<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/house-republicans" target="_blank" rel="noopener">House Republicans</a> from <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/new-york" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York</a> on Monday demanded that the president of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/columbia-university" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Columbia University</a>, the Ivy League school in New York City where pro-Palestinian protests have led to safety concerns for Jewish students, step down from her position.
The New York delegation, led by House Republican Conference Chairwoman Elise Stefanik (R-NY), <a href="https://files.constantcontact.com/81b76c35801/10181832-52e2-49dd-97db-124433534f8d.pdf?rdr=true" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sent a letter</a> to Columbia President Minouche Shafik seeking her resignation after the university moved to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/columbia-university-moves-to-remote-learning-as-campus-rancor-puts-jewish-students-on-edge?topStoryPosition=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">remote learning</a> on the day Passover is set to begin.
&#8220;Over the past few days, anarchy has engulfed the campus of Columbia University,&#8221; the lawmakers wrote. &#8220;As the leader of this institution, one of your chief objectives, morally and under law, is to ensure students have a safe learning environment. By every measure, you have failed this obligation.&#8221;
&#8220;The situation unfolding on campus right now is a direct product of your policies and misguided decisions,&#8221; they added. &#8220;As Representatives from the State of New York, many of our constituents are directly impacted by the unfolding chaos on Columbia’s campus. Based on these recent events and your testimony in front of Congress, we have no confidence in your leadership of this once esteemed institution.&#8221;
Students have <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/22/us/columbia-university-protests-classes.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">erected tents</a> on a central campus lawn at Columbia and insisted they would not leave until the university divests from companies that have ties to Israel, according to The New York Times. Although police arrested more than <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/20/nyregion/arrested-columbia-students-suspended.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">100 students</a> for refusing to leave and participants have been subject to suspension, the protest activity has persisted for nearly a week now.
Last week, during testimony before the House, Shafik <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/antisemitism-on-college-campuses-columbia-university-president-shafik-testifies-before-congress/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">testified</a> that anti-Semitism has &#8220;no place on our campus&#8221; and was &#8220;personally committed to doing everything I can to confront it directly.&#8221; Shafik later <a href="https://publicsafety.columbia.edu/news/letter-nypd" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> police all university students participating in the encampment had been informed they were suspended as they were not authorized to be on university property and were trespassing.
Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), chairwoman of the Education and the Workforce Committee, <a href="https://edworkforce.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=410478" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sent a letter</a> to Shafik on Sunday calling for expulsions, noting that the encampment and related activities have resulted in&#8221;widespread antisemitic harassment and intimidation, assaults, frequent celebration of terrorism, and major disruptions of Columbia’s learning environment.&#8221;
Students, faculty, and staff &#8220;responsible for this mayhem &#8220;repeatedly and flagrantly have violated multiple University rules, and in many cases, federal law,&#8221; Foxx said. &#8220;The University must decisively hold them accountable in a manner commensurate with the severity of their offenses, including expulsion and termination of employment.&#8221;
The New York GOP delegation told Shafik that the &#8220;ongoing situation that has unfolded is a direct symptom of your continued lax enforcement of policy and clear double standards.&#8221; They claimed that Shafik&#8217;s testimony rang &#8220;hollow,&#8221; as evidenced by a &#8220;cover-up of the lack of punishment for pro-terror&#8221; Columbia University professor Joseph Massad, who used the word &#8220;awesome&#8221; to describe Hamas&#8217;s deadly terrorist attacks on Israel last October.
&#8220;Your failure to enforce the rules on campus has created an environment in which students and outside agitators know they are able to operate with impunity and without any accountability,&#8221; the letter said.
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They continued, &#8220;While the rot is systemic, the responsibility rests squarely on your shoulders. It is time for Columbia University to turn the page on this shameful chapter. This can only be done through the restoration of order and your prompt resignation.&#8221;
Other lawmakers who signed the letter included Reps. Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY), Claudia Tenney (R-NY), Nicholas Langworthy (R-NY), Michael Lawler (R-NY), Anthony D&#8217;Esposito (R-NY), Nick Lakota (R-NY), Brandon Williams (R-NY), Andrew Garbarino (R-NY), and Marcus Molinaro (R-NY).
Jewish House Democrats, including Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY), showed up on Columbia University&#8217;s campus on Monday — where a pro-Israel professor was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pro-israel-professor-denied-entry-at-columbia-university" target="_blank" rel="noopener">denied entry</a> while making his way to lead a sit-in at the site where pro-Palestinian demonstrators have set up camp.
&#8220;I should be with my family today for Passover. Instead, I’m here at [Columbia University] standing with Jewish students who are being harassed on their campus,&#8221; another participant, Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL), <a href="https://twitter.com/RepMoskowitz/status/1782455889116430428" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> on X. &#8220;To the Columbia President, DO NOT make the same choice as the Presidents of UPenn and Harvard. Protect your students,&#8221; he added, alluding to other university presidents who stepped down amid controversy.

