Harvard, Northwestern failed Jewish students during college campus protests: House report

A new GOP-led antisemitism report revealed Harvard University refused to call Hamas' Oct. 7 attack on Israel "violent," and Northwestern University considered taking Sabra hummus off campus. 

The 365-page report summarized a yearlong investigation by the House Education and Workforce Committee, collected from more than 400,000 documents from 11 schools across the country into how they responded to a wave of pro-Palestinian protests in the wake of Hamas' Oct. 7 attacks. 

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According to the report, while drafting a public statement to make after Oct. 7, Harvard University senior administrators edited out the word "violent" to describe the attack after a dean complained it "sounded like assigning blame." 

They mulled whether to disavow a declaration put out by some student groups that Israel was responsible for the violence, but ultimately decided not to. 

Northwestern University President Michael Schill, who testified before the committee last spring, expressed an openness to removing Sabra hummus from campus to appease protesters. 

The report said Schill appointed anti-Israel faculty to negotiate with the students who camped outside in protest of Israel's offensive in Gaza. One suggested removing the popular hummus brand.