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Elise Stefanik eyes crackdown on colleges' federal dollars amid campus antisemitism probe
House Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik is looking at ways to leverage U.S. taxpayer dollars going to colleges and universities to ensure they crack down on antisemitic incidents on campus.
"You have to deliver accountability," Stefanik, R-N.Y., told Fox News Digital. "Legislatively, there’s a number of avenues that I’m looking at."
Stefanik was among a group of lawmakers who heard from Jewish college students at a Thursday roundtable, led by House Education and Workforce Committee Chair Virginia Foxx, R-N.C., where the young adults recalled instances of feeling threatened and being confronted with profanity just because of their Jewish identity.
It is part of the committee’s ongoing investigation into antisemitism on campus, which has already precipitated the departures of presidents at two major Ivy League schools — Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania.
Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., wants to leverage federal funding to universities that are not doing enough about antisemitism. (Haiyun Jiang/Bloomberg)
The New York Republican suggested she’s looking at possibly introducing legislation that would help improve the safety of Jewish students on campus as well, specifically targeting federal funds, foreign funding and offices of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI).
"Number one, U.S. taxpayer funding for these institutions — U.S. taxpayers do not want to prop up this moral rot of antisemitism, and we have to make sure that that is not the case," Stefanik said. "Foreign funding as well, there is not full transparency in terms of foreign funding and strings that are attached to that foreign funding. This is a major issue on these college campuses."
She also listed "the elimination of the offices of DEI," calling DEI "inherently antisemitic."...
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Colleges and Universities that allow antisemitism or racism openly on their campuses should not receive any Federal money including Student loan guarantees. The taxpayers should not be forced to pay for tolerating those forms of hate.
House Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik is looking at ways to leverage U.S. taxpayer dollars going to colleges and universities to ensure they crack down on antisemitic incidents on campus.
"You have to deliver accountability," Stefanik, R-N.Y., told Fox News Digital. "Legislatively, there’s a number of avenues that I’m looking at."
Stefanik was among a group of lawmakers who heard from Jewish college students at a Thursday roundtable, led by House Education and Workforce Committee Chair Virginia Foxx, R-N.C., where the young adults recalled instances of feeling threatened and being confronted with profanity just because of their Jewish identity.
It is part of the committee’s ongoing investigation into antisemitism on campus, which has already precipitated the departures of presidents at two major Ivy League schools — Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania.
Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., wants to leverage federal funding to universities that are not doing enough about antisemitism. (Haiyun Jiang/Bloomberg)
The New York Republican suggested she’s looking at possibly introducing legislation that would help improve the safety of Jewish students on campus as well, specifically targeting federal funds, foreign funding and offices of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI).
"Number one, U.S. taxpayer funding for these institutions — U.S. taxpayers do not want to prop up this moral rot of antisemitism, and we have to make sure that that is not the case," Stefanik said. "Foreign funding as well, there is not full transparency in terms of foreign funding and strings that are attached to that foreign funding. This is a major issue on these college campuses."
She also listed "the elimination of the offices of DEI," calling DEI "inherently antisemitic."...
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Colleges and Universities that allow antisemitism or racism openly on their campuses should not receive any Federal money including Student loan guarantees. The taxpayers should not be forced to pay for tolerating those forms of hate.
