Columbia University President Minouche Shafik and the school’s board of trustees must get control of the pro-Palestinian protesters camping there, as the “inmates are in charge of the asylum,” Rep. Virginia Foxx, who was on the campus last week with a House delegation led by Speaker Mike Johnson, said on Newsmax Sunday. 

“The Jewish students there, some of them are not even able to stay on campus,” the North Carolina Republican told Newsmax’s “Sunday Report.” “They can’t study. They feel threatened for their lives…a lot of taxpayer dollars are going into Columbia and we think that should be a safe environment for all students, but particularly the Jewish students.”

Foxx added that she does not know why school officials are negotiating with the protesters. 

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