DEVELOPING STORY: A midnight deadline to leave Columbia University has come and gone and the Hamas activists are still encamped on the New York City Ivy League campus. There are reports that Gov. Kathy Hochul has been in talks with the university to activate the National Guard of the protesters refuse to leave.
“What we are seeing on college campuses throughout America is horrific,” Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) wrote on X. “The Biden administration has been silent on the protests at Yale, Columbia, and NYU. They are TERRIFIED of the radical leftists in their base. Any student calling to harm another should be expelled and arrested.”
Click here to read my book on how to take back America from the Uniparty.
Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) demanded Education Secretary Cardona, Attorney General Merrick Garland, and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas take immediate action “to address the out of control antisemitic takeover of Columbia.”
Stefanik is proposing to revoke any federal funding for the university Revoke any federal funding for Columbia University and revoking student visas of those endorsing terrorism.
“Columbia’s leadership has allowed an antisemitic mob to illegally take control of the school and the President announced the cancellation of all in-person classes through the end of semester,” she said. “This is a disgrace and shows a fundamental lack of leadership from the President and the Board of Trustees. These dens of antisemitic hate need to be defunded.”
SUBSCRIBE TO THE TODD STARNES PODCAST:
Update: Columbia’s pro-Palestine protestors will break up into platoons to defend the encampment in the event of arrests. “WILL YOU BE READY TO TURN UP FOR YOUR COMRADES?” pic.twitter.com/Wn1oeiARVW
— Jessica Schwalb (@jessicaschwalb7) April 24, 2024
What we are seeing on college campuses throughout America is horrific.
— Senator Ted Cruz (@SenTedCruz) April 24, 2024
The Biden administration has been silent on the protests at Yale, Columbia, and NYU.
They are TERRIFIED of the radical leftists in their base.
Any student calling to harm another should be expelled and… pic.twitter.com/EWYuOXzwXS