Rebel News Podcast - May 02, 2024


EZRA LEVANT ｜ Ezra reports from New York as local law enforcement raid Columbia University

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The latest from Columbia University in New York City on the latest from the "Hamas Camp" protest, and the tactics and tactics used by the protesters to keep journalists out of the camp. And a conversation I overheard about the demographics of the protesters, and how they differ from those in other cities.

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00:00:00.000 Tonight, Marxists Gone Wild, the latest from Columbia University in New York City.
00:00:21.340 It's May 1st, and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.
00:00:23.640 Shame on you, you censorious bug.
00:00:38.980 Well, hi there. I'm back in New York City in front of Columbia University.
00:00:43.680 This is the gate that we entered for a two-hour First Amendment window when we were here the other day.
00:00:50.380 That is, from 2 p.m. till 4 p.m., they opened the gates for journalists.
00:00:54.740 And if you recall, there were hundreds of them in line to see firsthand the protesters inside the Hamas encampment.
00:01:04.400 I call them protesters because I suppose that is what they're doing, but there wasn't a lot of talking from those protesters.
00:01:12.600 They were instructed by their leaders not to talk to journalists, not to talk even to friendly journalists,
00:01:19.260 but rather to have hand-picked official spokesmen dealing with the media at large.
00:01:25.040 In fact, if any journalist tried to get in the actual encampment, they were blocked by a combination of students, but also teachers, too.
00:01:35.460 I think it was yesterday that an eviction notice was given where they were told that if they didn't leave by,
00:01:42.860 I think it was 2 p.m. or some particular time, they would start to be suspended.
00:01:47.980 Well, they did not go. In fact, a ring of faculty surrounded the students.
00:01:54.240 Those students were threatened with suspension, so the faculty blocked the students.
00:01:59.800 Things got out of hand, though, after dark when the Hamas protesters managed to break into various buildings
00:02:08.100 and start smashing and trashing buildings.
00:02:11.320 Some very interesting footage from that.
00:02:13.520 Vandalism, of course, graffiti, but also reports that several maintenance staff, janitors, other staff like that,
00:02:24.200 were trapped in there, a kind of hostage situation, if you like,
00:02:28.400 which echoes what Hamas is doing in Israel and Gaza, I suppose.
00:02:32.920 They still have dozens of hostages.
00:02:34.940 It was interesting to me, I saw an image of a maintenance worker at Colombia
00:02:39.360 who probably makes less in a year than tuition is for a single student,
00:02:44.380 that this maintenance worker loved Colombia and the physical plant of it so much
00:02:49.380 that this maintenance worker was trying to stop one of these protesters from desecrating this beautiful university,
00:02:55.640 that maintenance worker caring more about the university than the university's own administration or security team.
00:03:01.860 Of course, it's private property, and you can evict anyone from private property for any reason or no reason.
00:03:09.020 Now, if someone pays tuition, they have certain rights,
00:03:11.680 but those are enumerated in what was called in my day the university calendar,
00:03:16.940 which was a fancy way of saying the entire rule book.
00:03:20.100 If you are camping overnight, if you are engaging in various acts of trespass,
00:03:26.320 if you are engaging in violence, vandalism, breaking and entering into buildings,
00:03:32.020 obviously you're breaking the rules.
00:03:33.880 The university, however, to this day, lacks the courage to expel them.
00:03:37.960 Like I say, we're not allowed in there, but the protesters are still in there.
00:03:42.760 Of course, there are protesters on the street who are not members of the university
00:03:47.760 and lack the ID necessary to get inside.
00:03:51.100 That's an interesting thing to me because the Columbia University is easy to steal off.
00:03:56.860 There's gates and fences all around it.
00:03:59.040 Other universities, including where I was yesterday,
00:04:02.720 the University of British Columbia so clearly have outside organizers.
00:04:06.760 But there was a tactic I noticed in the footage from Columbia last night
00:04:11.320 that I recognized from elsewhere, namely Antifa.
00:04:14.940 The complexion of the protesters is different in the various cities I've been.
00:04:21.540 As you may recall, a few months ago, I went to London in the United Kingdom
00:04:25.080 and I saw two main demographic streams from the protests.
