Republican senators demand IRS probe revoking tax breaks for pro-Hamas campus protest backers

A group of Republican senators is demanding that the IRS investigate a number of nonprofits supporting any pro-Hamas unrest on American campuses to see if their tax-exempt statuses should be revoked.

Headed up by U.S. Sen Joni Ernst, a Republican from Iowa, 16 senators signed their names to a May 9 letter to IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel obtained by Just the News.

“We write to demand you open an investigation to determine if the supporters of the National Students for Justice in Palestine (NSJP)…have engaged in conduct warranting revocation of their tax-exempt statuses on the basis of their financial support of NSJP,” the senators wrote.

A representative of Sen. Ernst told The College Fix via email that the senator believes “any organization enabling activity that violates the law should lose their tax-exempt status.”