[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 83 (Tuesday, May 14, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Pages S3673-S3674]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                             ANTI-SEMITISM

  Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, now on another matter, last month, I 
suggested the administrators at schools like Columbia--where nests of 
anti-Semitism were festering and growing--ought to follow the lead of 
Princeton, where trespassers were quickly arrested and removed by law 
enforcement. Unfortunately, Princeton may not be setting such a shining 
example after all. The school has apparently decided that perpetrators 
on campus shouldn't bear actual consequences.
  Yesterday, at the urging of ``several'' academic and department 
chairs, Princeton announced they would forgo traditional discipline and 
instead let the student radicals who tried to occupy campus buildings 
participate in a ``restorative justice process.''
  You might be forgiven for having absolutely no idea what that means--
none. But the bottom line is, these students will be allowed to 
graduate in the coming weeks. After all, what is a little call for 
intifada between friends?

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  When Henry David Thoreau famously chose jail as a consequence for his 
civil disobedience, he explained it this way:

       Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true 
     place for a just man is also a prison.

  Apparently, the post-modern prisoner of conscience see things a bit 
differently. So that is my suggestion for the folks pushing restorative 
justice at Princeton: Make these student radicals read Thoreau. Let 
them and their faculty enablers indict themselves with a comparative 
cheapness of their violent play-acting.
  I suggest the absence of a quorum.
  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The clerk will call the roll.
  The legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll.
  Mr. DURBIN. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for 
the quorum call be rescinded.
  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it is so 
ordered.

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