“I was pretty shocked by that,” said Muhammad, a professor of history, race, and public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. His class — a requirement for public policy graduate students — explores how race and racism have shaped American public policy. Representative Virginia Foxx, a Republican from North Carolina, called out a graduate-level course that Muhammad teaches as an example of the “ideology” that exacerbated “rabid antisemitism” on the university’s campus after the Oct. 7 Hamas-led attack on Israel. Khalil Gibran Muhammad, like many in the Harvard community, was watching the now infamous Dec. 5 congressional hearing about campus...