A year after the heinous attacks on Israel, the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Education and the Workforce released a report revealing how education administrators failed to protect Jewish students and, consequently, turned our country’s college campuses into breeding grounds for antisemitism. Despite their legal protections under Title IV, one of the most dangerous, hate-submerged places for a Jewish student was their very own public university.

As Hamas sympathizers flooded college campuses, even the most prestigious institutions turned into camping grounds. The beautiful campuses suddenly reeked of blazing American flags. The bright green lawns were overrun- buried by the tents, posters, and flags  of antisemitic supporters. Terrorists found a home within our borders, and taxpayers paid the bill.

Hillel, a Jewish campus organization, reports 1,826 antisemitic incidents on college campuses from October 8, 2023, to June 30, 2024. That’s a 700% increase from the prior year.

Above the anti-American rhetoric and disruption to education, the camps burned with hatred for the Jewish students on campus. Many of them were barred from class and certain areas of campus because “they refused to denounce their faith,” a District Judge noted.

Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 requires schools receiving federal funding to ensure students are not discriminated against based on race, color, or national origin. This kind of behavior indicated egregious failure to adhere to Title VI responsibilities.

Congresswoman Elise Stefanik (R- New York 21^st) exposed the level of despicable, and possibly willful, negligence in a hearing late last year with the presidents of Harvard, University of Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Under oath, the panel couldn’t provide an answer to a very simple question: Would they discipline students calling for the genocide of Jews?

Both the presidents of Harvard and Penn resigned shortly after, but the House was not finished exposing and dismantling the staunch antisemitism on taxpayer-funded campuses. Just last month, the Committee on Education and the Workforce released the “Antisemitism on College Campuses Exposed” Republican Staff Report. After a year of subpoenaing and gathering over 400,000 documents, here are the report’s four key findings:

• Students who established unlawful antisemitic encampments—which violated university polices and created unsafe and hostile learning environments—were given shocking concessions. Universities’ dereliction of leadership and failure to enforce their rules put students and personnel at risk.
• So-called university leaders intentionally declined to express support for campus Jewish communities. Instead of explicitly condemning antisemitic harassment, universities equivocated out of concern of offending antisemitic students and faculty who rallied in support of foreign terrorist organizations.
• Universities utterly failed to impose meaningful discipline for antisemitic behavior that violated school rules and the law. In some cases, radical faculty successfully thwarted meaningful discipline.
• So-called university leaders expressed hostility to congressional oversight and criticism of their record. The antisemitism engulfing campuses was treated as a public-relations issue and not a serious problem demanding action.

Over one hundred pages of evidence followed these key findings, including requests to not label the slogan “from the river to sea” antisemitic, faculty intervention to prevent disciplinary action against antisemitic actions, shocking approval and entertainment of demand requests, intentional rejection of Hamas condemnation in Harvard’s October 9^th statement, and more. It noted, “University leaders demonstrated more revulsion for scrutiny and criticism of antisemitism on their campuses than for antisemitism itself.”

AnnMarie Graham-Barnes, a committee spokesperson, told ABC News: “This is not the end … as long as Jewish students are facing discrimination and harassment, the Committee will continue to demand better from universities.”

Concerned Women for America (CWA) and Young Women for America (YWA) leaders are committed to supporting and defending students who have faced discrimination on their campuses. Amidst the violent attacks and hateful rhetoric, YWA held powerful prayer vigils for Israel, inviting their Jewish classmates who felt abandoned by school leadership and betrayed by other students in many cases.

Concerned Women for America Legislative Action Committee (CWALAC) also supports federal action to ensure universities fulfil their Title VI responsibilities. College campuses should be a home to intellectual stimulation, not a nursery for divisive, violent, and naive hatred for our Jewish brothers and sisters.