New York, NY, December 19, 2024 … ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) today welcomed the House Republican leadership’s report concluding their investigation into the alarming surge of antisemitism since Hamas’s terrorist attack on October 7, 2023.
The committee’s investigation found that several universities failed to stop antisemitism on their campuses, likely violating Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Additionally, the report found that several American-based tax-exempt organizations may have funneled American taxpayer dollars to designated terrorist organizations.
Jonathan Greenblatt, ADL CEO, issued the following statement:
We applaud Congress for continuing to exercise its oversight authority to investigate antisemitism on college campuses and whether American taxpayer funding is supporting terrorist organizations. We remain committed to continuing to work with Speaker Mike Johnson and Congressional leaders on both sides of the aisle to fight antisemitism in the 119th Congress.
The Staff Report on Antisemitism shines a light on many of the issues ADL has been sounding an alarm on for the past year.
The report calls on universities to recognize that discrimination against Zionists in an unacceptable antisemitic civil rights violation. College administrators have the responsibility to protect their students – yet they too often have failed to enforce their own policies and codes of conduct, frequently allowing offenders to face little to no accountability or disciplinary action.
The report also highlights that fiscal sponsors cannot be permitted to knowingly provide or facilitate the provision of material support to U.S. government-designated terrorist organizations. ADL has been tracking the Alliance for Global Justice and American Muslims for Palestine, the case studies in this report and testified on this topic before the Ways and Means Committee earlier this year.
We were pleased to see OFAC’s designation of Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network as a sham charity and urge the incoming Administration to ensure taxpayer money is not used to fund U.S. government-designated terrorist organizations.
Congress must take swift action to protect the Jewish community on campus and beyond. We will continue to advocate for passage of the Antisemitism Awareness Act and the Countering Antisemitism Act to give government the tools to more effectively combat the antisemitism crisis this report documents. In order to ensure the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights can protect students’ rights on safety on campus, Congress must ensure that it has sufficient resources. As a crucial pillar in the global fight against terrorism, we urge the Senate to pass the Stop Terror-Financing and Tax Penalties on American Hostages Act with strengthened due process protections.
ADL is the leading anti-hate organization in the world. Founded in 1913, its timeless mission is “to stop the defamation of the Jewish people and to secure justice and fair treatment to all.” Today, ADL continues to fight all forms of antisemitism and bias, using innovation and partnerships to drive impact. A global leader in combating antisemitism, countering extremism and battling bigotry wherever and whenever it happens, ADL works to protect democracy and ensure a just and inclusive society for all.