Follow the Money Right to Republicans’ Faux Outrage Over “Antisemitism” on Campuses
Remember this past winter and spring, when a handful of Republican lawmakers seemed so concerned with rooting out antisemitism on college campuses in the midst of protests after the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel? So fierce was their outrage, they successfully pushed out University of Pennsylvania president Liz Magill and Harvard President Claudine Gay.
So concerned were they about “the rot in America’s higher education,” as Rep. Elise Stefanik put it, they demanded education be “defunded”. Stefanik even co-authored a bill seeking to withdraw federal funding from universities that do not attempt to curtail students’ First-Amendment right to protest.
Well, it shouldn’t come as a shock all that faux outrage was exactly what political allies and for-profit university donors were paying for.
In a recent piece in The Guardian, Reps. Stefanik and Virginia Foxx “are the [for-profit college] industry’s strongest congressional supporters, frequently ‘doing their bidding’ by pushing controversial legislation and shielding for-profit schools that fail students from accountability, all while pulling in campaign donations.”
For-profit institutions like Keiser University and Hillsdale College have been accused of predatory practices, like…
