GOP senators call to defund Syracuse University after convicted killer found at encampment

U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., speaks during a hearing before Senate Judiciary Committee December 10, 2019 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. and Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., speaks during a town hall, May 8, 2023, in Manchester, N.H. Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., and Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., say Syracuse University should lose its federal funding after a convicted killer was found staying at an anti-Israel encampment on its campus.

The senators told TND the situation is all the more reason to pass the Stop Antisemitism on College Campuses Act, which they introduced last year. The measure would strip federal funding from schools that "authorize, fund or facilitate events that promote violent antisemitism." Warren, who was arrested by Syracuse University police on Friday, was convicted of manslaughter in New York in 1996.

Universities and administrators across the nation have put students’ lives at risk by allowing their campuses to descend into anarchy,” he told TND. “If caving to an antisemitic mob wasn’t bad enough, Syracuse took it a step further by not acting immediately to remove a violent criminal from campus. Keeping students safe should be each school’s top priority. Refusing to do that should cost them every last dime of their federal funding.

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