Steve Daines Denounces ‘Reprehensible’ Rise In Antisemitism On College Campuses Across The US

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During a press briefing on Wednesday, Sen. Steve Daines (R-MT) decried antisemitism on college campuses.

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00:00The outbreak of anti-Semitism on college campuses

00:06across America right now at this moment is reprehensible.

00:10This kind of hate has no place in America.

00:15And I've got to point out the hypocrisy here.

00:19These elite universities, they tout diversity and inclusion as long

00:27as Jewish students and Jewish professors are excluded.

00:33What hypocrisy that we're seeing at this moment in our country.

00:36The First Amendment does protect speech.

00:39It does not protect the right to threaten

00:44or intimidate Jewish students,

00:46much less the violence occurring on campuses.

00:49Yet, that is what we are seeing across our country today.

00:53So we need to ask ourselves, why are the tax dollars

00:56of freedom-loving Americans funding these universities?

01:00Let me give you a few examples.

01:01Columbia, they breached a building, the Hamilton Building,

01:06$1.2 billion last year from the federal government.

01:11UCLA, where they're using wristbands

01:13to identify anti-Israel students, nearly a billion dollars.

01:19GW, a little closer here to Washington,

01:20D.C., where a Palestinian flag now hangs

01:24from the statue of George Washington, $200 million

01:29of American tax dollars going to that institution.

01:33So I have this message to send to President Biden

01:36and every single Senate Democrat.

01:39Join me. Join my Republican colleagues

01:42in condemning these violent protests

01:45and defund the universities that refuse to crack down.

01:51Leader McConnell.

01:52Leader McConnell.

01:53Leader McConnell.

01:54Good.

Steve Daines Denounces ‘Reprehensible’ Rise In Antisemitism On College Campuses Across The US

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