.) and House Republican Leadership Chairwoman Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.).
A Harvard spokesperson didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
The university has had a recent big win against the Trump administration — a federal judge ordered the Trump administration to reinstate the university’s nearly $3 billion in federal funding cuts. But the letter signals that government pressures against the university aren’t letting up.
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The lawmakers addressed the six-page letter to Harvard’s president, Alan Garber.
In it, the lawmakers claim that the university hasn’t disciplined two students who assaulted an Israeli Jewish student on campus — but instead rewarded one with a Harvard fellowship — and hasn’t publicly or permanently ended its partnership with Birzeit University, an institution in the West Bank that people have repeatedly claimed was tied to Hamas.
The lawmakers also point to concerns raised by Harvard’s pair of reports detailing antisemitism and anti-Israeli bias and anti-Muslim, anti-Arab and anti-Palestinian bias and whether the university has implemented the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of antisemitism.
“The Committee is deeply concerned that Harvard is failing to uphold its obligations under Title VI, as an investigation by the Department of Health and Human Services concluded,” the letter said.
