Home Republican leaders are vowing to push again on anti-Israel protests which can be as soon as once more taking up school campuses as college students return for the autumn semester.
It comes as activists have already begun defacing property and staging demonstrations at Columbia College in New York Metropolis, which was a hotbed of controversial exercise within the spring.
“There should be a zero tolerance policy for antisemitic violence on campus that targets Jewish students. If universities won’t hold protestors accountable, Congress will,” Majority Chief Steve Scalise, R-La., instructed Fox Information Digital. “Just last month, we subpoenaed several Columbia University officials, and we will continue our investigations and take action on the floor as students return to campus.”
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Home GOP leaders like Steve Scalise, Mike Johnson and Elise Stefanik are popping out in opposition to the anti-Israel protests at Columbia. (Getty Photographs)
GOP Convention Chair Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., equally mentioned, “Columbia University has repeatedly enabled radical pro-Hamas mobs, putting Jewish members of their community at risk and allowing antisemitic hate to take root at a once acclaimed institution. House Republicans will use every tool at our disposal to demand immediate action from Columbia University on behalf of the Jewish students who want to pursue their education without fear.”
Home Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn., instructed Fox Information Digital, “It’s no wonder the pro-terrorist mob is back at Columbia — the Democrats have enabled and empowered the antisemites in their party.”
Emmer mentioned Home Republicans would “continue to send a resounding message” of assist for Israel and for Jewish college students within the U.S.
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Persons are seen falling to the bottom throughout a scuffle at Columbia College throughout the anti-Israel protests on Thursday, Sept. 3. (Fox Information)
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., in the meantime, urged the White Home to talk out in opposition to the protests as nicely.
“It is the first day of class at Columbia University and the pro-Terrorist, antisemitic mob is already back,” Johnson wrote on X. “The Biden-Harris Administration should condemn this mob immediately.”
Fox Information Digital reached out to the White Home for a response.
A minimum of one protester was arrested throughout the Manhattan demonstrations on Tuesday, video reveals. Footage additionally reveals activists pushing barricades, and a second individual was taken into custody outdoors of Columbia’s sister college, Barnard School.
Anti-Israel demonstrations continued in New York Metropolis Tuesday on Columbia College’s campus. (AP/Yuki Iwamura)
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Republicans have seized on Israel as a unifying situation for their very own get together because the left continues to fracture over U.S. relations with its shut Center Jap ally.
Reasonable Democrats, nevertheless, have pointed to the first losses of anti-Israel progressives as proof that the left is able to policing its personal anti-Semitism downside.
