EZRA LEVANT ｜ Exposing the antisemitic poison contaminating Western universities
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In the wake of the latest anti-semitic protest raid at Columbia University, we're back with more footage from the protest raid in the Fashion Institute of Technology that happened just as we were driving by. This time, we'll show you more of the story of anti-Semitism colonizing western universities.
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yesterday we took so much footage in our visit to columbia university we need a second day to tell
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you the whole story and believe it or not today we got more footage from another hamas protest
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raid in the fashion institute of technology that happened just as we were driving by
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tonight we'll show you more of the story of anti-semitism colonizing western universities
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you know i suppose when they're not riding burning or assaulting it's still a lovely place to go to
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university i mean look at that library have you ever seen a library like that in your life
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other than perhaps in ancient alexandria look at this this is another library homer herodotus
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sophocles plato aristotle demosthenes cicero virgil do you think any of the people in this encampment
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even know who those dead white men are let alone think they could learn from them
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pearls before swine they say imagine centuries of learning wasted on these likes
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divest from apartheid cancel the tel aviv global center i've been to tel aviv i've been to all of
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israel and most of israel and i know that it is not apartheid in fact it's the only state in the region
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where both jews and muslims have citizenship in fact there's the arabs in the knesset and the
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supreme court i i think that one of the reasons why these folks in this group keep saying talk to our
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leader talk to our spokesman is because they don't actually know much more than a few chanted lines
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and there's some guy who's been pestering you we haven't really been able to get into your character of miles
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you've either been recognized by people who know you from your real life or or some other guy
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very stressful i can't do my guy this is maybe why i had to retire miles is because i keep getting
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ripped out of the character i think you're you're quite recognized right there yeah well should we
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try one more time yeah i mean whenever you're engaging with these guys i can tell that your inner
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anger you're not able to suppress it with because you're just so disgusted with what you see
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and so you instead of keeping in character as miles i'm seeing the gavin mckinnon i just hate
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students so much i hate them i hate that guy's bare feet i hate his kafaya i hate their expensive
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tents i'm just seething you know i i went to a a fine university i'm not criticizing i went to a local
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university called university of calgary and then i went to university of alberta and they were pretty
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affordable i actually remember what my tuition was at law school was eight thousand bucks a year
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to go to law school u of a and i got a good education and i met wonderful people but being
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in this i mean this is european style like like that library reminds me of i mean this isn't quite
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oxford but this is in a league of elite scholarship and academics and for these people to use it as a
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latrine that's what makes me angry i don't hate students i hate the woke students that are pissing
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away this gem like the fool that threw a pearl back into the ocean how are you i'm ezra levant i'm
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here from rebel news and i'm mad about this are you guys students here oh yeah would you talk on camera
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no about what about what's going on here but whatever you want to talk about yes you guys look
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like brothers what's your name i'm keelan cornegay nice to meet you what's your name bailey cornegay
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you guys are twins you say i can tell you look pretty sporty what's your opinion i'm i'm from
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canada i've come down here i got some opinions as an outsider you guys are students here yes sir
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yes sir where are you from where are you from georgia georgia i'm guessing if he's from georgia
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you're from georgia well give me it straight up you guys seem like regular guys yeah i mean
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if you ask me it's not my favorite thing in the world you know i i'm not gonna say you can't
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protest but i think that it's it's honestly like they're just disrupting so much to be quite honest
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it's just like finals are all messed up classes are messed up we're going virtual stuff like that
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these things have just like it just kind of stresses the regular student out like especially with like
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the football on top of it we're like going doing this and that and this is all going on we have to
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worry about whether we can get in through this gate that gate we're all closed off it's like
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it kind of feels like we don't have a have our own it's not our school anymore in a way let me ask
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you this i know that you know there's protest but then there's some being some what i would call
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anti-semitic actions are you aware of any jewish kids or other kids who think i don't want to even
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go to school anymore because i feel you know like like it's not my place that's what all the professors
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like that's why we're all doing a bunch of virtual stuff now because these jewish these jewish kids are
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scared you know that's the problem that's what i think i think it's all great when people you know
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express their you know their their rights and stuff like that but like i feel like this is just
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taking a step forward just step a little too far you know the anti-semitic stuff is like just not
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it's not cool you know i i didn't go to a gorgeous school like this i went to a good school i'm not
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putting down my school in any way but seeing this beautiful place and just i'm sort of homesick for
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what i didn't have you know and i what's on my mind is these guys getting an amazing opportunity
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and using it for this instead that's what and i'm not even from here but i feel that way yeah
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our dad our dad also he's uh from africa immigrated here when he was 17 and he went to college here and
