Josh Hawley calls for DOJ investigation into pro-Palestine groups on college campuses – with protests leaving students sobbing on Seattle campus and Harvard blaming Hamas attack on Israel
Republican Josh Hawley called on the Justice Department to investigate pro-Palestinian student groups on college campuses across the country after they held anti-Israel protests.
After the Hamas attack that killed 1,300 Israelis over the weekend and plunged the region into a bloody war, students at the University of Washington and Georgetown University gathered to praise the terrorists, with a Harvard group accusing Israel of blamed the attack.
Speaking on Fox News Thursday, the Missouri senator slammed organizations at Ivy League schools like Harvard and Columbia, which supported the terrorists’ actions as justified.
‘(Hamas) would kill every Jew in the world if they could. This is what these terrorists want. And to be silent in the face of it or to celebrate it like these crazy student groups are doing?” Hawley told Sean Hannity.
“What I want to know, Sean, is who is funding these student groups? I hope the DOJ investigates where the money came from. Are there terrorist groups that are part of these networks that are infiltrating our campuses?
“I mean, it’s crazy stuff we see on these campuses. And for these administrators to reach out to take federal money, taxpayer money, and at the same time remain silent or condone this kind of terrorism, it’s just grotesque.’
Harvard found itself in hot water after 31 of its student organizations signed a letter holding the Israeli regime fully responsible for all unfolding violence.’
In their statement on Sunday, the groups said the attack that left more than 1,000 dead “did not happen in a vacuum,” claiming that the Israeli government had forced Palestinians to live in an open-air prison for more than two decades. live
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Harvard President Claudine Gay issued a message Thursday condemning the “barbaric atrocities committed by Hamas,” but rejected calls to punish and name the students who signed the inflammatory statement, saying the school “embraces a commitment to free expression.’
Gay previously said, ‘While our students have the right to speak for themselves, no student group — not even 30 student groups — speaks for Harvard University or its leadership.’
But it was too late for some of the school’s donors and alumni. who were left outraged by the student groups’ statement.
Israeli billionaire Idan Ofer and his wife Batia Ofer told the Hebrew-language outlet TheMarker that she and her husband are both leaving the school’s executive board over President Claudine Gay’s response to 31 Harvard organizations signing a letter blaming placed on Israel for Hamas’ brutal attacks. which killed more than 1,500.
California State University’s La Fuerza Student Association has been slammed for its ‘sickening’ and distasteful pro-Palestine protest poster (pictured) depicting a paraglider
Nazis, Nazis, Nazis,’ one man in a keffiyeh with Palestinian colors repeatedly chanted at the counter-protesters.
Their action is ‘in protest against the shocking and insensitive response by the president of the university, who did not condemn the letter by student organizations that blamed Israel for the massacres.’
The groups said in their statement on Sunday that the attack that left more than 1,000 dead “did not happen in a vacuum”, claiming that the Israeli government had forced Palestinians to live in the open for more than two decades -to live in prison.
Billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman claimed that co-CEOs want to know who they are, so ‘none of us accidentally hires any of their members’.
The CEO of Pershing Square Capital Management said he had been approached by a number of CEOs, adding: “One should not be able to hide behind a corporate shield when issuing statements supporting the actions of terrorists, which, we now learned, decapitated babies, among other unimaginably despicable acts.’
The Harvard statements were widely condemned, including by former US Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, who wrote on X: ‘In nearly 50 years of @Harvard affiliation I have never been more disillusioned and alienated than I am today.’
The Palestine Solidarity Committee holds banners outside the prestigious college
On Tuesday, around 150 people, waving placards and Palestinian flags, occupied the steps of Cambridge City Hall.
“Animals, animals, you pigs, animals, Nazis, Nazis, Nazis,” one man in a Palestinian-colored keffiyeh shouted at them, wagging his finger across the thin line of police separating the groups.
Meanwhile, the University of California at Berkeley’s ‘Bears for Palestine’ group voiced support for Hamas’ actions and “condemned the framing of Israel as a victim” hours after the terrorist organization’s attack left more than 1,000 dead, including 25 Americans.
The group will host a vigil for ‘martyrs in Palestine’ on Friday, and promoted Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) calls for a ‘Day of Resistance’ across university campuses on Thursday in support of the Hamas attacks.
The ‘Day of Resistance’ on Thursday saw several Jewish students at the University of Washington in tears as they pleaded with an administrator to end the pro-Palestinian rally, where students condoned violence against Israel and the Jewish people has.
‘They want our people dead. They want us killed,’ sobbed one student to an administrator who appeared to be listening but indicated there was something he could do.
The statement was signed by several other groups on the notoriously left-wing campus, including Koreans for Decolonization and Central Americans for Empowerment
The event at the campus’s red square was advertised by a radical student group who said their aim was to ‘raise the righteous Palestinian resistance’ and ‘condemn the colonial state of Israel’.
Flyers for the event include a drawing of a paraglider similar to the one used by militant Hamas terrorists to fly into southern Israel last Saturday and slaughter scores of innocent concertgoers.
At NYU, the president of the Law School Bar Association had a job offer from a pro-LGBTQ+ law firm revoked after she declared that Hamas’ slaughter of children in Israel was ‘necessary’.
Ryna Workman, 24, a non-binary student at NYU’s School of Law, sent out a weekly newsletter saying that the killing of innocent Israeli children, women and civilians over the past week was Israel’s “full responsibility.”
On Tuesday, the law firm Winston & Strawn — which regularly highlights its legal work representing the LGBTQ+ community — told DailyMail.com in a statement that its offer of employment to Workman had been rescinded.
The number of US citizens confirmed dead in the Israel-Hamas war has risen to at least 25. American citizens are among the estimated 150 hostages taken by Hamas militants during their shocking weekend attack on Israel, President Joe Biden confirmed Tuesday.
The war has already claimed at least 2,200 lives on both sides.