00:04:29.980 You had about 10 or 15 percent who were typically old communists,
00:04:35.440 socialist workers party types in the UK and some woke students.
00:04:39.300 But the vast majority of pro-Hamas protesters in London are recent immigrants,
00:04:46.940 typically Muslim immigrants, to London.
00:04:49.380 It's just no doubt about it.
00:04:50.640 They are the voice of Pakistani Britons and Bangladeshi Britons, etc.
00:04:57.080 That's the UK.
00:04:58.740 In Canada, I think you have a fair bit of that too,
00:05:02.140 especially since Justin Trudeau has emphasized immigration
00:05:05.300 from countries with Muslim-majority populations,
00:05:08.960 and there have been some woke professors and woke white kids
00:05:13.480 from university thrown into the mix.
00:05:15.600 Here in the United States, at least at Columbia
00:05:18.260 and the Fashion Institute of Technology that we visited last week, 0.93
00:05:22.080 it is in the main woke, self-hating, white, Marxist communists. 0.87
00:05:30.460 I'm just describing what I see. 0.64
00:05:32.920 And I think that's just the demographic difference.
00:05:37.380 I overheard an official spokesman talking to a friendly journalist.
00:05:42.660 They didn't want to talk to me much,
00:05:43.980 but I overheard this spokesman talking about how this is but a single chapter
00:05:48.100 in a global revolution that they all want.
00:05:51.480 Take a listen to this snippet of a conversation that I overheard.
00:05:55.440 You know, it's not just something that has happened now,
00:05:58.100 but the foundation has been built a long time ago.
00:06:01.800 And I think students also realize that this is not just one issue,
00:06:08.580 but it's like this issue has become the center of the struggle,
00:06:11.860 but it's not the end-all be-all.
00:06:14.020 You know, our struggle doesn't begin and end with Palestine,
00:06:17.020 but it ends and begins with the liberation of all people.
00:06:19.740 And we see that Palestine, like the freedom of the liberation of Palestine
00:06:23.420 being crucial to the liberation of all people everywhere.
00:06:27.400 I think that's exactly right.
00:06:29.300 Because by far, the vast majority of protesters here at Columbia
00:06:33.740 and at the Fashion Institute of Technology and other U.S. campuses,
00:06:37.880 they are not Palestinian.
00:06:39.780 They are not Arab. 0.97
00:06:40.720 They are not Muslim. 1.00
00:06:42.020 In fact, many of them are old-stock Americans, to use a phrase. 0.66
00:06:46.100 They're just woke.
00:06:46.880 And by woke, I mean they believe in critical race theory
00:06:49.880 and critical theory in general
00:06:51.240 and a Marxism that's transposed not just on gender and race,
00:06:57.520 but on, in general, the oppressed versus the oppressors.
00:07:02.160 And they see Israel as the oppressor
00:07:05.300 and Palestinians as the oppressed,
00:07:07.860 and tomorrow it'll be a climate battle.
00:07:10.480 And the week after that, it'll be a transgenderism issue. 0.83
00:07:13.940 I think that what that young spokesman was saying
00:07:17.300 is actually the true nature of the protesters here.
00:07:20.060 They are, for want of a better term, communists,
00:07:24.180 who want to tear down America and all its systems.
00:07:27.840 And Gaza just happens to be the excuse du jour. 0.92
00:07:30.940 The fact that Jews pay the price for that in terms of anti-Semitism,
00:07:34.920 well, that's unfortunate.
00:07:36.860 Why am I here?
00:07:37.500 It's important for me as a Jew, also as an Israeli,
00:07:41.140 to come out and just stand here in the face of evil,
00:07:44.740 be a little bit of a light,
00:07:46.600 and show my support for my country and my people.
00:07:49.180 And I know that it's hard times for us all,
00:07:51.340 and so I just want all my friends and my family to know,
00:07:55.180 like, they're not alone.
00:07:57.180 And this isn't going to, you know, scare us.
00:07:59.920 That's why it's important for me to be here.
00:08:01.320 I think a lot of people are scared.