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he thinks the same thing he thinks sort of like just a bunch of i'd say probably privileged kids that
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don't really know a whole lot about the situation that they're just there to fight and be in
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something i guess and so these kids are just using this money from the school from banks and
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from their parents and stuff like that and kind of just wasting it away and just kind of
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just using it towards something that just they could do in another way
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we all commit to remain grounded in why we enter the space can journalists go in there
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the students are asking that journalists listen to the press conference over there and there will
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be an opportunity to ask questions over there from the students who are participating in the
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encampment now there's probably like a hundred reporters so i don't think it's likely that i'd
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be able to get my question i'm just here to de-escalate i don't actually know why you're filming me
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i'm just here to de-escalate and help keep everyone calm your best i'm so calm i'm almost asleep
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your best opportunity for talking to the students is to go over there you can ask questions at the press
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briefing are you a student here you know i'm i'm surprised to see some asian kids in there and i
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know that's sort of a stereotype but i i know that a lot of immigrant families who come to america
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and the first generation works their butt off at a maybe a convenience store working 100 hours a week
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so their kids can get into a great school like columbia parents scrape together the money
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and then to have their kids piss away their money here it's sort of shocking to me
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i don't think i am i don't think i'm i don't think i'm making it hard for anyone to
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i don't know i i used to think that you know that i think that phrase in chinese is bites wall if i'm
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remembering white correctly which is a chinese term for uh a term of derision to mock uh stupid white
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liberals woke white liberals who take their own case against themselves and i i think though by looking
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at the kids inside it's every demographic background it's uh sort of sad in a way that
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new immigrant communities are being co-opted by woke anti-semitism i find that a little bit sad
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no sorry your press you have a microphone my microphone that guy's a jew okay just like that
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you gotta go you gotta leave that's also against our community guidelines thank you no you gotta go
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you gotta get out of here thanks a lot you gotta get out of here they won't let me in because i'm
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a jew and they won't let you in because you don't because i'm anti-semitic they really have both ends
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of this thing covered that's the world and we know that we are on the right side of the issue
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they've been standing strong um you know with with their their their fellow students um and are
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committed to um standing in solidarity with the people of gaza and palestinians more largely i think what
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the students here are trying to do is remind the world that there's a genocide happening in gaza
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um our politicians our president even seems to continue to try to take attention away from that
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and attention away from his active complicity in arming israel and engaging in this in this genocide
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um and the fact that these students have gotten their attention i think is incredibly impressive um and
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hopefully we'll pressure them to put their attention back to the people of gaza are you guys willing to
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talk to us on camera come the answer is over there thank you what me the answer is no thank you
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can i ask why nope no thank you i mean you're protesters so i presume you have a message to
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elaborate no thank you we don't want to speak with the press is that because you don't really know why
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you're here no thank you we were in the middle of a conversation thank you how long have you guys been
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hanging out here no thank you we don't want to speak with the press that's enough we said no just keep
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no thank you we don't want to speak with the press have i triggered you no thank you we don't want to
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speak with the press okay all right well i'm having some trouble talking to the palestinian activists
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there's absolutely no trouble talking we have media trained personnel right there you're perfectly
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licensed to go over there and talk to them some of these people here are not media trained yeah i know
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and i've heard that i don't know what media training has to do with just saying what they believe in
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their heart these people have been well versed on what we believe in our hearts and they can they're
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relaying it right there i don't know why you're not going over there listen i can take you over here
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there's a we have a tent encampment here it's sort of like chaz remember chaz chop yeah the capitol hill
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autonomous zone in seattle yeah it was called chaz until people started making fun of us because of chaz bono
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so we changed it to chop but um this this this doesn't have a name yet we a lot of people are calling
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it tent town and uh it's just a way to oppose transatlantic slave trade and colonialism and uh
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obviously to oppose the genocide going on in israel right now so we have all the uh community
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guidelines written out there who wrote those guidelines we all came up with it together
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was it like a vote or something yeah we don't wear shoes shoes are not a big deal for us
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you'll notice we have very high quality tents where did those come from who who paid for the tent
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uh our parents uh our parents mostly but it rains here it's as you can see where we have we practice
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what's called back security where you can oppose someone using their back and uh yeah we have seminars
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in there we have bongo drums we have security in two layers of security and women first then men yep
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and uh yeah so it's even if you tried bum-rushing the show we wouldn't let you in and a lot of it is
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just hanging around uh we've been trying to put some tarps on a tent here using tape and it's not going
