Verdict with Ted Cruz - April 22, 2024


Chaos on Campus： Columbia & Yale Erupt in Vicious Antisemitism & Threats of Violence, and University Administrators Do NOTHING!


Episode Stats


Length

42 minutes

Words per minute

156.60004

Word count

6,678

Sentence count

464

Harmful content

Misogyny

6

sentences flagged

Toxicity

22

sentences flagged

Hate speech

20

sentences flagged


Summary

Summaries generated with gmurro/bart-large-finetuned-filtered-spotify-podcast-summ .

Ted Cruz speaks on anti-Semitism on college campuses and calls for Jewish students and professors to stay home on Yom Kippur. Senator Ted Cruz: Anti-Semitism is on the rise in America, especially on our college campuses.

Transcript

Transcript generated with Whisper (turbo).
Misogyny classifications generated with MilaNLProc/bert-base-uncased-ear-misogyny .
Toxicity classifications generated with s-nlp/roberta_toxicity_classifier .
Hate speech classifications generated with facebook/roberta-hate-speech-dynabench-r4-target .
00:00:00.000 This is an iHeart Podcast.
00:00:02.460 Guaranteed human.
00:00:05.400 Welcome.
00:00:06.300 It is Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you.
00:00:10.000 And Senator, this show is an important one.
00:00:12.860 We are seeing anti-Semitism exploding all over this country,
00:00:16.880 especially over the weekend, specifically on college campuses,
00:00:22.020 putting Jewish students' lives at risk on many college campuses.
00:00:27.280 This over the Jewish holiday that is beginning as well. 0.71
00:00:31.100 Well, that's exactly right.
00:00:32.420 We're right now at the beginning of Passover.
00:00:34.840 And in the last 48 hours, we have seen truly horrific demonstrations of anti-Semitism
00:00:40.920 on college campuses across the country.
00:00:43.620 This has been growing since October 7th.
00:00:45.720 We've seen it all over the country.
00:00:47.040 But the last 48 hours have been really uniquely stomach-turning.
00:00:52.700 We've seen it at Columbia.
00:00:53.820 We've seen it at Yale.
00:00:54.840 And it has reached a new level where we now have Jewish students and Jewish professors
00:01:01.100 actively fearing for their life.
00:01:03.320 We're going to do a deep dive into this and the sickness that has sadly taken over so many
00:01:08.820 of our universities that is threatening the next generation of Americans with a poison 0.99
00:01:15.080 from the left.
00:01:16.340 No doubt about it.
00:01:17.360 And this is a perfect opportunity for me to bring up the importance of us standing with
00:01:21.040 the people in Israel.
00:01:21.920 I want you to partner with me.
00:01:25.020 And if you want to know how to help the people in Israel right now, there's an incredible
00:01:29.460 way to do it with the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews.
00:01:33.360 It's been over six months since the brutal attack by Hamas on the men and women, the children,
00:01:39.520 the grandchildren, and the elderly.
00:01:41.900 And since then, the attacks on Israel have actually increased with Iran and its proxies launching
00:01:48.220 an attack of hundreds of drones and missiles.
00:01:51.100 You know about that from just a week ago.
00:01:53.420 Well, that is where the need is right now.
00:01:55.980 The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews are on the ground now addressing all
00:02:01.240 of these urgent needs.
00:02:02.520 And specifically what they're doing right now is they're helping provide security by
00:02:08.140 placing bomb shelters in communities in Israel that need them the most.
00:02:12.100 When the sirens go off in Israel, people have about 15 seconds or less to go to safety.
00:02:18.440 And the IFCJ has helped renovate and install nearly 3,000 bomb shelters to date.
00:02:24.920 As Israel and her people live with a harsh reality of terror every day, your support will help
00:02:31.100 address emergency security needs such as food and utility equipment for bomb shelters, flat
00:02:36.760 jackets, and other essentials for the people of Israel.
00:02:40.300 We're asking listeners to give $50 or any amount to help provide life-saving aid.
00:02:46.520 These bomb shelters, you can visit supportifcj.org.
00:02:51.700 That's one word, supportifcj.org.
00:02:55.340 That's supportifcj.org.
00:02:58.560 Senator, I want to talk about how this is almost an organized explosion of anti-Semitism on a
00:03:08.100 second level.
00:03:09.060 We saw this early on, right after the attack on Israel that was six months ago.
00:03:14.280 And we even saw some of the heads of universities come before Congress.
