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Rep. Mike Lawler (R – NY) introduced an amendment to the 2024 Labor, HHS and Education bill barring taxpayer funding of campus antisemitism.
The really simple amendment stated that, “none of the funds made available by this Act may be made available to an institution of higher education that authorizes, facilitates, provides funding for, or otherwise supports any event promoting antisemitism (as such term is defined by the working definition of anti-semitism adopted by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance on May 26, 2016, including the contemporary examples of antisemitism cited by the Alliance.) on the campus of such institution.”
The amendment passed the House 373 to 54.
Republicans voted for it 218-1 (Rep. Massie) while Democrats voted for it 155-53. That means a third of the House Democrat delegation voted against an amendment barring campus funding of antisemitism.
Who voted against? The Squad is no surprise. There’s the usual collection of leftists and Islamist-friendly types, Rep. Barbara Lee, Rep. Jayapal, Rep. Betty McCollum, Rep. Raul Grijalva, Rep. Judy Chu, Rep. Marc Pocan, and then there’s the J Street crowd, Rep. Jan Schakowsky, Rep. Sara Jacobs and Rep. Jerry Nadler.
That’s right. Jerry strikes again.
Rep. Jerry Nadler, a guy who balances a district with a lot of Jews, with a lot of anti-Israel votes, put up a tendentious statement attacking the amendment.
“To be clear, I am deeply concerned about rising incidents of antisemitism in our nation’s institutions of higher education,” Rep. Nadler began. Beginning with “to be clear” rarely leads to clarity or honesty.
Rep. Nadler attacked House Republicans for banning taxpayer funding of antisemitism instead of funding the “Office of Civil Rights” which has been largely useless.
He claimd that banning raxpayer funding of campus antisemitism was a “meaningless gesture” and “wildly counterproductive”. (If something is wildly counterproductive, it’s probably not meaningless.)
“Threatening to pull federal funding from the universities and college campuses that need our help the most is, at best, wildly counterproductive. Moreover, the amendment is so broad that it threatens to defund institutions that are working in good faith to fight antisemitism on campus. Under Representative Lawler’s construction, a university might lose its funding if a single student showed up to a single event with a single antisemitic sign—even if that student had no affiliation with the school. It should also be noted that Congress doesn’t cut funding to universities when individual students on campus use vile racist or homophobic speech. The scourge of antisemitism is real, and we have real work to do. Draconian measures like the Lawler Amendment are a step in the wrong direction.”
If you break down that flailing word salad of gibberish, Rep. Nadler is arguing that pulling funding for campus antisemitism would be counterproductive because colleges that platform antisemitism need help.
He falsely contends that “a university might lose its funding if a single student showed up to a single event with a single antisemitic sign—even if that student had no affiliation with the school”. The amendment states that the event itself has to promote antisemitism.
But that’s where Rep. Nadler shows his true colors.
He worries that an event might be wrongly characterized as antisemitic. An interesting concern for a supposedly Jewish politician who claims to be concerned about antisemitism, but is actually more concerned about antisemites.
Rep. Nadler argues that it’s unfair because Congress doesn’t cut off funding to colleges that platform homophobia, so why should it cut funding for antisemitism. Jewish constituents of Rep. Nadler must find the “why focus on antisemitism” argument very comforting.
Then he attacks a ban on funding campus antisemitism as “draconian”. Who thinks fighting campus hatred of Jews is “draconian”? Jew-haters and their political allies.
Allies like Rep. Nadler.
Nadler shows he cares more about antisemites than antisemitism.
Office of Civil Rights. How ridiculous. People are legally due civil rights and their enforcement is up to law enforcement and courts, not yet another wasteful government agency.
I’d like to see a bill which would ban gnomes like noxious Nadler from Congress.
That Office of Civil Rights was highly useful a few years back when FBI agents protested in the streets of Sanford Florida until the Governor could find a State Attorney who would charge George Zimmerman. with murder. Attorney General Eric Holder directed the entire charade.
Nadler attended my high school (Stuyvesant in NYC) and I once voted for him to head the student government. I totally regret whatever I did then to advance his sorry career.
A later toxic emission from ever-liberal Stuyvesant was Eric Holder, Barack Hussein Obama’s partner in illegality.
We all do dumb things sometimes.
18 or 20 years ago, there was talk of a constitutional amendment banning desecration of the flag. The amendment never got anywhere, of course. NADLER pulled the same pedantic crap then as he is now: live, on CSPAN, Nadler wheels a large American flag cake into the rostrum of the house on a cart and proceeds to cut it with a cake knife while blathering about how an amendment protecting the flag would make what he’s doing a crime.
Who votes for this guy?
He’s a fat little scumbag, not to mention an inveterate liar.
Unfortunately, America is far past the point were we can outlaw flag burning, abortion and make English the national language.
Well, he lost a lot of weight but he’s still a scumbag..
We need an amendment that is more specific and names the organizations that will not be allowed on campus. The leading name is SJP (Students for Justice in Palestine). NO federal funds should go to any campus allowing this organization. Almost all the campus antisemitic incidents reported by AMCHA are organized by this group.
No money for BLM, Louie Farrakhan or CAIR events, either.
So he’s seen a lot of campus demonstrations calling for the death of homosexuals and transsexuals, has he? Where? Somehow I must have missed those. What a pathetic (and dishonest) excuse for a human being he is.
Jerry Wadler is such a disgrace! Shame on the people who continue to vote for this obnoxious, boorish piece of garbage. He should be booted from any synagogue that he enters.
Jerry Waddler. Good one! 🙂 He does waddle, doesn’t he?
There are no words to describe that despicable kapo, I hope he dies in agony.