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well because none of us have actually had a job before so we don't know how to do stuff or outdoorsy
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people not really i mean this you'll notice a lot of these tents are brand new so it's the first time
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they've been used but uh we're learning as we go demilitarized education mean well see this is where
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media training comes in handy so to demilitarize education means to to have a pedagogy that teaches
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uh that war is wrong a lot of the history a lot of the the pedagogy at the school will promote
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colonialism and we talk about it through the prism of genocide so world war one was genocide world war
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two is genocide vietnam was genocide of the vietnamese people israel is a giant genocide you're
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talking about the obvious stuff like history and politics but what about math or physics how do you
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demilitarize how do you queer mathematics how do you queer physics you make it available to other
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people if you look at the fields medals not one homosexual has ever run the run the fields medal in
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mathematics why is that because of home sure probably you wouldn't know i bet i bet not i've
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seen the pictures of them they don't look gay their whole movie about touring or something yeah that was
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bullshit that's what that's part of the thing we want to do to demilitarize try to get you won't try
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to get through there you won't have a hope in hell no they're they're highly trained yeah that's why we do
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that that's why we have security here normally protesters want to talk to people um
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what do you why do you think everyone here is so shy because we don't want to give nazis a platform
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so we have media trained people that again are over there you can work with them and it's fine but
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i think you know if you have any questions it's all right there financial divestment academic boycott
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so we don't let any israelis in the school i guess uh don't invest in israel and then uh stop displacing
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palestinians on campus and no police on campus and in the silence but from media trained people
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it seems pretty obvious to me well um we're in the center of the university and as you saw the
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university has resumed although i think a lot of it is done virtually you saw those two twin brothers
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um in the football program here who were upset by the disruption that said there are a lot of
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students here if i had to estimate the number of people in the uh in the autonomous zone i'd i'd
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probably say it's only a couple hundred um it's it feels like it's professionally organized obviously
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the tents are paid for by a third party you can see so many of them are new and expensive and of the
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same kind they have quote media spokesman which is not a normal thing for a grassroots organic
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protest movement this is a controlled orchestrated movement it has a bit of an antifa vibe too and i'm
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sure there's a lot of overlap um i uh i'm sure it's different at nights uh when when we've seen just
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shocking footage of fires and physical assaults and the targeting of jews i don't know if that those
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jews will be coming back if i was visibly jewish that is if i had you know were a yarmulke or or
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other indicia that i was jewish i don't know how comfortable i'd be walking by this pit of anti-semites
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i think the number one thing that still still is striking to me is how this center of absolute wealth
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and privilege the most privileged 0.01 of society who are given the opportunity to come to this
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university prefer to sit in squalor in an anti-semitic encampment any and anti-semitic is just part of it
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i mean anti-western anti-liberal there's a real difference between being liberal and being progressive
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isn't that i i don't know i i i suppose in some sense i thought i would have a chance to interact
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um but that was my mistake in assuming this was a genuine grassroots protest this is a highly
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organized financed orchestrated public event and the fact that the university has not simply cleared
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these folks out after days and days suggests that they have plenty of support both in the faculty
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and in the administration can i ask you a question
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do your do your parents know you're here do your parents know you're here
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you know almost all of them cover their face and of course there's a political overlap between
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people who were terrified by covid thought wearing a mask was a sign of their moral righteousness
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and thought in fact it was a partisan statement against right-wing skeptics or dissidents
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so for sure a lot of people here would probably be wearing that mask anyways but i think it's for
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a more practical purpose i think these people here have decided to cast their lot with racists and
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anarchists and anti-semites and they probably don't want their face shown because you know this is an
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elite university and you know some of these kids will wind up being you know unemployable sociologists or
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whatever but this is a place that surely is recruited by consulting firms like mckinsey by senior law firms
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and if your mama and daddy paid 100 grand canadian a year to get you in this university and you decided
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to go on a lark with a bunch of neo-nazis you know condemning jews to death verbally i don't think you
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would want your face to be seen by prospective employers either i think that's what the masks are
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can you please tell us your name yes sarnoy zilberman and are you a student here at columbia i'm a student
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here at columbia i'm a third year gs student it is the school of general studies and are you jewish i'm
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jewish i'm also australia and what has it been like on campus in recent days and weeks it has been
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very challenging with everything happening we had days in which we did not feel safe to come to campus
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i do not feel safe for a while now to come to classes what happens in classes so far nothing had
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happened but honestly a lot of my fellow students are here in the camp and what do people say or do
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that makes you uncomfortable very aggressive messages very extreme messages if it is from the
