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It was a question asked around the world.
“Does calling for the genocide of Jews violate Harvard’s Bullying and Harassment Rules? Yes or no?”
Rep. Elise Stefanik’s relatively simple question during a House Education and Labor Committee hearing on anti-Semitism was not intended as a trick question.
Congresswoman Elise Stefanik listens to President-elect Trump’s speech during the House Republican Conference at the Hyatt Regency on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on November 13, 2024. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
But in a remarkable moment that exposed the rampant anti-Semitic corruption in American higher education, the presidents of the then morally bankrupt Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Pennsylvania, and my alma mater, Harvard University, announced that Jewish students He testified that calls for genocide could be accepted “depending on the circumstances.”
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Stefanik’s question was unfortunately not hypothetical. Bullying and harassment of Jewish students on American campuses has gone relatively unchecked as administrators prioritize students who chant “death to America” and call for the genocide of Jews and the state of Israel. There is. I know that because I’ve seen it firsthand as a Jewish student on Harvard’s campus this past year.
Anti-Semitism has exploded on America’s “elite” college campuses since Hamas invaded Israel on October 7, 2023. At Harvard University alone, a Jewish student was spat on, an Israeli student was asked to leave because his nationality made his classmates “offensive,” and another Israeli was assaulted at the business school. received.
I myself was taunted with a machete by a staff member and challenged to discuss Jewish involvement in the 9/11 terrorist attacks. During that time, hostage posters were defaced almost daily, and professors published anti-Semitic cartoons without being disciplined or held accountable.
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Jewish students were forced to feel unsafe in the learning institutions they chose to call home, and they were supposed to grin and bear it.
Across campus, Harvard students illegally set up encampments and cheered as they replaced the American flag overlooking Harvard with a Palestinian flag, chanting about the globalization of the intifada and saying, “Palestine will become Arab.” They screamed all the time and established their own rules. He studied law on campus and followed us Jews to class.
Harvard University either refused to publicly acknowledge these incidents or did not address them for months, and still did not discipline the perpetrators.
Last year, as American values eroded on college campuses, a determined and often lonely voice for moral clarity emerged: Congresswoman Elise Stefanik.
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During my first Congressional testimony, Stefanik quietly pulled me aside. “Here’s my contact information,” she said. “If you have any problems with the Harvard Jewish community, please call me.”
Once again, Stefanik is not hypothesizing.
Last year, the congressman pushed legislation to keep America’s Jewish community open and alleviate concerns for Jewish students on college campuses. As a fellow Harvard “Crimson” alumnus, she has brought much-needed global attention to the plague of anti-Semitism and anti-Israel hatred that has taken root at once-lauded institutions.
From direct questions asked in Congressional hearings to posts about the plight of the more than 100 hostages still held by Hamas, she has shown that she is a fighter, a leader, and a friend. I’ve proven something.
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All of this points to President Trump’s decision to appoint Stefanik as ambassador to the United Nations.
Like Harvard University, the United Nations has become a bastion of anti-Semitism and anti-Israel propaganda.
Under the disgraceful leadership of the Biden administration, the United Nations has passed more resolutions condemning Israel than Russia, North Korea, Iran, and China combined.
Furthermore, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), the mouthpiece of Iran-backed Hamas terrorists, has international legitimacy to extend the Israeli-Palestinian conflict indefinitely.
Every day, unelected bureaucrats use American taxpayer money to defame and damage America’s greatest ally and vital democracy in a volatile region.
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Who better to tackle anti-Semitic efforts at the United Nations than a woman who has successfully campaigned against anti-Semitism on college campuses?
Who better to stand up for Israel at the United Nations than a woman who has done so throughout legislative history?
Who better to advance the interests of the American Jewish community than this woman who has dedicated more time to us than any other elected official?
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I urge both Republicans and Democrats to recognize Ms. Stefanik and demonstrate her strong commitment to America and American values at the United Nations to advance President Trump’s America First Peace through the Policy of Strength. We strongly request that you be heard loudly in the hall.
And let the United Nations say this. There’s a new sheriff in town.
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