Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., called on President Biden to visit Columbia University as students there and at colleges across the country are protesting. Israel’s war In Gaza.
Johnson led House GOP leaders and the chairmen of six top committees at a press conference and announced a sweeping congressional investigation into anti-Semitism at those demonstrations.
When Johnson was asked if he thought Biden should go to the New York City Ivy League, he said, “Yes, I do.” Johnson himself visited the school last week and addressed anti-Israel protesters public press conference After meeting with Jewish students, he said they felt unsafe on campus amid the demonstrations.
Johnson said he connected with the White House shortly after that trip.
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House Speaker Mike Johnson challenged President Biden to visit Columbia University. (Getty Images)
“In fact, after leaving campus, I called senior policy advisers at the White House. The President was on the road, like me, and we couldn’t connect immediately. But I encouraged him to go and see it for himself, ” They said.
Fox News Digital contacted the White House for comment.
Earlier on Tuesday, White House spokesman Andrew Bates issued a statement condemning the occupation of a campus building called Hamilton Hall by Columbia student protesters.
Bates said, “President Biden has stood against hateful, anti-Semitic stigmatization and violent rhetoric throughout his life. He condemns the use of the term ‘intifada’ as he has in other tragic and dangerous hate incidents displayed in recent days.” These are full speeches.” “President Biden respects the right to free expression, but protests must be peaceful and lawful. Forcibly occupying buildings is not peaceful – it is wrong. And hate speech and symbols of hate have no place in America.”
It comes as college campuses across the country are witnessing a wave of anti-Israel protests that erupted when columbia university students And students from their sister school, Barnard College, were arrested for setting up a camp on the grounds of the Manhattan Ivy League. Protests against Colombia’s investments in companies with Israeli ties have continued ever since.
The committees involved are Education and Workforce, Energy and Commerce, Oversight, Judiciary, Ways and Means and Science, Space and Technology Committee.
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On April 29, students marched on the Columbia University campus in support of a protest in support of the Palestinians. (Reuters/David de Delgado)
The investigation was conducted by Education and Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx, R-N.C. This is the expansion of the investigation being led by.
Foxx announced a new hearing on the case for May 23 in remarks during a press conference. They invited officials from Yale University, the University of California at Los Angeles and the University of Michigan to testify, he said.
House GOP Conference Chairwoman Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., who is on the same committee, said during the press conference, “Enough is enough. It’s time to restore law and order, academic integrity and moral decency in America’s higher education, It’s time to restore.” Institutions. “Joe Biden is deafeningly silent.”
Other committees will focus on parts of the investigation related to their panel’s work.
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House Education and Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx said her panel 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., will look at taxpayer-funded National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants that go to colleges and universities.
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House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., indicated that his panel would look into where funding for the nationwide protests was coming from — suggesting that he suspected a coordinated effort.
“It appears that the global elite are funding these despicable protests and populating tent cities. These are the same groups that finance other radical agendas, including reducing America’s energy production and destroying the lives of the American people. That includes taking a soft stance on crime policies that harm the U.S.,” Comer said. “The House Oversight Committee will trace the money trail, expose it to the American people, and seek to hold bad actors who spread hate accountable.”
