LaHood says Pro-Palestinians crossing the line
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Demonstrations on college campuses across the country about Israel’s war against Hamas continue to grow in number and in intensity. They are getting more confrontational.
University of Wisconsin Police and demonstrators got physical Wednesday when officers arrested more than two dozen people for violating the law against camping on campus.
Hundreds of officers in New York broke up a protest at Columbia University at the request of the administration after protestors started occupying a building on campus.
There was a more violent confrontation on the campus of UCLA between Palestinian supporters and Israel supporters. Classes were canceled there Wednesday.
Several members of Congress see the pro-Palestinian demonstrators as anti-Semitic, pointing to verbal attacks directed at Jewish students on campus.
The House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved the Anti-Semitism Awareness Act Wednesday to beef up federal anti-discrimination laws. It now moves to the Senate.
This response on Capitol Hill to those pro-Palestinian demonstrations on college campuses pits the argument of free speech against anti-discrimination law.
It’s one of the topics host Jim NIedelman gets into with Illinois Congressman Darin LaHood.
“We’ve seen a disturbing trend of antisemitic activity on college campuses,” LaHood said. “We should never tolerate the type of hate that we’ve seen toward Jewish Americans and Jewish students on campuses across the country.”
To hear more from LaHood, click on the video.
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