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FIRST ON FOX: Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., despatched a letter to Lawyer Basic Merrick Garland on Monday morning calling for the Division of Justice (DOJ) to research potential monetary ties between anti-Israel pupil teams on school campuses and the Islamic militant group Hamas.
“Within the wake of the brutal terrorist assaults by Hamas towards Israel, we’ve witnessed an alarming rise in help for violence towards the Jewish folks,” Hawley wrote. “Public experiences point out that a number of far-left pupil teams have lined as much as successfully cheerlead Hamas’s genocidal struggle towards the folks of Israel.”
Amongst these universities embody Harvard, College of California, Los Angeles, Columbia College and the College of Virginia. Harvard alone had 34 pupil teams write in a letter the “Israeli regime” was “fully accountable” for the “unfolding violence” in Israel.
The Harvard pupil organizations’ assertion, launched on the day of the Hamas assaults, additionally stated the occasions didn’t happen “in a vacuum.”
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Sen. Josh Hawley, left, and Lawyer Basic Merrick Garland. (Getty Photos)
Columbia College was compelled to shut its campus to the general public after an Israeli pupil was attacked by an alleged pro-Palestinian pupil.
“Different examples are legion. These pupil organizations are seemingly lobbying in help of the homicide of harmless folks, together with youngsters and infants,” Hawley wrote. “They’re menacing Jewish People inside our cities. And they’re doing so in what seems to be a coordinated trend.”
Sen. Josh Hawley despatched a letter Monday to the US lawyer common. (Invoice Clark/CQ-Roll Name, Inc through Getty Photos)
A chapter on the College of California, Berkeley additionally stated they “invariably reject Israel’s framing as a sufferer.”
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Individuals protest for and towards Israel in Instances Sq. on Friday, Oct. 13, 2023 in New York Metropolis. (Barry Williams for NY Day by day Information through Getty Photos)
“Whereas to demonize and condemn indigenous resistance is to overshadow the many years of oppression, ethnic cleaning, and destruction of the Palestinian folks,” they stated.
The College of Virginia chapter of College students for Justice in Palestine additionally introduced that the assaults on Israel was “a step in the direction of a free Palestine.”
Hawley desires the DOJ to research what number of pupil teams are receiving funding from third-party teams, and of these third-party teams, “which pro-Hamas pupil organizations conduct fundraising, what number of have monetary or ideological ties to Hamas.”
“The First Modification protects the correct to protest,” Hawley stated. “However it doesn’t defend the availability of fabric help to terrorist organizations. Nor does it insulate monetary transactions that threaten our nationwide safety.”
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Demonstrators attend an “emergency rally for Gaza” exterior the Israeli Consulate in New York Metropolis on Monday, Oct. 9, 2023. (Jennifer Mitchell for Fox Information Digital)
The decision comes only a week after Hamas launched probably the most lethal assaults on Israel in many years, and just some days after the Israel on Campus Coalition — a bunch of nationwide Jewish teams — despatched a letter demanding universities rescind their help and funding for activist group College students for Justice in Palestine.
Fox Information Digital reached out to the lawyer common’s workplace and College students for Justice in Palestine for remark.
Jamie Joseph is a author who covers politics. She leads Fox Information Digital protection of the Senate.
