>> dana: happening now on capitol hill jewish students from some of the mostly let universities along with house republicans speaking out about rampant anti-semitism on campus as school leaders face accountability for their responsibility for bias and protests against jewish students. i'm dana perino. >> bill: good morning. big hour. how about bugsy? he could have his own show. minutes from now the presidents of harvard, m.i.t. and university of pennsylvania will be facing pointed questions before the housed indication committee after weeks of bipartisan backlash after allowing anti-semitism. >> dana: students say they don't feel safe on campus and some lawmakers attacked the demonstrations calling them reprehensible. aishah hosni tracking developments on capitol hill. >> good morning to you both. this hearing could get rowdy. look behind me. the large crowd that is waiting to get into this hearing and in the past you guys have seen it here on fox. some of these hearings get interrupted by protestors and we're already hearing some hecklers here in the hallway. we haven't started yet. the first time the presidents of these universities are on capitol hill since octoberer 7t and since the eruption of anti-semitism in these big protests on their campuses. and so they are facing a very tough crowd in this hearing. take a look. these are the three university presidents we'll see today. we expect house republicans to put the blame squarely on these leaders and the woke ideologies they say are being taught at these schools. meanwhile house democrats will argue that anti-semitism has been on the rise long before october 7th and that the biden administration is taking steps to fight back. the hearing comes, guys, as harvard and upenn both face a federal civil rights complaint by a jewish advocacy group saying they failed to adequately spent to anti-semitism. calls for u penn's president to resign. donors are threatening to cut after funding to campuses as well. i had a chance to look over the opening statements for these presidents. we expect them, for example, harvard president day to go over the steps she is taking to reject anti-semitism and preserving free speech. they will get to that. hearing hecklers in the hallway, seeing protestors outside. the crowd getting bigger outside this building as well. we'll keep an eye on both those things. >> dana: thank you so much. as we mentioned the house republicans are gathering today ahead of this hearing in order to talk about anti-semitism and what should be done about it. >> bill: that's stefanik at the microphone there. at the same time you'll have pro-palestinian students with a press conference of their own. this has come to washington. lawmakers are taking it on. see how it shakes down. it has been something to watch across america over the past two months. >> elite institutions including harvard. jewish students are facing sustained attacks from -- >> bill: if you were with us last hour we spoke with a senior at columbia university in manhattan. does she have a story to tell. we'll watch that go down. the hearing gets underway. how will they defend themselves? anti-semitism becoming all too familiar across the country ahead of the first night of hanukkah coming up on thursday. as the war between israel and hamas rages on. the longer the war goes, the more these protests will happen period. a proposal for a lighting ceremony in virginia was rejected. the rabbi getting a text saying unless we could get an is am i can group to participate at the same time we're about peace, love and light. don't want to make it seem we're choosing a side supporting the killing, bombing of thousands of men, women and children, end quote. virginia's governor glenn youngkin slamming the move as nothing more than hatred of jews. his statement. singling out the jewish community by canceling a hanukkah celebration is absurd and anti-semitic. the event organizers should reconsider their actions and move forward with the menorah lighting is what he said on x, dana. >> dana: in new york city there was this. [shouting] [chanting] >> dana: protestors flooding the williamsburg bridge chanting vile slogans against the jewish state and philadelphia. anti-israel protestors mob a jewish-owned restaurant. the morning shows of abc, cbs and nbc ignored the anti-semitic hate march yesterday. >> do we believe hamas spokesperson who said that rape is forbidden therefore it couldn't have possibly happened on october 7th? or do we believe the women whose bodies tell us how they spent the last minutes of their lives. this goes beyond politics. if we can't agree that rape is wrong, then we have accepted the unacceptable. then the question will be not what is happening in the middle east, but what is happening to our humanity? when i saw the list of women's rights organizations who have said nothing, i nearly choked. where is the solidarity for women in this country and in this world? >> dana: prominent democratic women joining the calls to -- their anger comes after deafening silence from the u.n. on the acts of savagery by hamas and after congressman jayapal accused the rape as a weapon of war. bret baier. this is getting heated on capitol hill. there will be a chance for members of congress from both sides of the aisle to question university presidents today because bret, it feels like this is a problem as bill said earlier, we turned over some rocks in the country and what's underneath is not good. >> good morning, dana and bill. i agree who heartedly. i think this has been eyebrow raising across the board the amount of anti-semitism we've seen on college campuses in particular. what's interesting the democratic women speaking out and they are a minority voice inside the democratic party currently. there is a split but they are being very vocal. sheryl sandberg, kirsten gillibrand and hillary clinton getting praised from some conservatives for standing up and saying all she is saying about how there can't be any kind of double standard or equivalence with israeli women being raped. another interesting thing, the state department yesterday saying that one of the reasons the cease-fire deal or pause deal fell apart was because hamas does not want to release the 18 female hostages being held in gaza for fear they'll tell the stories of what has happened to them in captivity. that's stunning. >> bill: we had a student on from columbia last hour and she is jewish and can't believe what is happening on campus. this is a student from yale earlier today. >> i think with the first, most basic and therefore most easy question that should be