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Americans are watching in disgust as chaos unfolds on college campuses across the country. Jewish students and faculty fear for their safety as anti-Semitism goes unchecked and morally bankrupt university leaders abandon the rule of law under President Joe Biden. .
Do whatever you want. It is time to restore law, order and moral decency to Colombia and the nation’s universities.
Speaker Johnson and House Republicans announced plans to hold higher education institutions accountable for failing to protect Jewish students and condemn anti-Semitism. Billions of taxpayer dollars flow into these institutions in the form of federal student aid, research grants, tax incentives, and more. To university presidents and administrators, our message is clear. If you fail to keep students safe, you will be held accountable.
Columbia University Protest: Rep.Elise Stefanik asks trustees to remove Shafik after mob takes over building
The New York City Police Department (NYPD) said the inevitable chaos that had engulfed the university campus for weeks escalated to a new level after Hamilton Hall was stormed, defaced and occupied by pro-Hamas protesters. , a mob that had to restore order on the Columbia University campus Tuesday night. Staff members were detained indoors and the building was barricaded as terrorist sympathizers hung banners calling for an “intifada” outside the facility’s windows.
It’s not just Colombia. This is a moral rot that is entrenched throughout American institutions of higher education.
Palestinians at Harvard University the flag was raised In a university hall where American flags fly.
Jewish students barricaded themselves in the Cooper Union library.
The University of Southern California canceled graduation because it could not guarantee student safety.
At Yale University, a Jewish student It stung my eye Palestinian flags were displayed at the demonstration.
Columbia University locks down campus buildings ‘immediately’ after overnight riot
A woman was allegedly beaten unconscious by a pro-Palestinian mob at the University of California, Los Angeles, because she was Jewish.
Dozens of such occupations occur across the country, many of which violate university regulations and lead to increased targeting and harassment of Jewish students and faculty.
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In December, when I questioned the presidents of Harvard, MIT, and the University of Pennsylvania in what became the most-watched Congressional testimony in history, I exposed how deeply entrenched anti-Semitism is in America’s so-called “elite” institutions of higher education. did. These three university presidents were unable to answer a simple question: “Does calling for the extermination of Jews violate the university’s code of conduct?”
On April 17, Columbia University President Shafik and trustees exemplified a failure of leadership by failing to explain Columbia University’s lack of response to anti-Semitism and on-campus anarchy in another Congressional hearing. Ta. Eight days ago, I became the first member of Congress to call for President Shafik’s resignation for failing to disperse the anti-Semitic mob that occupied Columbia University’s campus and ensuring the safety of Columbia’s Jewish students. Instead, she negotiated with these self-proclaimed terrorists and allowed their anti-Semitic mob to grow.
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There can be no such thing as moral equivalence. It’s time to send a clear message to the world that anti-Semitism has no place in America.
The world is paying attention. And House Republicans are leading where university presidents, far-left Democrats, Joe Biden and others have failed.
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