[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 206 (Thursday, December 14, 2023)]
[House]
[Page H6964]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                  POLITICALLY CONVENIENT CONDEMNATION

  (Mr. CASTEN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. CASTEN. Mr. Speaker, yesterday, my Republican colleagues voted to 
condemn college presidents.
  I wish they were condemning anti-Semitism, but don't let the title of 
that resolution fool you. This was never about that.
  We know that because they did not condemn anti-Semitism when the 
Unite the Right rally chanted: ``Jews will not replace us.''
  They didn't condemn anti-Semitism when their former Speaker shared a 
cartoon suggesting that Jewish bankers controlled the world.
  They didn't condemn anti-Semitism when Donald Trump said that he only 
wanted Jews to count his money.
  In every case, they have stood by in silent cowardice and defended 
hate speech as free speech. Yet, they have the gall to ask college 
presidents to resign for emulating their cowardice.
  Donald Trump's rhetoric led to a spike in hate crimes, anti-Semitic 
and anti-Muslim hate crimes. Both spiked again after October 6.
  If you are only calling it out when it is politically convenient, you 
are not helping, you are a part of the problem.

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