The New York State Senate has voted to slash $485 million in funding to senior colleges in the City University of New York system to “send a message” that not done enough to fight campus anti-Semitism.

On March 14, a state budget resolution championed by Republicans passed after a sprawling 2-hour debate on the Senate floor, Capital New York reports.

“These are the things that have been happening at CUNY,” said GOP State Sen. Ken LaValle of Long Island. LaValle, who chairs the chamber’s committee on higher education, described what he said is a pattern of anti-Semitic incidents, “and these are the things that the Senate Republican conference says are intolerable and must stop.”

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