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Rep. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/elise-stefanik" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Elise Stefanik</a> (R-NY) slammed Harvard University in a letter on Thursday for failing to take action against anti-Semitism and siding with “those who hate Jewish students.”
“This institution has failed time and time again to take steps to properly address this scourge and hold perpetrators accountable,” Stefanik, who is a Harvard alumna, wrote in a <a href="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/04/04.11.24-Letter-to-Harvard435287.pdf">letter</a> to its interim president. “Your actions have continued to disgrace this institution and threaten the safety of the students you claim to serve.”
“At a time when support and applications for Harvard have fallen, university leadership has continuously chosen to side with those who hate Jewish students and faculty and failed to keep them safe,” Stefanik added.
Stefanik’s letter cited the school&#8217;s failure to take immediate action after an October 18 “die-in” at Harvard Business School, during which student activists displayed a sign with the genocidal anti-Israel slogan “from the river to the sea” and assaulted a student filming.
“During this event, an Israeli Harvard Business School student recorded the act and was quickly surrounded by a mob of anti-Israel protestors who assaulted and harassed him,” Stefanik wrote. “These assailants blocked his path, repeatedly grabbed him, and shouted &#8216;Shame! Shame! Shame!&#8217; at him.&#8221;
Following the incident, the House Committee on Education and the Workforce — of which Stefanik is a member — obtained <a href="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/04/20240322-March-Letter-to-Katya-Jestin_Redacted31865627.pdf">documents</a> showing that the law firm Harvard hired to conduct an investigation shared video evidence of the incident with the victim’s lawyers in January.
Despite the video evidence, one of the accused assailants is scheduled to graduate in May 2024, the same month of a now-postponed court date.
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“Due to this postponement, the assailant will gain the lifelong distinction of being an alumnus of Harvard despite having committed a well-documented antisemitic hate crime against a fellow student,” Stefanik wrote. “Justice for this incident should have been served quickly, and the delay of justice that specifically allows an antisemitic student to graduate is an affront to accountability and demonstrates the cultural rot of Harvard University&#8217;s leadership that has allowed antisemitism to continue.”
In a statement provided after publication of this article, a Harvard spokesman said the student is not set to graduate in the spring, but declined to give a detailed explanation.
Stefanik went on to reference her <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/elise-stefanik-harvard-president-claudine-gays-resignation-was-long-overdue">December interaction</a> with former Harvard president Claudine Gay, who said it depends on the context if calling for the genocide of Jews constitutes harassment.
“In front of Congress, when disgraced former Harvard Presdient Claudine Gay failed to denounce antisemitism and calls for genocide, she also claimed ‘disciplinary process are underway’ against perpetrators of antisemitism,” Stefanik’s letter states. “This has proven to be false, with Harvard producing no evidence of punishment against those who have committed crimes and violated Harvard’s code of conduct.”
The congresswoman also cited an incident first reported by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/harvard-employee-harasses-jewish-student-suing-school-for-anti-semitism-asks-to-debate-9-11-conspiracies">The Daily Wire</a> concerning Harvard employee Gustavo Espada challenging a Jewish student — who is suing the university over antisemitism — to a debate about whether Israel is responsible for 9/11.
“I invite you to debate me today at the Cambridge Street overpass 12-1, don’t miss it!” the financial systems coordinator for the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations wrote. “If you don’t show up I will use a puppet or potted plant to represent you!”
After The Daily Wire asked Gustavo for comment, he posted a video to TikTok holding a toy machete claiming he is ready to fight. “I’m not going to go into details, but this is a good plan. So if you follow us, this is what’s happening,” he says in Spanish before photos of various high-profile Jews and a screenshot of a tweet by the Jewish student.
“This recent case of Harvard protecting those who hate Jews is disgusting,” the New York congresswoman continued. “As an alumna of Harvard University, allowing this student to gain the title of Harvard graduate disgraces all who have come before him and erodes the distinction of a once sought after degree.”
The Daily Wire has extensively covered rising anti-Semitic and anti-Israel incidents at Harvard, including a student push to pass <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/radical-harvard-students-set-to-skirt-bylaws-to-hold-anti-israel-referendum-vote">divestment resolutions</a>, a contractor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-harvard-employee-flips-out-after-he-was-caught-ripping-down-israeli-hostage-posters">ripping down</a> hostage posters, and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/embattled-un-official-doubles-down-at-harvard-says-israel-has-no-right-to-self-defense">events with speakers</a> who justified the October 7 massacre.
This piece was updated with a statement from Harvard.

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As President Joe Biden gives his “State of the Union” address on Thursday, he will be met with House Republicans wearing pins calling for action on the border crisis.
The president will give the annual address before Congress at 9:00 p.m. ET, where he is <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/07/politics/what-to-watch-state-of-the-union/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">expected</a> to tout his economic record, defend his party’s fight to promote abortion rights across the country, and contrast himself with former President Donald Trump. Many who will tune into the president’s speech are waiting to see how Biden addresses illegal immigration, the issue at the top of voters’ minds heading into the 2024 election.
To continue to draw attention to the border crisis during the 2024 “SOTU,” House Republicans will unite and wear pins with the message “Stop The Biden Border Crisis.”
&#8220;This evening, during Joe Biden&#8217;s final State of the Union address, House Republicans will highlight the number one crisis impacting Americans daily: Joe Biden&#8217;s open borders,” House Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik (R-NY) said in a statement provided to The Daily Wire. “Since his first day in office, Biden has implemented a radical Far Left open borders agenda, which has turned every community into a border community, jeopardized our national security, and devastated countless American families.”
The border crisis remains under the spotlight after the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/illegal-immigrant-suspect-in-laken-riley-murder-accused-of-disfiguring-her-skull" target="_blank" rel="noopener">murder</a> of Georgia nursing student Laken Riley in late February. Riley, 22, was allegedly killed by an illegal immigrant from Venezuela, who stands accused of attacking Riley while she was on a run, “disfiguring her skull,” and dragging her body to a secluded area.
The man accused of killing Riley, Jose Ibarra, was held by Border Patrol on September 8, 2022, after illegally entering the United States near El Paso, Texas, but was released for further processing, according to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Ibarra was then arrested by New York police in August 2023 and charged with acting in a manner to injure a child less than 17, according to ICE.
Riley’s murder <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-addresses-laken-riley-murder-during-news-conference-at-border-says-he-spoke-with-her-devastated-parents" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sparked outrage</a> from Republicans who continued their demands for the Biden administration to do more to secure the border. The president visited the southern border last week and has blamed the Republican Party for blocking legislation that touched on the border, along with including increased foreign aid, but according to House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) fell short of the GOP&#8217;s requests for border security.
“For the past three years, Biden has ignored the crisis that he created at our borders,” Stefanik added. “Now, in a desperate attempt to stabilize his plummeting poll numbers, Biden suddenly wants to talk about his border crisis. But the American people are smart. They know Biden&#8217;s words are meaningless and that we are in the midst of this historic crisis because of his actions. Tonight, every time Biden looks away from his teleprompter, House Republicans will remind him of the crisis he created.&#8221;
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Since Biden took office in January 2021, Border Patrol agents have recorded more than 7.2 million encounters with illegal immigrants. In just the first four months of fiscal year 2024, which accounts for October through January, agents recorded nearly one million migrant encounters along the U.S. southern border, a number that does not account for illegal immigrants who crossed the border without being detected.