addressed is the question of why these universities don't enforce pre-existing policies against anti-jewish students that they would enforce against other students? on campus, there is essentially no space that is not at risk of being taken over by hostile students. >> bill: these administrators have to answer to that. she was at yale. the yale president isn't there today. you think about kirsten gillibrand what she said and the coalition between sandberg, gillibrand and hillary clinton going up against all the liberal leftist groups. these are the groups who haven't said anything on rape. world health organization, planned parenthood. emily's list, democratic women's caucus, i stand with her, hillary clinton would have stood with all those groups up until now, i think. >> yeah. not only that they point to the fact that vice president kamala harris hasn't spoken out about this part of the atrocities of october 7th and beyond. you can have concerns about the civilian casualties. you can really express concern about what's happening on the ground in gaza but you also have to acknowledge what happened on october 7th and you have to put the onus on hamas to release those hostages that they have had now for this amount of time. >> bill: bret, thank you. just getting word right now we wereg this republican leadership meeting. dip back in. a jewish student from m.i.t. >> jewish students, publicly declaring that israel has no right to exist, faculty dismissing student concerns for their safety by telling them that if they are scared, they should just go back to israel. caa protestors blocking the hallways, storming the offices of the m.i.t. israel internship offices and harassing staff and faculty and inviting dangerous outsiders to campus to yell violent chants. the same climate of anti-semitism that has led to masker of jews throughout the cent centuries. this is our lives on the land. the m.i.t. administrations has put it to a faculty committee on discipline and not received a single one of our complaints. m.i.t. has failed to staff a new task force against hate which will combatant i semitism and islamaphobia. this atmosphere is intolerable. president of the university please let me go back to being a scientist. let me go back to being a student. i don't want to have to keep advocating for jewish student safety on campus. it is not my job. it is your job. please do your job and act now and if you can't, i am asking congress to do it for you. thank you. >> thank you. it is outrageous what is happening at m.i.t. we'll here from bella and tell us what is happening at nyu. >> thank you all for having me and for giving me the opportunity to share with you my story. my name is bella, i am a junior at nyu and i'm going to try to answer the following question for you from my personal experiences. what is it like to be a jew at nyu? being a jew at nyu is walking to class and passing torn and defaced posters of innocent hostages with the words occupier and murdereder written across their faces. going to the library to study and being interrupted by unauthorized protests where students and faculty call for globalized intifada revolution and incitement to violence against jews everywhere and call for the an ilation of the jewish states. being -- as they say resistance is justified when people are occupied. it is being surrounded by social justice warriors and self-proclaimed feminists whose calls for justice end when the rape victims are jews. being a jew at nyu has meant being physically assaulted in the library by a fellow student while i was wearing an american israeli flag and having the attacker roam free at campus. how dei is not a value that nyu extends to jewish students. since october 7th the unmistakable anti-semis many i have experienced on campus is reminiscent of the jew hatred i heard from my grand parents, holocaust survivors who experienced the deafening silence of their neighbors in poland and germany when the nazis rose to power. their communities shops were looted, synagogues defaced and finally their families were taken away and perished in concentration camps. today in 2023, at nyu, i hear calls to gas the jews and i'm told that hitler was right. to the nyu administration you are not free to selectively enforce your own rules. you are not free to refuse your jewish students the same protections that you extend to others. nyu has adopted the definition of anti-semitism which recognizes that calls to harm jews in the name of radical ideology, calls to eradicate israel, to deny the jewish people their right to self-determination in their ancestral homeland is anti-semitism is punishable under the code of conduct. i'm a proud jew and a proud zionist. i am the granddaughter of holocaust survivors. we are not going anywhere. anti-semitism and the support for terror should have no home at nyu or any other college campus. we made the promise of never again and never again is now. thank you. >> so proud of you and we'll stand with you. we'll hear from a university of penn student. >> i am both honored and thankful to be here. i should not be here today. i should be studying for my upcoming finals. i should be taking in every moment, every experience as an undergraduate student in my seniorier of college. i should not be here today but i am. 36 hours ago i along with most of campus, sought refuge in our rooms as classmates and professors chanted proudly for the genocide of jews while igniting smoke bombs and defacing school property. the university president described it as a brazen display of anti-semitism saying silence in the face of last night's demonstration of anti-semitism and hate near our doorstep is not an option for me. well, the doorstep of the neighboring university is in fact penn. in fact, penn's president did choose silence. the neighboring university's president swiftly denounced the incident and yet our president cannot. because the glorious october 7th and are you a dirty little jew and you deserve to die are words said not by ham yells but classmates and professors. despite all of this, i am adamant and hopeful that we will not accept least of all embrace this horrific new normal on college campuses today. on october 7th israel was attacked. since october 7th, american jews have been under attack. i am a proud american studying at the university of pennsylvania. i love penn. i have wanted to attend this university since before i can remember. i am here because the penn i attend today is unrecognizable from the penn i once used to know. penn once renowned for groundbreaking discoveries is now a chilling landscape of hatred