This comes after a rash of pro-Palestinian protests erupted on college campuses in the U.S. following last year’s attack by the terrorist group Hamas on Israel.
Republican members of three U.S. House of Representatives committees are pressing the University of California–San Francisco (UCSF) to provide more information related to reported allegations of anti-Semitism on its campus.
The House Energy and Commerce Committee’s chairwoman Cathy McMorris Rogers sent a letter July 31 to UCSF Chancellor Sam Hawgood citing hundreds of complaints of anti-Semitism or hostile work environments on campus by university employees and patients at the medical center received by the university’s office of prevention of harassment and discrimination.
In terms of the medical center, the committee noted some reports were from Jewish patients who they say have indicated they felt uncomfortable seeking treatment.
Some members of the House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations and the Subcommittee on Health joined Rogers asking for a response to the allegations.
“It is unacceptable for students, faculty, and others on campus to be subject to calls for violence in a learning environment and it is unacceptable for UCSF leadership to permit it,” the letter read.
The letter additionally sourced various media articles reporting incidents of alleged anti-Semitic behavior