McCaughey: Time for Ivy League to pay for bias

You and I have to pay more taxes so elite universities that willfully break the law discriminating against Jews whites and Asians can get tax exemptions It s a slap in the face Yet Harvard alum Sen Chuck Schumer D-N Y is trying to turn the tables accusing the Trump administration of weaponizing the IRS to strip Harvard of its c tax exempt status Truth is Harvard should lose its tax-exempt status because it s guilty of illegally allowing the civil rights of Jewish students to be trashed The situation against Harvard is a slam dunk Numerous other universities where Jewish students are persecuted including Ivies like Columbia and Yale should lose their exemptions too This isn t about making left-wing academia more balanced Section c of the Internal Revenue Code bars colleges and other organizations that enjoy tax-exempt status from engaging in propaganda or favoring political candidates but the IRS has inevitably turned a blind eye to campus leftism We may have to live with the reality that majority universities are bastions of left-wing indoctrination No one wants the IRS to bludgeon universities into conforming to the president s ideal of intellectual diversity Under a future president the hammer could swing the other way But calling on the IRS to stop subsidizing racial and religious discrimination is a moral imperative It s also the agency s legal duty according to Supreme Court precedent In the justices ruled that Bob Jones University s ban on interracial marriage violated the nation s fundamental residents agenda against racial discrimination in mentoring That affair remains precedent at present though it has not been invoked in the last years to strip another university of its tax-exempt status Now Harvard is guilty of fomenting blazing Jew-hatred through its curriculum and campus context The university has already confessed A -page assessment in April admits to allowing a campus habitat designed to drive Israeli students and Jewish students who feel connected to Israel out of attendee life and instruction that normalizes hatred of Jews and Israel A confession isn t enough There must be a penalty until the campus is shown to be hospitable to Jewish students If Harvard s c status is revoked various donors will walk That s the price it should have to pay Former President Barack Obama a Harvard alum is dismissing the review into Harvard as a ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom Sorry if Harvard were discriminating against Black students or allowing nooses to be thrown over tree limbs Obama would be joining a nationwide chorus of protest Discrimination against Jewish students is just as evil and illegal Alongside Schumer and Obama the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression is also speaking out It staunchly opposes any governmental attempt to coerce educational institutions into ideological conformity Amen FIRE s concerns are legitimate Any IRS inspection should be limited to stamping out illegal discrimination not impinging on First Amendment rights or dictating the parameters of intellectual diversity As for President Donald Trump s role he requirements to back off and let the IRS do its job Federal law U S Code Section literally prohibits the president and other senior executive branch agents except the Treasury secretary from requesting the IRS audit anyone or any organization Trump posted on Truth Social that We are going to be taking away Harvard s Tax Exempt Status It s what they deserve That detracts from the open-and-shut episode against the university The IRS should not stop with Harvard The Anti-Defamation League gives F grades to Princeton Stanford and the State University of New York s Purchase and Rockland campuses for allowing rampant antisemitism Columbia and Yale get Ds Why should taxpayers promotion that The IRS should also go after reverse racial discrimination in university admissions Since when the Supreme Court struck down racial preferences plenty of institutions are skirting the ruling The nonprofit Do No Harm has documented how numerous anatomical schools are still emphasizing racial diversity and discounting the academic skills that produce clinical excellence Pity the patients Quinnipiac University the University of Maryland the University of Chicago and Duke University openly brag about prioritizing race in biological school admissions never mind the raw deal they re giving qualified white and Asian applicants who want to be doctors The discrimination is revolting Time to crack down The best way is to revoke their tax exemptions Money talks Betsy McCaughey is a former Lt Governor of New York State and Chairman of the Committee to Reduce Infection Deaths at www hospitalinfection org