Ben Sasse condemned Hamas and vowed 'to protect our Jewish students.'
FILE - U.S. Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb., listens during a confirmation hearing for Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, March 23, 2022. The outgoing senator left office Sunday, Jan. 8, 2023, to become the University of Florida's new president and said he knows he may be remembered more for his criticisms of former President Donald Trump than for the policies he supported.
“You got so many universities around the country speak about every topic under the sun, Halloween costumes and microaggressions. But somehow in a moment of the most grave grotesque attacks on Jewish people since the Holocaust, they all of a sudden say there’s too much complexity to say anything,” the former Republican senator said during an interview on “Fox News Sunday.”
In Sasse’s own statement, addressed to Jewish students and alumni at the University of Florida, he forcefully condemned the Oct. 7 Hamas attack and slammed those in “elite academia” inadvertently or explicitly expressing support for Hamas. Sasse also promised to “protect our students” in the event it becomes the site of any “anti-Israel” protests.from several prominent alumni, including members of Congress. Harvard issued its own statement, which was also the subject of fierce online backlash.
“We just did two basic things,” Sasse said Sunday. “We announced that we’re going to protect our Jewish students, and we’re going to protect speech.”
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