Today, in the United States of America, a Jewish student walking across his college green will be scared. Not because he is worried about finals or finding a job, but because the university he attends has empowered terrorists to attack him for who he is.
The hatred of Jews, antisemitism, is the most virulent form of discrimination. Often called “the oldest hatred,” it’s literally biblical. And under Joe Biden and Democrat rule, and in the aftermath of the largest slaughter of Jews since the Holocaust, antisemitism was greenlit on America’s college campuses.
I understand it better than most. Being a conservative Jewish student at Harvard 35 years ago was not easy. The woke mind virus was alive and well even then. But what I never felt, unlike Jewish students and faculty today, was a fear for my safety. I never saw Muslim terror supporters, brandishing modern day swastikas in the form of a terrorist scarf invented by Jew killers, allowed to run roughshod over campus. I never saw masked thugs masquerading as students openly calling for a resumption of the Holocaust.
Today, on too many campuses across this country, leftist administrators lie about these terrorist gatherings and claim pro-Hamas protests are peaceful and organic. They are neither. Rather, they are the American front of an organized world-wide Muslim terror program to target Jews and western civilization. Then-President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris actively embraced this terror campaign calling for the extermination of Jews, trying to quietly settle antisemitism agreements with schools and shielding those schools from anything remotely resembling accountability.
It should come as no surprise that the same Democrats sanctioning antisemitism want to finance it as well by forgiving over $1.6 trillion in student debt and making college free. The Democrat strategy seems to be to force working-class Americans to bankroll the very institutions that churn out violent agitators and ideological foot soldiers for their radical causes.
Under the guiding hand of left-wing administrators and progressive professors, with a healthy dose of federal funding, America’s universities have become little more than taxpayer-funded academic terror training camps pushing antisemitism, moral cowardice, and anti-American philosophy.
For eight years in the Florida Legislature, I passed bill after bill to target this threat, and while no institution is perfect, our legislative successes showed that we could fight antisemitism at the state level. In the aftermath of the October 7 terrorist attack, Florida institutions performed far better than their peers throughout the nation. Now, under the leadership of President Donald Trump, we take it national.
Last Congress the Committee on Education and Workforce, of which I am the newest member, held landmark hearings with the leaders of the universities we were once so proud of, places like Harvard and Penn, on their embrace of Muslim terror and the terrorizing of Jews. With every hearing and roundtable, the Committee documented the failures of school leaders to do what is legally (and morally) required of them: create a safe community for every student.
With Trump in the White House, we are fighting with renewed strength to build on Republican efforts to combat the disease of antisemitism. On January 30, Trump signed an executive order to marshal federal tools to investigate and address antisemitism. His Justice Department is leading a multiagency task force to quell the antisemitic fury gripping our schools. The president made it clear that an attack on American Jews is an attack on America, and it will no longer be allowed.
I am thrilled to be joining the Committee on Education and Workforce at the right time. Last week, university presidents testified about their failures to address antisemitism on campus. They proved themselves hostile to Jewish students, and that isn’t a mistake, it’s by design. Democrats have backed polices that make it easier for antisemitic terrorists to receive an education than American Jews.
The last administration chose to embrace Muslim terror at the expense of Jewish Americans. No longer. Under President Trump, we will build on the immense progress of the last 100 days to fight for what is right and to make every campus and classroom safe for Jewish students and every American.
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