WATCH LIVE: House Judiciary Committee holds hearing on free speech on college campuses

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FILE – Middlebury College students turn their backs to Charles Murray, unseen, during his lecture in Middlebury, Vt., Thursday, March 2, 2017. New polling finds that America’s college campuses are seen as far friendlier to liberals than to conservatives when it comes free speech. Polling from the University of Chicago and the AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds that 47% of adult Americans say liberals are free to express their views on college campuses, while 20% said the same of conservatives. (AP Photo/Lisa Rathke, File) Lisa Rathke/AP

WATCH LIVE: House Judiciary Committee holds hearing on free speech on college campuses

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The House Judiciary Committee is holding a hearing examining the status of free speech on college and university campuses Wednesday morning.

The hearing will also examine the rise in antisemitism, anti-Israel sentiment, and violence toward students supporting Israel, including an incident at Cornell University in October that saw a student charged with threatening to kill Jewish students on campus.

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The committee hearing will include testimony from current college students at the University of Iowa and Cornell University and Kenneth Marcus, founder and chairman of the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law.

The House hearing is expected to begin at 10 a.m.

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