Many Republican lawmakers were planning to grill the president of the University at a Congressional hearing on anti-Semitism this week, which was in line with calls for Jews to convert to follow Christianity, citing Adolf Hitler or reportedly threatening to burn synagogues on the ground.

A group of Haverford professors, most of whom are Jewish, raised concerns about lawmakers, pointing to the rhetoric they had done in the past and anti-Semitism in their area, and the professor said they were not forcibly condemned.

On Wednesday, the U.S. House Education and Workforce Committee will question the president of Haverford College of Depaul University in Pennsylvania, Chicago, and state university at Depaul University in Chicago and California Institute of Technology, San Luis Obispo, who was involved in a controversial showdown between several university presidents and university administrators last year.

In a memorandum shared specifically with the guardian, the teachers at Haverford questioned the credibility of several members of the committee.

The college has requested anonymity to avoid revenge. In the memorandum, they wrote that Republican representative, the committee chairman, Tim Walberg, had links with Tim Walberg of Michigan, with the Moody Bible Institute, which “trains students to transform Jews into Christianity.” It points out that North Carolina representative Mark Harris once said that there will never be peace in their souls or cities until Jews and Muslims accept Jesus Christ”.

The faculty also condemned the Illinois commission member Mary Miller, who quoted Hitler in a speech outside the U.S. Capitol the day before the Jan. 6 attack, saying he was “a thing” when he said “there are young people with future people.” (Miller later apologized.)

The memorandum notes that several members of the committee came from areas with a history of neo-Nazi events. It points to Appalachian State University in North Carolina – in the twenty years represented by Virginia Foxx, a regional committee member – in recent years, anti-Semitic organizations have distributed promotional materials, scratched swastikas and racist sluts, drove Jewish students’ cars, distributed promotional materials in Jewish students’ cars, sprayed crushed swastikas and segpered swastikikas and covered campus space. The memo states that the university is not someone facing a congressional investigation, but focuses on pro-Palestinian speeches.

The memorandum also criticized Indiana representative Mark Messmer for making “anti-Semitist criticism of Nazi and white supremacy” in his district and state, and New York’s Elise Stefanik supported a political candidate who praised Hitler as “the kind of leader we need today.” (Candidate Carl Paladino apologized but suggested that his comment was made from "background.") It called on Florida's representative Randy Fine, a Republican Jewish congressman who reportedly threatened to burn his synagogue to hire LGBTQ+ employees.

The Guardian has contacted all committee members nominated in this story.

This is not the first time that Jewish scholars accuse those who lead the anti-Semitism struggle on campus have been compromised on this issue. In March, the Jewish voices of Peace published a report that said the Esther project was a right-wing blueprint for undermining the American pro-Palestine solidarity - “repeat and reinforce anti-Semitic bias” by promoting anti-Semitic conspiracy theories that are controlling the social justice movement.

In Haverford, Jewish students and faculty signed separate statements, accusing the committee of “arming our pain and pain and pain” and saying their voices were “not represented in the current public discussion on anti-Semitism.”

"We refuse the premise of hearings," said Lindsay Reckson, a professor of literature and one of the authors of faculty statements. "They are political theaters that aim to make the university government sacrifice their commitment to academic freedom and strive to silence and police pro-Palestinian voices on campus, including many Jewish voices."

The memorandum comes as Jewish scholars and students increasingly condemn the Trump administration’s actions in the name of combat anti-Semitism.

In a letter to Haverford President Wendy Raymond, the committee mentioned “antised events” on campus, including the destruction of anti-Semitism workshops in the Anti-Defamation League last October and gave a speech in the same month, the committee said “Whistleblowers” ​​promoted “propaganda” culture and promoted “antisemistic.”

What the letter doesn't say is that the protest against ADL was entirely conducted by Jewish students and the speech was made by Rebecca Alpert - Rabbi and Professor of Religion.

“For them, Jewish students mean Zionist Jewish students,” said Ellie Baron, a senior at Haverford.

Alpert, a self-proclaimed anti-Zionist, told The Guardian that she was "surprising" the committee described her speech - about the difference between Judaism and Zionism - was anti-Semitism. "In my opinion, anti-Semitism is anti-Semitism," she said.

Jewish teachers warned that the discussion was also confusing with the criticism of Israel and the anti-Semitism advocated in the Congressional investigation.

"This is not to say that anti-Semitism does not exist," said Joshua Moses, an anthropology professor at Haverford.

“If there is anti-Semitism, I want to hear it, let’s figure out how to solve the problem, but also let’s see who is most at risk at this point and who suffers the most.”

He added: "I don't feel unsafe. But if I do, this Congressional committee is not where I'd go."