GOP lawmakers demand major donors pull funding from Columbia over 'antisemitic incidents'
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A group of House Republicans are urging donors to Columbia University to withhold funding in protest of its handling of anti-Israel protests on campus.
For days, students at Columbia and its sister school, Barnard College, have camped out on the Upper Manhattan campus while holding demonstrations in protest of Columbia's investments in companies with ties to Israel. It's part of a wider progressive backlash against Israel's response to Hamas' Oct. 7 terror attacks against the Jewish state. Elizabeth Elkind is a politics reporter for Fox News Digital leading coverage of the House of Representatives. Previous digital bylines seen at Daily Mail and CBS News.
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But that protest and similar ones cropping up at colleges around the country are now facing bipartisan backlash and accusations of having waded into antisemitic territory.