WASHINGTON, D.C. - In case you missed it, House Republican Leadership Chairwoman Elise Stefanik joined 77 WABC radio to discuss the terror attack in Boulder and antisemitism in higher education.
View highlights of the interview here:
On Boulder Terror Attack:
ELISE STEFANIK: It is a disgrace. What has happened, and this is the result of the antisemitism that has been fueled and flamed and not addressed by the radical left, and now we have an illegal pro-Palestinian, pro-Hamas terrorist on US soil, throwing Molotov cocktails at peaceful pro-Israel advocates who were advocating for the release of the remaining hostages. It think about this. This is on American soil. What do we know now? This illegal was allowed to stay here by Joe Biden. So, policies have consequences, folks, we need to have a zero-tolerance policy in this country when it comes comes to antisemitism or any violent targeting of any American, and this is why one of the many reasons why I've been so strong and led the effort to combat antisemitism on our college campuses, because this is the future leaders, unfortunately at these universities and they've been brainwashed by pro-Hamas professors and cold frankly, to accept what is morally morally wrong. And if you go back to that, that committee hearing said it was really a watershed moment. It set off an earthquake where people, not just even within the higher-ed community, but society at large, really open their eyes to the scourge of antisemitism that is growing, and what is very sad and scary is New York City. If you look at the state of New York, there are more antisemitic crimes in New York City than any other place in the country. We need to have strong leadership at the city level, at the state level, to push back on this radical, pro-terrorist, dangerous violence that is not only existing on college campuses. But now you have it targeting seniors, including a Holocaust survivor in Boulder, Colorado.
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I’m so glad the appointments were incredibly strong appointments and, Sid, one of the programs that I'm sure you're either already aware of or will learn now that you're on that board is I passed a bill I co-led. It was bipartisan and it was called the never again Holocaust Education Act this is booked before October 7 and this is to provide grants from the Holocaust Museum to K through 12 schools to make sure that students are taught the horrors of the Holocaust. So I have a very long policy record on leading on this issue and of course, this is before the bloodiest day for the Jewish people since the Holocaust on October 7, and all of the strong leadership since then. But, you know, pay close attention, because we need to do more of those types of programs.
On Antisemitism in Higher Education:
ELISE STEFANIK: They still don't get it, and President Trump is right for these executive actions he's taken. These schools had an opportunity to save themselves. They failed to do so, and it was important for President Trump to step in to defund. These schools are not entitled to US taxpayer dollars. First of all, if you look at their endowments, and then they are funded by billions of US taxpayer dollars - their values do not represent US taxpayers across this country. It is very sad for me. Look, I went to Harvard. I was the first member of my immediate family to have the opportunity to graduate from college. It is unrecognizable to me what is happening at that college campus, as well as other "elite" college campuses. This is about leadership and it's multifaceted, Sid. They're taking foreign dollars, which is why I'm working so hard to expose the foreign donations that are anti-American on universities. They're increasingly admitting foreign students taking the place of American students. There was a long expose on the number of Communist Chinese students that are at Harvard. It's becoming the front university for the CCP. That's absurd. If you look at the number of foreign students at Columbia. That's a major problem as well. You have the moral rot of DEI, which, at its core is antisemitic, and then you have the problem with tenure with professors when it's increasingly becoming group think and so radically progressive that it's moving away some actual academic excellence. We need to - and there is there - I mean there is an earthquake in higher ED. People are voting with their feet. You're seeing increases in enrollment and matriculation in schools down in Florida and Vanderbilt and elsewhere, who are leaving these, you know, Ivy League schools who have lost their way.
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