The Ben Shapiro Show - Our Cowardly, Garbage Universities

00:00:00.000 So, right now, this is running Columbia University.

00:00:03.000 That 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.

00:00:15.000 They're violating their student codes.

00:00:17.000 They're sitting out in the middle of the campus, obstructing other people from getting to class,

00:00:21.000 shouting genocidal slogans at them, and the administrations, 0.98

00:00:24.000 because they are filled with cowards, are doing nothing. 0.94

00:00:26.000 Now, before we go any further into what's actually happening on these college campuses, 0.53

00:00:30.000 I think it's kind of important to break down the free speech concerns that people correctly have

00:00:35.000 about what is happening on these college campuses.

00:00:37.000 So to understand that, you first have to understand that there are various factors

00:00:40.000 that go into the actual legal obligations that various universities have

00:00:44.000 with regard to their students.

00:00:46.000 So on the one hand, you obviously have the First Amendment.

00:00:48.000 The First Amendment applies differently at private universities and public universities.

00:00:52.000 So the First Amendment suggests that you cannot have viewpoint discrimination on college campuses.

00:00:57.000 That only applies in full at public universities.

00:01:00.000 So, 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.

00:01:13.000 The 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.

00:01:22.000 Jesuit University.

00:01:23.000 When I showed up there, they didn't want me there.

00:01:25.000 And despite the fact that I'm a mainstream political commentator, they threatened to arrest me if I set foot on the campus.

00:01:30.000 They had the legal right to do that.

00:01:32.000 Not only that, they actually got the Cook County Sheriff out there to arrest me if I set foot on the campus.

00:01:37.000 Was that morally correct?

00:01:38.000 Of course that wasn't morally correct.

00:01:39.000 It was absurd.

00:01:40.000 It was a restriction on the principles of free speech.

00:01:43.000 Was it a legal violation of my rights?

00:01:44.000 No, which is why I could not sue them because they were a private university.

00:01:48.000 So public universities and private universities do have different legal obligations with regard to viewpoint discrimination on campuses.

00:01:56.000 And you can see why.

00:01:57.000 Because let's say that you have a Christian university.

00:01:59.000 They have no obligation to bring in as a professor or a speaker somebody who is wildly pro-abortion.

00:02:04.000 For example, Or for that matter, somebody who's going to teach Judaism or Islam.

00:02:09.000 It's a Christian university.

00:02:10.000 Same thing, it's a yeshiva university, which is a Jewish university in New York.

00:02:14.000 No obligation to have professors who are teaching radical Islam or something.

00:02:19.000 Viewpoint discrimination does not apply in the same way to private universities that it does to public universities.

00:02:24.000 Then you have the question of time, place, and manner restrictions.

00:02:27.000 Time, place, and manner restrictions, legally speaking, suggest you can have neutral laws that basically say you're allowed to protest during these particular hours.

00:02:35.000 This doesn't just apply to universities.

00:02:37.000 This applies in cities.

00:02:38.000 It's why what protesters are doing is illegal when they walk onto a highway and block it.

00:02:43.000 You actually have to have a permit in order to do certain protests at certain times in certain places.

00:02:48.000 There are certain places in the United States where you have very broad leeway for speech.

00:02:52.000 So if you walk into a public park and you just start shouting about politics, good shot, you're probably protected.

00:02:58.000 But even in public parks, if you're going to have a mass rally, there are time, place, and manner restrictions.

00:03:02.000 You don't want it happening at 2 o'clock in the morning with a loudspeaker.

00:03:04.000 There are people who live around, right?

00:03:06.000 So those sorts of restrictions apply also.

00:03:08.000 And then you have the final concern with regard to college campuses specifically, and that is Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

00:03:16.000 Now, 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.

00:03:31.000 It's an anti-discrimination law.

00:03:33.000 It was designed, obviously, to allow black people to live fulsome lives in the United States. 1.00

00:03:38.000 That's why, again, well-intended.

00:03:40.000 And 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.

00:03:49.000 But it does go too far in a lot of areas.

00:03:51.000 When 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.

00:04:14.000 Now, this obviously creates some kind of fraught situations with regard to free speech.

00:04:21.000 Because 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.

00:04:29.000 But 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.

00:04:51.000 That is one of the things that all these universities are now being banged upon.

00:04:55.000 Because 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.

00:05:05.000 Many of them go too far.

00:05:06.000 There's a point that FIRE has made, the Free Speech Group.

00:05:09.000 There's a point they've made on campus.

00:05:10.000 Many of these speech codes are not actually designed to avoid violations of the Civil Rights Act.

00:05:14.000 They go way too far in attempting to prevent people from speaking freely.

00:05:18.000 But 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.

00:05:43.000 Now 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.

00:05:51.000 And I'd be sympathetic to that case.

00:05:52.000 But 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.

00:06:02.000 And the Biden administration itself has made this clear.

00:06:04.000 We'll get to more on this in just one moment.

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00:07:07.000 The Biden administration put out a statement.

00:07:11.000 This is a letter.

00:07:13.000 that they put out to all of the schools back in November of 2023, talking specifically about this.

00:07:21.000 They 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.

00:07:37.000 And that includes harassment based on a person's shared ancestry or ethnic characteristics.

00:07:43.000 So, again, there are legal issues at play here.