00:08:03.780 I mean, it's daylight and there's a big cop right over there,
00:08:07.500 but have you ever been scared when it's not daylight,
00:08:11.320 when there's not a cop there,
00:08:12.480 when there have been Palestinian protesters?
00:08:15.100 Has there been a moment where you have been scared?
00:08:17.980 Um, I don't get scared often, but, you know, it is scary.
00:08:21.880 If I'm alone, I definitely have to consider where I'm going,
00:08:24.680 what I'm wearing.
00:08:25.680 If I'm definitely alone, I'm definitely more,
00:08:27.940 a little discreet about who I am,
00:08:30.100 but I was, I was here at, on October 8th.
00:08:33.660 Um, some man, some man from the pro-Palestinian protest
00:08:36.840 came and threw hot coffee in her face.
00:08:38.940 Um, so it is scary, but I, I trust the police right now,
00:08:42.840 um, to contain the situation.
00:08:45.380 Uh, if they weren't here, I wouldn't be here.
00:08:47.560 Let's put it that way.
00:08:48.780 So are you a student here?
00:08:49.880 No, absolutely not.
00:08:51.600 So are you just walking by?
00:08:53.080 Walking by and here to support Israel.
00:08:55.420 So are you here today because of this protest,
00:08:58.020 or are you just walking by the neighborhood coincidentally?
00:09:00.700 Walking by because of this.
00:09:03.280 And, um, are they still locked up in there?
00:09:07.320 We just got here a moment ago.
00:09:08.460 Yeah, I mean, they're walking by.
00:09:10.080 I mean, we all know this.
00:09:11.200 It's, it's against Jews. 0.98
00:09:12.420 It's nothing to do with Palestine.
00:09:13.760 It's anti-Semitism at its core.
00:09:16.980 And, well, here in New York, one of the most Jewish cities in the world,
00:09:20.880 Columbia, a university in part funded by Jewish philanthropy.
00:09:25.660 Um, like, it just seems very shocking that there would be such sharp anti-Semitism
00:09:31.240 in a city that's really known as a Jewish city.
00:09:34.060 Well, unfortunately, it's not shocking.
00:09:36.580 It's a Kristallnacht 1939 all over again.
00:09:40.740 Um, you know, till now they tried to disguise behind, uh, uh, different things,
00:09:45.280 different agendas.
00:09:45.900 Now they're not ashamed of it.
00:09:46.840 Just walked by.
00:09:47.580 They walked past me.
00:09:48.420 And, you know, some people are walking by there and, uh, with the LGTB flags and gay stuff, 0.99
00:09:52.420 you know, I don't even know if they know how it looks if they go into Gaza with that stuff.
00:09:56.500 Uh, you, you wear a Jewish yarmulke on your head visibly. 1.00
00:10:01.940 What, uh, kind of comments, if any, have you received for that?
00:10:06.220 Well, so far we haven't because we've been walking this way and they've been walking that way.
00:10:09.940 But, um, I'm, I'm ready to receive the hate, but I'm not embarrassed.
00:10:15.100 I assume there's about 100 protesters still in there.
00:10:18.500 Is that about right?
00:10:19.900 Um, that's what I've heard.
00:10:21.020 I've heard maybe a little bit more even.
00:10:22.820 And maybe out here there's, I'd say, less than 100.
00:10:26.500 Oh, yeah.
00:10:27.460 In the city of New York, that's not a ton.
00:10:29.940 I gotta ask you, how widespread is this?
00:10:32.720 Are these just sort of a rent-a-mob protester who, if it's not Gaza this week, it's, uh, a climate protest.
00:10:40.240 And if it's not a climate protest, it's a Trump protest.
00:10:42.980 Like, are these just a rent-a-mob or are these dedicated Palestinian activists?
00:10:48.720 Um, I'd say they might be rent-a-mob, but I'd also say that they're not pro-Palestinian activists.
00:10:54.400 They're anti-Semitic activists.
00:10:55.700 Um, they're not here to free Palestine. 0.76
00:10:57.980 They're here to terrorize Jews and the Western world and America. 1.00
00:11:01.780 That's what I believe.
00:11:02.960 I see a lot of prefab signs.
00:11:06.760 They're not homemade signs.
