New York Rep. Ritchie Torres, a Democrat, mentioned he mistakenly voted in opposition to a decision condemning Hamas supporters on faculty campuses amid the struggle between Israeli forces and Hamas terrorists.
Home lawmakers authorised a decision Thursday condemning faculty college students’ assist of Hamas, Hezbollah and different terrorist teams by a 396 to 23 vote.
“As a visual and vocal advocate in opposition to antisemitism on faculty campuses, particularly within the wake of October seventh, I’ve submitted a correction for the file,” Torres wrote Thursday on X, the platform previously referred to as Twitter.
“I’ve no use for pro-Hamas protestors, and I despise them with each fiber of my being,” he continued.
OVER 20 DEMOCRATS, ONE REPUBLICAN VOTE AGAINST RESOLUTION CONDEMNING ANTISEMITISM ON COLLEGE CAMPUSES
New York Rep. Ritchie Torres, a Democrat, mentioned he mistakenly voted in opposition to a decision condemning Hamas supporters on faculty campuses. (Al Drago/Bloomberg by way of Getty Photos)
The decision calls on college directors to sentence antisemitism on their campuses and to make sure that Jewish college and college students can train free speech with out intimidation following many instances because the Oct. 7 assaults of protests and public statements from pro-Palestinian pupil teams at universities throughout the U.S. endorsing Hamas’ assaults in opposition to Israel, in addition to situations of Jewish folks on campuses dealing with threats and harassment.
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) was the one Republican to vote in opposition to the decision, becoming a member of greater than 20 Democrats, together with progressive Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Jamaal Bowman of New York, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan.
“Free speech means defending speech you don’t like, not simply speech you do like,” Massie wrote on X to clarify the rationale behind his vote. “Additionally, who defines antisemitism?”
MASSIE SPARS WITH PRO-ISRAEL GROUP OVER PROPOSED $14B AID PACKAGE: ‘EXTRACTED THROUGH INFLATION AND TAXES’
Rep. Torres mentioned he submitted a correction for the file. (Getty)
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The GOP congressman has condemned Hamas’ terror assault in opposition to Israel.
Torres and fellow pro-Israel Democrat Rep. Brad Schneider, of Illinois, every criticized Home Speaker Mike Johnson’s, R-La., $14.3 billion help bundle for Israel as a result of the invoice pulls the help for Israel from funding allotted for the Inside Income Service by way of Democrats’ Inflation Discount Act handed final yr.
“A budget cynical recreation that Speaker Johnson is enjoying units a harmful precedent for conditioning emergency help. It represents a harmful politicizing of Israel in a time of struggle,” Torres wrote on Thursday on X. “It represents a harmful determination to pursue division over unity and politics over precept. The Home ought to vote on a clear invoice, with no poison payments, that will ship an overwhelmingly bipartisan message of unconditional unity round Israel. Our ally deserves nothing much less in its second of biggest want.”