Rep. Anthony D’Esposito, R-N.Y., told Newsmax on Wednesday that it’s “absolutely ridiculous” that the administration at Columbia University is negotiating with the pro-Palestinian protesters who have shut down normal operations at the school.
Columbia issued a statement Wednesday morning saying it is “making important progress with representatives of the student encampment on the West lawn” and that “the university will continue conversations for the next 48 hours.”
“Honestly, I don’t even know where to start,” D’Esposito said during an appearance on “Wake Up America.” “I spoke to these [Jewish] students. I was at Columbia University on Monday with Congressman [Mike] Lawler [R-N.Y.] and [Nassau] County Executive [Bruce] Blakeman and [radio host] Sid Rosenberg, and we spoke to these students, and they are scared. When you have people chanting death to Israel, death to America, you have people wearing bandanas and shirts and screaming, ‘I am Hamas, I am Hezbollah,’ these are terrorist organizations that they are praising, and the fact that the leadership at Columbia University does not and cannot make a decision is absolutely ridiculous. There’s nothing to negotiate here. The only thing that we should be hoping for is that Hamas surrenders and that … the hostages are released.
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