00:07:45.000 Beyond 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.

00:07:55.000 They're a private university.

00:07:57.000 All colleges, by the way, can't have student codes of conduct.

00:08:00.000 And those student codes of conduct include things like don't commit crimes.

00:08:03.000 Well, the Columbia University student code of conduct specifically says that the basic principles of ethical conduct are 1.

00:08:10.000 Be honest, ethical, and truthful.

00:08:11.000 2.

00:08:12.000 Obey the law.

00:08:14.000 These students are violating the law.

00:08:16.000 They are trespassing right now.

00:08:17.000 They're in violation of that law.

00:08:20.000 The 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.

00:08:32.000 I didn't realize spitting on Jews and threatening Israel with extermination was acting within that purview.

00:08:39.000 Acting at the behest of terror groups and terror supporters was within that purview.

00:08:43.000 So, again, there are many things that these students are violating.

00:08:46.000 One is basic human morality.

00:08:49.000 Don't be pro-terrorist.

00:08:50.000 I know, this is really rough stuff.

00:08:52.000 Don't be pro-terrorist.

00:08:53.000 Then, 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.

00:09:01.000 And 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.

00:09:11.000 And 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.

00:09:20.000 Again, if you switch out the group that you're talking about to black students, you know this wouldn't be going on. 0.99

00:09:26.000 You 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.

00:09:41.000 Columbia, however, has been bending over backwards because they don't want to tick off their faculty and their students.

00:09:46.000 Because the ideological capture of these universities happened decades ago.

00:09:48.000 This 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.

00:09:59.000 And 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.

00:10:23.000 One 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.

00:10:29.000 Now, of course, he's more on the conservative side of the aisle.

00:10:31.000 He writes in one of his books about how he was a student radical back in the 1960s.

00:10:36.000 And 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.

00:10:46.000 And he thought the dean was going to kick him out of the office and have him suspended.

00:10:49.000 Instead, the dean kowtowed to him.

00:10:51.000 Instead, 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.

00:11:00.000 And this is what you are seeing from the administration now.

00:11:02.000 The administration for two full generations has been completely captured by the radicals.

00:11:07.000 All those student radicals ended up as the actual admins at these universities.

00:11:11.000 And then they hired professors at these universities.

00:11:14.000 And this is why, for example, you are seeing professors who are joining in all of this.

00:11:20.000 The biggest problem that these universities... People keep asking, why are these universities doing this?

00:11:23.000 Why are they allowing this?

00:11:23.000 The 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.

00:11:34.000 And 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.

00:11:41.000 We don't like terror support at this university.

00:11:43.000 And harassment of Jews is in fact a violation of our university policy.

00:11:49.000 So 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.

00:11:56.000 So instead of saying, we need to guarantee the ability of students to stay at the class, which is what you normally would do.

00:12:01.000 If 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.

00:12:08.000 They're saying, you obstruct students, you're going to jail.

00:12:11.000 If you violate the precepts of the university, you will get suspended or kicked out of the school.

00:12:16.000 And then you're on your own.

00:12:18.000 Which is how a university ought to run.

00:12:21.000 But they're not doing that at these universities.

00:12:23.000 Columbia instead announced that its classes at the main campus would be held remotely for the final weeks of the semester.

00:12:29.000 Provost Angela Olinto wrote in a Monday night notice, quote, It's vital that teaching and learning continue during this time.

00:12:34.000 We recognize conditions vary across our campuses and thus are issuing the following guidelines.

00:12:39.000 Classes on the Morning Sight Heights campus, which is the central campus, will be hybrid, technology permitting.

00:12:45.000 Faculty 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.

00:12:55.000 So, students are paying like 80 grand so that they can learn via Zoom.

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00:14:06.000 Meanwhile, 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.

00:14:21.000 And 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.

00:14:28.000 None of this is a giant shock.

00:14:29.000 Harvard University has a big protest in the middle because they have nothing better to do.

00:14:35.000 One of the places this is not happening is like the entire South.

00:14:38.000 So 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.

00:14:47.000 And 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.

00:14:59.000 This 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.

00:15:06.000 It's just the passion that we love.

00:15:08.000 It's really the passion.

00:15:09.000 So what exactly is happening in places like Colombia?

00:15:12.000 Well, 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.

00:15:20.000 They were chanting that they want all of Israel.

00:15:23.000 We 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. 1.00

00:15:29.000 Genocidal slogans being chanted. 0.90

00:15:30.000 As even the Columbia president recognizing congressional testimony, this is in fact anti-Semitism.

00:15:35.000 Okay, so delightful people.

00:15:44.000 Columbia protesters were also openly shouting in support of terror groups.

00:15:47.000 Many of them are shouting things like, we are Hamas.

00:16:07.000 Delightful people.

00:16:10.000 Meanwhile, the Columbia protesters are openly organizing to prevent themselves from being cleared by the police.

00:16:17.000 The police were called in earlier this week, and then everybody who was arrested was immediately let out of jail, like really quickly, within hours.

00:16:25.000 They all went right back to the campus, and Columbia refuses to clear them now.

00:16:29.000 So here are the Columbia protesters, who are vowing literally to break up into platoons to defend their illegal encampment.

00:16:37.000 We will know, because of that, In advance of an imminent sweep, we are entering a period of high alert for the next three days.

