DePaul president Robert Manuel was the latest local university president called to Washington to testify on allegations of antisemitism at their schools. Why it matters: Students at DePaul have joined campuses across the country since 2023 in calling for a ceasefire in the Israel-Gaza war and urging university leadership to divest from any financial attachments in Israel.

University president Robert Manuel faced three hours of heated questions, while a civil rights lawyer compared a Washington hearing Wednesday to a long-discredited anti-communism campaign from the Cold War era.