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Israel has been engaged in intense combat with Hamas for more than two
months. During this time, here in the United States we have seen a wide
swing against Israel through misleading media coverage and numerous
displays of antisemitism. But despite that, America is standing with
Israel.

**Values Dictate Policy**

The United States has done a decent job, since October 7th, to stand by
Israel, but there have been missteps. In particular, anti-Israel staff
at the White House and in Congress, as well as entrenched bureaucrats at
the State Department, have tried to push U.S. policy against Israel.
Thus far, for the most part they've failed.

Just recently, for example, the United States vetoed a UN Security
Council Resolution calling for a cease-fire in Gaza. Such a resolution
would've harmed Israel and benefitted Hamas. 

In addition, the State Department recently pushed forward a transfer of
munitions for Merkava tanks to Israel extremely rapidly, despite the
fact that such a process usually takes weeks. Mind you, this is the very
same State Department where 400 staff members allegedly
"anonymously" signed a letter condemning American support for
Israel.

Washington's support for Israel should come as no surprise because,
quite simply, we live in a democracy. Israel consistently enjoys
widespread support amongst the American public, and the overwhelming
majority of our elected officials reflect that.

And despite the aforementioned media coverage, the average American's
view of Israel has not changed since Israel began ground operations in
Gaza. A Wall Street Journal poll released Monday found that a majority
of Americans believe Israel's military action in Gaza is appropriate.
Likewise, 42% of Americans sympathize more with the Israelis than the
Palestinians, for whom just 12% of Americans had greater sympathy. About
a third of those polled said they sympathized with both sides equally.

**Education Dictates Values**

The above numbers sound good, yeah? Well, don't get too excited just
yet. The same poll found dramatically lower support for Israel amongst
younger and more left-leaning Americans. For example, 23% of Americans
aged 18-34 said they sympathized more with the Palestinians than the
Israelis. A plurality, 31%, still said the opposite, but that's a
significant shift from the overall American public.

And, sadly, there's more. A new poll from

**The Economist** found that 20% of Americans aged 18-29 believe the
Holocaust was a myth. Another 30% were unsure.  Given this level of
ignorance - a most fertile ground in which to plant seeds of hate -
it's a bit less surprising that we've seen, for the past few years,
a substantial increase in antisemitic incidents in the U.S., with 2023
on track to be the most antisemitic year recorded in American history
after already hitting increasingly historical highs the previous two
years.

After getting over the shocking level of hatred and ignorance described
here, one might be inclined to ask: What on earth happened?

Well, as it happens, the answer was put on full display last week when
the Presidents of Harvard, MIT and the University of Pennsylvania
testified before the House Education Committee.

During that now infamous hearing, the leaders of all three universities
could not bring themselves to agree that calling for the genocide of
Jews constitutes bullying and was against their school's code of
conduct. And if the leaders of the most (allegedly) illustrious
higher-education institutions in America do not believe that calling for
the genocide of Jews is bullying, that tells you everything you really
need to know about the state of American education.

We are deeply grateful to Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) for her unwavering
determination to expose and address the problem of pervasive (and
apparently permissible) antisemitism on the American college campus. As
a direct result of Rep. Stefanik's line of questioning exposing the
rot atop the ivory tower, President Liz Magill of the University of
Pennsylvania is no longer the President of that institution and the
University's Chairman of the Board of Trustees resigned as well.  To
quote Rep. Stefanik, "one down, two to go." It should also be noted
how many democrats came out in support of Rep. Stefanik's line of
questioning - after many years both the left and right are beginning
to see the problems on our campuses for what they are.

Unfortunately, the stewards of MIT and Harvard do not yet understand
that they are facing - and thus far failing - a defining moral test
for their institutions. MIT's board expressed

**support** for the institution's president after her disastrous
performance in Washington. And while Harvard's leadership has yet to
say anything substantive about President Claudine Gay's future, more
than 500 faculty members signed a letter in support of Gay, further
indicating that the once distinguished Harvard University has become
among the country's leading hotbeds of antisemitism.

Since at least 2017, the CUFI Action Fund has been sounding the alarm on
this issue. Our Chairwoman testified before the House Judiciary
Committee in an effort to advance the Antisemitism Awareness Act -
which eventually became U.S. policy under President Trump's executive
order combatting antisemitism. We worked to advance the Never Again
Education Act and state level acknowledgement of the IHRA definition, as
well as enhance Holocaust education standards in a number of states
across the country.

Our advocacy in this context is, of course, far from over. This is why
we are seeking to advance the Countering Hate Against Israel (CHAI) by
Federal Contractors Act to put the U.S. government on record with 36
states around the country to ensure that none of your federal dollars go
to companies boycotting Israel.

We know that when these antisemitic Israel haters graduate from the
likes of Penn, Harvard or MIT, their next stop is going to be in
America's corporate board rooms where they can turn their campus
activism into financial warfare against the one and only Jewish state.
However, with your help and support, together we will push the enemy
back into the dark hole from whence they came.

Sincerely,

The CUFI Action Fund

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