In this episode, Glenn Beck talks about how anti-Semitism is rampant in American universities, and how to deal with it. He's joined by two guests: Julia Wax, a law student at Georgetown, and Brooke Goldstein, an author and executive director of the Jewish Hatred Project.
00:04:01.860They're talking about the final solution, which was so horrific, they never said the extermination of all the Jews.
00:04:12.020They gave it a code name, the final solution.
00:04:16.300They didn't even want people to know about it, but apparently everybody on the left here in America and around the world are all for just letting it rip.
00:04:23.920That, that should terrify non-Jews, let alone anyone of Jewish descent.
00:04:33.280Julia Wax is, um, a law student at Georgetown University.
00:05:17.600And what we're experiencing is our student groups and students individually who are posting on social media things that basically are anti-Semitic rhetoric.
00:05:28.600Things that are denying the events that happened this past week in Israel, denying the beheading of 40 babies, saying that the Nova incident and the music festival didn't occur, trying to say that AI is how all of this is being generated.
00:05:44.540And they started posting, you know, from the river to the sea, Palestine should be free.
00:05:49.840Um, they are promoting events and rallies, one of which I went to, to try and understand.
00:05:55.560I went undercover and they started chanting, we don't want no Jew state.
00:05:59.880Um, and they started chanting, um, Zionism will fall and, um, globalize the Intifada.
00:06:08.220And I don't even, I don't even think these people understand that the language that they're shouting is anti-Semitic.
00:06:15.480It's so deeply embedded at this point, um, that it's time for us to take a stand and speak out.
00:06:21.660Um, I, uh, my staff prayed for, uh, you, Julia, and people like you today that are, that are on campuses all over the world, um, that you have strength and, oh, I, I don't even know what else it would take, but that the Lord would be with you.
00:06:40.880Um, Brooke, what is your involvement in this?
00:06:46.280I know you've written a book on ending Jew hatred, um, but the lawfare project, what is that?
00:06:56.280But first of all, Glenn, I want to thank you so much for your moral clarity, because this is a time when we need leadership and we need people like you speaking the truth.
00:07:08.360And what we're doing at the lawfare project is we provide pro bono legal support to Jewish students on campus who are facing a hostile environment that targets them because they are Jewish.
00:07:22.360And I want to make absolutely clear, and you said it in your intro, this is not about a Palestinian state.
00:07:33.680This has everything to do with Islamist, Nazi-like Jew hatred.
00:07:41.280And the people that Julia was talking about before, they are akin to Holocaust deniers.
00:07:48.540They are the new Hamas Holocaust deniers.
00:07:51.920And it's always those who deny the truth and denying the truth of this recent genocide, because that's what it was, a genocide, that want to commit the same acts of atrocities again.
00:08:05.740And that's exactly what Julia is saying they are chanting on campus.
00:08:09.440So it is incumbent on the administration, the Biden administration, who has been giving wonderful speeches standing with Israel, to stand with the Jewish population within the United States.
00:08:27.700That is absolutely paramount, and to do everything they can to root out these terror-supporting, terror-affiliated groups like SJP, Students for Justice in Palestine, and groups like WOL Palestine.
00:08:42.320They must get off our campuses, because you said it yourself, Glenn.
00:08:46.520This is a national security threat for the United States.
00:08:50.860So, guys, I mean, this is so deep, because I know, because I've been watching it, I've been watching it and looking for it since 2005, 2003, and watching it grow.
00:09:42.520Well, I think it's really important for your audience to understand the influence of foreign funding.
00:09:47.640People in the counterterrorism community have been warning about the billions and billions of dollars coming from states like Qatar, which is the second largest state sponsor of terrorism in the world.
00:11:54.000And now, quite honestly, on campuses across the United States, it feels like the majority is against us.
00:12:02.440And yesterday we hosted a survivor from the Nova Music Festival on our campus.
00:12:09.360In 24 hours, I was able to get her to come and speak.
00:12:13.240And before, I think I questioned how could the Holocaust even have occurred?
00:12:17.800How could something so horrific to my people even have occurred?
00:12:21.420And after last night and listening to this woman speak, this woman who is similar in age to me, who looks like me, who's from a similar background to me,
00:12:30.640and hearing her, give her story about running away from the terrorists, having friends who died as she sprinted forward, now I know.
00:12:39.920And it's a staunch and haunting realization as a Jewish person to have, to be sitting in that room with 40 other Jewish students,
00:12:51.200listening to this woman who looks like us, who is one of us, speak about being persecuted.
00:12:57.340And anybody who denies that Hamas is not a terrorist organization is part of the problem and is someone who is spewing anti-Semitic rhetoric and making this a much more globalized issue.
00:13:12.680And, Julia, weren't you saying also that the survivor was then further taunted when she's come and tell her story on campus?
00:13:22.980She did speak on the fact that even in America, she does not feel safe as a Jewish woman.
00:13:31.360That she had friends who asked to have their locks changed.
00:13:37.600That, you know, she still does not feel safe even being here in America due to what she's seeing occur, specifically on campuses.
