00:02:41.420And AOC had something to say on this that I want everyone to listen and hear.
00:02:45.700Here's AOC addressing Columbia and Yale.
00:02:48.960It is especially important that we remember the power of young people shaping this country today of all days as we once again witness the leadership of those peaceful student-led protests on campuses like Columbia, Yale, Berkeley, and many others.
00:03:06.680Really? Because a group of Yale Students Center formed a human chain to block a Jewish student from entering the university yesterday.
00:03:16.420And if you know history, this was a chilling act of anti-Semitism that echoed 1939 when Nazis blocked Jewish students from entering Vienna University simply because they were Jews.
00:04:13.800She's praising what's happening at Columbia and Yale.
00:04:16.720Understand, she supports this vicious anti-Semitism.
00:04:21.180And there is Joe Biden happily sitting there.
00:04:24.240In fact, he said at the same event that he's learned that when AOC speaks, you've got to listen to her.
00:04:30.960Well, you know, that is unfortunately today's Democrat Party, which is the White House is utterly tepid, unwilling to condemn specifically what is happening at Columbia and Yale.
00:04:43.100And the radicals in their party explicitly endorse it and celebrate it.
00:04:49.560You mentioned the radicals of the Democratic Party.
00:04:52.360You and I have said this for a long time.
00:04:54.000When they tell you what they believe in, believe them.
00:04:59.640A group of Columbia University professors actually held a rally Monday.
00:05:04.740These are the professors who are indoctrinating the kids to hate Jews and hate Israel.
00:05:09.740They held a rally to express solidarity with the anti-Semitic students that had been suspended for holding unauthorized protests on campus.
00:05:20.260And not only that, but when you go back and look at what these leaders, these universities believe, whether it's, you know, Claudine Gay, who we've exposed on the show multiple times.
00:05:31.740But at an event just two months after 9-11, Columbia University's current president remarked, and this was two months after 9-11, that terrorism is a, quote, form of protesting.
00:05:47.740When they tell you who they are, believe them, listen to this.
00:05:51.740So it's not, you'll always have individuals who will have extreme views.
00:05:55.780But what's really troubling in the region is that there's actually quite a broad base of society which has some sympathy for the terrorists.
00:06:03.320Not so much because they approve of their methods, but it's a form of protesting against a system which is not delivering for them on the economic or the political front.
00:06:11.220I mean, that's no wonder that this university is totally, it just lost its mind and is, and we're watching this anti-Semitism.
00:06:21.100If that's what you're saying in public two months after 9-11, then imagine how many children you've been able to indoctrinate college students to believe that the Jews are Israel and that you should feel sympathy for Hamas, Hezbollah, ISIS, Al-Qaeda.
00:06:34.220Well, and when she says there's a broad base of society that has sympathy for these terrorists, she's revealing a lot about the world in which she lives, about Ivy League universities, about our elite universities, about our academic system, about the left.
00:06:50.560Everyone she associates with falls into that crowd when they look at the terrorists.
00:06:57.240And understand, we're not talking about terrorists in the abstract.
00:06:59.900We're talking about Hamas and what they did on October 7th, murdering 1,200 Israelis, murdering some 30 Americans, raping women and little girls, committing atrocities that the world has not seen since the Nazis.
00:07:14.980And in today's leftist academy, using the president of Colombia's own word, they have some sympathy for that.
00:07:28.480Terrorism is a horrific form of violence that targets civilians, that targets women and children, that commits murder, an act of cruelty.
00:07:35.980And that's exactly what Hamas did, and it's the reason these college campuses are allowing these anti-Semitic protests to go on, these threats against Jewish students to go on.
00:07:51.180It's the reason Jewish students are being advised by the Orthodox rabbi at Colombia to stay home because Colombia will not protect your physical safety.
00:08:01.760And the reason is, the president of Colombia, the administrators of Colombia, they explicitly side with the radicals and with the terrorists.
00:08:15.740Finally, on this, we're going to do a deep dive about the dark money that is clearly backing and orchestrating these not only events, but the shutting down of roads and bridges and supporting what's happening on these college campuses being anti-Semitic.
00:08:32.380But there is one caveat, and this should be talked about.
00:08:37.400And like I said, we're going to give you a lot more on this in another episode.
00:08:40.320But we've now found out that the NFL, the National Football League, funded a left-wing group bailing out anti-Israel bridge blockers.
00:08:51.280And this is, again, how the left just holds these companies and these organizations hostage.
00:09:00.380Well, and look, we talked about in the wake of October 7th how Black Lives Matter, how the Chicago chapter put out a tweet praising Hamas, saying we stand with Palestine, and having a picture of a paraglider.
