In this episode, I discuss the issues surrounding free speech on college campuses and how they relate to terrorism and other forms of hate speech. I also discuss the role of the First Amendment and the Civil Rights Act of 1964 in protecting students from discrimination on campus and how that applies to the right to free speech and other issues related to race, gender, and sexual identity. I also talk about the need for "safe spaces" in public spaces and public parks to allow for free speech. Finally, I give my thoughts on whether or not the government has a duty to protect students from anti-abortion, anti-choice, and anti-pro-choice speakers on campus, and why they should be allowed to speak in public without fear of being arrested. If you like what you hear, please HIT SUBSCRIBE on Apple Podcasts or wherever else you get your content. I am always open to suggestions for new episodes and guests. Please take a few minutes to leave a rating and review the podcast on iTunes and I'll read them out in the next few days. Thank you so much for all the support and reviews. Timestamps: 1:00 - What are your thoughts on the Columbia situation? 4:30 - What do you think of Columbia? 5:15 - What would you like to see Columbia do in the future? 6:40 - How do you feel about Columbia's response to the Columbia incident? 7:20 - What should Columbia do? 8: Should Columbia do more? 9:10 - Is there be a better response? 10:00 11: Is there a better way to deal with anti-Islamic hate speech on campus? 13: What are you looking for? 15:00 -- What do we need to do in a free speech solution? 16:30 -- What should we do in America? 17:40 -- What is the best way to protect free speech in the 21st century? 18:10 -- How do we know what we should be doing? 19:15 -- What kind of free speech means? 21:10 22:00 | What are we really need to be free speech? 23:00-- What does the government have a right to have a safe space on campus ? 26: What can we learn from the civil rights act? 27:30 | What is a black person s role in this episode?
00:00:00.000So, right now, this is running Columbia University.
00:00:03.000That appears to be the way things are at America's top universities where students who pretty openly and obviously back terrorist groups are now violating all of the time, place, and manner restrictions at their various universities.
00:00:15.000They're violating their student codes.
00:00:17.000They're sitting out in the middle of the campus, obstructing other people from getting to class,
00:00:21.000shouting genocidal slogans at them, and the administrations,
00:00:24.000because they are filled with cowards, are doing nothing.
00:00:26.000Now, before we go any further into what's actually happening on these college campuses,
00:00:30.000I think it's kind of important to break down the free speech concerns that people correctly have
00:00:35.000about what is happening on these college campuses.
00:00:37.000So to understand that, you first have to understand that there are various factors
00:00:40.000that go into the actual legal obligations that various universities have
00:00:46.000So on the one hand, you obviously have the First Amendment.
00:00:48.000The First Amendment applies differently at private universities and public universities.
00:00:52.000So the First Amendment suggests that you cannot have viewpoint discrimination on college campuses.
00:00:57.000That only applies in full at public universities.
00:01:00.000So, for example, if I want to speak at UC Berkeley and a student group properly invites me and they clear it through all the procedures, so they fulfilled the time, place, and manner restrictions, then I have a legal right to now speak at UC Berkeley.
00:01:13.000The same does not hold true when I go to speak at, say, DePaul University, which actually happened when I showed up at DePaul University, which is a private Christian university.
00:02:10.000Same thing, it's a yeshiva university, which is a Jewish university in New York.
00:02:14.000No obligation to have professors who are teaching radical Islam or something.
00:02:19.000Viewpoint discrimination does not apply in the same way to private universities that it does to public universities.
00:02:24.000Then you have the question of time, place, and manner restrictions.
00:02:27.000Time, place, and manner restrictions, legally speaking, suggest you can have neutral laws that basically say you're allowed to protest during these particular hours.
00:02:35.000This doesn't just apply to universities.
00:02:38.000It's why what protesters are doing is illegal when they walk onto a highway and block it.
00:02:43.000You actually have to have a permit in order to do certain protests at certain times in certain places.
00:02:48.000There are certain places in the United States where you have very broad leeway for speech.
00:02:52.000So if you walk into a public park and you just start shouting about politics, good shot, you're probably protected.
00:02:58.000But even in public parks, if you're going to have a mass rally, there are time, place, and manner restrictions.
00:03:02.000You don't want it happening at 2 o'clock in the morning with a loudspeaker.
00:03:04.000There are people who live around, right?
