Ted Deutch: “I think it is very important this has to be--these statements and these actions have to be relevant to our debates.”

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

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

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

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.