House gives Harvard one-week deadline to turn over antisemitism documents or face subpoena

Rep. Virginia Foxx, the Republican chairwoman of the House Education and Workforce Committee, delivered a final warning to Harvard University on Wednesday to turn over a trove of documents in the panel’s antisemitism investigation in the next week or face a subpoena.

Turn over a trove of documents about antisemitism on campus or face a subpoena. That’s the final warning Rep. Virginia Foxx, the Republican chairwoman of the House Education and Workforce Committee, delivered to Harvard University on Wednesday as the panel seeks to advance its investigation into antisemitism on college campuses. In a letter sent to Harvard leaders, Foxx accused the Ivy League school of “obstructing” the committee’s investigation by withholding many of the documents lawmakers are seeking and submitting others that were publicly available and yet contained “bewildering redactions.” “Harvard’s failure to produce documents requested by the Committee in a timely manner is unacceptable and will not be tolerated,” Foxx wrote in the letter to Harvard interim president Alan Garber and Penny Pritzker, who leads the Harvard Corporation, the school’s top governing board. Foxx detailed a series of high-priority documents that she wants Harvard to turn over by 5 pm ET on February 14, including meeting minutes since Hamas’ October 7 terror attacks on Israel and communications by university officials related to antisemitism. This narrower list excludes some of the committee’s prior requests for information on Harvard’s diversity office as well as on foreign donations. “If the above priority requests are unfulfilled by the deadline set above, the Committee is prepared to issue a subpoena,” Foxx wrote. Harvard was not immediately available to comment on the letter.