UCLA Chancellor Gene Block will go before Congress on allegations of anti-Semitism after campus protests turned violent over the war in Gaza.
Block will appear Thursday, May 23, in a series of hearings by the House Committee on Education and the Workforce on how colleges responded.
Republicans in the House of Representatives also called on the leaders of Northwestern University and Rutgers University to testify.
Tensions over the war between Israel and Hamas sparked a wave of pro-Palestinian tent encampments on US campuses, leading to more than 3,000 arrests across the country.
After the first hearings in December, a cry of criticism from donors, students and politicians led to the resignation of the presidents of Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania, who gave cautious, hesitant answers to the question of whether the call for genocide against the Jews violated would be the behavior policy of their schools.
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SkyCAL flew over UCLA on Thursday morning and saw people building a barricade of sorts on campus. Authorities were seen outside monitoring the situation.
Protesters used tables, metal barriers, plywood and other materials to close off a section of campus between Kerckhoff and Moore halls, a main path used by students traversing the Westwood campus.
UCLA’s oversight of campus protests has come under scrutiny since counterprotesters carrying Israeli flags attacked a pro-Palestinian encampment on campus.
The counter-protesters threw traffic cones and released pepper spray during clashes that lasted for hours before police intervened, drawing criticism from Muslim students and political leaders and advocacy groups.
RELATED: UCLA police chief temporarily resigns after criticism of response to protests
On Wednesday, UCLA’s police chief was reassigned “pending an investigation into our security processes,” according to a statement from the school.
