A new report reveals how some major U.S. universities handled the aftermath of the Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist attack that was carried out on Israel. 

The report, according to Fox News, comes from congressional Republicans.

Per the outlet:

The 365-page report summarized a yearlong investigation by the House Education and Workforce Committee, collected from more than 400,000 documents from 11 schools across the country into how they responded to a wave of pro-Palestinian protests in the wake of Hamas’ Oct. 7 attacks.

The conclusion of the report is that the universities essentially failed their Jewish students.

The details

Among those universities studied was Harvard.

Fox reports:

According to the report, while drafting a public statement to make after Oct. 7, Harvard University senior administrators edited out the word "violent" to describe the attack after a dean complained it "sounded like assigning blame." They mulled whether to disavow a declaration put out by some student groups that Israel was responsible for the violence, but ultimately decided not to.

You did, in fact, read that correctly. Harvard refused to call the attack by Hamas on Israel violent even though it clearly was, and Harvard actually thought about placing blame for the situation on Israelis - the victims.

Harvard, though, was not the only university studied. Another was Northwestern University.

Here, the investigators revealed how Northwestern negotiated with pro-Palestinian students.

"Failures"

The Hill reports that the committee reached four conclusions.

Per the outlet:

The report came to four conclusions: the concessions universities were willing to make to protesters were “astounding”; the schools chose to “withhold support from Jewish students”; university leadership failed to discipline students who engaged in antisemitic activities; and universities were themselves hostile to the House’s investigation.

In addition to their report, the House Education and Workforce Committee has released a statement on the matter.

The committee's chair - U.S. Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC) - said:

For over a year, the American people have watched antisemitic mobs rule over so-called elite universities, but what was happening behind the scenes is arguably worse. While Jewish students displayed incredible courage and a refusal to cave to the harassment, university administrators, faculty, and staff were cowards who fully capitulated to the mob and failed the students they were supposed to serve

The big question is whether this investigation and the report can actually make a difference. It certainly exposes wrongdoing, but can it prevent similar wrongdoing in the future? Time will tell, but, at this point, the default position has to be one of skepticism.