00:03:06.000So those sorts of restrictions apply also.
00:03:08.000And then you have the final concern with regard to college campuses specifically, and that is Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
00:03:16.000Now, I have long argued that the Civil Rights Act, while obviously excellent in its intent, goes too far in many areas of American law, from applying to private accommodations To also its restrictions on speech at universities.
00:03:40.000And if I'd been around in 1964, I likely would have voted for the Civil Rights Act, despite all of my mitigating problems with the actual legal language of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
00:03:49.000But it does go too far in a lot of areas.
00:03:51.000When it comes to Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, Title VI of the Civil Rights Act guarantees There's a legal mandate under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act that the Education Department guarantee that college students have a right to a place that is free of a harassing environment on the basis of sex, on the basis of race, on the basis of ethnicity.
00:04:14.000Now, this obviously creates some kind of fraught situations with regard to free speech.
00:04:21.000Because you can see a situation in which a university tried to claim that particular types of speech are violative of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act.
00:04:29.000But under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, for example, if you had a giant protest in the middle of a college campus in which black students were being harassed as they attempted to get to class with students screaming at them, KKK slogans, the school would not just have the right to suspend the students and stop the protest, they'd have a legal obligation to do so or they would be in violation of the Civil Rights Act.
00:04:51.000That is one of the things that all these universities are now being banged upon.
00:04:55.000Because these universities have created massive speech codes, and these speech codes theoretically are designed in order to quash violations of the Civil Rights Act on campus.
00:05:06.000There's a point that FIRE has made, the Free Speech Group.
00:05:09.000There's a point they've made on campus.
00:05:10.000Many of these speech codes are not actually designed to avoid violations of the Civil Rights Act.
00:05:14.000They go way too far in attempting to prevent people from speaking freely.
00:05:18.000But it does happen to be the case that if you have, say, a bunch of pro-terrorist students on campus harassing Jews as they get to class by spitting on them, or shouting things about the extermination of Jews between the river and the sea, Who are suggesting that they want to globalize the Intifada, which is a violent, incendiary attempt to kill Jews in Israel and elsewhere, that that would violate Title VI of the Civil Rights Act.
00:05:43.000Now again, You can make the case that some of the speech is borderline in sort of how it interplays between the Civil Rights Act and free speech.
00:05:52.000But on a legal level, the reality is that these universities cannot receive federal funding if they are acting in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act.
00:06:02.000And the Biden administration itself has made this clear.
00:06:04.000We'll get to more on this in just one moment.
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00:07:13.000that they put out to all of the schools back in November of 2023, talking specifically about this.
00:07:21.000They call it a Dear Colleague Letter, reminding schools of their legal obligations under Title VI and its implementing regulations to provide all students a school environment free from discrimination based on race, color, or national origin, including shared ancestry or ethnic characteristics.
00:07:37.000And that includes harassment based on a person's shared ancestry or ethnic characteristics.
00:07:43.000So, again, there are legal issues at play here.
00:07:45.000Beyond that, when you look at Columbia University, which is now sort of the epicenter of the anti-Semitic pro-Hamas movement, when you look at Columbia University, they themselves have a student code of conduct.
00:08:20.000The Student Code of Conduct also suggests that everybody at the Columbia University experience, quote, are expected to conduct themselves in an honest, civil, and respectful manner in all aspects of their lives.
00:08:32.000I didn't realize spitting on Jews and threatening Israel with extermination was acting within that purview.
00:08:39.000Acting at the behest of terror groups and terror supporters was within that purview.
00:08:43.000So, again, there are many things that these students are violating.
00:08:53.000Then, as to the questions of free speech, you get into sort of the complicated area of how free speech and civil rights law actually apply.
00:09:01.000And when you're talking about a private university like Columbia University, certainly, Columbia has no obligation whatsoever to tolerate pro-Hamas students chanting anti-Semitic slogans on their campus.
00:09:11.000And in fact, they probably have a Title VI Civil Rights Act obligation not to allow that to happen on the campus because it creates that harassing, discriminatory environment.
00:09:20.000Again, if you switch out the group that you're talking about to black students, you know this wouldn't be going on.
00:09:26.000You know that if there were a bunch of white supremacists at Columbia University who are chanting, blacks should not replace us in the middle of the Columbia campus, that would last for one hot second in the middle of Columbia University campus before the police got called in.
