by Madeleine Hubbard
Northwestern University President Michael Schill admitted Thursday that he received an “F” grade from the Anti-Defamation League during spats between him and Republican Elise Stafanik of New York state. during a hearing on anti-Semitism.
“Isn’t it true that Northwestern received an ‘F’ for your response and failure to combat anti-Semitism and called for your resignation?” Stefanik asked Schill.
“I have great respect for the ADL,” Schill (pictured above) began to say before Stefanik interrupted him and said, “I’m not asking for your respect for the ADL. I’m asking if it’s a fact that you earned an “F” and were asked to resign?”
Ultimately, Schill admitted he was unhappy that Northwestern received an “F.”
Rutgers University President Jonathan Holloway said during a hearing Thursday that the New Jersey university held “listening sessions” to address anti-Semitism.
“In New Brunswick, we have established an advisory council on anti-Semitism and Jewish life,” Holloway said. “The Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies department brought Israeli and Palestinian students together in one classroom not to persuade or change minds, but simply to listen to each other.”
According to House of Representatives social media pageduring one listening session, chants such as “one solution, intifada revolution” and “globalize the intifada” were chanted.
Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-Va., chairwoman of the House Education and Labor Committee, had harsh words for campus leaders on Thursday, accusing them of cultivating a “campus culture of radicalism” for years before anti-Semitism became widespread after Oct. 7 , 2023, when Hamas attacked Israel.
Foxx opened the hearing with a quote from Ernest Hemmingway in “The sun is also rising” when one of the characters says that he went bankrupt, “Gradually, then suddenly.”
“There are no three words that better describe the decline in postsecondary education that has occurred – gradually and then suddenly,” Foxx said.
“Over years, even decades, universities gradually cultivated a culture of radicalism on campus in which anti-Semitism grew and was tolerated by administrators,” she said. “Then suddenly, within weeks or even days, anti-Semitic chaos erupted in universities. On October 7, a powder keg of pro-terrorist fervor was ignited on campus, a shocking spectacle for the American public.”
Meanwhile, the committee’s ranking member, Republican Bobby Scott of Virginia, said nothing productive happened as a result of the hearings other than some people losing their jobs, such as Harvard University President Claudine Gay, who resigned earlier this year, just weeks after appearing before the committee. Scott said crucial hours that could be devoted to fighting anti-Semitism on campus are instead spent preparing for the hearing.
The hearing Northwestern University leaders spoke Rutgers University and University of California, Los Angeles. All of these campuses there were so-called “Gaza solidarity camps”.
“Northwestern University, like many universities, has a problem with anti-Semitism,” Northwestern President Michael Schill said in a speech previously written statement before the committee.
Northwestern currently faces approx civil rights complaint after she agreed with the protesters to offer scholarships to Palestinian students in exchange for the liquidation of the camps.
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Madeleine Hubbard joined Just the News as a Fast File reporter after working as an editor at Breitbart News. She previously served as Special Assistant to the Deputy Secretary of Public Affairs at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services during the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Photo “Michael Schill” by Northwest University. Cover photo “Northwest Campus” by Northwest University.