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Rep. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/elise-stefanik" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Elise Stefanik</a> (R-NY) declared on Sunday that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/house-republicans" target="_blank" rel="noopener">House Republicans</a> are &#8220;the last line of defense&#8221; against the Biden administration as they move toward impeaching Homeland Security Secretary <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/alejandro-mayorkas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Alejandro Mayorkas</a> over the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/border-crisis" target="_blank" rel="noopener">border crisis</a>.
The lawmaker, who is the GOP conference chairwoman and widely considered a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-considering-elise-stefanik-for-vp-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">potential VP pick</a> for former President Donald Trump, made the comments during an appearance on Fox News after the Homeland Security Committee <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-panel-releases-2-articles-of-impeachment-against-mayorkas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">unveiled two articles of impeachment</a> for consideration.
&#8220;This is very important as House Republicans are the last line of defense, and we are holding the Biden administration and Joe Biden accountable for the catastrophe at our southern border,&#8221; Stefanik said on Fox News&#8217;s &#8220;Sunday Morning Futures&#8221; with anchor Maria Bartiromo.
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&#8220;Our committee chair, Mark Green of Homeland Security, has done a tremendous job and has shown to the American people that there has been a willful and refusal to comply with the law and an abuse of power in the position as Secretary of Homeland Security,&#8221; Stefanik said.
&#8220;You have a wide-open border. It is the number one issue for Americans across the country. And it’s not just the border states, Maria, who are impacted. It’s my home state of New York as well. Every state is a border state,&#8221; she added.
The <a href="https://homeland.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Articles-of-Impeachment.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">first article introduced on Sunday says</a> Mayorkas has &#8220;willfully and systemically refused to comply with Federal immigration laws,&#8221; and the second claims the secretary &#8220;breached the public trust&#8221; by making false statements and &#8220;knowingly obstructed lawful oversight&#8221; of the Department of Homeland Security.
While Republicans have raised concerns about millions of people crossing the southern border — including some on the terrorist watchlist — and the trafficking of deadly fentanyl, Democrats and the Homeland Security Department have criticized the impeachment effort as a &#8220;sham&#8221; that violates the U.S. Constitution.
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Stefanik said she thinks it is &#8220;telling&#8221; that Democrats &#8220;are refusing to hold&#8221; President Joe Biden &#8220;accountable for this border crisis that Joe Biden and his Cabinet have created.&#8221;
The congresswoman also called out New York Governor Kathy Hochul, a Democrat who has <a href="https://ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/politics/2023/08/24/hochul-asks-biden-for-more-support-in-addressing-influx-of-migrants-in-ny" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sought federal help</a> in dealing with a surge in migrants amid &#8220;sanctuary&#8221; policies that aim to limit cooperation with federal immigration enforcement and an increase in <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/more-asylum-requests-illegal-crossings-canada-northern-border-rcna126329" target="_blank" rel="noopener">northern border crossings</a>.
Hochul is <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/25-republican-governors-band-together-to-support-texas-in-its-fight-to-secure-the-border" target="_blank" rel="noopener">not one of the governors</a> who are backing Texas in a standoff against the Biden administration to secure its border while she is &#8220;begging for relief despite the fact that New York is a sanctuary state and New York City is a sanctuary city where Democrats rolled out the red carpet for illegals,&#8221; Stefanik said.

