Marjorie Taylor Greene Wants Professors to Fail Anti-Israel Students

As tensions across U.S. college campuses continue to rise amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene calls out protesters as she wants professors to fail anti-Israel students.

Hamas, on October 7, led the deadliest Palestinian attack on Israel in history, and Israel subsequently launched its heaviest airstrikes against Gaza. The Associated Press reported on Wednesday that at least 1,400 people in Israel and 6,546 Palestinians have been killed since the fighting erupted. Since the attack, many college students have taken to social media to voice their thoughts and concerns as both pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian student groups across the country have weighed in with statements. However, those statements were soon met with in-person protests, provoking strong reactions from each side.

In addition, the protests have also drawn the ire of political leaders from both major parties, with some critics raising concerns that some attending those protests have failed to adequately rebuke Hamas or have even shown support.

Others, however, note that supporting Palestinians does not equate to supporting Hamas or the latest attack against Israel.

In a post to X, formerly Twitter, Greene criticized the students who are protesting and has called for them to receive a failing grade, while also taking aim at the colleges and universities demanding for them to be defunded.

"I hope every Pro-Hamas student that walks out of their classes today protesting against Israel gets a failing grade. We need to defund all colleges and universities that promote these antisemitic protests. Stop rewarding bad behavior," Greene wrote on X.

Greene's reaction comes as college students at more than 100 campuses across the country plan to walk out on Wednesday to protest for a ceasefire in Gaza. The national walkout was organized by a broad coalition of groups including the Palestinian Youth Movement, the anti-war youth organization Dissenters, the National Students for Justice in Palestine organization, the Muslim Students Association, and others.

Newsweek has reached out to Greene via email for further comment.

However, some on X, responded to her call by criticizing her, stating that college students have a right to protest.

"College isn't a grade school. The students are adults who have a right to protest just like anyone else," X user, RvrLrd wrote.

The planned walkout on college campuses is the latest call for a ceasefire after hundreds of Jewish American protesters moved inside the Cannon House Office Building on Capitol Hill last week to emphasize the call for a ceasefire as protesters were seen waving banners, with one saying, "Jews say ceasefire now!"

Greene, a Georgia Republican has previously made similar remarks since the Israel-Hamas conflict began as she said the U.S. should deport supporters of Hamas, in a post to X on October 16 along with calling the protest inside the Cannon building an "insurrection.

Her reaction to the recent protest at Capitol Hill has led others to call the congresswoman out on her choice of words of an "insurrection."

"This is NOT an 'Insurrection,'" journalist Brian Krassenstein wrote on X.

"The outrage by Marjorie Taylor Greene & others over a group of Jewish Americans peacefully protesting in the Cannon Rotunda for a 'ceasefire' is nuts," he added.

Meanwhile, as students, staff, and administrators continue to struggle with how to respond to the ongoing conflict, Eboo Patel, the founder and president of Interfaith America, an organization that works with nearly 1,000 campuses on interfaith issues, spoke to National Public Radio (NPR) and said the two important things colleges need to do is to recognize "communities of care and cooperation. People are hurting, and words matter," Patel said.