00:11:08.300 Who do you think is paying for those? 0.98
00:11:10.480 The IRGC, probably.
00:11:12.340 I'd assume.
00:11:13.100 Or Hamas.
00:11:13.720 That are super behind this.
00:11:15.480 Uh, you could, there's a reason why people won't talk to you on that side.
00:11:18.180 I'm not sure if you've been.
00:11:19.120 Um, but that's because they'd have no idea why they're even there.
00:11:21.400 So I'd say if they knew why they were there, they'd be open, willing to talk to you like
00:11:25.380 I am.
00:11:26.140 Um, but they're not.
00:11:27.240 And there's a reason for that.
00:11:28.280 Hey, let me interrupt myself.
00:11:29.640 That was me yesterday outside Columbia University in New York City.
00:11:33.720 I'm back in Toronto, and I wanted to interrupt to say hours after I recorded that, the NYPD,
00:11:41.340 the New York Police Department, had a massive raid.
00:11:45.060 I think there probably were more than a thousand officers involved, certainly in the hundreds.
00:11:49.960 Very well organized.
00:11:51.540 They had buses in place to take the protesters away.
00:11:54.780 They had specialized equipment.
00:11:57.120 They sealed off the entire area.
00:11:58.760 It was an enormous exercise, completed in about two hours time, with no injuries.
00:12:05.320 And that's quite amazing.
00:12:07.120 So I had to update you with that.
00:12:08.920 You can see on the screen some of the incredible video.
00:12:12.300 Uh, it really was like a riot.
00:12:14.720 Speaking of riots on the other side of the country, take a look at this.
00:12:18.840 I'm going to play it with the sound up for a minute.
00:12:20.960 This is from ABC.
00:12:22.180 It's incredible to me that they had this commentary.
00:12:24.220 Here is an actual riot at UCLA, University of California at Los Angeles, a very large school,
00:12:31.640 probably the largest school in California.
00:12:34.360 And, um, and I think my point there is that the police and campus security didn't do anything
00:12:41.900 to protect the kids.
00:12:43.820 And there was a Jewish girl who was actually beaten to the point of being made unconscious,
00:12:49.800 unconscious, excuse me.
00:12:51.040 And so ordinary people in the community, including, I presume, some Jews,
00:12:55.460 went to clear the encampment out themselves.
00:12:58.180 It was a melee.
00:13:00.200 Take a look.
00:13:01.240 Halfway through the quad.
00:13:03.040 Look at this.
00:13:03.420 Somebody is being beaten.
00:13:04.460 Somebody is being beaten with a stick and punches in the middle of the lawn.
00:13:08.440 Hey, hey, hey, don't do that.
00:13:10.320 Don't do that, dude.
00:13:11.420 Oh, oh, oh, oh.
00:13:12.260 Somebody is being badly beaten at the bottom of that brawl right there.
00:13:16.660 Look at that.
00:13:26.720 Look at that.
00:13:27.700 Somebody is being dragged and beaten in the front of that plywood wall.
00:13:32.480 Just incredible.
00:13:40.960 Like, where are the police?
00:13:42.700 Where is security?
00:13:43.960 Where are these people?
00:13:45.300 But just, where are, where is authority here?
00:13:47.860 Get in!
00:13:50.440 Get in!
00:13:50.940 Get in!
00:13:51.440 Get in!
00:13:52.040 Get in!
00:13:53.020 Get in!
00:13:53.580 Get in!
00:13:54.340 It is something I have never covered without any sign of enforcement, law enforcement,
00:14:00.980 security, whatsoever.
00:14:02.580 This has gone now on for over an hour and a half.
00:14:06.220 And it is absolutely appalling, in my estimation, that we have not seen any response.
00:14:11.380 I have just never seen it.
00:14:22.820 You know, this may be a sign of things to come, or this may be what, you know, society
00:14:27.440 has become.
00:14:27.820 But I have never seen it in my career.
00:14:30.260 I have never seen this level of violence without any response from any kind of law enforcement
00:14:35.640 or authority whatsoever.
00:14:37.720 Oh, look at that.
00:14:39.700 Somebody just took a, somebody just took a pallet to the head.
