Rep. Lawler: Congress Must Act to Crack Down on College Campus Anti-Semitism

GOWDY: “Joining us is New York Congressman Mike Lawler. Welcome, congressman. What is going on with these threatening, dangerous protests on college campuses, some of which are happening in places where you are familiar, you’re a member of Congress, you’re following this. I mean, what is going on with these college campuses?”
LAWLER: “Well, unfortunately, Trey, anti-Semitism has been brewing on college campuses for years. These students have been peddling in it, promoting the BDS movement. And really, obviously, in the aftermath of October 7, it has been hyper charged. And Congress must act to crack down on it because these universities and college presidents and administrators are failing in their responsibility to keep these students safe and to ensure that there is a free exchange of ideas, but based in truth and reality and not anti-Semitic rhetoric designed to threaten and target Jewish students. That is why this week we will be voting on my bill, the anti-Semitism Awareness Act, which will require the Department of Education to adopt the IHRA working definition of anti-Semitism and all of its contemporary examples for its discrimination enforcement cases. You have to be able to define and crack down on it. And that’s what we’re seeking to do because these administrators are failing miserably.”