00:09:15.640Remember, it was the paragliders that came in that the Hamas terrorists used to murder young people in Israel.
00:09:21.280And the cultural Marxist, they support each other.
00:09:25.740And we're seeing that, look, on Columbia, it's not just the students that are facing threats of violence.
00:09:34.140So a Columbia professor, Shai Davidai, wanted to go, and we talked about this on Monday's pod, that he intended to go and be right among these protesters and stand up for Israel.
00:09:47.620And what Columbia did, they revoked his pass to campus.
00:09:51.720They zeroed out his access and blocked him.
00:09:54.840This is the administration of Columbia.
00:09:56.640They decided between a professor on their faculty, who happened to be Jewish, or the anti-Semitic protesters who are threatening violence, that the problem was the professor who dared to be Jewish.
00:10:11.500You know, one of the things that this professor, Davidai, tweeted out, he said, quote, to all the journalists, I promise I will try to get back to each and every one of you.
00:10:21.160In the meantime, I want you to consider this.
00:10:23.980To the best of my knowledge, the last time that a professor was denied access to their own university for being Jewish was Nazi Germany.
00:10:33.580Well, actually, that's not accurate because we covered on this podcast how USC did that to a USC professor where they ordered him to stay at home and teach from home for precisely the same reason, because anti-Israel protesters were threatening violence and they decided not to protect him, but instead to stand with the protesters.
00:10:54.000Now, if you want to hear the rest of this conversation, you can go back and listen to the full podcast from earlier this week.
00:11:00.500Canadian women are looking for more, more out of themselves, their businesses, their elected leaders, and the world around them.
00:11:07.600And that's why we're thrilled to introduce the Honest Talk podcast.
00:11:34.440Senator, if you are at NPR, can you imagine if you are a lefty, how much freedom I think it would make you feel like you had to then go out there and continue to push propaganda on the American people if this is your CEO?
00:11:47.900I mean, it's a license to basically go all in on liberal propaganda at the taxpayer's expense.
00:11:59.980And I've got to say, listen, as you know, I'm the ranking member on the Senate Committee of Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
00:12:07.040And part of my responsibility in that role, we've got jurisdiction over about 40 percent of the U.S. economy.
00:12:13.020And part of my responsibility is oversight.
00:12:16.140And I can tell you that I am actively engaging in oversight right now, calling on NPR to explain, to explain why they're willing to put in place a hard left wing activist, not a neutral journalist, but someone who is biased, who is an active supporter of censorship to violence, to silence the views she disagrees with.
00:12:42.700And that's why NPR believes that that is an appropriate leader for their institution.
00:13:09.400The number one challenge here that we see is, of course, the First Amendment in the United States is a fairly robust protection of rights.
00:13:20.120And that is a protection of rights both for platforms, which I actually think is very important that platforms have those rights to be able to regulate what kind of content they want on their sites.
00:13:28.480But it also means that it is a little bit tricky to really address some of the real challenges of where does bad information come from and sort of the influence peddlers who have made a real market economy around it.
00:13:51.780Yeah, and she actually says, well, the First Amendment is really important for platforms, but then what she describes as their First Amendment right is for their ability to censor and silence things they disagree with.
00:14:02.920So to her mind, what she cares about is the ability, if there's a view that is right of center, as far as she's concerned, the First Amendment is all about silencing those views.
00:14:26.020But the hard things, the places where we are prone to disagreement, say politics and religion, well, as it turns out, not only does Wikipedia's model work there, it actually works really well.
00:14:39.120Because in our normal lives, these contentious conversations tend to erupt over disagreement about what the truth actually is.
00:14:48.460But the people who write these articles, they're not focused on the truth.
00:14:55.240Which is the best of what we can know right now.
00:14:59.740And after seven years of working with these brilliant folks, I've come to believe that they are on to something.
00:15:06.700That perhaps for our most tricky disagreements, seeking the truth and seeking to convince others of the truth might not be the right place to start.
00:15:18.740In fact, our reverence for the truth might be a distraction that's getting in the way of finding common ground and getting things done.
00:15:30.140Now, that is not to say that the truth doesn't exist, nor is it to say that the truth isn't important.
00:15:38.880Clearly, the search for the truth has led us to do great things, to learn great things.
00:15:46.580But I think if I were to really ask you to think about this, one of the things that we could all acknowledge is that part of the reason we have such glorious chronicles to the human experience and all forms of culture is because we acknowledge there are many different truths.
00:16:05.720And so in the spirit of that, I'm certain that the truth exists for you and probably for the person sitting next to you.
00:16:17.840This is because the truth of the matter is very often for many people what happens when we merge facts about the world with our beliefs about the world.
