Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) spoke out about what American colleges and universities need to do to protect Jewish students this semester.
“Number one, they need to comply with all Title VI requirements to protect Jewish students and Jewish faculty members,” Stefanik said on Thursday during an appearance on “The Howie Carr Show” radio program. “Number two, they cannot allow pro-Hamas terrorists to take over public spaces. They need to enforce their own rules.”
Stefanik also identified the role of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) programs as an influence on the hostile environments against Jewish students and faculty on campus.
“They need to root out the rot of these offices of DEI, which are inherently antisemitic on their own,” Stefanik told Carr. “In the case of Harvard, you had hundreds of Jewish students reach out to the office of DEI, and the office of DEI did not even respond. That itself is antisemitic.”
She pointed to deeper, systemic issues in academia as a further factor, saying that “you need to broadly look at the fact that there is something very wrong in higher education when 95% of the faculty are radical, far left, and there are fewer and fewer conservatives.”
