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“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 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.
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!”
“Denying students access to areas of campus because they are Jewish is discrimination,” said Rep. Susie Lee (D-Nev.).
“Now that American students are under siege, this is the right policy at the right time to give Jewish students a safe space,” says Inbal Ratz-Gilmore of the Kohelet Policy Forum.
There were reports of injuries amid violent confrontations between Israel supporters and the pro-Hamas encampment.
“Smashing windows with hammers and taking over university buildings is not free speech,” the Senate majority leader said earlier in the day.
