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00:02:02.680Now we have majority of Muslim Americans believe Hamas was justified in its terrorist attacks on Israel.
00:02:13.380New poll released late last week found the majority of Muslim Americans believe Hamas was justified in committing the horror show against Israel.
00:02:25.660The poll surveyed 2,000 people from October 16th through the 18th to gauge the public's overall awareness and attitudes about what was happening in Israel.
00:02:33.020Majority overall, 50.6% have a positive opinion of Israel compared to only 12% who have a negative opinion, while 37% were neutral.
00:02:43.660The two groups that had the highest negative views of Israel were Muslim Americans at 36.5% and Democrats at 15.7%.
00:02:54.660The group that had the largest positive views of Israel, Jewish Americans at 85% and Republicans at 64%.
00:03:03.300The results showed that Muslim Americans were far less educated, listen carefully, they were far less educated about numerous aspects of the atrocities committed by the Palestinian terrorist than Jewish Americans.
00:03:18.920For example, only 10% of Jewish Americans were not aware of the fact that Hamas had decapitated babies, compared to 34% of Muslim Americans who were not aware.
00:03:32.520Overall, the overwhelming majority of Americans strongly, about 84%, said Israel had the right to defend itself.
00:03:39.280About 75% of Americans said that Hamas was not justified in attacking Israel.
00:03:44.100The numbers from the Palestinian Americans are very high.
00:03:49.980And notice what they said, that they weren't educated on the atrocities.
00:07:14.800I have been talking to you about big tech censorship for a while.
00:07:21.680And it is time now because we're entering a time when the attack and the final cutting of our throat, I believe, is coming.
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00:08:26.620When publishers host ads on their website, Google and other major ad exchanges can send bots.
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00:13:23.620If we are to survive, because as you see with the president, they're answering a question about anti-Semitism by talking about the Islamophobia is what Islamophobia show it to me.
00:15:41.980You know, when I was hired at De Anza College as a faculty director,
00:15:46.360it was after many years of working in higher education as a part-timer, if you will.
00:15:54.700You know, after I got my doctorate, those job offers, you know, for the tenure track just didn't come pouring in like I thought they would.
00:16:01.060But the one silver lining of the pandemic for me was that, you know, all of these positions opened up and, you know, colleges needed extra hands, if you will.
00:16:12.800And I was one of those folks that was hired on.
00:16:16.800And it was a job that, you know, had a job responsibility and title that, you know, everyone had kind of always said, Lee, you need to be like a director somewhere.
00:16:27.040You know, you don't need to just be in your classroom anymore.
00:16:29.160You need to share your knowledge with a wider, you know, group of colleagues and impact an institution.
00:16:34.980And this was a job that provided me with an opportunity to do that position as a faculty member.
00:16:41.640And so the things that took place almost immediately as I began to do my work let me know that I was in an environment that I had never been in before.
00:16:52.320And it was like I was in a twilight zone almost.
00:16:56.220It was immediate within two weeks after, you know, starting my work.
00:17:00.740So when you took the lead role on DEI, what did you think it was?
00:17:08.120Yeah, so this was a position to lead a faculty, an institution wide transformation around three topics, which was my office role, equity, social justice and multicultural education.
00:17:21.460And when I interviewed for it, it was a lengthy process.
00:17:24.860And, you know, I was very forthright with them about who I was, and they kind of revealed to me some of their pain points.
00:17:31.220And one of the things they said was, the panel said was, you know, the office you'll be working for, they're a little too woke.
00:17:39.560And, you know, that's why we're looking for someone to come in and bring a balance.
00:17:42.960And I said, well, can you tell me what you mean by woke?
00:17:46.240Because people use words all the time, and they have different meanings for them.
00:17:51.700And so I'm always someone who's looking to get at the heart of what is someone actually talking about.
00:17:56.100And they said that, well, when faculty goes to your office, you know, if you're selected as a candidate, they feel uncomfortable.
00:18:08.120They're told that they're teaching wrong.
00:18:10.760And so a lot of faculty doesn't engage.
00:18:13.040And I said, well, based on that definition that you're telling me, you know, I'm definitely not woke.
00:18:18.820You know, what I seek to do is I seek to bring people together from diverse and divergent perspectives and, you know, and to identify points of commonality.
00:18:28.640Even if we seem really different, I think we can always find a way to serve our students.
00:18:32.520And so that was, you know, my statement.
00:18:34.660And from that, I advanced to the next stage.
00:18:36.760And I did even a teaching demonstration for them on calling people in instead of calling out.
00:18:41.920And so everything was focused on that, you know, point that they raised about the negativity coming from the office.
00:18:51.180And I was delighted to be selected because this was, again, you know, things I focus on, an opportunity to bring people together in dialogue and make a positive change in the community.
00:19:01.300How long did it take you before you were called the wrong kind of black person or quoting a dirty, dirty Zionist?
00:19:43.120And they said, you know, they don't know who I am or what my commitment to equity is and, you know, why I've come in and swooped this out from under them.
00:19:52.520But they assured me that I would have a rough road ahead of me.
00:19:55.760And from that, that was the same person who, a couple of weeks after that initial meeting with them, while I was meeting with my team, we had already had some kind of informal meetings, you know.
00:20:06.320And it just seemed like they were a very casual group.
00:20:09.680And remember, I needed to do some strategic planning to do an institution-wide transformation.
00:20:15.080And so I wanted to bring some structure.