00:16:48.000 And 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.

00:17:04.000 Okay, 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.

00:17:17.000 They literally are barring places on campus from other students going, including journalists.

00:17:22.000 So 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.

00:17:26.000 You have no reasonable expectation of privacy in the middle of a public area at a university

00:17:32.000 where you are deliberately seeking media attention.

00:17:42.000 You're in a common space?

00:17:43.000 I'm filming people's faces without their consent.

00:17:45.000 You're in a common space.

00:17:47.000 Yes, but just out of respect for people's privacy.

00:17:50.000 Okay, I'm filming from outside.

00:17:53.000 They don't own that park. 0.98

00:17:57.000 That's ridiculous. 0.76

00:17:58.000 Meanwhile, faculty members created an actual chain. 0.94

00:18:01.000 Faculty members!

00:18:02.000 All of whom, if this were a normal university, would be fired.

00:18:05.000 They created a chain to keep out journalists at Columbia University, according to Sat Kessel.

00:18:11.000 And you can see the faculty members who are lining up arm-in-arm to stop this.

00:18:14.000 NYU professors did the same thing.

00:18:15.000 There's another protest that's happening at Washington Square Park.

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00:18:20.000 Here's some of the professors, some of them wearing their graduation robes just to show you their credentials.

00:18:25.000 creating a human chain around the encampment to keep out the intruders.

00:18:29.000 Beautiful.

00:18:42.000 Oh, look at all that.

00:18:42.000 Look at that wonderful tolerance happening right there.

00:18:46.000 Okay, so who are these protesters?

00:18:47.000 Well, some of them are actual Hamas protesters, obviously.

00:18:51.000 I 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.

00:19:05.000 And again, there's nothing particularly new right here.

00:19:09.000 According 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.

00:19:18.000 Afeneh went viral this month for disrupting a dinner at Dean Erwin Chemerinsky's home.

00:19:21.000 This week, Yale Daily News reported that Burkhead-Morton had been arrested for trespassing.

00:19:26.000 Afeneh and Burkhead-Morton have both been youth fellows of the U.S.

00:19:29.000 Campaign for Palestinian Rights, whose website identifies them by their first names.

00:19:33.000 As 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.

00:19:44.000 That work could include aiding campaigns that, quote, demand federal or state politicians cut U.S.

00:19:48.000 military, financial, or diplomatic ties with Israel.

00:19:52.000 The corporate entity behind those fellowships is Education for Just Peace in the Middle East.

00:19:56.000 Where does the funding come from?

00:19:58.000 Well, from George and Alexander Soros, their Open Society Foundation put 700 grand into education for just peace in the Middle East since 2018.

00:20:06.000 The Rockefeller Brothers Fund also has given education for just peace in the Middle East over 500 grand since 2019.

00:20:13.000 And again, that's nothing new.

00:20:15.000 Going 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.

00:20:26.000 A post-examination of Open Society Foundation's records shows Soros' grant-making network gave $13.7 million of money through the Tide Center.

00:20:34.000 Tide'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.

00:20:52.000 So again, left-wing, same groups that backed BLM, backing all of this, which again is not a shock.

00:20:57.000 You remember that BLM, on its statement of principles, literally included statements of support for radical pro-Palestinian causes.

00:21:05.000 And 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.

00:21:18.000 Kamas, for its part, is very supportive of all of this.

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00:22:27.000 Hamas released a statement in support of the anti-Israel encampments.

00:22:31.000 So you can see that they are very pleased about it.

00:22:32.000 No shock there.

00:22:34.000 Meanwhile, 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.

00:22:44.000 This comes at a time when the people flew Hezbollah's flag in a street in the U.S.

00:22:48.000 The people of the world are supporting the resistance front because they are resisting and because they are against oppression.

00:22:53.000 Once again, that left-wing pro-terror axis is quite real.

00:22:58.000 The PFLP, which is a terrorist group, They are also supporting what is going on right now.

00:23:05.000 According 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.

00:23:17.000 In 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.

00:23:30.000 Kate was referring to a terrorist organization responsible for the mass murder of hundreds of Israelis on October 7th.

00:23:36.000 She spoke alongside her husband, Khaled Barakat, and they spoke to members of the Columbia University Apartheid Divest Group.

00:23:44.000 Kate 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.

00:23:56.000 So that's who these folks are.

00:23:58.000 That's who they are being supported by.

00:24:00.000 Now, in reality, are all of these protesters deeply in love with Hamas?

00:24:05.000 No, they're in love with a network that hates America.

00:24:08.000 They do not like the West.

00:24:09.000 And as we've discussed many times on the program, the intersectional program fully locks arms with pro-terrorists.

00:24:15.000 Why?

00:24:16.000 Because the intersectional program suggests a conspiracy theory.

00:24:19.000 That 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.

00:24:29.000 And they apply that internationally.

00:24:31.000 So if you look at the Palestinians in Gaza, they've wildly underperformed every possible metric.

00:24:37.000 Why?

00:24:37.000 The 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.

00:24:45.000 Turns out that it's a recipe for fail. 0.98

00:24:47.000 It 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. 0.99

00:24:55.000 Also, a bad plan. 0.99

00:24:57.000 That would be the reason they're having a rough time of it right now.