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Former President Donald Trump is reportedly considering Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) to be his vice presidential pick if he wins the Republican Party presidential primary.
The news comes as Stefanik announced that she was going to campaign with Trump in New Hampshire ahead of the state&#8217;s first-in-the-nation primaries next week.
According to <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/trump-elise-stefanik-vp-pick-prospect-rcna133599">NBC News</a>, Trump insiders claim the New York congresswoman is at the top of Trump&#8217;s list &#8220;because she possesses one of the key attributes he’s looking for in a 2024 running mate: loyalty.&#8221; One Republican campaign operative told the outlet, “If you’re Trump, you want someone who’s loyal above all else. Particularly because he sees Mike Pence as having made a fatal sin.”
Talk of Stefanik as a potential vice presidential pick, NBC reports, came up during a dinner with Mar-a-Lago members in late December, where the conversation turned to who Trump might pick as his running mate should he win the primary.
Attendees of the event reportedly &#8220;raved about [Stefanik&#8217;s] viral moment just weeks before, when she grilled three university presidents at a congressional hearing about antisemitism on campus.&#8221; It was during that hearing that the congresswoman repeatedly asked the presidents of Harvard, UPenn, and MIT whether calling for the genocide of Jews violated their universities policies on bullying and harassment.
According to one person at the event, when Trump was asked about considering her, he replied, &#8220;She’s a killer.&#8221;
As NBC notes, Stefanik was once viewed as a &#8220;moderate Republican&#8221; and worked on Mitt Romney’s 2012 presidential campaign. In fact, Conservative Review&#8217;s Liberty Score currently <a href="https://libertyscore.conservativereview.com/elise-stefanik" target="_blank" rel="noopener">gives</a> Stefanik a score of 48%, an &#8220;F&#8221; in its grading system, ranking her above Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), but below Romney. Among her actions criticized by conservatives was her decision to initially vote for the pro-LGBT Equality Act in 2019, only to later <a href="https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Stefanik-voted-yes-on-the-Equality-Act-in-2019-15982634.php">reverse</a> her support for the bill. Stefanik was also one of 47 House Republicans in 2022 to <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2022/07/19/house-republicans-same-sex-marriage-law-00046682" target="_blank" rel="noopener">vote</a> in favor of writing same-sex marriage into law.
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After Trump won the 2016 election, Stefanik became a staunch defender of him. The congresswoman served on Trump’s 2019 impeachment defense team, and she was one of over a hundred House Republicans to sign an amicus brief asking the Supreme Court to nullify Biden&#8217;s electoral win. She is currently facing a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/stefanik-fires-back-at-dem-bid-to-censure-her">censure</a> from House Democrats after she referred to January 6 criminal defendants as &#8220;hostages.&#8221;
Stefanik&#8217;s leadership in the House, where she serves as the chair of the House Republican Conference, has been praised by Speaker Mike Johnson, who said of her, &#8220;She’s one of the best leaders and best communicators in Congress.&#8221;
Stefanik did not rule out the possibility of being Trump&#8217;s VP when asked about it during a recent NBC News interview, saying, “Well, I, of course, would be honored to serve in any capacity in a Trump administration.&#8221;

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The third-ranking <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/u-s-house-of-representatives" target="_blank" rel="noopener">House</a> Republican, Rep. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/elise-stefanik" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Elise Stefanik</a> (R-NY), condemned on Wednesday an endeavor to censure her by Rep. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/reporter-calls-out-rep-dan-goldman-over-archer-testimony-claim" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dan Goldman</a> (D-NY) in connection to the U.S. Capitol breach on<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/january-6" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> January 6</a>, 2021, and beyond.
&#8220;Desperate corrupt Far Left House Democrats are attempting to force a vote to censure me for my unwavering support for the Constitution, the rule of law, and election integrity,&#8221; Stefanik <a href="https://twitter.com/EliseStefanik/status/1747694990690546049" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a post to X.
Stefanik, the House Republican conference chairwoman, included a link to a <a href="https://secure.winred.com/team-elise/defendelise?exitintent=true" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fundraising page</a> that claimed she was being retaliated against for her effectiveness in &#8220;exposing&#8221; the lies and corruption of President Joe Biden and the Democrats as well as her &#8220;unwavering support&#8221; of former President Donald Trump.
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Goldman, who served as lead counsel in the first Trump impeachment, has emerged as the Democrats’ most vocal defender of Biden and critic of GOP-led inquiries. His office <a href="https://goldman.house.gov/media/press-releases/congressman-dan-goldman-introduce-resolution-censure-congresswoman-elise" target="_blank" rel="noopener">argued</a> in a statement announcing the censure resolution on Wednesday that Stefanik has engaged in &#8220;conduct unbecoming&#8221; of a member of Congress and Goldman took particular issue with her recently &#8220;echoing&#8221; Trump&#8217;s rhetoric when she referred to January 6 inmates as &#8220;<a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/meet-press-january-7-2024-n1308293">hostages</a>.&#8221;
The resolution also <a href="https://goldman.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/goldman.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/goldma_048_xml79.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lists a number</a> of other grievances against Stefanik, including raising concerns about the 2020 election results and her criticisms of special counsel Jack Smith&#8217;s January 6 case against Trump, and calls for her to present herself to the well of House for the pronouncement of the censure.
Throughout history, <a href="https://history.house.gov/Institution/Discipline/Expulsion-Censure-Reprimand/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">27 members</a> have been successfully censured, which is a formal rebuke and a less severe form of punishment than expulsion, though there has been an uptick of late. House members who were censured last year included Reps. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-votes-to-censure-adam-schiff" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Adam Schiff (D-CA)</a>, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/u-s-house-votes-to-censure-democrat-rashida-tlaib-for-supporting-genocide-of-israel" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rashida Tlaib</a> (D-MI), and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-votes-to-censure-bowman-over-fire-alarm-incident?%3Futm_source=twitter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jamaal Bowman</a> (D-NY).
Still, the resolution against Stefanik faces long odds considering the GOP has a narrow hold on the House while <a href="https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/01/14/iowa-caucus/trump-hits-milestone-00135550" target="_blank" rel="noopener">more than 110 House Republicans</a> — <a href="https://pressgallery.house.gov/member-data/party-breakdown" target="_blank" rel="noopener">roughly half of their total number</a> — back Trump in his latest White House campaign.
Among those to defend Stefanik was House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA).
“I just heard about Goldman&#8217;s censure resolution against Elise Stefanik. I think it&#8217;s patently absurd. She’s one of the best leaders and best communicators in Congress. She is doing an exceptional job and the idea that he would use censure to attack a political opponent is just ridiculous,&#8221; Johnson said, <a href="https://twitter.com/JakeSherman/status/1747698649964974116" target="_blank" rel="noopener">per Punchbowl News</a>.

