Antisemitism on campus. While agreeing that the problem is more prevalent nationwide with a pushback on occupations of their universities condoning antisemitism and take. This hearing is just over three hours 15 minutes. Good morning. The disrupting classrooms the principal agents of antijewish harassment and violence and have made an absolute mockery of socalled University Leaders. Thats why the committee is getting gas yet again calling for accountability for those in charge of universities. Today with mr. Michael schill of Northwestern University, dr. Jean block of ucla, and dr. Johnson holloway of Rutgers University. Each of you should be ashamed of your decisions to allow antisemitic encampments to endanger jewish students. You should be doubly ashamed for capitulating to the antisemitic rule breakers. Our job today is first and foremost to hold those who are supposed to be in charge to account. Dr. Jean block, you will testify to the horrific violent events that unfolded at ucla,
The president founded Nyus Furman Center for urban policy which has become one of the nations leading Research Centers on housing. Welcome to the committee, president. Thank you. Our second witness is the president of Rutgers University in New Brunswick, new jersey. The next witness is the secretary and ceo of this society located in washington dc. The fine witness. The chancellor of ucla and los angeles, california. We thank you for being here today and look forward to your testimony. We will remind the witnesses that we have read your written statements which will. In full in the hearing record. Pursuant to Committee Rule 8d the Committee Practice i ask each limit your oral presentation to a fiveminute summary of the written statement. I also remind the witnesses to be aware of the responsibility to provide Accurate Information to the committee. I will first recognize this president for five minutes. Thank you. And also thank you to the representative for the kind introduction. I agr
Would that make it better or worse in the short term, medium term and long term and how realistic is it to even think policymakers would move in the direction of less restriction . I dont think were really discussing or considering more limitations to free speech. As Floyd Abraham said we already have legislation in place which for historical reason. The holocaust took place on our continent. Nazis was on the european continent. So this was different from leer. This there is consensus on these laws generally. So nobody thinks seriously that in france were going to have laws prohibiting or limiting the way you can draw the mohammed or mock such religion or the other one. I dont think this is being considered at this stage. What may happen and what is already happening i think is that we all will be a bit more cautious. We already saw that in 2006 when those cartoons were First Published in denmark. We had this debate about whether we should reprint them. We decided to reprint two of the
Screeria nigeria. Rtions of the Arctic National wildlife refuge. This hearing is 2 1 2 hours. Call the hearing to order this morning. Were here this morning with secretary jewell and mr. Connor, thank you both for being here. Were here to review the president s budget request for the department of the interior for fiscal year 2016. I just want to make sure i got the chart. And im going to spend a little bit of my time here this morning in opening comments to talk about the many ways in which this administration and the actions are having impact, negative impact in hurting my state. Secretary jewell, you and i have had many opportunities to visit oneonone, as well as your trip to alaska which i appreciate you making last week and i dont want to make this personal, but the decisions from interior have lacked balance and instead of recognizing the many opportunities that alaska has with regard to resource production you have enabled an unprecedented attack on our act to responsibly bring
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