00:09:41.000Columbia, however, has been bending over backwards because they don't want to tick off their faculty and their students.
00:09:46.000Because the ideological capture of these universities happened decades ago.
00:09:48.000This happened all the way back during the late 1960s, when you had student protest movements that decided they were just going to take over campuses, like take over college buildings, threaten actual deans.
00:09:59.000And the deans did nothing, because it turns out that the sort of classically left-wing liberal mindset of the deans back in the 1960s, this idea that they had to respect what the students were saying, even if those students were violating the law in doing it, and they had no moral sort of wherewithal to stand against the perspective of the students, allowed the students to run roughshod over them.
00:10:23.000One of the most evocative anecdotes about this, which I've talked about on the show before, Shelby Steele, who at the time was a black radical.
00:10:29.000Now, of course, he's more on the conservative side of the aisle.
00:10:31.000He writes in one of his books about how he was a student radical back in the 1960s.
00:10:36.000And he was at UC Berkeley, I believe, and he walked into the dean's office and he proceeded to start smoking a cigarette and letting the ash fall on the very expensive carpet.
00:10:46.000And he thought the dean was going to kick him out of the office and have him suspended.
00:10:51.000Instead, the dean basically allowed him to do what he was going to do because he had no ability, because of his own white guilt issues, to stand up to Shelby Steele, who was, again, a black radical at the time.
00:11:00.000And this is what you are seeing from the administration now.
00:11:02.000The administration for two full generations has been completely captured by the radicals.
00:11:07.000All those student radicals ended up as the actual admins at these universities.
00:11:11.000And then they hired professors at these universities.
00:11:14.000And this is why, for example, you are seeing professors who are joining in all of this.
00:11:20.000The biggest problem that these universities... People keep asking, why are these universities doing this?
00:11:23.000The answer is, the universities are allowing this because they are completely staffed by people who agree with the pro-Hamas protesters, or at least in large part agree with them.
00:11:34.000And even if they don't agree with them, they're too weak-kneed to say, on principle, we don't like terrorism at this university.
00:11:41.000We don't like terror support at this university.
00:11:43.000And harassment of Jews is in fact a violation of our university policy.
00:11:49.000So Columbia, for example, has now moved to hybrid classes for the rest of the term, according to the New York Post, which is the highest form of cowardice.
00:11:56.000So instead of saying, we need to guarantee the ability of students to stay at the class, which is what you normally would do.
00:12:01.000If I were the head of a university, and as you will see, many heads of universities who are not in liberal states are doing this.
00:12:08.000They're saying, you obstruct students, you're going to jail.
00:12:11.000If you violate the precepts of the university, you will get suspended or kicked out of the school.
00:12:18.000Which is how a university ought to run.
00:12:21.000But they're not doing that at these universities.
00:12:23.000Columbia instead announced that its classes at the main campus would be held remotely for the final weeks of the semester.
00:12:29.000Provost Angela Olinto wrote in a Monday night notice, quote, It's vital that teaching and learning continue during this time.
00:12:34.000We recognize conditions vary across our campuses and thus are issuing the following guidelines.
00:12:39.000Classes on the Morning Sight Heights campus, which is the central campus, will be hybrid, technology permitting.
00:12:45.000Faculty without the means to provide hybrid classes were urged to fully consider the remote option and to provide other accommodations liberally in the final days of the semester.
00:12:55.000So, students are paying like 80 grand so that they can learn via Zoom.
00:12:58.000There's more on this in just a moment.
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00:14:06.000Meanwhile, Over at various universities all across the United States, similar protests are breaking out because once you have student radicals who are being activated, as we will see, by the same groups and the same funders, once they feel mush, they push.
00:14:21.000And so you are seeing massive protests break out from Los Angeles to San Francisco, of course, to Chicago, to New York, to Washington, D.C.
00:14:29.000Harvard University has a big protest in the middle because they have nothing better to do.
00:14:35.000One of the places this is not happening is like the entire South.
00:14:38.000So again, if you look at the map of the United States, where these big protests are happening, the answer is no place where the Republican governors are.
00:14:47.000And that is because left wingers are truly sympathetic to both the underlying position and to the idea that violation of the law is okay, depending on your principles, which again is reminiscent of BLM.