00:13:45.800You know, campuses are the think tanks of America.
00:13:48.880This is where all of our legal ideas, this is where our new educational ideas stem from.
00:13:54.560And it astounds me that we're looking at the most prestigious universities in the world.
00:13:58.760Harvard, Georgetown, Columbia, Stanford, Yale, all of these massive organizations.
00:14:04.300And they have people at their organizations.
00:16:42.380I want you to listen to this story from the Washington Post.
00:16:44.680Representative Jim Jordan failed to earn enough votes to win the speaker's gavel for a second time in as many days as on Wednesday.
00:16:54.200Representative Jim Jordan denounced the barrage of threats and calls Republicans say they've fielded since opposing Jordan's nomination to be the next House Speaker,
00:17:06.020saying that no American should be harassed for their belief.
00:17:31.880If you do this, if you do this, I'll help you win the next campaign.
00:17:37.620If you do that, I'll do everything in my power to make sure that everybody knows it and we're going to find somebody to run against you because you don't belong there because you don't represent the people.
00:17:50.300Now, if that is a threat that you just can't handle in Washington, then you shouldn't be there.
00:18:03.440Jordan lost a second round of votes for the speakership, receiving one fewer vote on Wednesday's ballot than he did on Tuesday.
00:18:10.640Though he flipped two Republican votes in his favor on the second ballot, he lost four of his GOP colleagues.
00:18:16.500Representative Marie Antoinette, I guess, Miller-Meeks, she is from Iowa.
00:18:26.940She said in a statement that after she flipped from voting for Jordan on Tuesday to another Republican, Kay Granger, Texas, on Wednesday, she received credible death threats and a barrage of threatening calls.
00:18:38.040If you have credible death threats, then you should report them.
00:18:42.380And credible death threats should be taken seriously.
00:18:46.500If anyone who is calling their congressman or their senator or anybody else, anyone, and threatening their lives, you are a moron and part of the problem.
00:20:30.400But beyond that, beyond this, okay, number one, I have high amounts of questions as to whether this actually occurred or whether it was actually credible.
00:20:37.780And certainly that it was, you know, if this was someone from an audience of a conservative show of some sort, shame on you.
00:20:45.240You should go to jail if you made a credible threat to a congressperson.
00:20:48.300But the second part of this is more important.
00:21:29.480Miller Meeks was among a number of lawmakers who voiced concern about threats and harassment they received after voting for speaker candidates other than Jordan.
00:21:36.580According to the Minnesota Post, phones of the office of Pete Staber, a Republican from Minnesota, rang off the hook Wednesday after he joined the Republicans opposing Jordan's speakership.
00:21:49.020A Staber staffer told the Minnesota Post that most callers were upset with the congressman's vote.
00:21:54.800The staffer added most calls came from outside the lawmakers district.
00:21:59.300Steve Womack from Arkansas told reporters after Wednesday vote that the opposition to the Ohio Republican among the expanding group of lawmakers who voted against him is, quote, profound.
00:22:10.660Womack, who voted for Steve Scalise on both ballots, argued that the Republican opposition to Jordan was not coordinated, but rather an organic development among members from different committee assignments, tenures and states.
00:22:23.860The commonality between them was frustration with Jordan's hardline reputation and the tactics he employed to win over support.
00:22:31.480After the vote, John Rutherford, Republican from Florida, no excuse for you, elaborated on some of the threats that had been leveled at his staff and placed the blame squarely on Jordan for facilitating a culture of aggressive and extremist rhetoric.
00:23:10.860Rutherford appeared to be referring to an anonymous text sent to the wife of Republican Don Bacon of Nebraska, quote, urging her to talk to her husband and talk him into supporting Jordan.
00:23:25.340Texts to Bacon's wife were reviewed by The Washington Post.
00:23:29.480One urged her to tell the congressman to step up and be a leader.
00:23:34.540Another asked her why her husband is causing chaos by not supporting Jim Jordan.
00:23:39.940It's wrong that these folks have no boundaries anymore.
00:23:43.120We don't live in fear, but holding people accountable is needed.
00:24:40.080The Idaho Republican Party said in a news release Wednesday that it, too, had been inundated with emails and phone calls from registered Iowa voters expressing their profound disappointment with Congressman Mike Simpson's decision that day.
00:24:56.460The people of Idaho expect Mike Simpson to represent their concerns and prioritize their needs above political games and partisan divisions.
00:25:05.900The statement from the GOP in Idaho said the true measure of his success will be in his steadfast defense of the Constitution and the tangible benefits he delivers to the hardworking families of Idaho.
00:26:16.540But I have to tell you, this is what I think the problem is, and I think this is where you're going, and I'd like to hear your opinion on it.
00:26:27.100I don't think this is just about, you know, Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck or Jim Jordan.
00:26:32.240This is once again the arrogance of the party leadership in Washington that despises the American people, that think they know better than all of the people that live in their districts.
00:27:02.520And they are just using this because they know the Washington Post and everybody else will whip everybody up into a frenzy, and it will teach those constitutionalists a lesson.