Tim Scott
“It’s critical the Department of Education has the tools and resources it needs to investigate antisemitism,” said Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.).
“We shouldn’t be surprised that we’ve seen from this administration more than a year’s worth of leaks hostile to Israel,” Sen. Tom Cotton told “Fox News.”
“The American people, and especially our Jewish brothers and sisters, deserve our moral clarity on this issue,” Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) said.
Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.), who introduced the bill, noted that the Senate majority leader “gave an unprecedented speech on the Senate floor where he called for elections to be held in Israel.”
“The last thing we need to do is to tell Israel what to do. The only thing we should be doing is supporting them and eliminating Hamas,” said Nikki Haley, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
“When you give evil people, who want to murder you, the financial resources to do so, it does not work out well,” Texas Sen. Ted Cruz said of the new White House funding for Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
“I think it would be bad for Israel to have a man who has misled the Congress and the American people about the nuclear deal with Iran,” Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) told JNS of Lew’s nomination.
There were no fiery exchanges on Israel, as there were in the first debate, though two candidates mentioned Iran.
In one rather dramatic moment, Nikki Haley accused Vivek Ramaswamy of not being a supporter of Israel.
Faith issues are at the center of the announcement from the South Carolina Republican senator.
Sens. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) and Bob Casey (D-Pa.) reintroduced the Anti-Semitism Awareness Act, which would require the Department of Education to adopt the State Department’s definition of anti-Semitism in evaluating incidents on college campuses.