00:25:00.000 But, if you are a full intersectional warrior, you believe that the reason for all of that is because of the systemic discrimination.

00:25:06.000 How do you know?

00:25:06.000 Because the Israelis are successful, and the Palestinians in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip are largely not.

00:25:11.000 Because of their own behavior, despite Israeli concessions over and over and over for the past several decades.

00:25:17.000 So 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.

00:25:29.000 The most obvious group for that are Hamas. 0.97

00:25:33.000 Hezbollah, terror groups, truly evil people who are underperforming by every metric because of their own activity, but blame it on the system. 0.96

00:25:41.000 Because if you're willing to go that far, you're willing to go all the way.

00:25:43.000 It's all just the outgrowth.

00:25:45.000 It's fruit of the poisonous tree.

00:25:46.000 Western civilization is bad, and that's why people are suffering.

00:25:50.000 That is why you are seeing these people lock arms.

00:25:52.000 They don't know anything.

00:25:54.000 So for example, there's tape of one of these protesters going around, going pretty wild yesterday. 0.97

00:25:58.000 Here's one of the ignorant protesters being asked about why she was protesting on behalf of Hamas.

00:26:03.000 I think the goal is just showing our support for Palestine and demanding that NYU stops. 0.91

00:26:08.000 I honestly don't know all of what NYU's doing.

00:26:11.000 Is there something that NYU's doing?

00:26:12.000 I really don't know.

00:26:13.000 I'm pretty sure they're... Do you know what NYU's doing?

00:26:16.000 About what?

00:26:16.000 About Israel.

00:26:17.000 Why are we protesting here at NYU?

00:26:19.000 Palestine will be free! 0.90

00:26:21.000 I wish I was more educated.

00:26:23.000 I wish I was more educated.

00:26:25.000 You literally go to one of the top universities in the country, but that speaks for everything.

00:26:28.000 You're not educated. 1.00

00:26:29.000 You're ignorant. 0.99

00:26:30.000 But 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. 0.99

00:26:38.000 Pretending the administration And the student body are at odds right here is wrong.

00:26:43.000 They're playing an inside-outside game.

00:26:45.000 That's what's really happening here.

00:26:47.000 You 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.

00:27:00.000 That is the goal.

00:27:01.000 It's an inside-outside game.

00:27:02.000 The administrators know what's going on.

00:27:03.000 They have full power to do whatever they want here to stop the violation of law.

00:27:07.000 And they're not doing it.

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00:28:13.000 And again, pretending these people know what they're talking about in large part is wrong.

00:28:16.000 The 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. 1.00

00:28:22.000 She attacked Alec Baldwin of all people.

00:28:27.000 A far leftist at a coffee shop demanding that he shout free Palestine and he ended up in a scuffle with her.

00:28:33.000 And then she was on Piers Morgan's show.

00:28:34.000 Because Piers will have on anybody.

00:28:37.000 And here is how that went.

00:28:40.000 Just for the record, my name is actually just Piers Morgan.

00:28:46.000 If you stop shouting, yeah.

00:28:47.000 Yes, I'm happy to say... If you just keep quiet, I can answer your question.

00:28:50.000 me? I think... Piers, can you say Free Palestine for me? If you stop shouting, yeah. I want you to say it. Yes, I'm

00:28:57.000 happy to say it. Okay, I'm not going to shout. Mr. Piers Morgan, please say Free Palestine. If you just keep quiet,

00:29:02.000 I can answer your question. Yes, I'm very happy to say that...

00:29:05.000 I'm never quiet, Piers. Sorry, you're still talking. I'm never quiet.

00:29:09.000 OK, but try it.

00:29:10.000 I'm never quiet, Pierce.

00:29:11.000 I cannot shut up.

00:29:11.000 You asked me to do something.

00:29:13.000 If you don't shut up, I can't give you the answer. 0.93

00:29:16.000 Oh, my God. 0.98

00:29:18.000 OK, yeah. 0.99

00:29:19.000 OK, I'll shut up for you.

00:29:19.000 I absolutely believe that Palestine should be free.

00:29:22.000 Yes.

00:29:25.000 Okay, like, I don't even know why Pierce is giving that to her.

00:29:27.000 Like, seriously, why is he even giving that to her?

00:29:29.000 And by free, I hope he means free of Hamas and free of the Palestinian Authority, because we can all agree on that. 0.86

00:29:34.000 In any case, one of the big questions that arises from all this is not just why the college administrators are doing this.

00:29:39.000 We know the answer.

00:29:40.000 They're doing this because they are very left-wing.

00:29:42.000 And because they agree with what is going on on these campuses.

00:29:45.000 Again, 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.

00:29:58.000 It would be done. 0.83

00:30:00.000 Because they violate time, place, and manner.

00:30:01.000 Because they call into question whether the schools are going to lose Title VI funding.

00:30:06.000 No, but they're not doing that.

00:30:07.000 The real question is, where is Joe Biden?

00:30:09.000 Where is Joe Biden in all this?

00:30:10.000 And the answer is, Joe Biden, like these college administrators, he is just a... Joe Biden is just a college administrator, except for the country.

00:30:18.000 He 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.

00:30:30.000 Sure, 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.

00:30:36.000 They're anti-Semitic protests.

