MIT Dragged Into House Committee Probe Over Antisemitism (1)

March 8, 2024, 3:48 PM UTC

The House Education and the Workforce Committee added the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to the list of colleges it’s investigating over campus antisemitism in the wake of the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas on Israel.

In a letter addressed to MIT President Sally Kornbluth and its board chair Mark Gorenberg, the committee has asked for documents, including reports of antisemitic acts, MIT Corp. minutes and details of donations from foreign countries. The requests are similar to those already posed to Harvard, Columbia and the University of Pennsylvania.

Chair Virginia Foxx, a Republican from North Carolina, is following up ...

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