Hostile powers have too much influence in American classrooms

Hostile powers have undue influence in U.S. classrooms. The United States must do more to prevent adversaries from spreading poisonous ideologies in taxpayer-funded schools and programs.

The House Committee on Education and the Workforce recently released what it called a “bombshell” report on antisemitism and higher education. The investigation was spurred by pro-Hamas riots and demonstrations that immediately followed the Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist attack in Israel. 

Iranian proxies invaded the Jewish state and carried out the biggest slaughter of Jewish civilians since the Holocaust. Women, children, and the elderly were killed in the most appalling ways imaginable. Family members were tortured in front of one another, and homes and communities were incinerated with some of their inhabitants inside. 

This barbarism should have provoked universal condemnation, but instead, to the horror of many, it was celebrated on some college campuses. The House committee report, issued by the majority staff under the