00:14:43.000 You know, you're right.
00:14:50.320 The plywood, excuse me, the boards of plywood are moving up.
00:14:55.100 They've been dislodged from that makeshift wall where they were set up with tripods almost.
00:14:59.560 And now you can see them manually being moved up into the crowd of counter protesters.
00:15:05.240 And you're seeing these scuffles break out one after another.
00:15:08.700 Lots of very heavy sticks, very heavy barricades, scooters, all types of things being employed
00:15:15.600 to inflict harm on the other side here.
00:15:19.360 Of course, I don't support violent vigilante action, but the police basically abandoned it.
00:15:24.940 I presume they were instructed to do so by UCLA, so the community did something about it.
00:15:30.260 Here is a shot from outside Columbia before the raid.
00:15:34.100 You just got to look at this.
00:15:35.040 This is incredible.
00:15:35.720 Take a look.
00:15:36.220 Why should the university be obligated to provide food to people who have taken over a building?
00:15:43.680 Well, first of all, we're saying that they're obligated to provide food to students who pay
00:15:48.260 for a meal plan here.
00:15:49.340 But you mentioned that there was a request that food and water be brought in.
00:15:52.700 Unless I misunderstood.
00:15:53.340 To allow it to be brought in.
00:15:54.600 I mean, well, I guess it's ultimately a question of what kind of community and obligation Columbia
00:15:59.280 feels it has to its students.
00:16:00.640 Do you want students to die of dehydration and starvation or get severely ill, even if
00:16:06.660 they disagree with you?
00:16:07.940 If the answer is no, then you should allow basic...
00:16:10.820 I mean, it's crazy to say because we're on an Ivy League campus, but this is like basic
00:16:14.300 humanitarian aid we're asking for.
00:16:15.900 Like, could people please have a glass of water?
00:16:18.380 But they did put themselves in that very deliberately in that situation and in that position.
00:16:25.180 So it seems like you're sort of saying we want to be revolutionaries.
00:16:29.000 We want to take up this building.
00:16:30.680 Now, would you please bring us some food and water?
00:16:33.080 Nobody's asking them to bring anything.
00:16:35.100 We're asking them to not violently stop us from bringing in basic humanitarian aid.
00:16:40.480 They're stopping the delivery of food?
00:16:42.660 We are looking for a commitment from them that they will not stop it violently.
00:16:46.480 Oh, but they haven't stopped it yet.
00:16:48.580 Well, I don't know to what extent it has been attempted, but we're looking for a commitment.
00:16:54.680 She is at an elite school, privileged.
00:16:57.100 The amount of money it costs to go to that school in Canadian dollars is close to $100,000
00:17:02.960 a year.
00:17:03.620 But to her, the apex, the place that they all dream to be, is the top of the victim pyramid.
00:17:09.960 And my God, we're going to be dehydrated and starve if we don't get free food every hour.
00:17:14.120 Can you send us some DoorDash?
00:17:17.280 They actually did call for DoorDash.
00:17:19.400 Look at this.
00:17:20.020 They're doing some sort of role-playing, like they're starving in a famine in Gaza.
00:17:26.180 What is this other than play-acting?
00:17:28.720 Or as the kids say, LARPing, live-action role-playing.
00:17:32.000 Take a look at this.
00:17:32.880 In genocide!
00:17:34.320 You are funded genocide!
00:17:36.100 Colombia, you can't hide!
00:17:38.440 Colombia, you can't hide! 0.98
00:17:40.380 You are funded genocide! 0.87
00:17:42.560 You are funded genocide!
00:17:44.020 Free, free policy!
00:17:46.660 Free, free policy!
00:17:48.180 Free, free, free policy!
00:17:50.800 Free, free, free policy!
00:17:52.760 Free, free policy!
00:17:54.940 Free, free, free policy!
00:17:56.900 Free, free, free policy!
00:17:59.040 Free, free, free policy!
00:18:00.760 What do you say?
00:18:03.080 What do you say?
00:18:05.080 How many kids did you kill today? 0.99
00:18:07.260 How many kids did I kill today? 0.95
00:18:09.040 What do you say?