00:30:37.000 When you're protesting in favor of a terrorist group, they're not just anti-Semitic, they also happen to be anti-American.

00:30:42.000 And by the way, if you're a foreign student and you're protesting on behalf of a terrorist group, you shouldn't be in the country.

00:30:46.000 We should deport you forthwith.

00:30:48.000 You don't have free speech rights in the same way that an American citizen does.

00:30:52.000 Anyway, Joe Biden was asked about this, and he did the thing.

00:30:55.000 He did the actual thing.

00:30:56.000 So you remember back in 2020, Joe Biden announced he had to stand up and he had to run.

00:31:02.000 Why did he have to stand up and he had to run?

00:31:03.000 Because he remembered Charlottesville.

00:31:06.000 Now you remember that early in 2017, there was a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, and then there was also an Antifa rally in Charlottesville.

00:31:16.000 And President Trump was talking about, there are a lot of people On various sides of the aisle.

00:31:22.000 And they have a bunch of different beliefs.

00:31:24.000 And 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.

00:31:30.000 That's not what he said.

00:31:31.000 It was played like that by the media.

00:31:33.000 It was vague language.

00:31:34.000 It 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.

00:31:42.000 And that was actually the explanation that Joe Biden gave for why he got into the race.

00:31:48.000 What 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.

00:31:57.000 And that was then used in order to suggest that he was saying that there are very fine white supremacists.

00:32:01.000 Okay, so it wasn't even true.

00:32:03.000 But what Joe Biden said is that that was the reason he ran.

00:32:06.000 You had to have absolute moral clarity on something as egregious as white supremacy.

00:32:11.000 Which, if Trump had said that, I would agree with, obviously.

00:32:14.000 Okay, 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.

00:32:26.000 And here was Joe Biden's very fine people-on-both-sides answer.

00:32:28.000 What he actually did is very bad people-on-both-sides answer. 0.99

00:32:31.000 Here is Joe Biden being just moral trash. 0.98

00:32:36.000 I condemn the anti-Semitic protests. 0.99

00:32:38.000 That's why I've set up a program to deal with that.

00:32:43.000 I also condemn those who don't understand what's going on with the Palestinians and how they're being manipulated.

00:32:53.000 I didn't know that.

00:32:53.000 I'll have to find out more about it.

00:32:57.000 I didn't know about this. 1.00

00:32:58.000 This dullard. 0.99

00:33:00.000 So I'm just wondering who he's talking about there. 0.99

00:33:02.000 I condemn all the anti-Semitic protests.

00:33:04.000 Also, I condemn everybody who doesn't understand the plight of the people.

00:33:08.000 So let me just get this straight.

00:33:10.000 You 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.

00:33:19.000 What are you talking about?

00:33:20.000 What plight are you referring to?

00:33:22.000 Are you suggesting that pro-Israel students and genocidally anti-Israel students are on the same moral ledger here?

00:33:30.000 Is that the suggestion?

00:33:31.000 Because that seems to be the suggestion.

00:33:32.000 It sounds like you're saying they're very bad people on both sides.

00:33:35.000 Really, where are the Jewish students assaulting the Palestinian students?

00:33:37.000 Where are they?

00:33:39.000 Anywhere?

00:33:40.000 Why is it that there's only one side here that's burning American flags?

00:33:43.000 Why is it that only one side here is obstructing the other side from doing what they want to do?

00:33:48.000 And what they want to do is like, you know, wave American flags and go to class.

00:33:52.000 Why?

00:33:53.000 Where are the very bad people on both sides that we're supposed to be hearing about here?

00:33:58.000 And 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?

00:34:09.000 What are those wrong views exactly?

00:34:11.000 Everybody acknowledges that the Palestinians are suffering.

00:34:13.000 The reason they are suffering is because they elected Hamas and Hamas committed a terror attack and refuses to surrender and is still holding hostages. 0.73

00:34:20.000 By the way, Joe Biden still has nothing to say about an American hostage who's still being held.

00:34:24.000 There are five American hostages still being held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

00:34:29.000 This 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.

00:34:38.000 In fact, there was tape released by Hamas over the Passover holiday of an American, this is an American citizen, who's being held.

00:34:46.000 He has one arm because he was wounded by Hamas and then they chopped off his arm while he was there.

00:34:51.000 That's the way that they did their surgeries.

00:34:52.000 They chopped off his arm.

00:34:54.000 They wanted to show proof of life.

00:34:57.000 Hey, his name is Hirsch Goldberg Poland.

00:34:59.000 And here he was, he's being held by Hamas.

00:35:02.000 Does Joe Biden have any words to say about that?

00:35:04.000 No, of course not.

00:35:06.000 Okay, so he's being forced to say things about Benjamin Netanyahu and the terrible Israeli government.

00:35:14.000 This is what Hamas does. 0.93

00:35:15.000 They 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.

00:35:23.000 Okay, where exactly is Joe Biden?

00:35:26.000 Joe 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.

00:35:33.000 That's where he is.

00:35:34.000 We'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.

00:35:42.000 It really is not, it's not that difficult.

00:35:43.000 You can do it, but Joe Biden won't.

00:35:46.000 Get to more of that in a moment.

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00:36:44.000 Okay, meanwhile, again, the reason the Democratic Party is being soft on these protesters is for two reasons.

