House Republicans said Tuesday they are “deeply concerned” about Justice Department official Kristen Clark’s ability to investigate civil rights cases at Columbia University, given her “history of association with known anti-Semites.”
Five Republicans, led by Upstate Rep. Claudia Tenney, sent a letter to Clark, an assistant attorney general in the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, expressing “outrage at the current environment at Columbia University” and stating that her “welfare organization… “to disavow any extensive ties to the United States.”known as an anti-Semite [sic]” according to YJR’s letter, obtained exclusively by the Post.
Rep. Tenney (R-NY), Rep. Bill Posey (R-FL), Rep. Keith Self (R-TX), Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY), and House Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik. Congressman (R-NY) continued: Clark has supported hateful figures in the past.
Among them are Tony Martin, author of the “virulently anti-Semitic” book “Jew Attacks,” and former Women’s March co-chairman who resigned from the group in 2019 amid accusations of anti-Semitism. Tamika Mallory and Linda Sarsour were also included.
“As president of the Harvard Black Student Association, you hosted Tony Martin and allowed him to spew anti-Semitism,” the lawmakers wrote. [sic] Conspiracy theories about Jews. ”
“You even went on record to say, ‘Professor Martin is an intelligent and knowledgeable black man.’ [sic] He is an intellectual who bases his information on indisputable facts,” they said.
Clark also signed a letter defending Mallory after she attended an event featuring Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan in 2018. At the time, Mallory encouraged her in her speech, calling Jews “satanic” and accusing them of spreading marijuana use among black men. Feminize them.
Farrakhan also said Jewish leaders are manipulating the U.S. and Mexican governments to carry out a “pot conspiracy.” Sarsour was a featured speaker at a 2015 Nation of Islam event.
“Louis Farrakhan called Hitler a ‘very great man’ and said:[they] call me an anti-Semite [sic]’Stop it, I’m anti-termite’ and ‘Jews are my enemy,”’ the lawmakers added, citing one of his hateful statements from a February 2018 speech.
“MS. Mr. Mallory says Mr. Farrakhan is a ‘goat’ or the greatest of all time, and Mr. Mallory accuses Jews of ‘defending white supremacy,'” they wrote to Mr. Clark. Told.
During the 2021 confirmation process, Clark declined to call Mallory an anti-Semite, but said: she denounced anti-Semitism.
House Republicans reminded Justice Department civil rights officials that many student protesters at Columbia University are currently discriminating against Jewish students by using anti-Semitic chants.
Police later cleared the campus of an anti-Israel tent encampment, where some demonstrators could be heard shouting “Go back to Poland” at Jewish students, Republican lawmakers said. It is said that
Other protesters used the slogan “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” a phrase understood to be a call for Israel’s eradication and was formally condemned by the House of Commons.
On Monday, Colombia called off the start in response to violent and destructive protests. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) and other Republicans called on the university’s president, Minoush Shafiq, to resign in disgrace.
“You not only attended Columbia Law School, you co-taught seminars, received alumni awards, and even delivered keynote speeches at Columbia University events,” the Republican said.
“This year, you are also scheduled to be the commencement speaker at Columbia Law School. Given your deep ties to the university, we believe that you will be able to do justice to Columbia University if litigation becomes necessary. “The ability to enforce the law is highly questionable.”
House members say Justice Department supports Department of Education investigation into Title VI civil rights violations at Columbia University, prosecutes those who ‘attacked Jewish students’, disavows Mallory, Sarsour, Martin I asked him if he was going to do it.
The Justice Department confirmed to the Post that it had received the letter, but declined further comment.
The Republican letter is Explosive Daily Signals Report It shows that Clark likely misled the Senate during the confirmation process by concealing his 2006 arrest for domestic violence.
According to court documents and text messages obtained by the outlet, Clark attacked her ex-husband, Reginald Avery, with a knife, cutting his finger until it was “slit to the bone.”
The arrest and subsequent charges were later dropped and the incident was expunged from her record.
in senate surveyWhen asked if he had ever been arrested or charged with a violent crime against anyone, Clark answered, “No.”
“When given the option to speak out about such a traumatic event in my life, I chose not to do so,” she said in a statement to CNN. “During the approval process, I did not believe, and I still do not believe, that I was obligated to share anything that has been completely erased from my past.”
