Overview
- Education and Workforce Committee Chairman Tim Walberg sent a formal notice to APA President Debra Kawahara launching the investigation.
- The letter cites reports from Jewish members of harassment, ostracism at APA events, and unanswered complaints to association leadership.
- The committee alleges APA awarded continuing-education credit for conferences featuring speakers who endorsed violence against Jews and spread antisemitic tropes.
- A former APA division president is accused of making dehumanizing statements about Israelis and framing Zionism as a mental illness.
- The inquiry also flags internal moves to revisit the APA’s use of the IHRA definition and notes advocacy-group criticism of a journal issue that labeled Israel a settler-colonial, apartheid state and accused it of genocide, while no APA response was provided in the coverage.