FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL: Following a rise in antisemitism at universities, Rep. Randy Fine, R-Fla., has introduced legislation aimed at stopping antisemitic harassment on college campuses.   “I think if people are troubled by antisemitism on college campuses, this is the easiest way to stop it,” Fine said of his bill.  Universities have been aggressive in efforts to protect various minority populations, and yet some institutions “seem to lose all interest when it comes to protecting Jews,” according to Fine.  His legislation aims to amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to prohibit religious discrimination “under any program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance,” according to the text. If passed, the bill would also amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to provide means of “rigorous enforcement” against antisemitism on college campuses.  If university programs are found to have violated the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and engaged in antisemitic discrimination, the university could face financial fines.   “This bill would simply say that a Jewish kid deserves the same protections as a black kid or a Hispanic kid or woman or any other group of people,” Fine, who is Jewish, told The Daily Signal. “And unfortunately, colleges won’t do the right thing on their own, so we’re going to make them do it.”  Fine was clear that the bill would “restrict people’s ability to say whatever they want” on college campuses in the same way “you can’t say whatever you want about women or black students or gay students or anybody else.” Before being elected to Congress on April 1 in a special election, Fine served in the Florida state legislature, which passed a similar bill with bipartisan support.   The introduction of the bill in Congress comes on the heels of a long series of pro-Palestine and antisemitic protests and demonstrations on college campuses following the Hamas-led terrorist attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.   The bill, ‘‘Preventing Antisemitic Harassment on Campus Act of 2025,’’ is the House version of Sen. Rick Scott’s Senate bill of the same name.   “Following Iran-backed Hamas’ attack on Israel, we saw a drastic rise in antisemitic attacks in the United States with anti-Israel mobs taking over campuses, and we’ve seen an unacceptable failure from leadership at higher education institutions to take action to condemn these mobs and protect Jewish students,” Scott, R-Fla., told The Daily Signal.   Scott called the “disturbing debacle at Columbia University,” in which pro-Palestine protesters forcibly entered a campus library and declared it a “liberation zone,” just “one more example of pro-terrorist mobs blockading Jewish students from going to class and studying for finals, fearful of the violence this lawlessness presents. That can’t happen.” The Trump administration has announced an end to funding for a number of colleges and universities over failure to combat antisemitism on campus. In March, for example, the administration cut $400 million in federal funding from Columbia University.   “President Trump is completely right to withhold federal funding from higher education institutions that refuse to enforce the law on their campuses and enable antisemitic hate to flourish, and I’m proud to join my colleague, Rep. Randy Fine, on this bill to build on the president’s efforts,” Scott said. “These people must be held accountable.” The post EXCLUSIVE: GOP Lawmaker Introduces Bill to Combat Antisemitism on College Campuses   appeared first on The Daily Signal.