The Biden administration unveiled a series of actions on Monday aimed at combating rising antisemitism at colleges and universities following a series of sickening protests since the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel.
Under the plan, the Department of Justice and Homeland Security will work with campus and local police to track hate-related rhetoric online and provide federal resources to schools — and the Department of Education will host a webinar on how to file a report.
The departments have “distributed public safety information to and hosted several calls with campus law enforcement, as well as state, local, tribal and regional officials to address the threat environment and share information about available resources,” said a White House official who unknown to CNN.
The move comes a day after Cornell University was placed on alert after threats to rape and kill Jewish students were posted on a public online forum. The vile message came to light days after “F—k Israel” graffiti appeared on campus sidewalks.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre used the word “terrorism” when describing the threat.
President Biden unveiled his plan to combat rising antisemitism on college campuses Monday. AFP via Getty Images
“To students at Cornell and on campuses across the country: we are tracking this threat closely, we are thinking of you and we will do everything we can both — at Cornell and across the country to fight terrorism, antisemitism,” Jean- Pierre said during a regular briefing at the White House, appearing to correct his central statement.
When a reporter followed up on the use of the word “terrorism,” Jean-Pierre neither confirmed nor denied his choice of words but added: “What I’m saying — antisemitism, right? That’s unacceptable. That’s what we see on these college campuses and that’s what I mean.”
The White House plan also calls for second man Doug Emhoff and Education Secretary Miguel Cardona to meet with prominent Jewish organizations to discuss the issue, while Cardona and senior White House policy adviser Neera Tanden will visit college campuses across the country to hold roundtable discussions with Jewish students. .
Across the United States, Jewish students have reported feeling unsafe amid pro-Palestinian protests.rfaraino
The Department of Education has already conducted site visits to gather more information about antisemitism in schools in San Francisco, St. Louis and Maine — and will expand their efforts to New York City and Baltimore this week, NBC News reported Monday.
Last month — two weeks before a terrorist attack that killed at least 1,400 people in southern Israel, including at least 33 Americans — the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights rushed to update its complaint form to clarify that Title IV of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits “form certain antisemitic, Islamophobic and related forms of discrimination in federally funded programs and activities.”
Following the October 7 attacks, the White House issued a statement expressing its deep concern over “a deeply disturbing pattern of antisemitic messages.”
Pro-Palestinian protesters pounded on Cooper Union’s library doors last week demanding to be allowed in, as Jewish students blocked their way in.X / @thislouis
“The outlandish sentiments and actions shock the conscience and turn the stomach,” said spokesman Andrew Bates.
“They also remember our never-to-be-forgotten commitment: ‘Never again.'”
Antisemitic incidents have increased nearly 400% since the terrorist attacks in Israel, compared to the same period last year, according to the Anti-Defamation League.
The White House previously issued a statement expressing its deep concern over “a deeply disturbing pattern of antisemitic messages.” James Keivom
Across the United States, Jewish students have reported feeling unsafe amid pro-Palestinian protests.
A girl at the University of Washington cried as hundreds of her peers held a “Day of Resistance” rally for Palestinians – advertised with images of paragliders like those used by Hamas terrorists in the mass slaughter of Israelis.
“They want our people to die. They want us killed,” she can be seen sobbing to a school official, who says there is nothing she can do as hundreds of people clap and beat drums in a video posted online.
Former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is calling on the state to cut funding to schools that allow antisemitism on campus.AP
At Cooper Union, a group of Jewish students barricaded themselves in the library last week as pro-Palestinian protesters stormed past security and aggressively stormed the building’s doors.
At George Washington University, just blocks from the White House and State Department, student activists projected the words “Glory to our martyrs” and “Free Palestine From the River to the Sea” onto the school’s Gelman Library, named after the Jewish couple.
The conflict has exposed divisions among Democrats, with President Biden calling himself a “Zionist” and seeking $14.3 billion in military aid for Israel – strongly supported by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) – as a member of the left-wing “Squad” of lawmakers House legislation, including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), demanded a ceasefire, which the White House rejected last week as a potential gain for Hamas.
On Monday, former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo called on the state to cut funding to schools that allow antisemitism on campus in response to the Cornell threat.
“The time for empty statements of condemnation is over,” he said. “It’s time for real action: Alumni across the country should stop donating to schools that don’t adequately address this hate and state schools should see their funding halted until universities deal with this despicable activity.”
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