00:03:18.060 Some of them had to step down from their leadership roles, but didn't actually lose their jobs.
00:03:22.880 And they still get their major paydays.
00:03:24.560 And now we are seeing this second wave, which is even, I would argue, more grotesque than
00:03:29.560 what we saw at the beginning.
00:03:30.900 And it also seems to be somewhat orchestrated because it is growing, not getting weaker.
00:03:36.840 Well, that's exactly right.
00:03:38.860 And it seems clear that somebody is paying for this.
00:03:41.680 We don't know who, we don't know where the money is coming from, but it is organized,
00:03:45.680 it is persistent.
00:03:47.080 And to give you a sense of just how bad it has gotten, yesterday, the Orthodox rabbi at 0.98
00:03:53.900 Columbia Barnard sent a WhatsApp message to more than 290 Jewish students recommending
00:04:00.100 that they go home until it's safe for them to be on campus again.
00:04:04.740 And I want to read you this.
00:04:07.960 Dear Yavde, what we are witnessing in and around campus is terrible and tragic.
00:04:14.320 The events of the last few days, especially last night, have made it clear that Columbia
00:04:19.060 University's public safety and the NYPD cannot guarantee Jewish students' safety in the face
00:04:27.620 of extreme anti-Semitism and anarchy.
00:04:31.340 It deeply pains me to say that I would strongly recommend you return home as soon as possible
00:04:38.100 and remain home until the reality in and around campus has dramatically improved.
00:04:44.640 It is not our job as Jews to ensure our own safety on campus.
00:04:52.160 No one should have to endure this level of hatred, let alone at school.
00:04:57.620 If you need assistance, please reach out to me.
00:05:01.560 May we see better days on campus soon.
00:05:04.180 And it's signed by the director of OUJLIC at Columbia Barnard.
00:05:10.320 These types of notes are something that to me is somewhat unimaginable.
00:05:14.720 And yet here we are.
00:05:15.600 We also witnessed video that went viral over the weekend of students that were actually
00:05:20.420 blocking Jewish students from entering a building on a college campus.
00:05:24.580 That was at Yale.
00:05:26.440 Yeah, that was at Yale.
00:05:27.460 And you witnessed this happening.
00:05:29.660 And my question is to the university, Senator, how are they not suspending students that are
00:05:34.540 involved in these actions?
00:05:36.280 So every administrator that is turning a blind eye, every administrator that is allowing this
00:05:41.360 to occur should resign in disgrace.
00:05:44.300 The university's basic job is to protect the safety of every student.
00:05:48.200 And these students are being threatened.
00:05:49.980 Look, that is an email from the rabbi at Columbia saying, if you're a Jewish student,
00:05:55.700 you are not safe on campus.
00:05:57.700 You are physically in danger because the school that you are paying hundreds of thousands of
00:06:02.920 dollars to go four years to is not willing to protect you because their ideology is so twisted
00:06:09.980 that they will allow people to threaten your lives.
00:06:13.820 That is truly twisted.
00:06:18.580 Look, and by the way, it's not just students.
00:06:22.920 It is also striking that a Columbia professor, Shai Dividai, sent out on Twitter, quote,
00:06:34.900 I just sent this message to the leadership at Columbia University.
00:06:37.900 I'm going to be on campus Monday morning, and I am requesting police escort, police escort
00:06:44.540 simply for going to my own place of work.
00:06:49.160 And here's the letter he sent.
00:06:51.160 He sent, dear President Shafik, who's the president of Columbia, Vice President Rosberg,
00:06:57.320 Chief Operating Officer Cass Holloway, General Counsel Rosen, Dean Maglaris.
00:07:02.980 Last I checked, I am still a professor at Columbia University.
00:07:06.980 Therefore, I plan to go tomorrow, Monday morning, and sit peacefully right in the center of the
00:07:15.760 illegal encampment that you have allowed the pro-Hamas mob to establish in the middle of campus.
00:07:23.360 I will be joined with several Jewish and Israeli students, faculty, and staff.
00:07:30.320 Since the events of last night have shown me that you have completely failed to protect the safety of your Jewish and Israeli students,
00:07:38.880 I am requesting approval to have a police escort of at least 10 cops with me.
00:07:44.280 I would ask for escort from the school's public safety, but they have proven themselves useless versus these mobs,
00:07:50.880 and I do not want to put their lives at risk.
00:07:54.200 We will be coming.
