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“It is abhorrent to threaten someone with violence because of who they are or how they worship,” said Robert DeWitt of the FBI.
“College is not a park for play-acting juveniles,” said Rep. Virginia Foxx, chair of the Education and Workforce Committee.
Following increasingly violent, disorderly and antisemitic protests, Columbia leadership said that the events “have left us no choice.”
The Green Party’s Jill Stein was detained alongside two staffers during an illegal protest at Washington University in St. Louis.
Elie Wiesel’s son told JNS that nothing is like the Holocaust, but the Chinese persecution of the Muslim minority has the “feeling of the Nazi machinery.”
In a letter, two members of the Senate Armed Services Committee said “the United States and our allies should increase pressure.”
The act is more important than ever “with Jewish students increasingly fearing for their safety,” stated Sacha Roytman, CEO of the Combat Antisemitism Movement.
A joint statement signed by 25 state leasers said the decision “creates instability and threatens future energy security throughout the world at a time when our allies need us the most.”
Chants at the demonstration included “Disclose, divest, we will not stop, we will not rest. Disclose, divest” and “Let Gaza live.”
It comes in the wake of threats, harassment, intimidation and discrimination against Jewish students at the public institution.
Washington and its allies “will continue to use all means available to combat those who would finance Iran’s destabilizing activities,” stated Brian Nelson, a U.S. Treasury under secretary.
The incumbent congressman, whom the RJC accuses of abandoning the Jewish state, has denounced antisemitism and supported Israel.
