‘Disgracing The Universities’: Scalise Slams College Leaders Over Handling Of Anti-Israel Protests

wh since October 7th when a terrorist organization backed by Iran known as Hamas invaded Iran invaded Israel you have seen a growing wave of anti-Semitism obviously in Israel we saw a war declared on them and Israel said we're going to defend our state and you saw by the way these colleagues here and so many of my house colleagues stand and say we support Israel's right to defend themselves as a Jewish state but something else alarming that you started to see happen after that is when we started taking action here and that is when you started seeing anti-Semitism grow here in the United States here on college campuses and in fact here on the house floor by some of our colleagues on the other side and we've been speaking out against it vocally this is an area where you have to learn from the mistakes of History because if you don't learn from the mistakes of History we're all doomed to repeat it let's not forget what happened in the leadup to World War I and so when you see some of the things that these whether you call them terrorist sympathizers Anarchist they're organized when they show up and they all have the same kind of tents when they all are from out of state in many of these places where they're showing up it's an organized mob trying to ensue chaos and breed anti anti-Semitism and if we don't stand up against it every place we see it and more importantly if we don't call on those people whose main job is to protect the people that they're tasked with looking over look at these college presidents you know and and we're asking all of our committee chairs to look into the billions of federal taxpayer dollars that go to these universities and part of the reason it goes to these universities is that so they could provide a good education for their students so they could provide a safe environment for their students and if these presidents won't provide that safe environment then those University presidents need to go they need to resign and we've been very vocal about calling on them to step down as well because they're not only failing their students but they're disgracing the universities many of these universities that have had long and stored reputations that are being tarnished uh many of them permanently uh students parents that won't even send their kids to these schools anymore because their kids are no longer safe and we're seeing it play out today on many campuses Across the Nation but here in this house with our majority we're going to continue to hold these people accountable for the money that they get and for the failures uh that they're ensuing uh if you look at what happened and at least touched on it a little earlier over a billion people watch that video that she talked about over a billion people watched a congressional hearing like to think there's interest that high in every Congressional hearing we have but America's watching and even more than that the world is watching and so we need to continue to show the moral Clarity between right and wrong and call out anti-Semitism and attacks on Jewish people and anybody else for their faith as for what it is and stand up against the people that are doing it and leading the charge the person who had the first Hearing in her committee months ago uh is the chair of the education and Workforce committee is tough going after the people that are doing all of this Virginia Fox thanks

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Published: Wed May 01 2024