00:18:11.300 Yeah, they'll have to do some grown-up stuff now that they're facing criminal charges.
00:18:16.760 I read the police charges as outlined by the NYPD.
00:18:21.360 Trespass, burglary.
00:18:23.080 There was another one in there.
00:18:24.240 I can't recall off the top of my head.
00:18:26.120 There were some organizers, clearly, who were worse than others.
00:18:28.680 A lot of followers, as I've been demonstrating.
00:18:31.960 There have been some acts of patriotism.
00:18:36.000 Take a look at these.
00:18:37.320 This video goes pretty quickly.
00:18:38.820 It's UNC Chapel Hill.
00:18:41.020 That's University of North Carolina.
00:18:43.340 There were some counter-protesters, some Jewish kids who brought a Star of David flag.
00:18:50.220 And some frat kids who defended the American flag and wouldn't let it fall.
00:18:57.520 Take a look.
00:18:58.080 Take a look.
00:19:28.060 That is heartwarming to see that there are still,
00:19:58.040 some patriotic kids.
00:20:00.540 And I found that when I went to Columbia, you might have seen that I bumped into those
00:20:04.180 twin brothers, by the way, who said that they don't believe in what's going on.
00:20:08.740 In addition to actual students, there are some very sophisticated professional organizers.
00:20:16.580 And I want to show you an example of that.
00:20:18.480 Some of the protesters barricaded themselves into various halls at Columbia.
00:20:26.200 But look at this move here.
00:20:28.260 I don't think an ordinary person would have thought of this.
00:20:31.480 Smashing the windows and using a bike lock to lock a building so it couldn't be open with
00:20:38.700 a regular key.
00:20:39.440 By the way, at least three people said they were held hostage, effectively kidnapped by
00:20:45.320 this kind of activity.
00:20:46.140 But take a look.
00:20:47.160 This is not an ordinary skill.
00:20:49.280 Take a look.
00:20:49.640 Take a look.
00:20:57.360 Take a look.
00:20:59.460 We will not stop, we will not let this close.
00:21:29.460 Would you know to smash windows like that and use a bike lock like that?
00:21:38.700 I just don't think ordinary people typically would.
00:21:41.940 Very interesting to me.
00:21:43.700 And I want to show you one more thing that Andy Ngo, a friend of ours, has brought to public attention.
00:21:50.940 It's out there in Oregon, in Portland, where, of course, Antifa is the dominant street gang.
00:21:58.560 And they have used the excuse of Gaza to occupy a multi-story university library, which looks like a tremendous and valuable and lovely place.
00:22:11.560 They've occupied it.
00:22:12.800 They've turned it into an autonomous zone, as you may recall, happening a few years ago with the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, the CHAZ.
00:22:21.680 I think that was in Seattle.
00:22:22.740 And Andy points out that he doesn't think that Portland's police have the resources to liberate that building.
00:22:31.860 I mean, as we showed you a moment ago, in New York City, there were hundreds, perhaps more than a thousand police, very specialized, lots of equipment, operating in a very well-organized extraction process.
00:22:43.740 Two hours, the whole thing done without injury.
00:22:48.040 Andy Ngo, who knows a lot about Portland, says he doesn't think Portland has the resources.
00:22:52.800 They've been defunding their police.
00:22:54.500 They've had ties cut with neighboring police forces.
00:22:58.220 He thinks that, I guess, theoretically, they could go in there and extract them all.
00:23:02.220 But that would take basically all the police in the city.
00:23:05.280 So, incredible things happening overnight since I recorded that on the streets of New York.
00:23:12.860 All right, back to my pre-recorded show from New York.
00:23:21.020 Hey, I was walking by and I noticed the name Pulitzer, or Pulitzer as it's sometimes pronounced, on the wall here.
00:23:28.140 There's a lot of buildings that are named after philanthropists.
00:23:31.360 And you probably know the name Pulitzer, the Pulitzer Prize.
00:23:34.520 It's a leading prize for journalism.
00:23:38.940 And Pulitzer was actually, Columbia's very famous for journalism, the Columbia School of Journalism.
00:23:47.020 I think someone could win a Pulitzer if they did investigative journalism into who is funding and organizing these protests.
