{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://edwards.house.gov/media/press-releases/edwards-condemns-uncas-taxpayer-funded-hamas-open-house", "Edwards condemns UNCA\u2019s taxpayer-funded \u201cHamas Open House\u201d", "2023-11-02", "2023", "2023-11", "Republican", "House", "NC", "Chuck Edwards", "E000246", "edwards.house.gov", "edwards", "https://edwards.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "U.S. Congressman Chuck Edwards (NC-11) today condemns the \u201cUntil We\u2019re All Free\u201d event funded by taxpayer dollars scheduled for tomorrow at the campus of the University of North Carolina Asheville, and urges UNCA to cancel this event that is designed to normalize and espouse hateful anti-Semitic rhetoric.\n\nThe event, titled \u201cUntil We\u2019re All Free: State Violence from Cop City to Palestine\u201d at the Highsmith Student Union, is touted as \u201cpreparing students, faculty, and community members to think critically about American complicity in Israeli violence.\u201d\n\nCongressman Edwards released the following statement:\n\n\u201cThe anti-Semitic event that is scheduled to be held at the Highsmith Student Union, supported by woke radical leftists on the UNCA campus, is just one of several such rallies we have seen across the country. Western North Carolinians and Americans everywhere must disavow and condemn events that encourage anti-Semitism and inspire violence.\n\n\u201cIt\u2019s not only hard to believe that an institution like UNCA would allow this event on campus, it\u2019s difficult to comprehend how multiple taxpayer-funded departments at UNCA sponsored this \u2018Hamas Open House.\u2019\n\n\u201cThese are folks who condemn everyone else for racism, yet this event demonstrates the purest form of racism by encouraging young, impressionable students to hate their fellow man because of their ethnicity, background or creed. This event is just another example of racist hypocrisy while the panelists and participants hide behind anonymity by banning cell phones from the event.\n\n\u201cLet\u2019s fight the growing tide of anti-Semitism around the world, starting by speaking out against every kind of hate.\u201d\n\nThe \u201cUntil We\u2019re All Free\u201d event is supported by the UNCA\u2019s departments of Sociology and Anthropology; Women, Gender, and Sexualities Studies; American Indian and Indigenous Studies; Africana Studies; and the Interdisciplinary/International Studies.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-08T01:01:09Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://edwards.house.gov/media/press-releases/edwards-condemns-uncas-taxpayer-funded-hamas-open-house"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.7644281033426523, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}