00:14:59.000This is very reminiscent of the BLM riots, in which the left basically said, well, you know, we don't love the riots, but we understand where they're coming from.
00:15:09.000So what exactly is happening in places like Colombia?
00:15:12.000Well, outside the gates of Colombia, Just to make clear, these are not people who are just chanting about how they don't like Israel's military action in Gaza.
00:15:20.000They were chanting that they want all of Israel.
00:15:23.000We don't want no two states, we want all of it, meaning the extermination of all the Jews between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea.
00:16:10.000Meanwhile, the Columbia protesters are openly organizing to prevent themselves from being cleared by the police.
00:16:17.000The police were called in earlier this week, and then everybody who was arrested was immediately let out of jail, like really quickly, within hours.
00:16:25.000They all went right back to the campus, and Columbia refuses to clear them now.
00:16:29.000So here are the Columbia protesters, who are vowing literally to break up into platoons to defend their illegal encampment.
00:16:37.000We will know, because of that, In advance of an imminent sweep, we are entering a period of high alert for the next three days.
00:16:48.000And that is why I urge all of you to talk to your friends as well and let them know that we may need people to turn up quickly, en masse, in front of the encampment to defend the encampment.
00:17:04.000Okay, so also worthwhile noting here that for all of the free speech concerns that are being levied by good-hearted people on all sides of the aisle who want to make sure that free speech is protected, the protesters are the ones who are violating the free speech and free movement of other students on campus.
00:17:17.000They literally are barring places on campus from other students going, including journalists.
00:17:22.000So here are Columbia protesters telling journalists not to film them, for example, which I didn't realize that's not a thing, by the way.
00:17:26.000You have no reasonable expectation of privacy in the middle of a public area at a university
00:17:32.000where you are deliberately seeking media attention.
00:18:47.000Well, some of them are actual Hamas protesters, obviously.
00:18:51.000I mean, the reality is that these people are, in fact, supported by a wonderful group of far-left people who are totally fine with their money going to groups that subsidize anti-Semitism and anti-Semitic language.
00:19:05.000And again, there's nothing particularly new right here.
00:19:09.000According to Ira Stoll, writing for the Wall Street Journal, Malik Afeneh, a law student at the University of California, Berkeley, and Craig Burkhead-Morton, a senior at Yale.
00:19:18.000Afeneh went viral this month for disrupting a dinner at Dean Erwin Chemerinsky's home.
00:19:21.000This week, Yale Daily News reported that Burkhead-Morton had been arrested for trespassing.
00:19:26.000Afeneh and Burkhead-Morton have both been youth fellows of the U.S.
00:19:29.000Campaign for Palestinian Rights, whose website identifies them by their first names.
00:19:33.000As of April 4th, the campaign was soliciting applications for a new cohort whose campus-based fellows would receive stipends of about $3,000 for three-month terms of roughly eight weeks of work a week.
00:19:44.000That work could include aiding campaigns that, quote, demand federal or state politicians cut U.S.
00:19:48.000military, financial, or diplomatic ties with Israel.
00:19:52.000The corporate entity behind those fellowships is Education for Just Peace in the Middle East.
00:19:58.000Well, from George and Alexander Soros, their Open Society Foundation put 700 grand into education for just peace in the Middle East since 2018.
00:20:06.000The Rockefeller Brothers Fund also has given education for just peace in the Middle East over 500 grand since 2019.
00:20:15.000Going all the way back to October, according to the New York Post, George Soros has funneled more than $15 million since 2016 to groups behind pro-Hamas protests.
00:20:26.000A post-examination of Open Society Foundation's records shows Soros' grant-making network gave $13.7 million of money through the Tide Center.
00:20:34.000Tide's beneficiaries include Illinois-based Adalah Justice Project, which on the day of the October 7th massacre posted a photo on Instagram of a bulldozer tearing part of Israel's border fence down and a caption, quote, Israeli colonizers believed they could indefinitely trap two million people in an open-air prison, no cage, goes unchallenged.
00:20:52.000So again, left-wing, same groups that backed BLM, backing all of this, which again is not a shock.
00:20:57.000You remember that BLM, on its statement of principles, literally included statements of support for radical pro-Palestinian causes.
00:21:05.000And you remember that BLM, after October 7th, actually tweeted out an illustration of paragliders from Hamas gliding into the NOVA music festival to kill Jews.