and hostility. our university revered for its pursuit of knowledge has devolved into an arena where jewish students are unsafe. the situation at penn has escalated into a crisis with students openly asserting their intentions to proceed with plans with or without university permission. during covid strict guidelines governed everything from class attendance and graduation walks. yet now when students and faculty defy policies to intimidate jewish students, where is the same resolute enforcement? for the past three weeks inside houston hall our student center an anti-semitic headquarters with erected with signs spreading hamas propaganda, the organizers were initially asked to leave as they are trespassing on campus property. three weeks later they are still sleeping there and countless jewish students have been harassed. anti-semitic dormitory remains. both a disregard for school poll seals and permission to disregard them by university unwilling to do anything. not only are tensions palpable but there have been materialized actions taken to intimidate and harm students. a bomb threat. swastika spray painted revision houses vandalized. a professor, a jewish student accosted. jews are nazis etched to penn's jewish fraternity house. why doesn't the university hold perpetrators of those acts accountable? penn's ambivalence fuels the crisis that has shattered my academic sanctuary. policies meant to safeguard us has become hollow promises and let us be clear, if they fail jewish students today, tomorrow they will fail the rest of us. nonetheless, i refuse to go back to 1939 when jews had to hide their religious symbols and hide who they are due to intimidation and harassment of us. i used to think it was nonsense, fear mongering until i was made aware that penn recommended to students not wear closing accessories related to judaism. hundreds of posters mocking the hostages featuring cows instead of humans adarned the campus. i was greeted with chalk saying 90% of pigs are gas cham beard. -i do not feel safe. luckily there are policies in place to protect students from the heinous acts i described. the university seems to have no interest in up holding those very policies. it is time for the soul of our university to reclaim its integrity and it's time for me and my fellow classmates to stop worrying for our lives. thank you. >> we'll hear from one more student. they are so well spoken and it sends a shudder down your spine to hear it is happening in america. it is outrageous. jonathan from harvard law will speak next. >> thank you for having me here. i'm jonathan and currently a student at harvard law school. i would like to share with you what my experience has been like since october 7th at harvard law school and after over 30 student clubs signed on to a statement explicitly blaming israel for the murder and rape of their own people. multiple times a week on my way to class i walk by mobs of people chanting from the river to the sea, which is a call for the destruction of the state of israel. most recently we have you outnumbered, and globalize the intifada. that is an uprising and the last two were marked by blowing up buses and restaurants. one day a few weeks ago i was in a study room in the law school while classes were going on. a mob of 200 people, many of whom not only were not law students, were not harvard affiliates, got into our building, marched down the halls chanting these phrases. jews took off their -- i watched someone hide under a desk. many of my friends ran up to the dean of students and dei office but they locked their doors for their own safety. this was such a clear safety concern. it was also explicitly against school policy as it disrupted class. we heard nothing from harvard. no email, nothing. i talked to my jewish friends on campus every day and tell me how afraid they are to go to class. they share hate messages. they are receiving from other students on social media including comparing jews to nazis and they ask us and they ask me for safety advice because of the lack of effective communication from the university. so you might ask what is the administration doing? we have brought them policy violations, proof that they happened and photos of the student handbook that were explicitly violated. responses are empty and meaningless if they respond at all. responses such as we're aware of the situation. this is not how the university would treat other groups. we are happy that harvard has created an anti-semitism advisory board but no transparency about what they do. they seemingly don't have executive power and not accessible to student and i personally asked to meet with them multiple times for weeks and they have not responded to me. no one knows what happens when you send them an incident report. we are not asking to limit free speech. we are asking that the university to enforce their policies, to insure safety and a climate conducive to education. the administration has asked us to abide by the rules and we have unequivocally. it seems more and more that this rule only applies to jews. as broken rules are not being enforced or reprimanded. i want to be clear, this is not just about the middle east. this is anti-semitism right here in our homes, on our campuses. it is dangerous. it is going unchecked. and everyone that does not join to put a stop to it, is part of the problem. i am asking, as i have been, do something. protect jewish people. protect your students. thank you. >> we want to thank you again, ladies and gentlemen, they are so courageous and house republicans and millions of the american people empathize and sympathize and applause your courage. you need to go testify in the house education committee. >> these are 21, 22, 23-year-old americans and telling a story that shouldn't happen in america and tell it with such eloquence and passion. they are remarkable young men and women. >> dana: each said they don't feel safe on their campuses. as we wait for this hearing to get underway, the university presidents will have to answer that. in particular there was a message that said they are not trying to call for anything against free speech about someone who might have a different opinion. what they are asking is that the actual laws on the books and the policies on the books at those universities be implemented in order to keep them feeling safe and for the protests to have to be sanctioned. a lot of them are not. we have heard that from many students. those four young people were very impressive. >> bill: the one woman said it is about our lives being on the line. at the same time you have this, pal