00:23:59.040 I saw earlier a bunch of prefabricated, pre-printed, corporate-style placards for the Palestinian side, indicating that they themselves didn't home-make them.
00:24:11.560 Someone made the signs for them.
00:24:14.460 As we can see, there's a lot of these protesters who are not students on campus.
00:24:19.660 Who are they?
00:24:20.360 In Canada, we know that there are 100, 700, in fact, Iranian agents working freely in the country, fomenting anti-Semitic hatred, including, for years, they've done the annual Al-Quds Day hate festival in Toronto.
00:24:34.860 I think someone could win a Pulitzer for connecting the dots.
00:24:39.700 Who's behind this?
00:24:41.140 Who's behind the matching green tents?
00:24:44.480 If you said to students, hey, bring a tent to school, you would have all sorts of different kinds of tents, either that the kids had at home or that they went out to buy.
00:24:53.080 But when you see dozens of identical matching tents, you know that someone bought them.
00:24:59.840 Who?
00:25:00.560 When you see an organization that tells its cult members not to speak but to direct all inquiries to the leaders, well, who's training them?
00:25:09.640 Who's giving them their talking points?
00:25:11.920 I think you could win a Pulitzer for that.
00:25:13.520 But I guess the one last thing I would say about the Pulitzer Prize is the man after whom it was named, won't surprise you to hear this, was a Jew.
00:25:24.700 Born in Hungary, came to America, loved the freedom of the place, donated back to the university in thanks for the help it gave him.
00:25:32.660 That's the story of so many of the buildings, not just here at Columbia, but also at the Fashion Institute of Technology that we visited last week.
00:25:40.480 I wonder what Mr. Pulitzer would have to say about the Jew hatred emanating from inside the university.
00:25:49.900 How would you rate the response by different authorities?
00:25:53.120 I'm going to ask you about the university administration.
00:25:55.780 I'm going to ask you about the New York Police Department.
00:25:58.700 I'm going to ask you about the mayor.
00:26:00.420 And I'm going to ask you about the president.
00:26:01.980 So let's start with the university administration.
00:26:05.560 How have they handled things?
00:26:07.220 Well, you see what's going on in Texas.
00:26:10.480 Or any Midwestern states.
00:26:12.820 If they want them gone, they can have them gone.
00:26:14.720 They can have them gone today.
00:26:15.980 It's a couple of hours of cleanup.
00:26:17.780 They obviously don't care.
00:26:19.940 And there's obviously a bigger agenda behind this.
00:26:23.200 And I wonder if Qatari money is part of that.
00:26:25.660 I mean, I mentioned Jewish philanthropy, which has been an important part of American charitable life for 100 years.
00:26:32.680 But now the OPEC dictatorship of Qatar is one of the largest funders of American universities. 0.60
00:26:39.840 Maybe the administration is following the money.
00:26:42.140 And they say there's more money from Qatar than from the Jews.
00:26:45.240 Well, the only thing I can answer is always follow the money.
00:26:48.520 Now, how about the NYPD?
00:26:49.620 I have a high regard for the NYPD as a police force.
00:26:53.260 I'm guessing they're just following instructions from the brass.
00:26:57.360 How have you felt about the work they have been doing?
00:27:00.120 I mean, I guess from one point of view, it's not really their turf.
00:27:03.720 They're not going to go in there and enforce a trespass rule if the university doesn't ask them to, right?
00:27:09.000 What do you think of the NYPD?
00:27:10.100 Honestly, I wouldn't be able to answer that because I don't know.
00:27:16.240 How about the mayor?
00:27:18.940 We all know the answer to that.
00:27:20.660 I don't.
00:27:22.080 There's always people behind the scene that they answer to, which we don't know.
00:27:25.640 So how's this going to end?
00:27:27.880 I mean, here at Columbia.
00:27:29.560 I mean, I know they were given an ultimatum or whatever, but then the professors all went to the front.
00:27:34.460 Do you know the status of things?
00:27:35.640 We just got here.
00:27:36.360 I don't know the status of it yet, but hopefully, you know, who knows?
00:27:42.960 Who knows?
