House Committee Accuses Elite University Of ‘Willfully Obstructing’ Investigation Into Assault On Jewish Student

House Republicans accused Harvard University in a letter sent Wednesday of “willfully obstructing” an investigation into an assault on a Jewish student.

House Committee on 🎓Education and the Workforce chair Virginia Foxx and member Elise Stefanik sent the letter to Harvard president Alan Garber Wednesday expressing concerns over the university’s alleged lack of compliance with an ongoing antisemitism investigation following several incidents of alleged anti-Jewish bias, including Harvard’s failure to assist in identifying students involved in an attack on a Jewish student.

“We write, yet again, to express our serious concern and sincere outrage over Harvard University’s handling of antisemitism in the wake of the October 7 Hamas terror attacks,” the letter reads. “Harvard has continued its rapid decline, its latest actions consisting of willfully obstructing the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office from investigating a physical assault against a Harvard Jewish student that took place on Harvard’s campus. Such behavior is wholly unbecoming of a supposedly prestigious university—and, frankly, of any decent institution.”

The letter cites an Oct. 18 incident in which a Harvard student was “physically assaulted and harassed” by protesters and claims the university “has yet to take any serious disciplinary action against the students” despite multiple reports to university administrators. The Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office charged two of the attackers, who were identified on video, but Harvard allegedly refused to assist the department in identifying the other students involved and sidelined the university police officers involved in forwarding the case, according to the letter.