Nonprofit organizations funded by Islamic terrorists are directly inciting antisemitism across college campuses while taking advantage of the U.S. tax code. Now, finally, a member of the Senate is willing to take action.
“An organization that supports terrorism, breaks U.S. law, and sows antisemitic discord should not receive any benefits from the American tax system. I ask you to immediately investigate both PYM and Honor the Earth and to take any actions necessary to remedy this situation,” Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) wrote to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, urging the removal of the tax-exempt status of the Palestinian Youth Movement.
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The PYM, a purported civil rights group, co-hosted a pro-Palestinian protest in New York City the day after the slaughter, rape, and kidnapping of innocent Israeli civilians on Oct. 7, 2023. The group issued a statement justifying Hamas’s actions: “Palestinian resistance factions in Gaza initiated an unprecedented liberation struggle, the ‘Al-Aqsa Flood,’ in response to accelerating attacks on Palestinians in Jerusalem and the West Bank.”
It was hardly unexpected. As Cotton noted in his letter, the PYM maintains “close ties” to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and Hamas, both designated as foreign terrorist organizations.
Just weeks earlier, Cotton sent a similar letter to IRS Commissioner Billy Long, urging him to revoke the tax-exempt status of the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
Although CAIR presents itself as a civil rights group, substantial evidence links the organization to extremist networks. In the largest terrorism-financing trial in U.S. history, CAIR was identified as part of the Muslim Brotherhood’s Palestine Committee. Court exhibits revealed that its founders attended a 1990s Philadelphia meeting of Hamas supporters in which participants discussed advancing Islamist objectives in America while concealing their true allegiances.
These ties are not isolated. In a November 2023 speech, CAIR’s national executive director, Nihad Awad, openly declared he was “happy to see” Palestinians “breaking the siege and throwing down the shackles of their own land” amid Hamas’s brutal Oct. 7 terrorist attacks in Israel. Such statements are just one example of CAIR’s long record of extremist rhetoric and activity.
The rise of CAIR and PYM has coincided with a growing wave of hostility toward Jewish students and Israel supporters on American college campuses. At the University of Chicago, for instance, students reported professors posting signs urging to “Deport Israelis” and declaring that “Israel must pay for the murders and destruction,” according to the College Fix.
On campuses where groups like the PYM are active, antisemitism has escalated to unprecedented levels.
At Columbia University, for instance, Jewish students were physically barred from entering class by hostile peers. Rather than facing consequences, the perpetrators were celebrated by radical public figures, including New York City’s likely incoming mayor, who embraced these extremist ideologies during his time at Bowdoin College a decade ago.
Other colleges, such as Florida State University, banned the PYM and its various factions from operating on campus, which has resulted in a safer environment for Jewish students.
However, even if banned from college campuses, groups like the PYM can still have a significant impact.
As reported by the College Fix, a study conducted by Dr. Gunther Jikeli of Indiana University’s Social Media and Hate Research Lab found that antisemitic hate on college campuses is “highly coordinated” and could “inspire more people to target Jews or anyone who is deemed ‘Zionist’ more directly.”
According to Hillel International, 83% of Jewish students have experienced or witnessed antisemitic harassment firsthand, while 41% of Jewish students prefer to hide their true identities.
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There is a direct correlation between the increase in PYM’s presence on college campuses, its expanding arsenal of financial resources, and the antisemitic climate perpetrated in higher education today.
The federal government should stop enabling these terrorist sympathizers and eliminate the taxpayer-funded benefits we provide them. A group that wishes bodily harm on its peers simply because of their ethnic background has no place in the United States.
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