00:27:43.260 There's going to be an end to it eventually.
00:27:44.940 These guys can only last for so long, you know?
00:27:47.700 On the one hand, I mean, these guys are on the sidewalk.
00:27:50.420 They're not stopping classes.
00:27:53.540 I guess I'm not as...
00:27:54.640 There's no classes going on on campus.
00:27:56.340 Not even virtually?
00:27:57.280 It's all virtually, so that means they don't have to be here.
00:27:59.960 From what I heard, the campus is also closed, and so we can't get on either.
00:28:03.540 I mean, I would imagine that there's a lot of rules that the campus could use.
00:28:09.580 Trespass.
00:28:10.760 I mean, there's a lot of rules.
00:28:13.000 They don't follow the rules.
00:28:13.880 These guys don't follow the rules.
00:28:15.140 Well, the university could enforce the rules if they really wanted to.
00:28:18.040 Why are they not?
00:28:19.120 If they wanted to, but, you know, I think you...
00:28:22.120 There's a lot of theories going on, but they want to allow the students to have free speech.
00:28:26.160 I think there's a line where you just draw the line, you say, no more, and this is already past that line.
00:28:31.660 So, I don't know.
00:28:34.040 I hope they can do more for the Jewish students, and not only for the Jewish students.
00:28:37.840 It's unshamed that there's also non-Jewish students here who will have to stop their education.
00:28:42.420 Their graduation is threatened, and it's just because of these people who might not even be going to the school.
00:28:48.180 And I assume these guys don't go to the school because they're not on campus.
00:28:50.800 Right.
00:28:50.960 If they were going to the school, they could get access.
00:28:53.560 Maybe some of them are wearing masks for hygiene reasons, but I think a lot of them are wearing masks just to hide their identity, don't you think?
00:29:01.160 Yeah, they're definitely not...
00:29:02.560 These people don't care about hygiene, but, you know, we get to see their faces once they get arrested, so that's interesting to see who's behind these masks.
00:29:12.020 And how about the federal government?
00:29:13.940 I mean, Joe Biden claims to be a friend of the Jews and of Israel.
00:29:18.860 I think he's in the mold of Obama, which is he actually wants to undermine Israel, promote Iran, and he doesn't want to upset genuine, rock-solid anti-Semites because they're part of his electoral base.
00:29:31.740 I think Joe Biden is trying to thread the needle here, including in states like Michigan, where we have a large Muslim population.
00:29:38.800 That's my view as an outsider, but I'm not an American.
00:29:41.440 What do you think?
00:29:43.000 Absolutely.
00:29:43.440 Joe Biden will do whatever he has to do to appeal to his voters, and unfortunately, his voters here, the only one he can appeal to are the far left, and the far left is part of this entire protest and agenda.
00:29:55.500 So he has to do what he has to do to be able to stay relevant, but he's an absolute disgrace to Israel. 0.99
00:30:02.360 There's no question about it.
00:30:03.460 Not only is he not sticking up, he's kind of bluntly coming out against them.
00:30:10.320 Well, I was actually down in New York today because I did an interview with John Stossel, the great American journalist.
00:30:23.800 He is an independent shopper right now, but he used to be in places like ABC and Fox Business.
00:30:29.460 Just an outstanding, freedom-oriented journalist, and I'm very proud to have spent an hour with him talking about freedom of speech in Canada, including Justin Trudeau's threats to it, specifically C63, Trudeau's latest censorship act.
00:30:45.260 So I was down in New York City for that, delighted to have the platform.
00:30:48.760 I really think it's important that people around the world know what's going on in Canada, not just Canadians.
00:30:53.680 And I thought, well, I've got to stop by Columbia University to see what the latest is.
00:30:59.260 And there's really not a lot to report from the outside because they've locked the whole thing in.
00:31:04.240 The inmates are locked in the asylum, though.
00:31:07.040 They have not been ejected yet.
00:31:09.320 So that's my update from New York.
00:31:11.160 I'm going to be back in Canada tomorrow, of course.
00:31:14.160 Until next time, on behalf of all of us at Rebel News, to you at home, wherever you are, good night and keep fighting for freedom.
00:31:21.820 We'll be right back.