00:21:18.000Kamas, for its part, is very supportive of all of this.
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00:22:34.000Meanwhile, Ayatollah Khamenei, who is a full delight, the leader of Iran, the Mullahs, He put out a tweet saying Western governments say the resistance front is terrorism.
00:22:44.000This comes at a time when the people flew Hezbollah's flag in a street in the U.S.
00:22:48.000The people of the world are supporting the resistance front because they are resisting and because they are against oppression.
00:22:53.000Once again, that left-wing pro-terror axis is quite real.
00:22:58.000The PFLP, which is a terrorist group, They are also supporting what is going on right now.
00:23:05.000According to the New York Post, just yesterday, radical anti-Israel activists told Columbia students, quote, there is nothing wrong with being a fighter in Hamas weeks before the campus exploded in pro-Palestinian protests.
00:23:17.000In a two-hour tirade to anti-Israel activists at Columbia and Barnard, Charlotte Kate, international coordinator of Samidun, the Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, said, quote, these are the people who are on the front lines defending Palestine and fighting for its liberation.
00:23:30.000Kate was referring to a terrorist organization responsible for the mass murder of hundreds of Israelis on October 7th.
00:23:36.000She spoke alongside her husband, Khaled Barakat, and they spoke to members of the Columbia University Apartheid Divest Group.
00:23:44.000Kate and Barakat represented themselves as speaking on behalf of the Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, but in reality, Barakat is a senior member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, which is a terrorist organization.
00:24:16.000Because the intersectional program suggests a conspiracy theory.
00:24:19.000That conspiracy theory is that if any group underperforms by any metric, it must be because of the systemic discrimination of the society in which that group exists.
00:24:37.000The actual answer is, when you elect a terrorist group to lead you and then you pour billions of dollars into terrorism, turns out that's not a great strategy.
00:24:45.000Turns out that it's a recipe for fail.
00:24:47.000It also turns out that when that terrorist group crosses a border, kills 1,200 people, and takes another 250 hostage, and then gets its ass kicked by the Israeli military.
00:25:06.000Because the Israelis are successful, and the Palestinians in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip are largely not.
00:25:11.000Because of their own behavior, despite Israeli concessions over and over and over for the past several decades.
00:25:17.000So you have to pick the most outlying example of a group that has clearly underperformed because of their own bad choices and still say that it's because of systemic discrimination.
00:25:29.000The most obvious group for that are Hamas.
00:25:33.000Hezbollah, terror groups, truly evil people who are underperforming by every metric because of their own activity, but blame it on the system.
00:25:41.000Because if you're willing to go that far, you're willing to go all the way.
00:26:30.000But you know that your virtue signal here will get you in good with the cool kids crowd at the universities and with the administration, which has supported all of this.
00:26:38.000Pretending the administration And the student body are at odds right here is wrong.
00:26:43.000They're playing an inside-outside game.
00:26:47.000You have student groups who are very radical and faculty who are very radical protesting against administrators who are also radical and then who are going to make concessions to the faculty and student groups in order to achieve peace on the campus.
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00:28:13.000And again, pretending these people know what they're talking about in large part is wrong.
00:28:16.000The most colorful example of this was there is a person whose name she calls herself Crackhead Barney, which I mean, at least truth in advertising here.
00:28:22.000She attacked Alec Baldwin of all people.
00:28:27.000A far leftist at a coffee shop demanding that he shout free Palestine and he ended up in a scuffle with her.
00:28:33.000And then she was on Piers Morgan's show.
00:29:40.000They're doing this because they are very left-wing.
00:29:42.000And because they agree with what is going on on these campuses.
00:29:45.000Again, if these were protests that were directed against black students, if these were protests directed against gay students, if these were protests directed against any of the other groups on the intersectional hierarchy, these protests would be over like that.
00:30:10.000And the answer is, Joe Biden, like these college administrators, he is just a... Joe Biden is just a college administrator, except for the country.
00:30:18.000He is a supposed moderate who is perfectly willing to be led around by the nose, by the radicals in his own party, and then pretend that he is, that he is, you know, he really has to give in because they just, they have good principles.
00:30:30.000Sure, they're a little too passionate, but they're just... So, he was asked on Monday about these, they call them anti-Israel protests, they're not.
