Rep. Randy Fine (R-FL) on Thursday told the Washington Examiner that he will introduce legislation to eliminate antisemitism in higher education, while the National Association of Scholars said Congress will ensure the removal of more antisemitic college administrators after the resignation of Northwestern University’s president, Michael Schill.

“I think higher education has embraced muslim terror at all levels, and it is up to us to bring it to its end,” Fine told the Washington Examiner.

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“Anti-semitism has to be treated at colleges and universities the same way other forms of racism need to be treated,” Fine added. 

Fine then broke to the Washington Examiner that he will introduce legislation in the near future similar to a bill he introduced in Florida, which codified the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s definition of antisemitism into state law.

“We do not have a widespread racism problem at our universities, and that is a good thing. If you discriminate against black people, you are going to be in trouble; that is a good thing. That is how it should be. All we need to do is take the same policies, the same conduct codes, and replace the word black with Jew, and you will solve the problem,” Fine said. 

Fine’s promise to use his new seat at the federal level to fight antisemitism shows that Congress is finally taking a step in the right direction in its fight to reinstate integrity in U.S. higher education.

Similarly, Preston Cooper, American Enterprise Institute’s higher education fellow, told the Washington Examiner, “Northwestern’s president will hardly be the last university leader to face scrutiny for his handling of campus antisemitism.”

According to Cooper, Schill brought the federal scrutiny upon himself through his “mishandling.”

Now, just because Schill resigned does not mean the university will have its funding reinstated. Cooper concluded by saying the Trump administration might have an easier time striking a deal with the university’s new administration. However, as stated by the National Association of Scholars, an organization that promotes truth and intellectual diversity, it would like to see “real tangible on-the-ground movement to comply with Title IV before handing back Northwestern’s allowance.”

Chance Layton, the National Association of Scholars’s communications director, told the Washington Examiner that President Donald Trump and Congress “will enforce Title VI,” but “it would continue to be best for universities to reform themselves before falling further afoul of the law.”

Layton said Schill’s resignation and Congress’s persistence in holding antisemitic college administrators accountable sends a strong message “to others like him who coddled Hamas sympathizers and allowed anti-Semitism to flourish.”

He added that Schill’s resignation makes clear that whoever becomes the next president “will need to quickly tackle antisemitism on campus and, ideally, work to ensure that Northwestern does not run a two-tiered campus justice system for racial discrimination” if that person wishes to keep their job.

Prior to Schill’s resignation, Northwestern lost at least $790 million in federal funding over civil rights violations against Jewish students.

While the resignation won’t unfreeze federal funding, it could prevent more funds from being frozen in the future.

Northwestern is the latest university to be affected by the current political climate. According to the College Fix, three more top medical schools could soon follow.

Columbia University’s Interim President Katrina Armstrong resigned a week after the Trump administration froze federal funding over the university’s inability and unwillingness to fight antisemitism. 

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Other universities whose presidents have resigned include Harvard University, the University of Virginia, the University of Pennsylvania, and Columbia University, all for the same reason.

Since Trump took office, higher education has gained back some integrity, and rightfully so.