Democrat Sounds Off on ‘Dangerous’ College Protests: ‘It’s Not Political Discourse to Tell Jews That They Should Be Gassed!’

Former Democratic Congressman Ted Deutch (R-FL), who now serves as the CEO of the American Jewish Committee, excoriated the anti-Israel protests at American universities during an interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on Monday.

After being asked what a ceasefire deal in the Gaza Strip would “mean for the rising tensions we’re seeing all across these college campuses here in the United States,” Deutch submitted that “it’s due time that we connect what’s happening with Hamas, the fact that they’re holding 133 hostages, 6 Americans, for now over 200 days, that they have control of ending this if they return the hostages and they surrender.”

“And on college campuses, the reason that Jewish students are at risk is because the protesters, so many of the protesters, aren’t calling for the release of hostages. They’re not making demands of the butcher [Yahya] Sinwar, who slaughtered over 1,200 people on 10/7. They’re calling for more 10/7s. They’re taking, they’re calling for action against Zionists. They’re calling for intifada and more terrorism,” continued Deutch. “On college campuses, these protesters need to be held to account. When they violate the codes of student conduct on their campuses, universities must hold them accountable, and putting Jewish students at risk and targeting one group for harassment and intimidation is a violation of any student code, and there has to be accountability.”

Blitzer then played a clip of Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) arguing that the “racist” Israeli government is taking “unprecedented” action.

“Right now, we are looking at the possibility of mass starvation and famine in Gaza. When you make those charges, that is not anti-Semitic. That is a reality,” said Sanders.

Deutch did not mince words in his response to Sanders’s comments.

“I don’t need Senator Sanders to lecture me about the reality of what’s happening on college campuses. I spent time with students from Columbia, from Rutgers, from Brown last week,” replied Deutch. “And it is not peaceful protests that has people screaming for more 10/7s, a 10/7 every day, a thousand 10/7s, 10,000 10/7s. It’s not political discourse to tell Jews that they should be gassed. It’s nothing. it’s no free speech expression to say that Jews should go back to Poland, where 90% of the Jewish population was slaughtered during the Holocaust.”

“What’s happening on college campuses right now from so many of these protesters who are out advocating on behalf of the Hamas terrorists who slaughtered 1,200 is absolutely dangerous,” he concluded. “There’s not another group that will be the target, the focus of this kind of harassment and intimidation, where people would look for some justification for it. It would rightfully be condemned. That’s what we all, including Senator Sanders, that’s what we all need to do right now about what’s happening on campus, so that the campus can be a place where every student is respected and no students are silenced. Certainly not just because they’re Jews and support Israel.”

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