Rep. Elise Stefanik

Stefanik Fires Back At Dem Bid To Censure Her

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Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) said during an interview over the weekend that Harvard President Claudine Gay&#8217;s resignation from her position was &#8220;long overdue&#8221; following her testimony before Congress about anti-Semitism on her school&#8217;s campus.
Stefanik made the remarks during a Sunday interview on NBC News&#8217; &#8220;Meet The Press&#8221; with Kristen Welker while talking about Gay&#8217;s ouster following controversial remarks that she made during her testimony and the subsequent plagiarism allegations that she faced.
&#8220;It was long overdue. She should have resigned immediately following the hearing,&#8221; Stefanik said. &#8220;And, of course, this follows the resignation of Liz Magill, the Penn president, who also answered, almost verbatim, the same way that the Harvard former president did, as well. And so did the MIT president, I might add. And I&#8217;ve called for all three of their resignations. It&#8217;s not just me who called for the resignations. We passed a vote, bipartisan, who called for the resignation on the floor of Congress.&#8221;
Welker asked Stefanik to respond to Gay&#8217;s assertion that her ouster was part of a broader campaign &#8220;to unravel public faith in pillars of American society.&#8221;
Stefanik responded: &#8220;Well, I would respond that she failed to stand up for Jewish students on campus who have been facing antisemitic attacks, who have been facing physical assault. We&#8217;ve seen that footage. We&#8217;ve heard that directly from students on campus. We&#8217;ve also heard faculty concerns about her tenure, and her position, and her lack of academic integrity. But it really goes back to protecting Jewish students. And, frankly, when it comes to Harvard, the only time that Harvard has pled for academic freedom or freedom of speech was when it comes to the genocide of the Jewish people. That is inherently unfit for a person to be president of a university. It is part of a broader issue at these schools, which is why our investigation is so important. We&#8217;re going to look at DEI, which inherently has refused to bring up concerns from Jewish students of the rise of antisemitic attacks. We&#8217;re going to look at foreign funding as well as taxpayer funding and the governance of these universities. You saw that these boards doubled down to support these university professors despite the morally bankrupt testimony.&#8221;
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Elise Stefanik: Harvard President Claudine Gay’s Resignation ‘Was Long Overdue’

Claudine Gay

Harvard University

Plagiarism

<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/harvard-university" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Harvard University</a> President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/claudine-gay-to-resign-as-harvard-president-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Claudine Gay&#8217;s resignation</a> on Tuesday prompted a wave of approving statements from people who figured prominently in the uproar that led to her exit.
After weeks of backlash over her testimony to Congress regarding <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/anti-semitism" target="_blank" rel="noopener">anti-Semitism</a> on campus and plagiarism allegations levied at her academic work, Gay announced her decision to step down and return to a faculty job at the university in a letter sent to members of the Harvard community following attempts <a href="https://twitter.com/Harvard/status/1732447178491109411" target="_blank" rel="noopener">to clarify</a> her position on threats of violence against Jewish students and <a href="https://twitter.com/sfmcguire79/status/1734301973686415856" target="_blank" rel="noopener">defend the &#8220;integrity&#8221;</a> of her scholarship.
House Republican Conference Chairwoman Elise Stefanik (R-NY), who spearheaded the line of inquiry during a December hearing in which Gay said <a href="https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/12/8/gay-apology-congressional-remarks/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;context&#8221;</a> dictated whether calling for the genocide of Jews on campuses violated her school&#8217;s policies on bullying and harassment, issued a statement on the Harvard president&#8217;s &#8220;long overdue&#8221; resignation.
“I will always deliver results,&#8221; Stefanik said, adding, &#8220;Claudine Gay’s morally bankrupt answers to my questions made history as the most viewed Congressional testimony in the history of the U.S. Congress. Her answers were absolutely pathetic and devoid of the moral leadership and academic integrity required of the President of Harvard. This is just the beginning of what will be the greatest scandal of any college or university in history.&#8221;
Stefanik also declared <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-escalates-harvard-probe-to-examine-plagiarism-claims" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a congressional investigation</a> &#8220;will continue to move forward to expose the rot in our most &#8216;prestigious&#8217; higher education institutions and deliver accountability to the American people.&#8221; The probe began after Gay, as well as MIT University President Sally Kornbluth and University of Pennsylvania President Elizabeth Magill, dodged on Stefanik&#8217;s line of questioning <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-passes-resolution-condemning-testimony-of-university-presidents-on-anti-semitism" target="_blank" rel="noopener">regarding anti-Semitism on campuses</a>. Magill has since resigned.
The Manhattan Institute&#8217;s <a href="https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1733976372450853222" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Christopher Rufo</a>, whose reporting on the plagiarism accusations with <a href="https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1733976372450853222" target="_blank" rel="noopener">journalist Chris Brunet</a> drew an immense amount of scrutiny on Gay&#8217;s academic record and generated mounting pressure for her to step down, sounded off on social media.
&#8220;Glad she&#8217;s gone,&#8221; Rufo <a href="https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1742252162066063702" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in one post to X that highlighted how Gay, who is black, claimed in her resignation announcement that she had been subject to &#8220;personal attacks and threats fueled by racial animus.&#8221;
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This is Claudine Gay&#39;s resignation letter. Rather than take responsibility for minimizing antisemitism, committing serial plagiarism, intimidating the free press, and damaging the institution, she calls her critics racist. This is the poison of DEI ideology. Glad she&#39;s gone. <a href="https://t.co/WlqMKLn6pA">pic.twitter.com/WlqMKLn6pA</a>
&mdash; Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) <a href="https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1742252162066063702?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 2, 2024</a></blockquote>
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He <a href="https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1742253604222960000" target="_blank" rel="noopener">added</a> in a different post, &#8220;This is the beginning of the end for DEI [diversity, equity, and inclusion] in America&#8217;s institutions. We will expose you. We will outmaneuver you. And we will not stop fighting until we have restored colorblind equality in our great nation.&#8221;
Another who commented on Gay&#8217;s resignation was Carol Swain, an author and legal scholar whose work was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/scholar-allegedly-plagiarized-by-harvard-president-scorches-university-elite-system-holding-minorities-to-a-lower-standard" target="_blank" rel="noopener">identified among those allegedly plagiarized</a> by Gay dating back to the 1990s.
&#8220;Why did it take Harvard University and Ms. Gay so long to do the right thing for the good of the nation?&#8221;<a href="https://twitter.com/carolmswain/status/1742250714741776589" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> she asked</a>.
Billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman, a Harvard alum and donor who has been <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/billionaire-donor-calls-on-harvard-mit-penn-presidents-to-resign-after-they-cited-need-for-context-in-calls-for-genocide-of-jews" target="_blank" rel="noopener">severely critical of Gay</a> and Harvard&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/they-dont-work-for-you-billiionare-hedge-fund-manager-bill-ackman-tears-into-harvards-dei-program" target="_blank" rel="noopener">DEI program</a>, set his sights on another target: MIT&#8217;s Kornbluth.
&#8220;Et tu Sally?&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/BillAckman/status/1742251709198664181" target="_blank" rel="noopener">he posted to X</a>.
Harvard University&#8217;s top governing body, the Harvard Corporation, said in a <a href="https://www.harvard.edu/blog/2024/01/02/statement-from-the-harvard-corporation-president-gay/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> its members had accepted Gay&#8217;s resignation. The board also expressed &#8220;gratitude&#8221; to Gay for her &#8220;devoted service&#8221; to Harvard, condemned a wave of &#8220;repugnant and in some cases racist vitriol&#8221; directed at her in emails and phone calls, and thanked provost and chief academic officer Alan Garber for agreeing to serve as interim president until a new leader is chosen.

