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On the recordMay 7, 2024
in the first 48 hours following the October 7 Hamas terror attack on Israel, violent language and threats against the Jewish community and Israel increased by over 488 percent. This hatred is spreading like wildfire on college campuses around the Nation, turning our so-called elite academic institutions into cesspools of harassment and violence pointed toward Jewish students. There are violent mobs storming buildings, smashing windows, defacing property, tearing down the American flag and replacing it with the flag of radical extremist groups. We are witnessing anti-Semitic hate and extremism that threaten the very safety of our Jewish students on college campuses around the greatest Nation on God's green Earth. It is so shocking and outrageous that so many of the administrators on these campuses sit back and watch as their campuses descend into chaos and criminality. There can be--and I mean this--there can be no equivocating when it comes to the issue of anti-Semitic violence or hatred, and I and every single one of us should just call it out for what it is. So let me be clear. Any student who advocates for murder and sympathizes with terrorists should be expelled. Any university that allows itself to become a megaphone for hatred should lose every single dime of their Federal funding. Any college administrator who refuses to stamp out violent bigotry should lose their job.…
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Tim Scott
Republican · South Carolina
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May 7, 2024

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