Campus Antisemitism
The foreign funding comes, in part, from “countries and entities that are involved in activities that threaten America’s national security,” the U.S. education secretary said.
The issue is a “failure of governance,” Tammi Rossman-Benjamin, of the AMCHA Initiative, told JNS.
The candidate, who would succeed Rashid Khalidi, a longtime critic of Israel who retired from the post in 2024, has publicly praised him as a mentor.
“There are certainly organizations with much stronger reputations within the Jewish community for actually standing up and fighting antisemitism,” the Jewish Educators and Families Association of Canada told JNS.
“I think the government should be funding those universities that see themselves as repositories of cultural inheritance and of a Western tradition that undergirds what America stands for,” Yeshiva University’s president, who testified at the hearing, told JNS.
Rep. Virginia Foxx stated that she “won’t be deterred from my fight to protect Jewish students from discrimination on campuses across the nation.”
Antisemitism “subtly” hits students repeatedly until they become “numb to it,” a senior at San Diego State University told JNS.
“I was a rabbi before I became a lawyer, which informs a lot of my worldview,” the National Jewish Advocacy Center CEO told JNS.
The North American Values Institute told JNS that Islamist actors and China and Qatar are trying to take control of schools.
“Foreign governments with appalling human-rights records are funding the very offices meant to protect students’ civil rights,” stated Ziporah Reich, of the Lawfare Project.
“The latest antisemitic blood libel going around? The IDF trains with ICE,” StopAntisemitism stated.
“When someone shows up, and they’re brave enough to be vulnerable, we want to make sure there’s some safety in that,” a school official stated.