00:21:12.440And I've worked in education my whole life, Glenn.
00:21:16.040And no teacher or I've never been in a meeting where someone called another person, a white speaking, white explaining, and said white and called them a white supremacist.
00:21:28.100And I'm from the Central Valley here in California.
00:21:31.360I grew up there, a small town called Bodai.
00:21:35.680And there, when we hear white supremacist, it's actual like KKK members, white national socialists is what that refers to.
00:22:33.840I said, I need you to bring someone in to talk to this team about, you know, in-group bias and how do you let a new person in and how do you talk to each other with, you know, civil, in a civil way.
00:22:45.800And then, you know, and I need this to be repaired.
00:22:51.420I said, because we can't communicate this way.
00:23:01.400And then she ended up being one of the main instigators as well.
00:23:04.800So that's just that was the environment that started off with my supervising dean and my team, you know, me being called a white supremacist.
00:23:14.280And, you know, and I didn't know what they meant until many weeks later.
00:23:18.860You know, I saw they I started going to their workshops and I kept seeing this slide pop up and it said white supremacy culture characteristics.
00:24:15.740And from there, it's at every turn, it was becoming clear that I was working from a different understanding of social justice, you know, from them.
00:24:25.220And I had to really figure that out while I was in it, which was an interesting thing, because, again, all my institutions I had worked at before, you know, they use a classical definition.
00:25:59.180And you were experiencing, as the DEI director, you're experiencing, wow, they don't define things the same.
00:26:10.200Then you started noticing, because you were talking to students what's happening, and several Jewish students came and said, I feel unsafe here.
00:26:18.480Actually, this was during my needs assessment conversation.
00:26:26.480So this was conversations with faculty, staff, and administrators.
00:26:31.480Multiple times it was mentioned that there was a problem with anti-Semitism on the campus.
00:26:36.440And they gave me several examples, like the academic calendar starting for decades on Jewish High Holy Holidays.
00:26:46.940Stories were shared with me about things that happened before I came.
00:26:50.440Our student government basically subverted an effort of the Jewish Student Union to bring forth a definition of anti-Semitism, the IRA definition.
00:27:02.360Instead, the student government ended up making a counter proposal.
00:27:07.580And then they made no definition of anti-Semitism, but they condemned Israel.
00:27:12.380And so that was very disappointing to the students.
00:27:16.460I also heard about the students being uncomfortable because of anti-Semitic flyering.
00:27:22.980This was all before I got there, you know, and people were sharing these stories with me and telling me the environment of fear and exclusion that have been created for Jewish students.
00:27:33.300And I was on, as part of my director responsibilities, a group called the Equity Action Council.
00:27:40.240And what I discovered there, Glenn, they weren't focused on equity.
00:27:44.320To me, equity means fairness, the textbook definition.
00:27:47.500They were talking about something completely different.
00:27:49.920And then they weren't focused on action either.
00:27:52.560So it was a big time waster on the taxpayer dollar.
00:27:58.100And our local Hillel director came to the Equity Action Council, and they shared information about, you know, the uncomfortable environment for students.
00:28:10.000And they asked, they urged us, please, to act.
00:28:14.040And they gave us some recommendations in written form because they said they had come and talked to several people, you know, before, and nothing ever happens.
00:28:21.380And they were hoping, you know, to see some changes.
00:28:23.780When we took these recommendations back to our team meeting, I said, wow, you know, I'm first, I'm offended by the way that one of the staff members, as these guests were talking, they were dropping resources into the chat box.
00:28:40.460Like, here's a link to Students for Justice for Palestine.
00:28:44.640This is a good resource to learn about anti-Semitism.
00:28:48.020Here's a link to Jewish Voices for Peace and so forth.
00:28:50.860They were giving resources that were antithetical to what the people were speaking about.
00:28:56.700And I said, I found that disrespectful.
00:28:58.740And they said, well, it wasn't disrespectful.
00:29:00.760You and your guests, they called it, we're sharing resources.
00:40:40.620There's struggles that they have in their own countries in a similar way that we don't open up our borders in the south, even though technically.
00:41:02.380There's tons of problems in these other countries that they don't have opportunities, similar to America, that we don't have enough resources for our own citizens.
00:41:10.400So we cannot just open up the borders blindly.
00:41:12.680But I think if you look at Gaza, that's one thing.
00:41:16.040But if you look at West Bank, there's also been, without Hamas, massive problems, massive issues that I look at the West Bank as more indicative of the problems because there is no Hamas there.
00:41:26.660And yet there's no opportunity for these people.
00:41:28.680And there's still this constant surveillance and this constant strip searches.
00:41:32.460And I know from people I actually talk to.
00:41:34.880So to me, the West Bank is very much the better case to look at because there is no Hamas there.
00:41:40.260And yet the treatment is so horrific for so long.
00:41:43.480And so extremism does grow when there's lack of opportunity.
00:41:47.380First of all, I don't call it the West Bank.
00:41:51.360But I know people that live there, and I know people, families, who have been slaughtered by their neighbors, just slaughtered in the middle of the night.
00:42:34.780But if you look at the other side, they will say, well, most white people are white supremacist.
00:42:38.400And the same way, this broad stroke, every time I look at news footage, it's always the same shot of large crowds of Muslims veiled who are wailing and then all men prostrating in prayer.
00:42:48.220Which, by the way, there are 15 million of my kind of Muslim, Ismailis.