By Free Republic | Created at 2024-11-18 03:52:47 | Updated at 2024-11-23 22:36:13
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Tennessee, Wyoming Senators Rip DOE For Funneling Taxpayer Dollars To US Anti-Israel University Professors
MSN ^ | 17 November 2024 | Mike Jenkins
Posted on 11/17/2024 7:47:01 PM PST by Alas Babylon!
U.S. Senators Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) and Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.) have sent a letter to Education Secretary Miguel Cardona, criticizing the Department of Education (DOE) for allowing federal funds to be used by universities promoting extremist, anti-Israel views.
The senators highlighted that since the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack in Israel, which killed over 1,200 people, incidents of harassment and violence against Jewish students have risen on college campuses.
They accused the Department of Education of funneling taxpayer money to programs that may be contributing to this surge of antisemitism rather than combating it.
According to the lawmakers, starting in 2020, the Department allocated $283 million in foreign studies grants under the Title VI National Resource Centers (NRC) and Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) programs.
More than $22.1 million of this funding has reportedly gone to Middle East studies programs at institutions like Columbia University and Georgetown University, where professors with extreme anti-Israel views have been cited in grant applications.
The senators expressed alarm over the use of federal funds to support courses taught by Columbia University Professor Joseph Massad. Following the Hamas attack, Massad published an article describing the attack as "a stunning victory of the Palestinian resistance."
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TOPICS: Government; Iran; Israel; News/Current Events; US: Tennessee; US: Wyoming
KEYWORDS: cynthialummis; doe; fraud; iran; israel; marshablackburn; miguelcardona; mikejenkins; propalies; tennessee; waste; wyoming
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This is the type of thing DOGE was meant to stop. Utter nonsense bordering on insanity.
To: Alas Babylon!
Ain’t gangster government grand?
2 posted on 11/17/2024 7:48:51 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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