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STEFANIK STEPS UP: Trump's UN Ambassador Pick on the Hill for Confirmation Hearing [WATCH NOW]

posted by Hannity Staff - 1.21.25

On Tuesday, former New York Rep. Elise Stefanik, Donald Trump’s nominee for UN Ambassador, will testify before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for her confirmation.

Watch the hearing above.

Shortly before the hearing began, Harvard Jewish student Shabbos Kestenbaum, who experienced rampant antisemitism during pro-Palestinian protests last year, penned an op-ed in support of Stefanik for her standing up for Jewish students on his campus.

From Fox News:

It was a question heard around the world.

“Does calling for the genocide of Jews violate Harvard University’s rules of bullying and harassment? Yes or no?”

Congresswoman Elise Stefanik’s relatively simple question at the House Committee on Education & the Workforce Committee hearing on antisemitism was not meant to be a trick question.

Yet, in a remarkable moment that exposed the antisemitic rot infecting America’s higher education, the then morally bankrupt university presidents of MIT, Penn and my alma mater Harvard testified that the calls for genocide of Jewish students could be acceptable “depending on the context.”

Stefanik’s question was unfortunately not hypothetical. The bullying and harassment of Jewish students on American campuses has gone relatively unchecked as administrators give preference to those who chant “Death to America” and call for the genocide of the Jewish people and the state of Israel. I know because I have seen it firsthand as a Jewish student on Harvard University’s campus over the past year.

Since the Hamas invasion of Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, there has been an explosion of antisemitism on “elite” American college campuses. At Harvard alone, a Jewish student was spat on, an Israeli student was asked to leave class because her nationality made classmates “uncomfortable,” and another Israeli was assaulted at the business school.

I personally was taunted by a staff member with a machete and challenged to debate the Jewish involvement in the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Meanwhile, hostage posters were defaced almost daily, and professors published antisemitic cartoons without facing disciplinary action or accountability.

Jewish students were meant to grin and bear it, forced to feel unsafe at the learning establishment they had chosen to call home.

Across campus, Harvard students illegally set up encampments, cheered thunderously when they replaced the American flag overlooking Harvard with that of Palestinians, screamed about globalizing the intifada, screamed at all hours of the day that “Palestine will be Arab,” established their own rule of law on campus, and followed us Jews on our way to class.

Harvard refused to acknowledge these incidents publicly or failed to address them for months, and still did not discipline the perpetrators.

As American values eroded on college campuses this last year, a steadfast, often lone, voice of moral clarity has emerged: Congresswoman Elise Stefanik.

Full op-ed over at Fox News:

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