Cory Mills asks Congress to probe possible funding of pro-Hamas protests on college campuses

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Florida Republican Rep. Cory Mills challenged his colleagues in Congress Monday to probe possible funding behind recent pro-Hamas protests occurring on college campuses across the United States.

“It’s time for Congress to investigate the funding behind these pro-Hamas protests taking over college campuses,” Mills said. “We need to get to the bottom of who’s pulling the strings, if it’s a foreign adversary calling the shots, or where these operations are being orchestrated from.”

Mills blasted the protests, happening at places like Columbia and Yale, as “nothing short of disgraceful.”

“There’s intimidation, harassment, and outright antisemitism. Pro-Hamas protesters are disrupting lectures and creating an environment where Jewish students are too afraid to even attend their classes,” Mills said.

Mills further expanded on his stance in an interview on Fox News.

“I think that there’s a fine line to walk with ensuring that everyone has the right to free, nonviolent protesting and being able to have their voice heard, and what you’re seeing where there is intimidation, they’re stopping Jewish students from being able to even attend their classes,” Mills said.

Mills also noted the response by University of Florida President Ben Sasse, who prohibited the use of bullhorns, tents and encampments on campus, all of which could lead to expulsion. No stranger to politics, Sasse was formerly a U.S. senator for Nebraska from 2015-2023.

While the University of Florida has kept things largely under control, Mills ridiculed certain schools for recommending students take classes remotely if they felt unsafe.

As a reprimand to the protests, Mills demanded University presidents become “more active and more vocal” in calling out antisemitism.

Mills also correlated protests occurring in the northeast to Florida as a contrast between blue and red states.

“That’s a difference in red states where we believe in defending our law enforcement and blue states who believe in defunding our law enforcement. That’s also what we saw during the 2020 summer riots, whenever you had CHOP, which was actually an autonomous area in Seattle that was actually allowing it to be completely lawless, and the blue states were ineffective actually doing anything about it,” Mills said.