Campus Antisemitism
The U.S. president said that “peaceful” protests are protected free speech, but “violent” ones aren’t.
The scholarship began after the Hamas terrorist attacks in southern Israel on Oct. 7.
“The inmates are truly running the asylum,” said Rep. Virginia Foxx.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams said “outside agitators” played a key role in pro-Hamas protests at Columbia University.
“I want to send a clear message out that there are people who are harmful and are trying to radicalize our children and we cannot ignore ... these outside influences,” said Eric Adams.
The trip will take place amid a sharp rise in antisemitism on college campuses in North America.
The representative from Nebraska wrote on X that “calling these students ‘pro-genocide’ is despicable.”
The ADL, StandWithUs, the Brandeis Center and the ZOA blasted the administration’s capitulation to anti-Israel student activists.
“If moral clarity does not prevail—in the ivory tower and in the Biden administration—this could go down as a particularly shameful moment in our history,” the Senate minority leader said.
“College is not a park for play-acting juveniles,” said Rep. Virginia Foxx, chair of the Education and Workforce Committee.
Almost 60% of survey respondents at the elite university counter that the school suffers from systemic antisemitism.
As police hauled away protesters, one man yelled, “You are Hitler! You are rabid dogs! You are fascists! Shame on You!”