00:07:57.080 I am an employee, and they are your students.
00:08:00.300 You have a responsibility to protect our physical safety.
00:08:05.400 Sincerely, Shai Dividi.
00:08:07.260 Like, what the hell?
00:08:11.160 Their own professors do not feel safe on campus because they've allowed hundreds of pro-Hamas protesters 0.93
00:08:19.200 to set up tents, to camp in the middle of campus, and to threaten the safety of Jewish students.
00:08:28.320 And let's talk about the makeup here, and this is where it goes back to the organization aspect of this.
00:08:33.640 Number one, yes, there are certainly in these groups of protesters students.
00:08:40.560 I think we need to make that very clear.
00:08:42.400 But there's also what you would refer to as outside agitators who are involved as well,
00:08:49.080 and this is well organized.
00:08:51.660 That is the part, and as you mentioned earlier, we don't know who's funding this yet.
00:08:56.000 We've got to follow the money.
00:08:57.400 Yeah, we've got to follow the money, but that goes back to my point.
00:09:01.360 If you're not a student center, and you're there as an agitator, and you're threatening the well-being of students,
00:09:09.760 doesn't that give the university even more grounds to be able to say,
00:09:13.260 you don't go to school here, you're out of here, like, arrest them, take them away?
00:09:18.500 So, absolutely, yes.
00:09:20.040 And understand, what we're seeing here, this is not free speech.
00:09:26.140 Free speech gives you the right to say what you want.
00:09:28.480 Free speech doesn't give you the right to threaten violence, especially against other students.
00:09:34.980 Nobody has the right to threaten violence against other students.
00:09:38.540 If the Ku Klux Klan showed up on campus, burned a cross, and said, 0.78
00:09:42.760 we are going to beat up or kill African American students, they would naturally be arrested. 1.00
00:09:48.580 You don't get to threaten violence. 0.98
00:09:50.120 And it's important to understand, so you get in the sort of woke online world,
00:09:56.500 you get people saying, no, no, no, no, these are not pro-Hamas protesters.
00:10:00.460 These are just people who are standing with the innocent Palestinian people.
00:10:05.840 I want you to listen to some of the chants that were going on at Columbia.
00:10:10.100 Play the audio, Ben.
00:10:11.440 And for people, by the way, when you hear this, I want you to understand, so some of this is loud,
00:10:17.740 and I'm going to give you a few of the lines so that you can kind of hear this here,
00:10:21.060 so you understand what to listen for.
00:10:22.700 We say justice, you say how. 0.98
00:10:24.820 Burn Tel Aviv to the ground. 0.70
00:10:27.480 Another one that you'll hear them chant is, 0.97
00:10:29.040 Hamas, we love you.
00:10:30.560 We support your rockets too.
00:10:33.480 And then another one is,
00:10:34.500 Red, black, green, and white.
00:10:36.760 We support Hamas' fight. 0.96
00:10:39.940 That's just some of what you're going to hear.
00:10:41.540 Listen carefully.
00:10:42.240 I just don't turn out.
00:10:45.660 We say justice, you say how.
00:10:49.560 We're looking to the ground.
00:10:53.600 You're my last, you love you.
00:10:57.560 We don't put your rockets too.
00:11:01.620 We're black and green and white.
00:11:04.500 We support Hamas' fight. 0.96
00:11:09.580 It is right to rebel.
00:11:13.540 Get the sound in the ground.
00:11:17.620 It is right to rebel.
00:11:21.620 Yet, our class is about.
00:11:25.700 We, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we.
00:11:31.940 I mean, Senator, you, you listen to that,
00:11:34.040 And I go back to what they were saying. It is right. It is right to rebel Hamas. 0.82
00:11:39.220 Give them hell. Free Palestine. Yeah. Let me read through the entire chant that what you heard. 1.00
00:11:45.300 The opening line is Al-Qasam, you make us proud. Take another soldier out. 0.98
00:11:52.520 So it's calling on Hamas to murder Israeli soldiers. We say justice. You say how. 0.93
00:11:58.420 Burn Tel Aviv to the ground. Next line. Hamas, we love you. 1.00
00:12:06.080 We support your rockets to rockets that are aimed at civilians to murder civilians. 0.99
00:12:11.060 Red, black, green and white. We support Hamas's fight. It is right to rebel. 0.88
00:12:16.440 Al-Qasam, give them hell. It is right to rebel. Hamas, give them hell. 0.97
00:12:22.380 Free, free Palestine. These are open jihadists. They are cheering on Hamas murdering Jews. 1.00
00:12:32.160 This is not simply having a political discussion about the state of the Gaza Strip or the West Bank. 0.51