00:36:48.000 One is political.

00:36:49.000 They believe that they can get these low-propensity radical voters to vote for them in the upcoming election, particularly in Michigan.

00:36:56.000 That is why they are doing this.

00:36:57.000 Also, 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.

00:37:10.000 And that if only Israel grant more concessions to the Palestinians, magically the Palestinians would become moderate. 0.79

00:37:15.000 Despite decades of proof that the precise opposite is true.

00:37:18.000 The more concessions you actually show to terrorists, the more they become terrorists.

00:37:22.000 Doesn't matter.

00:37:23.000 They're gonna continue pushing this.

00:37:24.000 So 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.

00:37:34.000 And he described the congressional hearings about anti-Semitism on campus as quote, irresponsible, unproductive, witch hunt political hearings.

00:37:42.000 By 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.

00:37:55.000 Covington 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.

00:38:02.000 But not according to Eric Holder.

00:38:03.000 Now again, it is amazing to watch as Democrats run from these people, literally run in some cases.

00:38:08.000 So here, for example, is the NYPD assistant chief.

00:38:11.000 So remember, the NYPD was called on campus, they arrested some of the Columbia protesters, and then they released all of them.

00:38:17.000 Here is the NYPD assistant chief looking to run away from the protesters.

00:38:21.000 You want to talk about cowardice?

00:38:23.000 This is what cowardice looks like.

00:38:24.000 It looks like a city unwilling to back its own cops, sufficient to protect them from

00:38:29.000 anti-Semitic protesters.

00:38:30.000 This guy's just trying to get into the building and they're chasing him down the street and

00:38:45.000 cursing at him.

00:38:50.000 Meanwhile, the Radical Democrats, of course, are supporting the anti-Semites.

00:38:53.000 That would include, of course, Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, who herself is not fond of the Jews.

00:38:58.000 She tweeted out, quote, NYPD had promised the city they wouldn't deploy SRG to protest.

00:39:01.000 NYPD on their own students. The units called in have some of the most violent reputations

00:39:05.000 on the force. NYPD had promised the city they wouldn't deploy SRG to protest. So why are these

00:39:10.000 counter-terror units here? Well, good for Chief John Schell, who's the NYPD Chief of Patrol.

00:39:16.000 he then tweeted, quote, truly amazing.

00:39:17.000 Columbia decided to hold its students accountable to the laws of the school.

00:39:20.000 They're seeing the consequences of their actions, something these kids were most likely never taught.

00:39:24.000 Good SAT scores and self-entitlement do not supersede the law.

00:39:27.000 I'm sure you would agree we have to teach these valuable life skills.

00:39:30.000 Secondly, I was with these units last Thursday that you described as having, quote,

00:39:33.000 the most violent reputations.

00:39:34.000 These units removed students with great care and professionalism.

00:39:37.000 Not a single incident was reported.

00:39:39.000 The only incidents that day on campus were the students' hateful, anti-Semitic speech and vile language for our cops.

00:39:43.000 I'm sure you agree any hateful speech is unacceptable.

00:39:45.000 You should rethink your comments to a simple thank you to the NYPD.

00:39:48.000 Hate has no place in our society.

00:39:50.000 Maybe you should walk around Columbia and NYU and listen to the remarks of pure hatred.

00:39:53.000 I will ensure these units protect you as they do all New Yorkers.

00:39:56.000 Now again, he's not arresting people for saying anti-Semitic things.

00:39:59.000 You have a right in America to say anti-Semitic things. 0.98

00:40:01.000 He's arresting them for violating the law.

00:40:03.000 They are trespassing.

00:40:07.000 But 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.

00:40:18.000 So 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.

00:40:32.000 See, passion is a substitute for being a basically decent human being.

00:40:37.000 They do have to allow space for students to protest.

00:40:41.000 I said, you got to give them an outlet.

00:40:42.000 Students are allowed to protest.

00:40:44.000 This should not be a shock to anyone with teenagers or young adult children.

00:40:49.000 They 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.

00:40:57.000 That is completely wrong.

00:40:58.000 You know how I know that that's completely wrong, by the way?

00:41:00.000 The way that I know that's completely wrong is because in Republican states, they didn't do that.

00:41:05.000 want to go to classes Jewish students if they're if they're targeted.

00:41:08.000 Um okay so no actually that is completely wrong you know I know that

00:41:12.000 that's completely wrong by the way the way that I know that's completely wrong

00:41:15.000 is because in Republican states they didn't do that you know it's not

00:41:17.000 happening students being harassed on the right of class.

00:41:21.000 So for example, UT Austin.

00:41:24.000 A bunch of students tried to do the same thing that they are doing at Columbia University.

00:41:27.000 And you know what happened?

00:41:28.000 Everybody who violated the law got arrested.

00:41:30.000 Because they don't play around in Texas.

00:41:32.000 Here is some of the tape as to what was going on at UT Austin.

00:41:34.000 So they're having an unauthorized protest, right?

00:41:42.000 The protest was not was not cleared with the university.

00:41:47.000 So, the University of Texas sent in the cops.

00:41:49.000 And then they arrested everybody.

00:41:52.000 And all those people went straight to Travis County Jail.

00:41:56.000 And then they were released.

00:41:57.000 And you know what happened?

