[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 75 (Wednesday, May 1, 2024)]
[House]
[Page H2784]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




     VANDALISM AND ANTI-SEMITISM, NOT PROTESTS, ON COLLEGE CAMPUSES

  (Mr. LaMALFA asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LaMALFA. Mr. Speaker, what we are seeing on college campuses 
throughout the country isn't First Amendment-protected protesting or 
free speech. It is vandalism, assault, breaking and entering, and anti-
Semitism.
  We have seen pro-Hamas sympathizers set up no-go zones for Jewish 
students and faculty, physically blocking them from entering their 
universities, where they have units and where they have paid their 
dues, the whole works.
  We have seen pro-Hamas sympathizers send a UCLA student to the 
emergency room after beating her unconscious just because she is 
Jewish. What is this, 1939?
  We have seen pro-Hamas sympathizers break into and occupy university 
buildings, break windows, spray-paint, and rename a building ``Intifada 
Hall,'' as seen on Humboldt's campus up in northern California.
  We have seen pro-Hamas sympathizers assault police officers and even 
take a Columbia University janitor as a hostage.
  The law is clear: Destroying property, blocking traffic, assault, and 
taking a hostage are illegal. Elite university students at Yale, 
Columbia, and UCLA should know better.
  Furthermore, history has made it clear: If your group is creating no-
go zones for Jewish people or actively attacking students who disagree 
with you or students just because they are Jewish, you are in the 
wrong.
  These are not protesters.

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