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Harvard University was asked last month to turn over a raft of
material, including documents and other items showing its
responses to discrimination, to reports of antisemitic acts, and
recruitment and retention of Jewish students.
"Harvard has provided fulsome and good faith responses across 10
submissions totaling more than 3,500 pages that directly address
key areas of inquiry put forward by the Committee," a university
spokesperson told Reuters in an emailed statement. Over 2,500
pages of these documents related to the Committee's antisemitism
inquiry.
Harvard and other U.S. colleges have simmered with tension over
responses to the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel and Israel's
subsequent offensive in Gaza that aims to wipe out the militant
Palestinian group.
Republican Representative Virginia Foxx, who chairs the House
Education and the Workforce Committee, said that "quality -not
quantity - is the Committee’s concern."
Foxx said more than 1,000 of the shared documents were already
publicly available, and that Harvard had also failed to make
substantial productions on two of four priority requests in its
most recent response.
The subpoenas order the Harvard officials to produce a series of
documents by 5 pm ET on March 4.
"While a subpoena was unwarranted, Harvard remains committed to
cooperating with the Committee and will continue to provide
additional materials, while protecting the legitimate privacy,
safety and security concerns of our community," the University
said.
Claudine Gay resigned as president of Harvard last month
following allegations of plagiarism and a backlash over her
congressional testimony on antisemitism.
(Reporting by Surbhi Misra and Baranjot Kaur in BengaluruEditing
by Gareth Jones)
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