{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.mcconnell.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/pressreleases?ID=F61CA1B8-7C49-4CC4-ACB0-572069B10BA5", "Harvard Is \u2018Glaring Example\u2019 Of Rampant Anti-Semitism Permeating Higher Education", "2023-12-14", "2023", "2023-12", "Republican", "Senate", "KY", "Mitch McConnell", "M000355", "www.mcconnell.senate.gov", "mcconnell", "https://www.mcconnell.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/pressreleases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) delivered the following remarks today on the Senate floor regarding anti-Semitism on college campuses:\n\n\u201cThe events of the past two months have underscored that something is rotten in the state of America\u2019s most elite universities. And there aren\u2019t many more glaring examples than Harvard.\n\n\u201cLast week, of course, Harvard\u2019s president refused to say whether calls for Jewish genocide would constitute harassment on her campus.\n\n\u201cTwo months ago, in the immediate aftermath of the October 7th terrorist attacks, she declined to condemn the Harvard student groups who openly declared that the murder of innocent Jews that day was Israel\u2019s own fault.\n\n\u201cUnder her leadership, radical \u2018Students for Justice in Palestine\u2019 have organized to spout terrorist propaganda and mostly succeeded in getting Harvard graduates blackballed by major corporations and federal judges.\n\n\u201cOne Jewish student at Harvard Business School was even assaulted on his way to study.\n\n\u201cAnd yet despite her abysmal record of combatting anti-Semitism and mounting allegations of plagiarism in her own scholarship, the cadre of left-wing financiers and university administrators who make up the governing Harvard Corporation has affirmed their \u2018confidence that President Gay is the right leader to help our community heal.\u2019\n\n\u201cWell, when you look at Harvard\u2019s history, this embarrassing lack of moral clarity is hardly a surprise. A century ago, Harvard President Abbott Lowell proposed a numerical quota on Jewish students.\n\n\u201cHis reasoning? \u2018The anti-Semitic feeling among the students is increasing, and it grows in proportion to the increase in the number of Jews.\u2019\n\n\u201cSo one Harvard President says that the presence of Jews causes anti-Semitism. A hundred years later, another says that calls for Jewish genocide really depend on the context in which they\u2019re made.\n\n\u201cFrankly, you\u2019d be forgiven for wondering whether anti-Semitism isn\u2019t just business as usual at Harvard!\u201d\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:56:20Z"]], "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://www.mcconnell.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/pressreleases?ID=F61CA1B8-7C49-4CC4-ACB0-572069B10BA5"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 3.22972284629941, "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"}