House Republicans sparked the fight against campus antisemitism lets expand their majority

Those who are fighting the rise of antisemitism in America owe a debt of gratitude to the US House of Representatives and its slim Republican majority.The moral rot in higher education was exposed to the world in December in an unlikely venue: a special hearing of the little-known House Committee on Education and the Workforce, called by committee chair Virginia Foxx (R-NC).That’s when Rep.Elise Stefanik (R-NY) posed what should have been a simple question to the presidents of Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania and MIT — “Yes or no: Calling for the genocide of Jews does not constitute bullying and harassment?”None of the three could provide a clear and direct answer — and the outrageous exchange went viral, drawing widespread condemnation.Two of the college presidents soon resigned, and Speaker Mike Johnson launched further investigations as part of a House-wide effort to combat antisemitism in the United States. This important work proceeded for one reason, and one reason only: Because House Republicans decided to make it a priority.The opposite is true in the Democrat-led Senate, where Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, his committee chairs and his colleagues have steadfastly refused to hold any hearings exclusively focused on antisemitism. Last month, in fact, a halfhearted effort chaired by Sen.

Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) ended up “all lives mattering” the issue — and devolved into a shouting match as audience members hurled vile insults and curses at Jews in the hearing room. For me and many others, this is personal.My Jewish family lives in the Philadelphia suburbs, in a deep blue township within a blue county in Pennsylvania, arguably the most critical swing state of this election season. Our township is home to tens of thousands of high-earning, left-leaning, self-described progressives who have largely voted Democrat over the past 25 years. And many of them are both concerned and frightened by the Democratic Party’s passive response to th...