Rep. Mike Lawler, R-N.Y., called on Congress to act and penalize colleges for allowing antisemitsm to occur on their campuses on 'Sunday Night in America.'
Rep. Mike Lawler, R-N.Y., joined 'Sunday Night in America with Trey Gowdy' to criticize colleges for allowing antisemitic protests on its campuses 'under the guise of the Israel-Palestinian conflict.' Lawler's criticism comes as students at elite college campuses across the nation are forming 'Gaza Solidarity' encampments to call on their respective schools to either cut ties with or end their support of Israel.
Lawler said, 'Congress must act to crack down on it because these universities and college presidents and administrators are failing in their responsibility to keep these students safe, and to ensure that there is a free exchange of ideas, but based in truth and reality, and not antisemitic rhetoric, designed to threaten and target Jewish students.
Oftentimes it requires the power of the purse to get these institutions to act, and the threat of taking those federal dollars away, surely will cause many of them, to do what they should have been already doing, which is put an end to these protests because they're not rooted in fact, they're not rooted in reality, they're rooted in antisemitism and the fact that these schools have allowed it to happen, knowing full well that if these were protests against Black people or protests...
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