Washington, D.C. - Today, a resolution led by Congresswoman Elise Stefanik and Congressman Burgess Owens (R-UT) passed on the House Floor. H.Res.798 strongly condemns the abhorrent support of Hamas, Hezbollah, and other terrorist organizations that is currently proliferating on college campuses. This despicable antisemitism threatens the safety of Jewish and Israeli students, faculty, and staff all while perpetuating hate towards Jewish communities.
Across the United States, college campuses and leadership have allowed antisemitism to permeate without consequence following the Hamas terrorist attacks against Israel. This resolution condemns the glorification of violence and antisemitic rhetoric and calls for college campus administrators to ensure the safety of Jewish faculty, students, and staff.
“American ‘elite’ universities across the nation continue to enable antisemitism across their campuses, creating unsafe environments for members of the Jewish community. This morally sickening support of Hamas terrorists by student organizations and lack of response by campus leadership exposes the proliferation of open antisemitism. It is disgusting that since the Hamas terrorist attacks against Israel, there has been a 388% spike in antisemitic attacks across America,” said Congresswoman Elise Stefanik. “I am proud to lead this resolution to ensure that campus leadership at universities including my alma mater Harvard are held accountable for their roles in enabling antisemitism on their campuses. We must ensure that Jewish communities are guaranteed their safety and that terrorist support on campuses is squashed. Joe Biden and the Far Left might not be able to call out this violent antisemitic language for what it is, but make no mistake, House Republicans condemn the propagandizing of terror on American soil.”
On October 13, Stefanik led a letter along with her fellow Harvard alumni in Congress to Harvard President Claudine Gay calling for her immediate action against the pro-Hamas statement signed by over thirty Harvard student organizations. Stefanik separately called for the Harvard President to resign.