00:18:18.440I started by talking about the idea of free and open as some of our founding principles,
00:18:23.980sort of free and open source, coming from the idea of the open source community.
00:18:28.220Well, I have come to the opinion and the perspective that free and open was a way of looking at the
00:18:34.320world that was inherently limited relative to what we were trying to achieve.
00:18:38.460Free and open has the best of intentionality.
00:18:40.980But in the end, what free and open often ended up doing, particularly in the case of Wikipedia,
00:18:45.260was really recapitulating many of the same power structures and dynamics that exist offline prior to the advent of the Internet.
00:18:53.440And so what we ended up seeing was Wikipedia really rebuilt this idea of knowledge as a whole around what the Western canon.
00:19:01.200You see the exclusion of communities, of languages, because of the ways in which Wikipedia is based on reliable sources.
00:19:09.160The idea of a written tradition is something that is particular to many.
00:19:14.960I mean, sorry, the idea of a written tradition, which is particular to some cultures and not to others.
00:19:19.400The ways in which we ascribe notability often really comes from sort of this white male Westernized construct around who matters in societies and who is elevated and whose voices.
00:19:32.320And so some of these ideas of sort of this radical openness really did not end up with the intention,
00:19:38.500really did not end up living into the intentionality of what openness can be.
00:19:42.560I mean, that that just is brilliant right there.
00:20:49.680And typically, the more syllables they use when they get polysyllabic, the less they're making any sense.
00:20:57.420So, explain to me the phrase, recapitulate a white male westernized construct that does not end up living into the intentionality of what openness can mean.
00:21:09.940Those words have no content other than, I want the power to silence things I don't like.
00:21:27.820And they're doing it with our tax dollars.
00:21:29.560Is there ever going to be a day of reckoning where NPR finds out, hey, good luck, do your own thing, because we're not going to pay for this propaganda anymore?
00:21:39.480Look, if NPR cares at all about journalistic integrity, if they care at all about continuing to receive taxpayer funds, they should terminate Catherine Maher immediately.
00:21:49.580They should not have a rabid left-wing partisan who hates the First Amendment, who views it as an inconvenience, who wants to censor conservatives, who is actively, explicitly, and unabashedly opposed to free and open communication, who doesn't believe in truth, who believes truth is an impediment to what she's doing.
00:22:11.260She ought to go run for Congress and become a henchman to Nancy Pelosi.
00:22:14.840She should not actually be running a news organization, especially not a news organization funded by the taxpayers.
00:22:22.340And if we have, to be honest, if you had a Democrat who had a shred of integrity, they would say, of course, this is not appropriate for her to run NPR.
00:22:31.800The chances of that happening are zero.
00:22:33.600But I can tell you I'm going to be pushing for accountability and I'm going to be pushing for oversight of NPR because it is brazenly shameless for them to put someone so wildly unqualified in that position.
00:22:46.340As before, if you want to hear the rest of this conversation on this topic, you can go back and download the podcast from early this week to hear the entire thing.
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00:23:27.060I want to get back to the big story, number three of the week you may have missed.
00:23:31.120And younger voters, which Joe Biden desperately needs, those 35 and under, he's at risk of them not showing up.
00:23:40.560The ones that voted for him last time, if they don't show up this time, can cost them the election.
00:25:21.440Senator, I wish people could see that video, because if you witness it, it's up on your on your Twitter right now.
00:25:41.260It will make you enraged at what they're cheering.
00:25:43.620Yeah, you really need to see this video.
00:25:46.400So this occurred on the Yale campus and they're chanting Viva Viva Palestina.
00:25:51.160But what they're doing is they're pulling down the American flag from a flagpole.
00:25:58.060And by the way, the the image of the students, strikingly, the students, the Yale students that are there, if any of them are Palestinian, they don't appear to be.
00:26:07.220And and and there is in in the foreground of the image, there is this young blonde kid who appears to be just your typical woke leftist American.
00:26:20.300Oh, he's got short blonde hair and he's wearing a Palestinian scarf.
00:26:24.200And as the American flag goes down, he thrusts his fist in the air and the cheering you hear is when the flag goes all the way down and hits the ground.
00:26:35.720These are Yale students cheering the American flag being torn down.
00:26:41.060Play the audio again and understand the cheering is when the American flag hits the ground.
00:26:54.200You also see people that are smiling and in essence, laughing, Senator, like they can't believe this is happening on their campus and enjoying the moment.
00:27:09.240And if you see this at Yale and you realize Yale is allowing this to happen, the question is, why on earth would you send your kid to Yale and go half million dollars or more into debt or have to pay that money for your kids to be indoctrinated?
