They state that some of the programs that the Department has put out amount to “taxpayer-funded antisemitism.”
Sen. Jim Risch sent a letter to Education Secretary Miguel Cardona on Wednesday morning signed by 14 of his GOP colleagues. They were demanding to know to what extent federal dollars went to programs defined by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance as antisemitic.
Fox News Digital obtained the letter. It read, in part: “We write with grave concern that the Department of Education, over decades, has been allowing taxpayer-funded antisemitism to take place on college campuses throughout the United States.”
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The Senators also wanted to know what plans, if any, the Department of Education had to curb the programs that the Senators believe are antisemitic. They stated that they wanted to make sure Jewish students felt comfortable while they were attending institutions of higher education.
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The letter comes as the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) reports that incidents of antisemitism reached an all-time high in 2021. The letter also cited the Higher Education Act (HEA)’s Title VI requirement that all institutions of higher education work on providing diverse viewpoints. The Senators say that “many Near East and Middle East programs are failing to meet this requirement.”
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The letter continued: “Because of the widespread antisemitism on college campuses, many Jewish and pro-Israel students no longer feel safe. Universities with faculty who actively support the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement against Israel were 3.6 times more likely to have their Jewish and pro-Israel students targeted for physical harm on campus.”
It continued: “Unsurprisingly, a core reason college campuses are plagued by antisemitism is that professors who teach the curriculum indoctrinate students with anti-Israel bias and viewpoints.”
An AMCHA study cited in the letter said: “160 academic departments at 120 U.S. colleges and universities issued or endorsed wholly one-sided, anti-Israel statements containing rhetoric that meets the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism.”
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The Senators insist that the Department of Education is not meeting its requirement to take care of its Title VI responsibilities. The letter ends with a series of questions that the Senators want to be addressed by the Department of Education. One example is “How can the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights and other offices ensure Jewish students have demonstrated reasons to feel safe on campus?” It is a scathing letter that GOP Senators hope to wake some people up about what is happening on this country's college campuses.
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