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“I don’t know if it’s arrogance, ineptness, or indifference that’s guiding Harvard,” Foxx said in a statement. “Just last week, Congress heard devastating and awful firsthand accounts of rampant antisemitism on college campuses — including at Harvard. Despite this, Harvard has absolutely failed to comply in good faith with the Committee’s subpoena for information about antisemitism on its campus.”
Foxx noted that, of the materials Harvard provided the committee, much was either redundant or so heavily redacted that the documents were rendered unusable.
“Many of the 2,500 pages submitted to the Committee were duplicates of documents already submitted,” Foxx said. “Heavy redactions throughout the production made several documents useless. The Committee is weighing an appropriate response to Harvard’s malfeasance.”
The committee informed Harvard that it would conduct an investigation into antisemitic incidents and the university’s response on December 20 and included a list of documents the committee planned to request in the course of the probe. On January 9, Foxx wrote Harvard Corporation senior fellow Penny Pritzker and interim university president Alan Garber requesting certain documents pertaining to the investigation, and in a January 23 statement, she described Harvard’s production of documents as “woefully inadequate.” At that point, Harvard had sent the committee 24 documents, all of which had previously been available to the public. The university redacted some of the information in those files even though the original copies are accessible online.
Foxx issued the subpoenas — requiring the university to produce documentation showing the steps Harvard has taken to ensure the safety of its Jewish student population — on February 16, announcing that, though Harvard had “touted its willingness to work with the Committee,” its leaders had not acted on their promises.
“Harvard’s continued failure to satisfy the Committee’s requests is unacceptable. I will not tolerate delay and defiance of our investigation while Harvard’s Jewish students continue to endure the firestorm of antisemitism that has engulfed its campus,” Foxx wrote in a statement explaining the subpoenas. “If Harvard is truly committed to combating antisemitism, it has had every opportunity to demonstrate its commitment with actions, not words. It is my hope that these subpoenas serve as a wakeup call to Harvard that Congress will not tolerate antisemitic hate in its classrooms or on campus.”