00:41:59.000 Nothing.

00:42:02.000 Because it turns out that when you violate the law, you go to jail.

00:42:05.000 Which, by the way, even under civil disobedience rules, everybody knew that was the case.

00:42:10.000 Even 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. 1.00

00:42:23.000 You occupying your student center against Israel, by the way, is not going to end conflict in the Middle East, you idiots. 0.99

00:42:27.000 But you do that, and then you violate the law. 1.00

00:42:30.000 It turns out that sending a few of these kids to jail for violation of the law is a good idea.

00:42:34.000 Governor Greg Abbott said he's correct.

00:42:36.000 He tweeted out arrests being made right now and will continue until the crowd disperses.

00:42:40.000 These protesters belong in jail.

00:42:43.000 And then he said anti-Semitism will not be tolerated in Texas period.

00:42:46.000 Now again, he's not saying that if you're anti-Semitic it's against the law in Texas.

00:42:50.000 He is saying anti-Semitism is bad.

00:42:53.000 But what he said is, students joining in hate-filled anti-Semitic protests at any public college or university in Texas should be expelled.

00:43:00.000 Which, again, they are in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act.

00:43:03.000 Now again, you want to get rid of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act?

00:43:06.000 Get rid of all the anti-discrimination laws at the universities?

00:43:09.000 Make a case for it.

00:43:10.000 Make a case for it.

00:43:11.000 But if you're going to have anti-discrimination laws at the universities, like Title VI, it applies equally to everyone.

00:43:16.000 Not only that, obviously, colleges have to be run.

00:43:19.000 They are not protest centers.

00:43:22.000 Colleges are places for education.

00:43:24.000 In 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.

00:43:34.000 Meanwhile, Ron DeSantis said the same thing.

00:43:36.000 He says Hamas, these Hamas demonstrations, they violate the law and they're not going to be tolerated in the state of Florida. 0.81

00:43:42.000 It's not all that hard to do this, by the way.

00:43:45.000 You think about what happened when you have these Hamas demonstrators out. 0.99

00:43:51.000 They're taking over bridges and they're taking over roads.

00:43:55.000 And first of all, you don't have a right to do that.

00:43:58.000 You have someone get stuck in traffic.

00:44:01.000 How do you know if someone may need to get to a hospital?

00:44:03.000 Someone may need to pick up a child somewhere and you're just going to commandeer the road because you have this ideological prediction?

00:44:13.000 They tried to do that in Miami.

00:44:15.000 And what happened?

00:44:16.000 In 10 minutes, they got dragged off the road where they belong.

00:44:20.000 And we're not going to tolerate that.

00:44:23.000 Again, this is not particularly tough.

00:44:25.000 Protest what you want to protest.

00:44:28.000 Don't do it illegally.

00:44:29.000 We'll get to more on this in a moment.

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00:45:05.000 And when I've spoken on college campuses, lots of protests against me.

00:45:08.000 That's free speech and that's fine.

00:45:10.000 If 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.

00:45:18.000 If you're not assaulting students.

00:45:20.000 If you're not threatening them with genocide, for example, which amounts to Title VI harassment.

00:45:24.000 This is not particularly tough stuff, and the administrators know this.

00:45:27.000 They know this.

00:45:28.000 They'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. 0.73

00:45:42.000 That's where antisemitism and intersectionality cross streams.

00:45:45.000 It's like the Ghostbusters stream crossing. 0.98

00:45:47.000 And that's what you get in these bizarre and ridiculous and ugly protests. 0.59

00:45:52.000 Okay, meanwhile, Mike Johnson, the Speaker of the House, actually went down to Columbia University to speak out against the anti-Semitism on campus. 0.89

00:46:01.000 As folks know, I like Speaker Johnson.

00:46:03.000 I think Speaker Johnson has his heart and his head in the right place.

00:46:07.000 Here he was at Columbia University being harassed by the students.

00:46:09.000 And the media were treating this as some sort of L for Johnson because he was being harassed by the students.

00:46:14.000 Uh, no.

00:46:15.000 No. 1.00

00:46:15.000 This would be a W for Johnson, because being harassed by a bunch of pro-Hamas morons with pink hair? 1.00

00:46:20.000 It turns out that that's a win. 1.00

00:46:21.000 That's a political win.

00:46:24.000 So, thank you all for being here today.

00:46:27.000 We 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.

00:46:38.000 Johnson went on, despite the harassment, to call for the president of the university to resign and talk about antisemitism on the campus.

00:46:46.000 Columbia 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.

00:46:58.000 We believe in that principle.

00:47:00.000 And 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?

00:47:10.000 This simple truth, neither Israel nor these Jewish students on this campus will ever stand alone.

00:47:17.000 We just can't allow this kind of hatred and anti-Semitism to flourish on our campuses and it must be stopped in its tracks.

00:47:24.000 Those who are perpetrating this violence should be arrested.

00:47:28.000 And 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.

00:47:39.000 By 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.

00:47:44.000 The protesters want her to remain.

00:47:47.000 They want her to remain because she is their woman.

00:47:50.000 She works for them.

00:47:51.000 She does not work for the entire student body. 1.00

00:47:53.000 She works for this tiny cadre of idiots who are protesting in favor of Hamas and shouting at the Speaker of the House of Representatives. 1.00

00:48:02.000 Here's the thing. 1.00

00:48:03.000 The real world, at a certain point, is going to apply.

