November’s election revealed that more Americans are waking up to common sense and rejecting leftist priorities. An increasing number of young people appreciate our democratic republic, its freedoms, and its Judeo-Christian values. Yet we see continued leftist, violent protests against Israel and Jewish students on college campuses. Where does this hatred come from, and who is organizing it?

As The Washington Stand has previously reported, leftist billionaires such George Soros, Howard Horowitz, and Susan and Nick Pritzker are major funders of these demonstrations, paying extremist, anti-Semitic groups across the United States to organize protests. Just a small sample of these organizations include Students for Justice in Palestine, U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights, American Muslims for Palestine, Party for Socialism and Liberation, Tides Center, and Arab Resource & Organizing Center.

Yet not only are these groups anti-Semitic, they are also anti-American. Last week, Capital Research Center released a new study that explains how groups that call themselves “pro-Palestinian” promote violence and anti-Americanism. They analyzed thousands of social media posts by 496 of the most active “pro-Palestinian” groups and activists, many of them connected to “charities” and nonprofits, and found a 3,000% rise in calls for violence and a 186% increase in the use of anti-American and anti-police keywords and phrases since Hamas’s terrorist attacks on October 7, 2023.

Last week on Fox & Friends, UCLA Jewish student Eli Tsives told Brian Kilmeade:

“People are waking up and realizing that these people … it’s not just the fact that they have a problem with Jews, it’s that they have a problem with anyone who loves our dear country, the USA. And we have to understand why these people have this mentality. They are literally being brainwashed from foreign countries, and I mean the students specifically. We’re seeing foreign countries like Qatar donating between 2001 and 2021 $5 billion to American institutions.”

Tsives went on to explain that when Qatar donates a lot of money and a university like Cornell has an opening for their Middle Eastern department, Qatar will say, “We would like you to hire our professor who has a PhD from Doha University.” That professor then teaches anti-American, anti-Semitic views, and the students become indoctrinated.

The nonpartisan organization, Americans for Public Trust, verifies that foreign countries are funding anti-American and anti-Semitic groups on college campuses. They recently released a study that found that $60 billion is the estimated amount of foreign funds that have been going to American universities. Of that $60 billion, $20 billion went to just 10 schools: Harvard University, Cornell University, Carnegie Mellon University, University of Pennsylvania, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, Johns Hopkins University, Yale University, Georgetown University, and Columbia University.

Muslim journalist and founder of the Pearl Project, Asra Nomani, told the Senate Judiciary Committee on March 5 that these leftist billionaires and foreign countries are so influential and effective, she considers them an anti-Semitic “industry.” Nomani has been researching what is behind the hatred against Jews for the last 22 years, since her friend and colleague, Daniel Pearl, was murdered by Muslim jihadists shortly after 9/11.

Nomani has counted 1,500 groups in the anti-Semitic “free Palestine” movement that attacks both Republicans and Democrats. She warned:

“The hate that killed Danny Pearl on the streets of Karachi is now in our streets. It’s on our campuses. It’s a frightening network of the far Left and the Islamist groups. Nobody in this room can support their ideals. Their ideals are against individual liberties and free enterprise. They want to destroy the United States of America. They want to destroy Israel. And our young Jewish students on campuses, our younger Dannys, are in their crosshairs. We must recognize this existential threat. It is a network. We must investigate them. We must have them register with the Foreign Agent Registration Act when they are doing the work of these malign foreign actors that want to destroy America.”

Not only are some Middle Eastern countries and Hamas fueling anti-Semitic and anti-American hate in America, but so are China and other American adversaries. Recently, the Senate Intelligence Committee held a hearing about worldwide threats, featuring testimonies from Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, FBI Director Kash Patel, and CIA Director John Ratcliffe. As Patel was about to give his introductory statement, two Code Pink protestors disrupted the hearing, proclaiming among other things, “The greatest threat to global security is Israel and the whole world knows it,” followed repeatedly with, “Stop funding Israel!” The Capitol police promptly removed both disrupters.

Senator Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) immediately pointed out that the disrupters were Code Pink protestors, funded by communist China. He explained, “The fact that communist China funds Code Pink which interrupts a hearing like this about Israel simply illustrate Director Gabbard’s point that China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, and other American adversaries are working in concert to a greater degree than they ever have.”

Thankfully, President Trump took strong, decisive action to fight anti-Semitism and terrorism on his very first day in office when he issued Executive Order 14161, titled “Protecting the United States From Foreign Terrorists and Other National Security and Public Safety Threats.”

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents have since begun arresting college students that are in the United States on visa that are supporting terrorism, and they are being held in ICE detention centers.

In addition, Columbia University students and parents of October 7 hostages filed a lawsuit on March 24, declaring that there is a coordinated campaign of support between several American nonprofit organizations, anti-Israel activists (including arrested Columbia graduate Mahmoud Khalil), and Hamas. According to The Free Press, “[T]he lawsuit notes one plaintiff, Shlomi Ziv, was taken hostage on October 7 and that his captors ‘bragged about having Hamas operatives on American university campuses’ and ‘showed him Al-Jazeera stories and photographs of protests at Columbia University,’ organized by the various defendants.”

The Trump administration has also started pulling federal grants from universities that are allowing anti-Semitic protests on their campuses, referring to Title VI of the Civil Rights Act which does not allow institutions of higher education to receive federal money if they  discriminate based on race, national origin, religion, or other characteristics.

This freezing of funds is already proving effective. In early March, the Department of Education canceled $400 million in grants and contracts with Columbia University because of their “continued inaction in the face of persistent harassment of Jewish students.” Columbia responded, saying they would work to address the government’s concerns about anti-Semitism, and it is now their “number one priority.” They are now “on track” to receive federal funding again.

On March 31, Education Secretary Linda McMahon announced that the Trump administration is now investigating Harvard University, saying, “Harvard’s failure to protect students on campus from anti-Semitic discrimination — all while promoting divisive ideologies over free inquiry — has put its reputation in serious jeopardy. Harvard can right these wrongs and restore itself to a campus dedicated to academic excellence and truth-seeking, where all students feel safe on its campus.”

Likely not wanting to face the freezing of federal funds that Columbia did, Harvard quickly responded, saying, “We will engage with members of the federal government’s task force to combat antisemitism to ensure that they have a full account of the work we have done and the actions we will take going forward to combat antisemitism.”

Also on March 31, the Trump administration paused $210 million in federal funding to Princeton University while it investigates potential anti-Semitism there.

We may soon learn of additional colleges whose funds are being withheld, since in early March the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights warned 60 colleges and universities are being investigated for potential anti-Semitic discrimination.

Following the White House’s lead, Congress is also taking action to stop anti-American foreign influence on college campuses. The House approved the Defending Education Transparency and Ending Rogue Regimes Engaging in Nefarious Transactions (“DETERRENT”) Act last week with bipartisan support (241-169). If passed into law, it will limit the amount of money foreign countries can give and prohibit certain countries from giving any money to American universities. 

Over the last four years, the Biden administration allowed millions of illegal immigrants to flow into our country, many of whom hate Jews, America, and American values. They allowed crime and violence to run rampant throughout the country. Thankfully, we now have a strong, focused president and Republican majority in Congress that are taking their constitutional roles seriously and working hard to make American safe again.