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WASHINGTON – Majority Whip Tom Emmer today joined House Republican leadership to discuss President Trump’s meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Department of Education’s action to hold American universities, including the University of Minnesota, accountable for allowing antisemitism to pervade their campuses.

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Whip Emmer: “Yesterday, President Trump hosted his first official White House visit with a foreign leader in his second term, and I can’t think of a more fitting guest than Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The message heard around the world from Washington was clear: Israel is our strongest ally in the Middle East, and our support for Israel will not waver – not now, not ever. Not only has President Trump promised to help bring the war in Israel to an end and the remaining hostages home, but he will also help secure peace for innocent civilians in Gaza. That is the kind of leadership our allies need and deserve after the Biden administration’s foreign policy failures over the last four years. The president’s meeting with Prime Minister Netanyahu also comes on the heels of investigations launched by the Department of Education into five universities that enabled antisemitism to run rampant on their campuses after Hamas’ horrific attack against Israel on October 7. One of those colleges just happens to be the University of Minnesota Twin Cities campus, which Squad Member Ilhan Omar visited earlier last year to champion the pro-terrorist, antisemitic protests happening across the country and to inspire more movements of hate. The far left’s continued embrace of vicious attacks against the Jewish community has shown their true colors. There’s no denying that today’s Democrat Party is the pro-terrorist, antisemitic party. And now that we finally have a real leader in the White House, accountability is here. We’ve said this before, and we’ll say it again: Antisemitism has no place in this country – not in our politics, not on our college campuses, not anywhere. Our House Republican majority, alongside President Trump and our Republican colleagues in the Senate, will fight every day to ensure that our ally, Israel, is supported, Jewish Americans remain protected, and antisemitism is eliminated once and for all. I want to thank President Trump for his leadership on this issue, and I know we here on Capitol Hill are also looking forward to [welcoming] Prime Minister Netanyahu tomorrow. The time to reassert American leadership on the world stage and stand with our allies is now.”

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