You and I’ve to pay extra taxes so elite universities that willfully break the regulation discriminating in opposition to Jews, whites and Asians can get tax exemptions. It’s a slap within the face.
But Harvard alum Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) is making an attempt to show the tables, accusing the Trump administration of “weaponizing” the IRS to strip Harvard of its 501c3 tax exempt standing.
Reality is, Harvard ought to lose its tax-exempt standing as a result of it’s responsible of illegally permitting the civil rights of Jewish college students to be trashed. The case in opposition to Harvard is a slam dunk.
Quite a few different universities the place Jewish college students are persecuted, together with Ivies like Columbia and Yale, ought to lose their exemptions too.
This isn’t about making left-wing academia extra balanced. Part 501c3 of the Inside Income Code bars faculties and different organizations that take pleasure in tax-exempt standing from partaking in “propaganda” or favoring political candidates, however the IRS has all the time turned a blind eye to campus leftism.
We might must stay with the truth that the majority universities are bastions of left-wing indoctrination. Nobody needs the IRS to bludgeon universities into conforming to the president’s perfect of mental range. Underneath a future president, the hammer may swing the opposite method.
However calling on the IRS to cease subsidizing racial and non secular discrimination is an ethical crucial. It’s additionally the company’s authorized obligation, in line with Supreme Courtroom precedent.
In 1983, the justices dominated that Bob Jones College’s ban on interracial marriage violated the nation’s “basic public coverage” in opposition to racial discrimination in training. That case stays precedent in the present day, although it has not been invoked within the final 40 years to strip one other college of its tax-exempt standing.
Now Harvard is responsible of fomenting blazing Jew-hatred by way of its curriculum and campus local weather. The college has already confessed. A 500-page report in April admits to permitting a campus setting designed to “drive Israeli college students (and Jewish college students who really feel linked to Israel) out of scholar life” and instruction that “normalizes” hatred of Jews and Israel.
A confession isn’t sufficient.
There should be a penalty till the campus is proven to be hospitable to Jewish college students.
If Harvard’s 501c3 standing is revoked, some donors will stroll.
That’s the value it ought to must pay.
Former President Barack Obama, a Harvard alum, is dismissing the investigation into Harvard as a “ham-handed try to stifle educational freedom.” Sorry, if Harvard have been discriminating in opposition to Black college students, or permitting nooses to be thrown over tree limbs, Obama can be becoming a member of a nationwide refrain of protest.
Discrimination in opposition to Jewish college students is simply as evil and unlawful.
Alongside Schumer and Obama, the Basis for Particular person Rights and Expression can also be talking out. It “staunchly opposes any governmental try to coerce academic establishments into ideological conformity.”
Amen.
FIRE’s issues are respectable. Any IRS investigation needs to be restricted to stamping out unlawful discrimination, not impinging on First Modification rights or dictating the parameters of mental range.
As for President Donald Trump’s position, he must again off and let the IRS do its job. Federal regulation (26 U.S. Code Part 7217) truly prohibits the president and different senior govt department officers, besides the Treasury secretary, from requesting the IRS audit anybody or any group.
Trump posted on Reality Social that “We’re going to be taking away Harvard’s Tax Exempt Standing. It’s what they deserve!” That detracts from the open-and-shut case in opposition to the college.
The IRS shouldn’t cease with Harvard. The Anti-Defamation League provides F grades to Princeton, Stanford and the State College of New York’s Buy and Rockland campuses for permitting rampant antisemitism. Columbia and Yale get Ds. Why ought to taxpayers assist that?
The IRS must also go after reverse racial discrimination in college admissions. Since 2023, when the Supreme Courtroom struck down racial preferences, many establishments are skirting the ruling.
The nonprofit Do No Hurt has documented how quite a few medical faculties are nonetheless emphasizing racial range and discounting the tutorial abilities that produce “medical excellence.” Pity the sufferers.
Quinnipiac College, the College of Maryland, the College of Chicago and Duke College overtly brag about prioritizing race in medical college admissions — by no means thoughts the uncooked deal they’re giving certified white and Asian candidates who wish to be docs.
The discrimination is revolting. Time to crack down. The easiest way is to revoke their tax exemptions. Cash talks.
Betsy McCaughey is a former Lt. Governor of New York State and Chairman of the Committee to Cut back An infection Deaths at www.hospitalinfection.org.