00:30:56.000So you remember back in 2020, Joe Biden announced he had to stand up and he had to run.
00:31:02.000Why did he have to stand up and he had to run?
00:31:03.000Because he remembered Charlottesville.
00:31:06.000Now you remember that early in 2017, there was a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, and then there was also an Antifa rally in Charlottesville.
00:31:16.000And President Trump was talking about, there are a lot of people On various sides of the aisle.
00:31:22.000And they have a bunch of different beliefs.
00:31:24.000And then he said that there were very fine people on both sides, but he did not say there were very fine people who were marching with the white supremacists.
00:31:34.000It was confusing language by Trump, but it was played by the media as though what he had said, even though he didn't, was that the white supremacists were fine and the anti-white supremacists were fine.
00:31:42.000And that was actually the explanation that Joe Biden gave for why he got into the race.
00:31:48.000What you'll recall is that what Donald Trump actually said was that there are very fine people on both sides of the conversation about whether a Robert E. Lee statue should be torn down in Charlottesville.
00:31:57.000And that was then used in order to suggest that he was saying that there are very fine white supremacists.
00:32:03.000But what Joe Biden said is that that was the reason he ran.
00:32:06.000You had to have absolute moral clarity on something as egregious as white supremacy.
00:32:11.000Which, if Trump had said that, I would agree with, obviously.
00:32:14.000Okay, now Joe Biden is asked about these anti-Semitic protests on college campuses where Jewish students are being spit upon, physically assaulted, harassed, blocked from going to class, and people are chanting genocidal slogans.
00:32:26.000And here was Joe Biden's very fine people-on-both-sides answer.
00:32:28.000What he actually did is very bad people-on-both-sides answer.
00:32:31.000Here is Joe Biden being just moral trash.
00:33:10.000You are now equating people Who are shouting for the extermination of Israel with people who quote-unquote don't understand the plight of the Palestinians.
00:33:53.000Where are the very bad people on both sides that we're supposed to be hearing about here?
00:33:58.000And why is it that action on the one side, meaning like obstructing people, violating the law, assaulting students, doing all this sort of stuff, he's now equating that with holding what he would perceive to be the wrong views on the Palestinians?
00:34:11.000Everybody acknowledges that the Palestinians are suffering.
00:34:13.000The reason they are suffering is because they elected Hamas and Hamas committed a terror attack and refuses to surrender and is still holding hostages.
00:34:20.000By the way, Joe Biden still has nothing to say about an American hostage who's still being held.
00:34:24.000There are five American hostages still being held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
00:34:29.000This is now Passover, which is the season of freedom for Jews, except for the 133 missing Jews who are still being held or are dead in the Gaza Strip thanks to Hamas.
00:34:38.000In fact, there was tape released by Hamas over the Passover holiday of an American, this is an American citizen, who's being held.
00:34:46.000He has one arm because he was wounded by Hamas and then they chopped off his arm while he was there.
00:34:51.000That's the way that they did their surgeries.
00:35:15.000They put a gun at these people and they say, we want you to rip into the Israeli government and suggesting that the IDF is failing and all the rest of this sort of stuff.
00:35:26.000Joe Biden is busy standing for the protesters who are on the side of the Hamas group that chopped off this guy's arm after wounding him, and is still holding him hostage.
00:35:34.000We're gonna get to the rest of the Democratic Party in a second, because there are, in fact, it turns out it's not all that hard to stand up against extremism and craziness in your own party.
00:35:42.000It really is not, it's not that difficult.
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00:36:57.000Also, on an ideological level, they support many of the same principles as the pro-Hamas protesters because there's this peculiar idea in left-wing circles That everything in the Middle East revolves around the centrality of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
00:37:10.000And that if only Israel grant more concessions to the Palestinians, magically the Palestinians would become moderate.
00:37:15.000Despite decades of proof that the precise opposite is true.
00:37:18.000The more concessions you actually show to terrorists, the more they become terrorists.
00:37:24.000So Eric Holder, the former Attorney General, a Columbia College and Law School graduate, said in a tweet Thursday, quote, campus unrest is fueled by legitimate concerns about Gaza.
00:37:34.000And he described the congressional hearings about anti-Semitism on campus as quote, irresponsible, unproductive, witch hunt political hearings.
