US Congress hearings on campus antisemitism during the Gaza war

During the Gaza war, the United States House Committee on Education and the Workforce has held numerous hearings with leaders of US universities over allegations of antisemitism at universities in relation to Gaza solidarity protests.

The series of hearings began on December 5, 2023, when the United States House Committee on Education and the Workforce held a hearing with the presidents of Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). After the hearing, the committee called for the resignation of the presidents and announced a Congressional investigation "with the full force of subpoena power" into the same issues. Four days later, on December 9, 2023, University of Pennsylvania president Liz Magill submitted her resignation, partly in response to backlash resulting from the hearing. Less than one month later, on January 2, 2024, Harvard University's president Claudine Gay resigned amid allegations of plagiarism. MIT president Sally Kornbluth received a statement of support from the Board of Trustees after the hearing and did not resign.

On April 17, 2024, Columbia University president Minouche Shafik, co-chairs of its board of trustees David Greenwald and Claire Shipman, and a co-chair of Columbia's Task Force on Antisemitism, David Schizer, testified before the committee in Washington DC; students had established the Gaza Solidarity Encampment on campus in New York City earlier that morning. Columbia president Minouche Shafik resigned months later, after summoning the New York City Police Department to campus twice to arrest students participating in Gaza solidarity protests.

There have been no such Congressional hearings on anti-Palestinian racism or Islamophobia on college campuses.