Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, R-N.Y., told Newsmax on Wednesday that elected officials across the country need to “unequivocally denounce” the anti-Israel protests taking place on college campuses across the country.
Malliotakis, who recently visited Columbia University during a pro-Palestinian protest, told “Newsline” that New York police officers “do not have the backing and support of many elected officials” in the state, including Rep. Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y., who recently said that he is “outraged by the level of police presence called upon nonviolent student protestors” at Columbia and The City College of New York.
Malliotakis added that officials “including Bowman and AOC [Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y.] try to make their jobs more difficult,” by calling for measures that would divert funding to non-police resources.
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