For the twentieth year, the US embassy to Israel invited only Muslims from Israel to come to the United States for an all-expense paid year of study abroad.

On September 12, 2023, the embassy posted an advertisement that the U.S. State Department “is seeking a group of Arab citizens of Israel secondary school students to participate in a Study- in-the-USA initiative for high school students during the 2024-2025 school year.” (bold in original) It is backed by the YES Program Scholarship which gives “many countries with significant Muslim population an opportunity to study at American high schools and live with American host families for one academic year,” funding “all expenses in connection with the study tour including airfare, room and board, pocket money and most other costs.”

Israeli Jews are not invited to participate. It is a program solely focused on Muslims.

The YES program brings in Muslims to U.S. schools from around the world in addition to Israel, including Ghana, Jordan, Indonesia, Malaysia and Morocco.

This effort is taking place while college antisemitism is reaching new staggering levels, mostly coming from Muslim students. The AMCHA Initiative has done numerous studies which show a direct correlation between Students for Justice in Palestine and other anti-Zionist groups and antisemitic incidents on campus.

Canary Mission tracks many of these antisemites and anti-Zionists, including Yasmeen Mashayekh, a student at University of Southern California, who tweeted “I want to kill every motherf**king zionist” and “curse the Jews.” She has repeatedly praised Palestinian terrorists after they slaughter Jews in the streets. As can only be imagined in California, she is a student ambassador on the school’s committee for diversity, equity and inclusion.

*Yasmeen Mashayekh, antisemite who sits on USC’s DEI committee*

Naye Idriss, a student at Columbia University, tweeted a picture supporting Diaa Hamarsheh, who slaughtered five Israelis in Bnei Brak in central Jerusalem, adding “All support and glory for any action that creates an atmosphere of fear and insecurity for the settlers. They will know neither security nor peace on stolen land!”

The list goes on.

The toxicity snowballs. With government sponsored Muslims on campus from countries including Malaysia, Columbia University naturally invited the proud antisemitic Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad to speak on campus. He is infamous for calling Jewish people “hook-nosed” and claiming “Jews rule the world by proxy.”

Jews are trying to have a normal college experience but over 200 chapters of the Students for Justice in Palestine and other anti-Zionist groups are making their lives a living hell. At the same time, the U.S. State Department is actively focused on bringing in Muslims onto college campuses – with your tax dollars.

American College campuses have stopped becoming a place for civil discourse and have morphed into incubators for antisemitism and disinformation campaigns. And it’s directly funded by your tax dollars.

ACTION ITEM

CONTACT WHITE HOUSE “What is the interview process of the YES program that brings in hundred of Muslims into the United States every year to make sure they are promoting coexistence and not antisemitism? Perhaps it is time to bring in Jewish students from around the world to combat the rampant Jew-hatred on college campuses.”