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Republican senator Josh Hawley has asked Joe Biden to deploy the National Guard against pro-Palestinian protesters at college campuses, accusing them of “shocking displays of antisemitism”.
The protests at New York University and Yale University in Connecticut have resulted in dozens of arrests. In his letter, Hawley, who represents Missouri and was one of the most prominent backers in the Senate of Donald Trump’s baseless claims of fraud in the 2020 election, warned that, “On college campuses across the United States, Jewish Americans are at risk.”
In 1957, pursuant to Executive Order 10730, President Dwight Eisenhower deployed the National Guard and 101st Airborne Division to ensure the safety of black students attending Central High in Little Rock, Arkansas. I urge you to similarly mobilize the National Guard and other necessary authorities to protect Jewish American students on Columbia University’s campus, and any other campus where Jewish students are at risk. “Never again” means never again.
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