‘Encouraged These Movements For Hate’: GOP Rep Chides Ilhan Omar For Supporting College Protests

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During a press briefing on Tuesday, Rep. Tom Emmer (R-MN) spoke against Pro-Palestinian protests at universities across the US.

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00:00For more than a week, the world has watched as pro-terrorist anti-Semites at American

00:10universities exude some of the clearest acts of bigotry against Jewish students on campus

00:16since the late 1930s in Nazi Germany.

00:20From forming human chains around Jewish students to block them from walking on campus, to chanting

00:26for the total annihilation of Israel, to promoting Hitler's final solution, it's safe to say

00:33these demonstrations are not a movement for peace, as some of our colleagues on the other

00:38side of the aisle have disgustingly referred to them.

00:41They are movements of pure anti-Semitic violence.

00:46And let's take note of those who've endorsed these pro-terrorist anti-Semites.

00:51A terrorist organization, Hamas.

00:53The world's leading state sponsor of terrorism, Iran.

00:57And members of the Squad, including my colleague from Minnesota, Ilhan Omar.

01:02Not exactly good company.

01:05Congresswoman Omar encouraged these movements for hate at the University of Minnesota Twin

01:10Cities campus, promoting me to inquire with the university about its plans to keep Jewish

01:16students safe.

01:17She then continued to pour gas on the fire when she visited Columbia to publicly suggest

01:23that some Jewish students are pro-genocide.

01:26Let me be clear.

01:28By embracing pro-terrorist extremists, Ilhan Omar is encouraging violence against Jewish

01:34students.

01:35There should be zero tolerance for anti-Semitism on our college campuses, in our communities,

01:41or anywhere across our country.

01:43Joe Biden has tried to play both sides of the fence by defending everyone involved.

01:48Since President Joe Biden, far-left congressional Democrats, and Ivy League administrators have

01:53chosen to side with Hamas over protecting Jewish students, House Republicans are going

01:58to do our job for them by voting on Congressman Mike Lawler's legislation that holds these

02:03anti-Semites accountable by requiring schools to treat acts of anti-Semitism as any other

02:10act of discrimination.

02:12Our House Republican majority will once again take a stand where others have failed.

02:16I can only hope that our colleagues on the other side of the aisle will choose to be

02:20on the right side of history and join us.

02:23And with that, I turn it over to our leader, Steve Scalise.

‘Encouraged These Movements For Hate’: GOP Rep Chides Ilhan Omar For Supporting College Protests

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