Holocaust Remembrance Day on Monday was "especially somber" as anti-Israel protests erupted at U.S. college campuses and the Israel-Hamas war rages on, Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., said.

"Israel is waging a war against terrorists who deny its right to exist and perpetrated the worst massacre of Jews since World War II," Cotton said in a statement. "Here in America, college campuses are becoming increasingly hostile to Jewish students as antisemitic mobs espousing vile rhetoric go unchecked by liberal administrators and politicians."

Cotton had previously introduced a bill that would prevent any pro-Hamas protesters convicted of a crime stemming from their on-campus protests from having their student loans forgiven.

The "No Bailout for Campus Criminals Act" stipulates that an individual convicted of any offense under any federal or state law related to the individual's conduct at and during the course of a protest that occurs at an institution of higher education shall be ineligible for forgiveness, cancellation, waiver, or modification of certain Federal student loans.