00:37:42.000By the way, he also works for a law firm called Covington and Burling that said the behavior of these protesters would not be tolerated if they disrupted the ways of doing business.
00:37:55.000Covington said the death of Jews and the elimination of State of Israel chants are anti-Semitic and they would not be tolerated at any of our firms.
00:40:07.000But again, the reason that the left, here's the thing, when it comes to the left and their protesters, their rioters, the people who actually violate the law, the big critique that they have of those people is that they're just too passionate, they're just too special.
00:40:18.000So for example, CNN senior national security analyst, senior, wow, so much national security, Juliette Kayyem, she says these students have to be given room to flower and grow in violation of the law because they're so passionate.
00:40:32.000See, passion is a substitute for being a basically decent human being.
00:40:37.000They do have to allow space for students to protest.
00:40:41.000I said, you got to give them an outlet.
00:40:44.000This should not be a shock to anyone with teenagers or young adult children.
00:40:49.000They have strong feelings and they're passionate because if you just immediately go to arrest, it's going to cause, I think, some of the Um, okay, so, no, actually.
00:42:02.000Because it turns out that when you violate the law, you go to jail.
00:42:05.000Which, by the way, even under civil disobedience rules, everybody knew that was the case.
00:42:10.000Even in the days of, like, actual useful protests back in the 1960s, I'm talking about, like, racial sit-ins and stuff, people went to jail deliberately because they were attempting to demonstrate the unjustness of the legal regime.
00:42:23.000You occupying your student center against Israel, by the way, is not going to end conflict in the Middle East, you idiots.
00:42:27.000But you do that, and then you violate the law.
00:42:30.000It turns out that sending a few of these kids to jail for violation of the law is a good idea.
00:42:34.000Governor Greg Abbott said he's correct.
00:42:36.000He tweeted out arrests being made right now and will continue until the crowd disperses.
00:42:53.000But what he said is, students joining in hate-filled anti-Semitic protests at any public college or university in Texas should be expelled.
00:43:00.000Which, again, they are in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act.
00:43:03.000Now again, you want to get rid of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act?
00:43:06.000Get rid of all the anti-discrimination laws at the universities?
00:43:24.000In the same way that no public school in the United States has an obligation to allow the students to walk out of class every two seconds and obstruct the functioning of the school, the same thing is true of colleges as well.
00:43:34.000Meanwhile, Ron DeSantis said the same thing.
00:43:36.000He says Hamas, these Hamas demonstrations, they violate the law and they're not going to be tolerated in the state of Florida.
00:43:42.000It's not all that hard to do this, by the way.
00:43:45.000You think about what happened when you have these Hamas demonstrators out.
00:43:51.000They're taking over bridges and they're taking over roads.
00:43:55.000And first of all, you don't have a right to do that.
00:43:58.000You have someone get stuck in traffic.
00:44:01.000How do you know if someone may need to get to a hospital?
00:44:03.000Someone may need to pick up a child somewhere and you're just going to commandeer the road because you have this ideological prediction?
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00:45:10.000If you've cleared it with the university as per time, place, and manner restrictions, and you are not obstructing me from actually pursuing my rights on a campus.
00:45:28.000They're looking the other way because they are fine with antisemitism because Jews are at the top of the so-called intersectional hierarchy, because Jews as a group are disproportionately successful, which means they must be the conspiratorial force behind all of the suffering of intersectional groups.
00:45:42.000That's where antisemitism and intersectionality cross streams.
00:45:45.000It's like the Ghostbusters stream crossing.
00:45:47.000And that's what you get in these bizarre and ridiculous and ugly protests.
00:45:52.000Okay, meanwhile, Mike Johnson, the Speaker of the House, actually went down to Columbia University to speak out against the anti-Semitism on campus.
00:46:01.000As folks know, I like Speaker Johnson.
00:46:03.000I think Speaker Johnson has his heart and his head in the right place.
00:46:07.000Here he was at Columbia University being harassed by the students.
00:46:09.000And the media were treating this as some sort of L for Johnson because he was being harassed by the students.
00:46:24.000So, thank you all for being here today.
00:46:27.000We have, uh, several members of Congress here, and we're here today at one of America's preeminent academic institutions on a very important day.
00:46:38.000Johnson went on, despite the harassment, to call for the president of the university to resign and talk about antisemitism on the campus.
