Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, criticized the responses of President Joe Biden and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., to protests that have occurred on numerous college campuses, such as Yale University, Columbia University, and New York University, over the past week.
"That is not peaceful ... Threats of violence and calling for the murder of your former students is not remotely peaceful," Cruz said on his "Verdict" podcast this week, The Daily Wire reported.
"AOC — this is a sitting member of Congress. She's singling out Columbia and Yale. She's praising what's happening at Columbia and Yale. Understand, she supports this vicious antisemitism, and there is Joe Biden happily sitting there," Cruz said.
Presumably in reference to the remarks of now-Columbia University President Minouche Shafik made after the 9/11 attacks saying that terrorism was a "form of protesting against a system," Cruz added, "And in today's leftist academy, using the president of Columbia's own word, they have some sympathy for that.
"No, there is no sympathy. Terrorism is not a form of protest. Terrorism is a horrific form of violence that targets civilians, that targets women and children, that commits murder and acts of cruelty. And that's exactly what Hamas did.
"And what Columbia did," Cruz said, referencing Shai Davidai, an Israeli American Columbia Business School assistant professor who had planned to stage a sit-in Monday on the lawn where the pro-Palestinian encampment is located.
"They revoked his pass to campus," Cruz said. "They zeroed out his access and blocked him. This is the administration of Columbia. They decided between a professor on their faculty who happened to be Jewish or the antisemitic protesters who are threatening violence, that the problem was the professor who dared to be Jewish."