00:48:05.000 I 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.

00:48:19.000 Now, if you're a smart Democrat, you know that.

00:48:20.000 So Josh Shapiro in Pennsylvania is a smart Democrat.

00:48:24.000 He recently won his governor's race and he has basically governed as a moderate.

00:48:29.000 And so he did an interview with Politico where he said, And that of course is exactly right.

00:48:32.000 It's not hard to do this.

00:48:33.000 campuses across America where universities can't guarantee the safety and security of their students

00:48:37.000 is absolutely unacceptable.

00:48:39.000 If the universities in accordance with their policies can't guarantee the safety and security

00:48:42.000 and wellbeing of the students, I think it's incumbent upon a local mayor or local governor

00:48:46.000 or local town councilor, whoever's local leadership there to step in and enforce the law.

00:48:50.000 And that of course is exactly right.

00:48:51.000 It's not hard to do this.

00:48:52.000 That's the part that's amazing.

00:48:54.000 All the left wing of the Democratic Party has to do, all the normal Democratic Party has to do

00:48:59.000 is have a bit of a sister soldier moment with regard to the nuts in their own party,

00:49:04.000 Instead, they're trying to have the baby the same way that Joe Biden is constantly trying to do.

00:49:08.000 What do those things have to do with one another?

00:49:09.000 but also you have to understand the plight of the past.

00:49:12.000 What do those things have to do with one another?

00:49:14.000 Nothing.

00:49:15.000 You can see the infighting breaking out inside the Democratic caucus.

00:49:18.000 Jared Moskowitz is a Democrat, and he attacked Bernie Sanders for calling on cutting off funding for Israel.

00:49:27.000 And he suggested, Bernie, now do anti-Semitism.

00:49:30.000 Why so quiet?

00:49:32.000 Again, this is not particularly difficult.

00:49:33.000 AOC then responded and suggested, you can't attack Bernie Sanders.

00:49:36.000 He has relatives who died in the Holocaust.

00:49:38.000 Okay, welcome to being a Jew. 0.91

00:49:39.000 Okay, we all had relatives who died in the Holocaust.

00:49:43.000 Like, 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. 0.98

00:49:50.000 That does not give you special dispensation to be an anti-Israel, pro-anti-semi-jackass like Bernie Sanders. 0.96

00:49:56.000 Which is what Jared Moskowitz then replied. 0.97

00:49:59.000 He said, My family was also killed in the Holocaust, in Germany and in Poland.

00:50:01.000 My grandmother was in the Kindertransport.

00:50:03.000 They also instilled values in me.

00:50:05.000 That's why I voted for Aid to Israel and for Aid to Gaza. 0.98

00:50:07.000 We see each other at work.

00:50:08.000 We're both better than doing this here.

00:50:11.000 And then she responded to him and all the rest.

00:50:14.000 But here's the reality.

00:50:15.000 All of this is very bad for the Democratic Party.

00:50:16.000 So, frankly, as a Republican, I'm rooting for the Democrats to go deeper down the pro-Hamas rabbit hole. 0.96

00:50:21.000 Like, truly, do this. 1.00

00:50:22.000 Keep doing it, you idiots. 1.00

00:50:24.000 Keep doing it. 1.00

00:50:25.000 See 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.

00:50:30.000 And see how the American people receive that.

00:50:33.000 See how the American people like that.

00:50:34.000 I think the answer is not going to be very much.

00:50:37.000 And by the way, as for these graduates of these top Ivy League universities, all they're doing is degrading the degree.

00:50:43.000 Bill Ackman, who's a Harvard grad, he has said already, I'm looking at these degrees with a large dose of salt. 1.00

00:50:50.000 Because if you got a degree in sociology from Harvard, good indicator that you're probably a left-wing idiot. 1.00

00:50:57.000 Learn nothing. 0.98

00:50:59.000 Activist 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.

00:51:09.000 He said, we've always looked beyond the target schools.

00:51:11.000 We're doing it even more now, given the recent events.

00:51:13.000 He said, we're looking for high quality candidates, but we're going to be looking at different places.

00:51:17.000 He's broadening his focus to schools like Yeshiva University, University of Florida, and Emory.

00:51:22.000 Yes, because those are universities that don't, for example, stand for Hamas.

00:51:28.000 It's about time.

00:51:29.000 And that's going to be the natural consequence.

00:51:30.000 So frankly, I may be an accelerationist here.

00:51:33.000 On 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.

00:51:44.000 And also, if you're a private university, you have no obligation to allow people to stand for terrorism on your campus.

00:51:50.000 You don't.

00:51:51.000 You actually don't.

00:51:52.000 Just like a private business, you do not have an obligation to do that.

00:51:56.000 But part of me says, okay, fine, these universities are already so thoroughly captured that I hope they keep doubling down.

00:52:02.000 In the same way that I was kind of sad that they got rid of Cloudy and Gay over at Harvard. 0.97

00:52:04.000 Like, 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. 0.97

00:52:22.000 Alrighty, coming up, we are going to get into Joe Biden again. 0.95

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The Ben Shapiro Show - April 25, 2024

Our Cowardly, Garbage Universities

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