Malliotakis Introduces Legislation to Combat Rising Antisemitism on College Campuses

(WASHINGTON, DC) - Congresswoman Nicole Malliotakis (NY-11) today introduced two pieces of legislation to combat the disturbing rise of antisemitic hate crimes and protests on college campuses.

Specifically, the 'Combatting Antisemitic Messaging & Promoting Unity in School Act' (CAMPUS Act), would prohibit federal funding from going to institutions of higher education that provide funding, tuition assistance, support, or a platform to an organization that engages in antisemitic behavior or fails to hold a faculty member who promotes antisemitism accountable, after being given a period to promptly investigate and appropriately address reported incidents. Additionally, Malliotakis also introduced the 'No Visas for Antisemitic Students Act' that would revoke student visas of foreign students in the United States who engage in antisemitic behavior.

"Our universities should be safe places for ideological debate, fostering academic thought and promoting diversity - not a laboratory for professors and university leadership to brainwash students into spewing hateful rhetoric against the Jewish people," Malliotakis said. "Universities have a responsibility to protect their students from violence and discrimination and instead we're seeing a disturbing increase in antisemitic attacks and rhetoric on college campuses. My legislation seeks to hold these institutions accountable and create a safer academic environment for all students, regardless of their gender, race or religion."

Malliotakis' legislation is a follow up to a November Ways and Means Committee hearing on antisemitism where the Congresswoman initially laid out consequences she believes universities should be subject to for allowing antisemitism to go unaddressed.

In New York alone, a Cornell University junior was arrested for making a slew of antisemitic threats to injure or kill Jewish students, Cooper Union staff locked Jewish students in a library when Pro-Palestinian students were protesting outside, and students at Columbia reported being spit on for speaking Hebrew and have seen swastikas drawn on school property.

Malliotakis is a member of the bipartisan House-Knesset Parliamentary Friendship Group, and has voted for, introduced and cosponsored several pieces of legislation to provide critical military assistance to Israel, restore maximum pressure on Iran, crackdown on rising antisemitism on college campuses and secure federal security grants for the local jewish community.