In late 2023, Rep. Virginia Foxx of North Carolina made headlines when she used her position as chair of the U.S. House Committee on Education and Workforce to stage something akin to a show trial. Committee members berated the presidents of Harvard, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the University of Pennsylvania about their failures to confront alleged antisemitism on their campuses. In the fallout from the hearings, both Penn’s and Harvard’s presidents resigned.

No longer the committee chair, Foxx now has a successor in Rep. Tim Walberg, a hard right Michigan Republican who has wasted little time carrying on Foxx’s work. Under Walberg’s leadership, the House Committee on Education and Workforce has continued weaponizing charges of antisemitism to attack labor unions and

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