Ted Deutch

Permitting campus demonstrations for Gazans’ right to live allows us to tolerate hatred and antisemitism that leads to this violence.

Sarah and Yaron were stolen from us.

What Congress can do most--and here is what I have learned since I left, here is my message to my former colleagues, and I say this with enormous respect, and not to just make you feel even better about the job you have--you have enormous…

You see it by those who are not protesting the policies of an Israeli Government. They are celebrating the atrocities of a terror organization.

The reason that those lives are at risk is because Hamas will not return the hostages and lay down its arms.

Acts like this are completely unacceptable, and can't become normalized.

We need people to better understand the facts about the Jewish community, the facts about Israel, the facts about the history of antisemitism.

I think it is really important for the Department to be very clear about what the potential repercussions are for universities.

Antisemitism should not be weaponized as a way to attack those of us who disagree with the policies of Israel's ultra-right government.

What is happening on university campuses in the United States is the threat that everyone from all of the 55 countries represented expects us to confront.

Tens of millions of Americans have been shocked and disgusted by the antisemitic poison we have seen in college campuses.

We have destroyed the nuclear family with different government programs.

It is the most important thing that we can do long term to make sure that people understand the facts.

It is important for everyone to understand the history of Israel so that these outrageous claims about Israel being a White settler colonialist enterprise.

We make sure it is not just the Holocaust that we are studying, but the contributions of Jewish Americans to our country.

We have to make sure that the social media companies--that these platforms uphold their own rules.

Can you speak about how a bill like this would be an asset in addressing the antisemitic crimes?

When people are allowed to get on a subway car and say, 'Where are the Zionists? Are the Zionists here? No Zionists here, this is your chance to get out,' that should send a chill down everyone's spine.

Anti-Zionism that says that the only state in the world that has no right to exist is the Jewish state has the impact that it does on the Jewish community.

This is not a partisan issue. You are--we should be looking at every possible way to get universities to ensure that they are living up to their own ideals.

Speaking out on antisemitism is not and should never become a political or partisan issue.

It starts with acknowledging that universities have the primary responsibility here.

The problem is there aren't sufficient investigators. There aren't enough resources.

The university has a responsibility to meet the potential security needs.