University Presidents Testify In House Hearing On Campus Antisemitism

Major Players In Harvard Controversy Sound Off On Gay’s Resignation

Major Players In Harvard Controversy Sound Off On Gay's Resignation

Education

Rep. Elise Stefanik&#8217;s (R-NY) office released a statement this week ripping into the NBC sketch comedy show &#8220;Saturday Night Live&#8221; for its <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/a-new-low-snl-wrecked-for-skit-mocking-elise-stefanik-in-college-anti-semitism-hearing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">widely-panned cold open</a> on the recent congressional hearing on anti-Semitism on college and university campuses across the country.
Notably, Saturday&#8217;s cold open bizarrely attacked <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-top-university-presidents-balk-when-asked-if-genocidal-chants-against-jews-violate-codes-of-conduct" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Stefanik</a> for asking about students&#8217; calls for Jewish genocide while almost entirely backing off the university presidents, whose disastrous testimonies have already culminated in at least one resignation.
“Elise did not watch it,&#8221; Stefanik senior advisor Alex DeGrasse <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/12/11/entertainment/cecily-strong-was-uncomfortable-with-snl-anti-semitism-sketch/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> the New York Post. &#8220;However, her office was flooded with messages from thousands of Americans across the political spectrum — Democrats and Republicans — who were appalled and disgusted by the antisemitic trash spewed by unfunny, morally bankrupt ‘comedians.'&#8221;
“SNL made history with the worst cold open ever because everyone knows there is absolutely no humor in the vile answers from the university presidents regarding their failure to condemn calls for the genocide of the Jewish people,&#8221; DeGrasse added.
During the hearing, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/university-of-pennsylvania" target="_blank" rel="noopener">University of Pennsylvania</a> President Liz Magill refused to acknowledge that calling for the genocide of Jews violates UPenn’s code of conduct on bullying and harassment. She resigned from her position on Saturday, mere hours before the SNL sketch aired, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/penn-president-liz-magill-out-after-disturbing-remarks#" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Wire</a> reported.
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In the same hearing, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/their-statements-were-abhorrent-backlash-to-harvard-penn-mit-presidents-on-anti-semitism-continues-even-after-they-backtrack" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Harvard University President Claudine Gay</a> was similarly questioned about whether calling for the genocide of Jews violates Harvard’s codes of conduct. She <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/their-statements-were-abhorrent-backlash-to-harvard-penn-mit-presidents-on-anti-semitism-continues-even-after-they-backtrack" target="_blank" rel="noopener">responded</a> by saying that it depends “on the context.” Gay added that calling for genocide is “at odds with the values of Harvard” and that when that kind of “speech crosses into conduct, that violates our policies.”
The sketch, however, portrays Stefanik as unhinged for pressing the collegiate leaders on the issue, while those in academia were handled by the SNL team with kid gloves and largely presented as reasonable.
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Conservatives online quickly reacted to the SNL sketch. Conservative Emily Zanotti, for example, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/a-new-low-snl-wrecked-for-skit-mocking-elise-stefanik-in-college-anti-semitism-hearing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a> on X, “I mean, I get that SNL is typically a mess, but how do you watch that hearing and come out of it thinking Stefanik was the right target of satire?”
Radio host Rob Carson commented, “If there is no truth in satire, it’s not funny. This isn’t funny.”
“How to explain SNL siding with Ivy league (sic) neo-racists? Wondering what colleges their writers attended,” Fox News host Greg Gutfeld wrote.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/a-new-low-snl-wrecked-for-skit-mocking-elise-stefanik-in-college-anti-semitism-hearing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">‘A New Low’: SNL Wrecked For Skit Mocking Elise Stefanik In College Anti-Semitism Hearing</a>

Stefanik’s Office Blisters SNL For Panned Sketch Mocking Rep. In Anti-Semitism Hearing

Stefanik’s Office Blisters SNL Over Panned Sketch Mocking Rep. Over Anti-Semitism Hearing 

