House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) called on President Biden to visit Columbia University as students at Columbia University and other universities across the country demonstrate against Israel’s war in Gaza.
At a press conference, Johnson announced that he would lead the House Republican leadership and the chairs of six ranking committees in conducting a wide-ranging parliamentary inquiry into instances of anti-Semitism at these demonstrations.
Asked if he thought Biden should go to the Ivy League in New York City, Johnson said, “Yes, I do.” Johnson himself visited the school last week and spoke to anti-Israel agitators at a public press conference after meeting with Jewish students who said they felt unsafe on campus during the demonstrations.
Prime Minister Johnson said he contacted the White House immediately after that visit.
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Speaker of the House Mike Johnson dared President Biden to visit Columbia University. (Getty Images)
“In fact, after we left campus, I called the senior policy adviser at the White House. The president was out of town, as was I, so I couldn’t get through right away. But… I encouraged him to go and see me, “it’s for myself,” he said.
Fox News Digital has asked the White House for a response.
Earlier Tuesday, White House Press Secretary Andrew Bates issued a statement condemning the occupation of a campus building known as Hamilton Hall by student protesters at Columbia University.
“Throughout his life, President Biden has spoken out against offensive, anti-Semitic slurs and violent rhetoric. As with other tragic and dangerous hate speech recently, President Biden has spoken out against offensive and anti-Semitic slurs and violent rhetoric. “We condemn the use of the word,” Bates said. “President Biden respects the right to freedom of expression, but protests must be peaceful and lawful. Forced occupation of buildings is not peaceful. It’s wrong. And hate speech and Hate symbols have no place in America.”
The arrests of students from Columbia University and its sister school, Barnard College, for setting up an encampment on the grounds of an Ivy League school in Manhattan have sparked a wave of anti-Israel demonstrations on college campuses across the United States. It happened while things were happening. Protests against Colombian investments in companies with ties to Israel have continued ever since.
The committees involved are the Committees on Education and Workforce, Energy and Commerce, Oversight, Judiciary, Means and Science, Space, and Technology.
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Students march on Columbia University’s campus in support of a protest camp supporting Palestinians on April 29. (Reuters/David Dee Delgado)
This investigation is an expansion of an investigation led by Education and Labor Committee Chair Virginia Foxx, R.N.C.
In his own remarks during a press conference, Fox announced that a new hearing on the matter would be held on May 23. She has invited officials from Yale University, the University of California, Los Angeles and the University of Michigan to testify with her, she said.
“Enough is enough. We need to restore law and order, academic integrity, and moral decency to American higher education,” House Republican Conference Chairwoman Elise Stefanik of New York, who serves on the same committee, said at a press conference. It’s time to recover.” Joe Biden has been deafeningly silent. ”
Other committees will focus on parts of the investigation that are relevant to their respective committees’ work.
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House Education and Labor Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx said her committee will hold another hearing on anti-Semitism on college campuses next month. (Samuel Corum/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
For example, a spokesperson for the Energy and Commerce Committee told Fox News Digital that Chairwoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.) has been unable to provide funding for the National Institutes of Health, which is funded by taxpayers and provided to universities. He said he would consider funding from the NIH.
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House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) has indicated that his committee will investigate where the funding for the nationwide protests came from, raising suspicions of an organized effort. suggested.
“The world’s elites appear to be funding these hateful protests and the emergence of tent cities. These are the same groups that fund other radical policies, such as the promotion of “The House Oversight Committee will track the trail of money, expose it to the American people, and hold accountable the bad actors who fund hate.”
