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Source: https://jewishinsider.com/2023/11/house-ways-and-means-committee-sjp-amp/
Lawmakers Move to Cut Federal Funding to Colleges over Antisemitic Activity
(Jewish Insider) Marc Rod - In response to growing antisemitic activity on college campuses, House lawmakers on Wednesday moved to cut federal funding to schools that don't respond forcefully to such activity. The House approved an amendment to an appropriation bill that would ban funding any institution that "authorizes, facilitates, provides funding for, or otherwise supports" events promoting antisemitism on campus, by a 373-54 vote. Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle expressed interest in pushing the FBI and Internal Revenue Service to investigate the funding sources of groups like Students for Justice in Palestine, which has organized many of the campus protests, and American Muslims for Palestine, which has ties to SJP. Former Israeli antisemitism envoy Noa Tishby told the Ways and Means Committee, "SJP is a hate group. It is grooming American college students - grooming your children - to hate Israel, to hate America and to hate Jews. Universities have let Jewish students down and they're letting America down."