Sen. Hawley: Send National Guard to Crush Pro-Palestine Protests Like 'Eisenhower Sent the 101st to Little Rock'

Chris Menahan
InformationLiberation
Apr. 22, 2024

Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) on Monday called for the National Guard to be unleashed on pro-Palestine protesters at universities throughout the country the same way "Eisenhower sent the 101st to Little Rock" to force integration of public schools at gunpoint.

"Eisenhower sent the 101st to Little Rock," Hawley tweeted Monday morning. "It's time for Biden to call out the National Guard at our universities to protect Jewish Americans."

Eisenhower sent the 101st to Little Rock.
It’s time for Biden to call out the National Guard at our universities to protect Jewish Americans
— Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) April 22, 2024

Just to be clear, you are advocating for this: pic.twitter.com/OiWFcmBA06
— JR (@J_Moore1292) April 22, 2024

As I reported yesterday, neocon John Podhoretz said anyone who doesn't want to unleash the National Guard on pro-Palestine protesters doesn't "give a s**t about Jewish kids" and Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) labeled the protests as "terror" and demanding they be shut down to "keep Jewish students safe."

When Hawley was accused of anti-Semitism in 2019 for attending Netanyahu advisor Yoram Hazony's "National Conservative" conference, he responded by saying he would die for Israel.

"You'll have to carry me out on a slab before I compromise my defense of the Jewish people, their greatness, their history, their safety, and the state of Israel," Hawley said.

You’ll have to carry me out on a slab before I compromise my defense of the Jewish people, their greatness, their history, their safety, and the state of Israel
— Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) July 20, 2019

In the wake of October 7th, Hawley -- who made a name for himself by criticizing "cancel culture," "wokeness" and online censorship of conservatives -- started demanding the Department of Homeland Security fire critics of Israel in their employ, cancel the visas of critics of Israel and have them deported for their anti-Israel political views.

"Conservatives" have abandoned every single value they've claimed to represent -- from free speech to free enterprise and free markets -- to shield Israel from any criticism of their ethnic cleansing campaign in Gaza.

UPDATE: Not to be outdone, Sen. Tom Cotton described the protests as "nascent pogroms" on Monday and similarly demanded that New York officials or Biden himself send in the National Guard.

The nascent pogroms at Columbia have to stop TODAY, before our Jewish brethren sit for Passover Seder tonight. If Eric Adams won’t send the NYPD and Kathy Hochul won’t send the National Guard, Joe Biden has a duty to take charge and break up these mobs.
— Tom Cotton (@SenTomCotton) April 22, 2024

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