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House Republicans Question Berkeley, CUNY and Georgetown Leaders on Campus Antisemitism

Chancellors defended their handling of antisemitism by citing complaint volumes, new training programs and discipline records.

Dr. Félix Matos Rodríguez, Chancellor, The City University of New York, testifies during a House Committee on Education and Workforce Committee hearing on "Antisemitism in Higher Education: Examining the Role of Faculty, Funding, and Ideology" on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, July 15, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)
Dr. Rich Lyons, Chancellor, University of California, Berkeley, testifies during a House Committee on Education and Workforce Committee hearing on "Antisemitism in Higher Education: Examining the Role of Faculty, Funding, and Ideology" on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, July 15, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)
Two weeks after the Hamas attack on southern Israel in October, 2023, hundreds of students gathered on UC Berkeley’s Sproul Plaza to call for a cease fire and end to the subsequent Israeli invasion of Gaza.

Overview

  • Republican members threatened to slash federal funding and grilled the university leaders on faculty hiring, foreign contributions and protest encampment rules.
  • Lyons cited a fact sheet listing required antisemitism training, new dialogue programs and more than $10 million in added security spending.
  • Matos Rodríguez said CUNY logged 68 antisemitism complaints in 2024, 16 so far this year and disciplined 18 students for antisemitic conduct.
  • A letter from 82 Jewish Berkeley faculty praised the chancellor’s efforts to balance safety with free speech and rejected claims that the campus harbors antisemitism.
  • Democrats called the hearing political theater and warned that Trump’s staffing cuts to the Education Department’s civil rights office have hindered campus antisemitism investigations.