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WASHINGTON (NewsNation) — A protester interrupted a proceeding earlier the House Education Committee connected Tuesday connected accusations of antisemitism connected assemblage campuses.
As Felix V. Matos Rodríguez, chancellor of The City University of New York, was speaking, a protester could beryllium heard shouting “Blood connected your hands” and references to Gaza. However, overmuch of what the protester said was hard to hear.
Rep. Burgess Owens, R-Ohio, instantly condemned the protester.
“That outburst is precisely wherefore we are having this hearing,” helium said. “This has been going connected mode excessively long. We're going to person arsenic galore hearings arsenic we person to excavation this crab retired of our system.”
Rodríguez — on with leaders from Georgetown University and the University of California, Berkeley — faced questions from lawmakers implicit “the relation of faculty, backing and ideology” successful fueling antisemitism, according to the proceeding notice.
Earlier this year, the House besides questioned the heads of Ivy League institutions implicit akin concerns aft wide pro-Palestinian protests erupted crossed campuses implicit the Israel-Hamas warfare successful Gaza.
President Donald Trump has vowed to analyse schools implicit antisemitism and besides threatened to withhold backing from universities that allowed the “illegal” demonstrations. At slightest 60 schools person been nether the microscope successful caller weeks, according to the Education Department.
NewsNation affiliate The Hill contributed to this report.
