The chancellor of UCLA appeared before Congress this week. When Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) got a chance to question him, her entire focus was on the rights of the anti-Israel students who occupied an encampment and his failure to ‘protect’ them.
She seemed particularly incensed that these students were subjected to a screen showing the horrors of the October 7th attacks. She also suddenly cares very deeply about free speech rights.
Of course, Jewish students at the school who have been harassed got no concern in her remarks.
The New York Post reports:
Rep. Ilhan Omar dismisses harassment of Jewish UCLA student by anti-Israel protestersRep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) on Thursday downplayed the harassment of a Jewish student by anti-Israel protesters on the campus of UCLA and castigated the university for not doing more to protect the agitators.The “Squad” congresswoman shrugged off a viral video of the April incident, in which several masked protesters are seen physically blocking the student, who is wearing a Star of David necklace, as he tries to walk to his class on the UCLA campus.“Just for clarification, that video we just watched, we saw people moving around,” Omar said after the video was played during a House Education and Workforce Committee hearing on antisemitic encampments on college campuses.UCLA Chancellor Gene Block, one of three university leaders testifying at the hearing, was the target of Omar’s odd line of questioning that followed.“Was it possible, do you think, for that student to be able to get into campus? Was that student actually being blocked from entering campus?” the Minnesota Democrat asked Block.“Well, that was in the middle of campus,” Block responded. “They’re not being blocked from being on campus, maybe being blocked from a pathway on campus.”“He should be allowed to pass,” the chancellor asserted. “I mean, any part of campus is open to students, so blocking him was really inappropriate.”
This is the incident that Omar is downplaying.
This part of her commentary from the Daily Mail is nothing short of mind-blowing:
‘You could have prevented this by protecting these students’ First Amendment right to assemble,’ Omar said.She went on:’You could have prevented this when you learned about rats being released into the encampment. You could have prevented this when an anonymous group funded and constructed a giant video with loudspeakers to play vile and disturbing footage.’The pro-Israel camp set up screens outside the pro-Gaza camp to play footage from the October 7 Hamas attack.
Watch the entire exchange below. This is just unreal:
Featured image via YouTube.
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