The Republican leader of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce is calling on Education Secretary Miguel Cardona to resign after he declined to explicitly denounce a phrase frequently chanted by pro-Palestinian protesters.
“Three months after October 7 and the disgusting antisemitic demonstrations that followed, there is no excusing Secretary Cardona’s cowardly evasion of the antisemitic character of the phrase ‘from the river, to the sea,’’’ Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-N.C., said in a statement Wednesday.
In a call Tuesday with reporters from Jewish media outlets, Cardona was asked about protests on college campuses in the wake of the Hamas attack into Israel on Oct. 7 and Israel’s massive and ongoing military response. Specifically, Cardona was asked whether university administrators should consider chanting the phrase “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” was a form of antisemitism.
