Virginia Foxx uses her position of influence to amplify the GOP’s war on universities through congressional hearings.
Rep. Virginia Foxx attends a news conference featuring remarks by college students about antisemitism on college campuses, in the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on December 5, 2023.on how they would address antisemitism at their universities. In the aftermath, Penn President Liz Magill, and later, Harvard President Claudine Gay, both resigned.of antisemitism have surfaced on U.S.
Foxx has long been a stalwart advocate of the Republican Party’s reactionary positions on everything from education policy to LGBTQ rights. Now she is weaponizing congressional hearings to serve the larger political aims of the GOP’s war on “woke campuses” and of her major donors, including AIPAC and prominent pro-Israel billionaires, who are rewarding her efforts with fundraisers and campaign contributions.
Foxx has been an important player in the GOP’s far right lurch over the past two decades, and the hearings are the newest stage in her long pursuit of an extreme conservative agenda in Congress. She was aover the Supreme Court’s 2015 ruling favor of same-sex marriage.
Ultimately, Foxx’s donor list reveals close ties with key actors driving the current effort to suppress critics of Israel and supporters of Palestinians rights, as well as with ultra-right billionaire activist donors and corporations more generally. In effect, a small layer of political actors who use their wealth, philanthropy and campaign contributions to advance their agenda have cemented an alliance with Foxx as she carries out the GOP’s broader attacks on universities.
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