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river to the sea if it is to globalize the antifada antifada as an israeli student this is part of my
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history this is something that i don't understand the meaning of it it means a pogrom it means a
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violent riot and who would say these things so students and people who have been able to
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come into campus who are not students and people from the administration and even professors
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now i find that some of these protesters don't know anything they're just repeating mantras that
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they're not well informed and they're just following a mob is that inaccurate or is it a mix are there
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some like i imagine there are some experts but i feel like a lot of these students are don't know what
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they're doing but they're caught up in a movement am i wrong am i giving them too much credit i think that
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a good amount of the people here have been misled and they receive misinformation and that is what
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leads them to believe what they believe and they are extremely handy and they do not realize the bigger
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picture and how much it does impact everyone around them now i see the posters of the kidnapped israelis
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and i see an israeli flag and an american flag it's startling to see the juxtaposition of that
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with the anti-israel encampment there did you just put these up or do these stay unvandalized because
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i would imagine with those people there and with the way you've described things that these would
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be ripped down in an hour if they weren't guarded you give a lot of credit if you think that it would
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have happened in an hour usually it's in a matter of a few minutes and i'm talking from experience
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i would first of all they've been put it here uh yesterday afternoon by my friends they stayed here
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because there are a lot of journalists around that are recording everything and i believe that they
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just don't want to be seen as doing that but uh out of campus they do it immediately and what's the
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jewish population of colombia is it uh five percent or ten percent uh like it would i would guess in
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your heart of new york it's an excellent school are there a lot of jews here we are a very close
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community we very much care about each other but we're not the majority i would guess that we're
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less than five percent well we're walking away from the unhygienic shantytown and um it wasn't what i
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it wasn't what i thought i thought my chief emotion would be anger and and and those associated
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emotions but it's actually contempt contempt for how gross they are how docile they are how um
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how un inauthentic it is how none of them have the courage or knowledge to speak they all have their
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spokesmen how they're pissing away a hundred thousand dollar canadian year education i leave here with
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contempt i i leave here with um a dead brother miles mckinnis i think is retired those were all
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way more absurd than miles was so i can't do that character anymore you're right he's been dwarfed i
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remember when you did miles mckinnis with us five six years ago it was so funny because it was a
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exaggeration it was an exaggeration and there's a lot of comedy in absurd exaggeration now you are the
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most normal person there miles would be like a cool tough smart guy in that crowd like it's not funny
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because because it's just it's just who they are now whereas five years ago it was a mockery of who
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they were that's amazing that the left has become a character of itself and it's taken seriously by so
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many though and by the way one of the ladies who was blocking us from entry there uh she said to someone
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else that she's a professor here she's not a student here she's a professor being an enforcer
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oh really yeah the lady with the uh the shorter lady with the blue uh face mat ah yeah they're just
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such spoiled weak and and personality-less people no one had any kind of gumption or character the
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highlight of my visit here besides seeing you again was those twin brothers on the football team
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maybe i didn't want to take up too much of their time but you could tell that they were visible
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minorities they said their dad came from africa as an immigrant that columbia was his ticket to
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opportunity and that they felt an obligation to him to follow in his footsteps that's what i heard them
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say and they gave me some hope that not everyone is uh in this madhouse is insane but i wouldn't want to
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send my kids here those two that you interviewed were at at the very most one percent of the student
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body here i mean you you've i saw you go up to maybe a hundred different people and ask for an
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interview and they would even say no like as you pulled up your microphone cowards well not just cowards
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but absolutely ignorant cult-like on our way in we saw people saying free free free palestine free free
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palace like just like like it's a mantra like it's a mantra it's a cult-like mantra it's a hypnotic
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trance um because they don't have a lot of content because they actually don't know they couldn't find
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gaza on a map they couldn't find israel on a map they couldn't find ukraine on a map and some of them
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wouldn't even find america on a map and they're so ignorant other than this is tear things down
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that's why the marxists the communists were outside they want to tear things down
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and when you were at a beautiful like what's the you can see on the library of columbia university
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mdc that's 1754 i think that's what that says mdcc liv 1754 for 250 years king's college founded in
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the province of new york by royal charter in the reign of george ii perpetuated as columbia college by
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the people of the state of new york when they became free and independent maintained and cherished
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from generation to generation for the advancement of the public good and the glory of almighty god
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that's what they wrote that building predates america king george was the boss of this place
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two and a half centuries of scholarship and learning and philanthropy and public service turned into