House Republicans rail against Northwestern, Rutgers for cutting deals with protesters

Republicans on the House Education and Workforce Committee went on the offensive during a Thursday hearing on college antisemitism that largely focused on deals Northwestern and Rutgers universities made with pro-Palestinian protesters to get their encampments taken down without police force.  

“I want to discuss what has been referred to as the Deering Meadows agreement, your unilateral capitulation to the pro-Hamas, anti-Israel, antisemitic” activists, Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) told the president of Northwestern early on.