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Saturday Night Live

University of Pennsylvania

Former Saturday Night Live (SNL) star Cecily Strong <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12850181/SNL-anti-Semitism-hearings.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly</a> pulled out last minute from performing in Saturday&#8217;s widely-panned cold open, which targeted GOP Rep. Elise Stefanik (NY) for her questions during a recent Congressional hearing on anti-Semitism in colleges and universities instead of the college leaders who were widely criticized for their testimonies.
Strong rehearsed the sketch earlier in the week as Stefanik, according to a <a href="https://www.thewrap.com/cecily-strong-snl-elise-stefanik-cold-open-saturday-night-live/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from The Wrap, but was ultimately swapped for a relatively new cast member named Chloe Troast.
It remains unclear why Strong did not play Stefanik in the final sketch; she has not commented publicly on the matter. There has been speculation that the former SNL star will be back next week when fellow alum Kate McKinnon is set to make her return to host the sketch show.
Despite the Congressional hearing already culminating in at least one university president resigning from her position, SNL decided to largely take aim at Stefanik, who appeared visibly stunned that the collegiate leaders seemed to run cover for students she said had been &#8220;calling for the genocide of Jews.&#8221;
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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/university-of-pennsylvania" target="_blank" rel="noopener">University of Pennsylvania</a> President Liz Magill, for example, refused to acknowledge that calling for the genocide of Jews violates UPenn’s code of conduct on bullying and harassment. Magill resigned on Saturday following wide backlash, as reported by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/penn-president-liz-magill-out-after-disturbing-remarks#" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Wire</a>.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/their-statements-were-abhorrent-backlash-to-harvard-penn-mit-presidents-on-anti-semitism-continues-even-after-they-backtrack" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Harvard University President Claudine Gay</a> was similarly questioned about whether calling for the genocide of Jews violates Harvard’s codes of conduct. She <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/their-statements-were-abhorrent-backlash-to-harvard-penn-mit-presidents-on-anti-semitism-continues-even-after-they-backtrack" target="_blank" rel="noopener">responded</a> by saying that it depends “on the context.” Gay added that calling for genocide is “at odds with the values of Harvard” and that when that kind of “speech crosses into conduct, that violates our policies.”
There have since been calls for Gay to resign from her position. And compounding her problems, the university president is now under fire for <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/embattled-harvard-president-claudine-gay-now-under-fire-for-alleged-plagiarism" target="_blank" rel="noopener">allegations of plagiarism</a> on her Harvard dissertation.
Conservatives online quickly reacted to the SNL sketch. Conservative Emily Zanotti, for example, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/a-new-low-snl-wrecked-for-skit-mocking-elise-stefanik-in-college-anti-semitism-hearing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a> on X, “I mean, I get that SNL is typically a mess, but how do you watch that hearing and come out of it thinking Stefanik was the right target of satire?”
Radio host Rob Carson commented, “If there is no truth in satire, it’s not funny. This isn’t funny.”
&#8220;How to explain SNL siding with Ivy league (sic) neo-racists? Wondering what colleges their writers attended,&#8221; Fox News host Greg Gutfeld wrote.
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Cecily Strong speaks onstage at the Human Rights Campaign 2023 Greater New York Dinner at Marriott Marquis Times Square on February 04, 2023 in New York City.

Ex-SNL Star Pulled Out Of Widely-Panned Skit On Anti-Semitism Hearing: Report

Ex-SNL Star Cecily Strong Pulled Out Of Widely-Panned Skit On Anti-Semitism Hearing: Report 

College

<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/university-of-pennsylvania" target="_blank" rel="noopener">University of Pennsylvania&#8217;s</a> Board of Trustees held an &#8220;emergency meeting&#8221; on Thursday — just one day after Governor Josh Shapiro (D-PA) blasted Penn President Elizabeth Magill over her &#8220;absolutely shameful&#8221; comments on Capitol Hill.
According to a <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/07/business/penn-emergency-meeting-liz-magill/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> published Thursday by CNN, the board met virtually after being called to convene on Wednesday, just hours after Shapiro weighed in on Magill&#8217;s testimony regarding anti-Semitism on her campus.
Magill became the subject of intense scrutiny following her answers to questions from Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) over whether or not students calling for the genocide of Jews were in violation of Penn&#8217;s code of conduct with regard to harassment and bullying. Magill said that such speech was not punished at Penn unless it &#8220;turns into conduct,&#8221; and argued that &#8220;context&#8221; was necessary.
Shapiro was not impressed by Magill&#8217;s comments, telling <a href="https://jewishinsider.com/2023/12/calling-for-moral-clarity-on-antisemitism-pa-governor-slams-upenns-president/?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Daily%20Kickoff%20December%207th%202023&amp;utm_content=Daily%20Kickoff%20December%207th%202023+CID_2a82005a06180b3568bee21832314de1&amp;utm_source=Campaign%20Monitor%20JI&amp;utm_term=Jewish%20Insiders%20Gabby%20Deutch%20in%20Philadelphia" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jewish Insider</a>, &#8220;The simple answer is yes, that violates our policy.&#8221;
&#8220;Leaders have a responsibility to speak and act with moral clarity, and Liz Magill failed to meet that simple test. That was an unacceptable statement from the president of Penn,&#8221; Shapiro continued. &#8220;Frankly, I thought her comments were absolutely shameful. It should not be hard to condemn genocide.&#8221;
Shapiro went on to say that he had spoken to Magill in the weeks since the October 7 massacre — and that he had made specific suggestions and recommendations regarding steps the school could take to make sure that Jewish students felt safer.
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&#8220;They have seemingly failed every step of the way to take concrete action to make sure all students feel safe on campus. And then the testimony yesterday took it to the next level,&#8221; Shapiro added.
He called for the university&#8217;s board of trustees to convene, saying that he believed it was necessary to explore whether Magill accurately &#8220;represents the views and values of the University of Pennsylvania,&#8221; but adding that he was prepared to wait for the board to take action.

