[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 84 (Wednesday, May 15, 2024)]
[House]
[Page H3260]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          UNIVERSITY PROTESTS

  (Mr. KILEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KILEY. Mr. Speaker, at university after university, we have been 
seeing acts of moral cowardice and failures of leadership as university 
presidents cave to the demands of lawless encampments and anti-Semitic 
demands like cutting ties with Hillel or divesting from Israel or 
ending study abroad in Israel.
  Today brought the most egregious example yet where Sonoma State in 
California, not far from my district, not only agreed to the full set 
of BDS demands of the encampment but also agreed to convert the 
encampment into a permanent governing authority to assure that that 
agreement is enforced in a sufficiently anti-Semitic manner. I am not 
kidding. You almost can't believe this is real.
  It says the council here will be composed of members from the 
encampment, faculty, staff, administrators, Palestinian alumni, and 
other interested students as determined by Students for Justice in 
Palestine.
  Any university leader who is entering into these kind of agreements 
is elevating groups who are willing to engage in lawless action and to 
pursue their despicable agenda by force while silencing other groups 
and silencing any debate to the contrary.
  Any president who would agree to this is not fit to lead a university 
in our State or our country.

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