00:27:23.680And at a place that is clearly not coming down hard on these actions.
00:27:47.360The dean of students of Northwestern attended a protest targeting the campus Jewish community center.
00:27:56.660So the dean of students went to a rally where protesters said the school, quote, weaponizes anti-Semitism to silence pro-Palestinian activism.
00:28:08.160The dean of students at Northwestern University attended an anti-Israel protest this week targeting Hillel, the school's Jewish student community center, to defend the demonstrators, quote, right to free speech.
00:28:19.500Dean of students Mona Dugo said she showed up at the rally on Monday to support anti-Israel's activists, quote, right to protest and to protect the right to free speech, according to the Daily Northwestern.
00:28:30.860Protest organizers demanded that the university end its relationship with Hillel, a 100-year-old nonprofit group that operates Jewish community centers on campuses around the world, including Northwestern.
00:28:44.080The protest took place during Northwestern's Admitted Students Day, which seeks to introduce incoming students to campus life.
00:28:51.700So imagine you're a Jewish student coming, going, oh, great.
00:28:55.740Quote, Hillel is one of the many places in which this university is complicit in infusing Jewishness with Zionism, said one protest organizer in a speech at the rally.
00:29:10.220A leaflet handed out by protesters accused Northwestern of, quote, funneling Jewish students into Hillel, the Zionist foundation for Jewish life.
00:29:19.860It also claimed the school, quote, weaponizes claims of anti-Semitism on campus to silence pro-Palestinian activism.
00:29:30.820Now, I will say, after this became public, Northwestern, at least to their credit, they put out a statement claiming the dean of students goes to every protest to make sure there's not violence.
00:29:44.060It sure doesn't sound like that from the article that was printed in the campus paper.
00:29:48.700But I'm at least glad they're feeling the need to try to explain it.
00:29:52.660I suppose that is marginally better than saying, yep, that's where we stand.
00:29:58.620It's American college campuses, and it's all coming and being organized, as you mentioned earlier, by the left.
00:30:06.340And if you look at this, you go back to what you said at the beginning about how important it is to follow the money.
00:30:11.560Why is it that when it comes to these issues, and I'm going to answer my own question here, but it's like the media doesn't exist when it comes to investigative reporting.
00:30:22.460I would assume the media could figure it out pretty darn quickly, Senator, who's paying for this, who's organizing it, who's behind it, where the money is originating from.
00:30:34.640Not a single story is being written about it, though.
00:30:37.120No, because they don't care, because the media is ultimately supportive of these goals.
00:31:03.720But on this issue, Jake Tapper has been the single most outspoken major media figure, and I'm going to give him credit for that, because his colleagues and his colleagues at other networks and newspapers should do the same.
00:31:17.120Senator, last question for you on this one.
00:31:19.780If we do find out that these organizations that are backing and clearly growing these anti-Semitic protests are directly connected to Democratic donors, Democratic Party, what are the chances that the media covers it?
00:31:38.440Or what do you bet we're the only ones people hear about it from?
00:32:19.360If you want to see where this ends up, take a look at Europe.
00:32:22.020Sadly, Europe has for a long time, for centuries, been on the cutting edge of anti-Semitism.
00:32:29.600And you can look to Europe to see perhaps the next step of where these college campuses are.
00:32:34.420This weekend, the London police threatened to arrest a man for being, quote, openly Jewish.
00:32:44.760And I want to read from a post that Jonathan Turley put up this weekend.
00:32:48.560Quote, the London police are under fire this week for threatening to arrest a man wearing a kippah near a pro-Palestinian march.
00:32:56.800Officers informed Gideon Falter, head of the campaign against anti-Semitism watchdog, that he was, quote, antagonizing the protesters by being, quote, openly Jewish near such a march.
00:33:11.700He was told that if he tried to cross the street while being, quote, openly Jewish, he would be arrested for breach of the peace.
00:33:22.980In the video, police officer, one police officer said, quote, you are quite openly Jewish.
00:33:32.440I'm not accusing you of anything, but I'm worried about the reaction to your presence.
00:33:37.500Another officer then adds later, quote, you will be escorted out of this area so you can go about your business, go where you want freely.
00:33:44.780Or if you choose to remain here because you are causing a breach of peace with all these other people, you will be arrested.
00:33:55.840Now, I want you to pause and reflect on that.
00:33:58.800In London, it is now an arrestable offense, according to police, to be openly Jewish, to wear a yarmulke.
00:34:07.360America, you're the one, if you are simply Jewish and acknowledge your Jewish heritage and don't hide it, that is grounds for being arrested in London.