00:46:46.000Columbia University once awarded Winston Churchill an honorary degree, and it was Churchill who said, it is manifestly right that Jews should have a national home where they may be reunited.
00:47:00.000And today, I'm here to proclaim to all those who gnash their teeth and demand to wipe the state of Israel off the map, And attack our innocent Jewish students?
00:47:10.000This simple truth, neither Israel nor these Jewish students on this campus will ever stand alone.
00:47:17.000We just can't allow this kind of hatred and anti-Semitism to flourish on our campuses and it must be stopped in its tracks.
00:47:24.000Those who are perpetrating this violence should be arrested.
00:47:28.000And I'm here today, I'm here today joining my colleagues and calling on President Shafiq to resign If she cannot immediately bring order to this chaos.
00:47:39.000By the way, when you hear the protesters who are booing him for calling for the president to resign, that tells you everything you need to know.
00:48:03.000The real world, at a certain point, is going to apply.
00:48:05.000I don't know how many Americans look at these protesters who are wearing Hamas, Ghir and Kafias and burning American flags and shouting at Jewish students and think to themselves, these are the people I think should really represent the future.
00:48:19.000Now, if you're a smart Democrat, you know that.
00:48:20.000So Josh Shapiro in Pennsylvania is a smart Democrat.
00:48:24.000He recently won his governor's race and he has basically governed as a moderate.
00:48:29.000And so he did an interview with Politico where he said, And that of course is exactly right.
00:49:39.000Okay, we all had relatives who died in the Holocaust.
00:49:43.000Like, if you are a Jew with relatives in Europe, which was like pretty much every Jew on the planet, circa 1943, you had relatives who died in the Holocaust.
00:49:50.000That does not give you special dispensation to be an anti-Israel, pro-anti-semi-jackass like Bernie Sanders.
00:49:56.000Which is what Jared Moskowitz then replied.
00:49:59.000He said, My family was also killed in the Holocaust, in Germany and in Poland.
00:50:01.000My grandmother was in the Kindertransport.
00:50:25.000See if these protesters are going to vote for you or if they're going to show up at the convention in Chicago and start burning American flags outside.
00:50:30.000And see how the American people receive that.
00:50:33.000See how the American people like that.
00:50:34.000I think the answer is not going to be very much.
00:50:37.000And by the way, as for these graduates of these top Ivy League universities, all they're doing is degrading the degree.
00:50:43.000Bill Ackman, who's a Harvard grad, he has said already, I'm looking at these degrees with a large dose of salt.
00:50:50.000Because if you got a degree in sociology from Harvard, good indicator that you're probably a left-wing idiot.
00:50:59.000Activist investor Dan Loeb, who is also a graduate of Columbia, he said he's begun to reconsider whether to focus offering jobs at his hedge funds to fellow alums and other Ivy League schools like Harvard, Yale, and Penn.
00:51:09.000He said, we've always looked beyond the target schools.
00:51:11.000We're doing it even more now, given the recent events.
00:51:13.000He said, we're looking for high quality candidates, but we're going to be looking at different places.
00:51:17.000He's broadening his focus to schools like Yeshiva University, University of Florida, and Emory.
00:51:22.000Yes, because those are universities that don't, for example, stand for Hamas.
00:51:29.000And that's going to be the natural consequence.
00:51:30.000So frankly, I may be an accelerationist here.
00:51:33.000On just a pure moral level, I wish these universities would do their job, guarantee the safety of their students as per the law, stop pro-Hamas students from, you know, violating the law.
00:51:44.000And also, if you're a private university, you have no obligation to allow people to stand for terrorism on your campus.
00:51:52.000Just like a private business, you do not have an obligation to do that.
00:51:56.000But part of me says, okay, fine, these universities are already so thoroughly captured that I hope they keep doubling down.
00:52:02.000In the same way that I was kind of sad that they got rid of Cloudy and Gay over at Harvard.
00:52:04.000Like, fine, keep doubling down and see how it works out for you in the real world where business people want to hire good graduates who are good at their jobs, not a bunch of idiot activists who spend their days peeing on themselves in tents in the middle of the Columbia University campus while not even understanding which river and which sea they're chanting about.
00:52:22.000Alrighty, coming up, we are going to get into Joe Biden again.
00:52:26.000That dude and the teleprompter, not friends.
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