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Penn Board Holds ‘Emergency Meeting’ After Gov Shapiro Blasts Penn Prez’s ‘Absolutely Shameful’ Comments

Penn Board Holds 'Emergency Meeting' After Gov Shapiro Blasts Penn Prez's 'Absolutely Shameful' Comments

Josh Shapiro

Three top American <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/harvard" target="_blank" rel="noopener">University</a> presidents balked during a congressional hearing on Tuesday when questioned several times if students calling for the &#8220;genocide of Jews&#8221; warrants a violation of their respective campus&#8217; codes of conduct.
Harvard University President Claudine Gay, MIT University President Sally Kornbluth, and University of Pennsylvania President Elizabeth Magill testified during a Committee on Education &amp; the Workforce hearing on &#8220;Holding Campus Leaders Accountable and Confronting Antisemitism.&#8221;
The university officials spoke about the rise of anti-Semitism on their campuses as Israel enters its third month of war with Hamas after the terrorist militant group launched a brutal invasion against the Jewish state on October 7.
New York Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik asked each president a number of times to answer &#8220;yes or no&#8221; if calling for the genocide of Jews violated the schools&#8217; code of conduct or rules regarding bullying and harassment.
However, the university officials asserted it all depends on context, noting that the schools would take action if the speech became &#8220;conduct.&#8221;
During the exchange, Magill told Stefanik, &#8220;If the speech turns into conduct it can be harassment.”
Stefanik shot back: &#8220;‘Conduct’ meaning committing the act of genocide? The speech is not harassment? This is unacceptable.”
The congresswoman then pressed Gay to answer if calling for the genocide of Jews is in violation of Harvard&#8217;s rules on bullying and harassment.
&#8220;It can be, depending on the context,&#8221; Gay answered.
&#8220;What’s the context?&#8221; Stefanik asked.
&#8220;Targeted as an individual; targeted at an individual,&#8221; the president said.
&#8220;It’s targeted at Jewish students. Jewish individuals. Do you understand your testimony is dehumanizing them?&#8221; Stefanik asked her. &#8220;Do you understand that dehumanization is part of anti-Semitism?&#8221;
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🚨🚨🚨Presidents of <a href="https://twitter.com/Harvard?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Harvard</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/MIT?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MIT</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/Penn?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Penn</a> REFUSE to say whether “calling for the genocide of Jews” is bullying and harassment according to their codes of conduct. Even going so far to say it needs to turn to “action” first. As in committing genocide.
THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE AND… <a href="https://t.co/hUY3SgoOOi">pic.twitter.com/hUY3SgoOOi</a>
&mdash; Rep. Elise Stefanik (@RepStefanik) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepStefanik/status/1732138663608271149?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 5, 2023</a></blockquote>
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As the war overseas continues, the conflict has only further divided Americans on U.S. soil, including college students nationwide who have gathered in protest to chant &#8220;intifada&#8221; — or the &#8220;genocide of Jews&#8221; — on campus.
Roughly 3 out of every 4 Jewish college students report they have either experienced anti-Semitism or seen others victimized by it on their campus since the conflict in Israel erupted earlier this year. According to a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/anti-semitism-on-campus-73-of-jewish-college-students-say-theyve-experienced-it-or-seen-it-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">study</a> conducted by the Anti-Defamation League and Hillel International, nearly 73% of Jewish students — a rise from 63% in 2021 — say they have been victimized or witnessed another student experience anti-Semitism.
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Jewish students who felt safe on their campus dropped from 67% before the Hamas terror attack to 46% afterward.
Harvard student Jonathan Frieden <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/stefanik-grills-harvard-president-students-calling-intifada-rampant-antisemitism-campus?intcmp=tw_fnc" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Fox News he walks by crowds of people chanting &#8220;from the river to the sea&#8221; every week on his way to class.
&#8220;I talk to my Jewish friends on campus every day,&#8221; he said. &#8220;They tell me how afraid they are to go to class.&#8221;
Charlie Covit, a student activist for the Israel on Campus Coalition, said in a statement to Fox News Digital that while Gay&#8217;s &#8220;willingness to call chants of &#8216;Intifada&#8217; and other hateful antisemitic speech &#8216;abhorrent&#8217; is reassuring &#8230; the next step is action.&#8221;
&#8220;When students are saying &#8216;from the river to the sea, Palestine will be Arab&#8217; and clearly calling for violence against Jewish communities &#8212; and even interrupting classes to do so &#8212; we need to hear Harvard clearly state how it will discipline those who are voicing these hateful views,&#8221; Covit said.
Stefanik, a Harvard University alumnus, accused her alma mater of enabling &#8220;far-left&#8221; anti-Semitism in an <a href="https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/12/5/stefanik-harvard-antisemitism/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">op-ed</a> in the Harvard Crimson, the school&#8217;s student newspaper.
&#8220;Today, Harvard University has been so corrupted by its apparent desperation to appease the far-left that its moral compass has been long forgotten,&#8221; she wrote. &#8220;It is profoundly disappointing to see Harvard University, a prestigious institution which we care so deeply about, devolve from fostering an age of American independence into an institution that enables abhorrent antisemitism.&#8221;
She drew attention to Gay&#8217;s response to dozens of student organizations at the school signing on to a statement alleging Israel was &#8220;entirely responsible for all unfolding violence&#8221; after the Hamas terrorist attacks.
&#8220;While this statement is sickening and multiple groups have since retracted their signatures, what is worse is the failure of Harvard&#8217;s leadership to immediately condemn the statement,&#8221; Stefanik wrote. &#8220;Harvard&#8217;s silence created a vacuum in which heinous antisemitism echoes loudly.&#8221;

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