Specter of hate: In the wake of the barbaric attacks on Israeli civilians by Islamic terror group Hamas, the American public is suddenly waking up to just how radical our college campuses have become. Heritage research shows it’s even worse than you think. 

 

American Academics Spread Hamas’ Lies on Social Media 

• Left-wing professors from a range of elite universities promoted the Hamas-spun lie that Israel bombed a hospital in Gaza and killed hundreds of innocent people, according to a report by Senior Research Fellow Jay Greene, Research Fellow Jason Bedrick, and Ian Kingsbury, director of research for Do No Harm, a health care advocacy organization. Read more here. 

University of Michigan Law School Exposed—Rotten to the Core 

• Yet another university steeped in “diversity, equity, and inclusion” is churning out radicals. Senior Legal Fellow Hans von Spakovsky writes about the problem at the University of Michigan. Read more here. 

Colleges Caught Between Hamas-Supporting Students and Wealthy Donors 

• Why do colleges put up with dangerous student idiocy and hate, and what can alumni do to root out radicalism on college campuses? Jay Greene explains here.  

Domestic terrorists? The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) granted the University of Dayton more than $350,000 after it held a seminar featuring a “pyramid of far-right radicalization,” which pictured The Heritage Foundation, Fox News, and other conservative groups as stepping stones to neo-Nazism.  

• Heritage’s Oversight Project requested explanations for the slander, which DHS ignored. Now, Heritage is suing for the information.  

Read the full story here.  

Act now: If America doesn’t secure its border, the country will remain vulnerable to terrorist attacks from abroad.  

• “Securing America’s border must remain a top legislative priority over the coming weeks,” write Lora Ries, director of the Border Security and Immigration Center, and visiting advisor RJ Hauman.  
• This is not “a problem that can be solved with more taxpayer dollars.” 

Read more analysis here. 

Reckless: President Biden has once again asked Congress for “emergency funding,” this time for $106 billion.  

• These funds will add to an already long list of reckless spending by the Biden administration.   
• David Ditch, senior policy analyst for the Grover M. Hermann Center for the Federal Budget, breaks down Biden’s unhinged spending spree in five charts.  

View them here. 

Radicalism on American college campuses has become intolerable. Consider how a future gift to Heritage could protect the next generation by clicking here. 

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Kara Frederick, director of Heritage’s Tech Policy Center, appeared on Fox Business to discuss how misinformation about Hamas and Israel is spreading on social media. Watch the clip here.