US House committee subpoenas Columbia for documents related to antisemitism investigation

The US House Committee on Education and Workforce has subpoenaed Columbia University for documents related to an ongoing investigation into antisemitism on campus, the Columbia Spectator reports.

According to the report, the subpoena requires interim University President Katrina Armstrong to submit a number of “priority items” to the House committee by midday on September 4.

In the letter sent to Armstrong, committee chair Virginia Foxx writes that the subpoena was being issued “due to Columbia’s repeated failure to fulfill priority requests by deadlines that elapsed prior to your accession to the University’s Presidency.”

Former Columbia president Nemat “Minouche” Shafik” resigned earlier this month amid criticism over her response to the anti-Israel and pro-Palestinian protest movement that sprung up in the wake of October 7.

The Columbia Spectator reports that documents requested by the committee include items on anti-Israel protest leader Khymani James, who said that “Zionists don’t deserve to live” and was later banned from campus; and tenured professor Joseph Massad, who on October 8 wrote an article praising the “innovative Palestinian resistance” of the October 7 terror onslaught.