Some leaders from increased schooling testified on Capitol Hill right now and had been grilled by Republicans in regards to the ongoing difficulty of antisemitism on faculty campuses.
At one level, Republican Rep. Burgess Owens of Utah cornered the interim president of Georgetown College by asking him if the varsity would enable the KKK to talk on campus.
It’s a totally honest query. Burgess factors out that the rhetoric coming from the ‘free Palestine’ mob isn’t any completely different.
Partial transcript by the Stu Studio on Twitter/X:
[Rep. Burgess Owens] confronted Georgetown President Robert Groves with a easy, pointed query:
“Would you enable a member of the KKK who wished the deaths of Black Individuals to talk at Georgetown?”
“No.”
Owens didn’t let up: “So if Georgetown would disallow white supremacist bigots, why does it enable Palestinian antisemitic bigots invited by college or college students?”
Groves had no actual reply—simply imprecise speak about numerous viewpoints.
Watch the alternate under:
Burgess Owens Calls Out Georgetown’s Double Commonplace on Hate Speech@RepBurgessOwens confronted Georgetown President Robert Groves with a easy, pointed query:
“Would you enable a member of the KKK who wished the deaths of Black Individuals to talk at Georgetown?”
“No.”… pic.twitter.com/DFQj4Gm43a
— Stu (@thestustustudio) July 15, 2025
The Georgetown Voice provides this tidbit:
Groves responds to experiences of alleged antisemitism on Georgetown’s campus
In response to representatives’ questions, Groves cited a number of cases through which Georgetown enacted disciplinary actions in opposition to alleged antisemitic habits. Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.) first pointed to a tweet that Georgetown Chair of Islamic Civilization Jonathan A.C. Brown printed on his X web page on June 22.
“I hope Iran does some symbolic strike on a base,” Brown wrote.
In line with a college spokesperson, Georgetown has since eliminated Brown from his place as Chair of the Division of Arabic and Islamic Research, although he retains the place of Alwaleed bin Talal Chair of Islamic Civilization within the SFS. Groves mentioned that the college has positioned him on go away awaiting additional evaluation.
This is without doubt one of the predominant the reason why increased schooling finds itself underneath hearth proper now. Leaders at many of those faculties have allowed this hate to fester to the purpose the place it obtained uncontrolled. They need to have stopped it in its tracks, however they failed.