00:12:39.720 This is advocating in support of terrorists who are murdering civilians, and they are doing this on Columbia's campus and doing it directly to threaten Jewish students on campus.
00:12:52.740 So when you look at the universities now, I also think this brings up a bigger conversation.
00:12:58.400 And there was one of my friends that went to Columbia, for example, and said that they were never could have imagined that this would be their campus where they graduated from,
00:13:07.600 that they would be this ashamed of being an alumnus watching this take place on their on their college campuses.
00:13:14.980 We've seen a lot of others saying that. I think this is a moment of reckoning, and I mean it sincerely when I say this,
00:13:21.480 where parents have got to start looking at where they're sending their kids and what their kids are being indoctrinated with when they go to these schools.
00:13:29.740 It used to be simple. You go to the best school you could get into. That was the logic.
00:13:34.680 And then it was if you got into an Ivy League school, you should, you know, celebrate and run to that school.
00:13:40.060 What we're now witnessing in the indoctrination of anti-Semitism on these college campuses,
00:13:46.580 is this not a moment where people should really take a deep, hard look at, do you want to give your kids minds over to these people?
00:13:53.840 Look, sadly, it's something a lot of parents are considering.
00:13:57.740 A lot of parents are wondering, why exactly do I spend a half million dollars to send my children to an institution
00:14:04.460 to brainwash them to hate America and hate their mother and father?
00:14:08.940 Look, there was another image that was sent around, and this is again on Columbia,
00:14:14.880 where some Jewish students were holding Israeli and American flags.
00:14:21.820 And in front of them stood a young woman.
00:14:25.680 She is covering up her face in what looks like a Palestinian headscarf. 0.99
00:14:30.520 Although she's a blonde woman, by appearances, she certainly does not appear Palestinian.
00:14:34.800 And she appears like a blonde, young liberal. 0.99
00:14:38.540 And her sign is handwritten on cardboard, and it says,
00:14:45.320 Al-Qassam's next targets. 0.59
00:14:48.820 And it has an arrow pointing to the Jews behind her, waving Israeli flags and American flags. 0.98
00:14:54.500 Now, understand, she is deliberately threatening other students with murder, saying they should be murdered by terrorists.
00:15:05.640 And I'll tell you, I put out on Twitter yesterday, I said, if this is a student, she should be expelled. 0.99
00:15:13.920 If this is a Columbia professor, she should be fired. 1.00
00:15:18.000 No university should allow one member of the community to advocate the murder of other members of the community.
00:15:27.720 Now, understand, this is not free speech anymore.
00:15:31.380 Go back to the Klan example. 0.82
00:15:33.660 You would not allow a student to say,
00:15:37.220 the Klan should lynch these African-American students. 1.00
00:15:40.560 That would be grotesque. 0.99
00:15:41.740 And you would expel that student, because you don't get to threaten or harass or advocate the murder of your fellow students.
00:15:49.080 There are obligations every student has.
00:15:51.760 You can argue peacefully and civilly, but you do not get to threaten violence.
00:15:57.960 And when you are standing there saying, murder these students, that is exactly what you are doing.
00:16:05.220 Canadian women are looking for more. 1.00
00:16:07.420 More out of themselves, their businesses, their elected leaders, and the world around them.
00:16:11.340 And that's why we're thrilled to introduce the Honest Talk Podcast.
00:16:15.200 I'm Jennifer Stewart.
00:16:16.460 And I'm Catherine Clark.
00:16:17.700 And in this podcast, we interview Canada's most inspiring women.
00:16:21.420 Entrepreneurs, artists, athletes, politicians, and newsmakers.
00:16:25.000 All at different stages of their journey.
00:16:27.180 So, if you're looking to connect, then we hope you'll join us.
00:16:30.400 Listen to the Honest Talk Podcast on iHeartRadio or wherever you listen to your podcasts.
00:16:36.220 What comes next, I think, from a government response.
00:16:40.440 You know, it's amazing how easily we can put people on watch lists if you're a parent that goes to a school board meeting.
00:16:47.620 But these are people that are calling for terrorism, calling for murder, calling for death.
00:16:53.340 They're right there.
00:16:54.020 They've got their signs.
00:16:55.580 Is there a responsibility of the government, law enforcement, to look into these and take these threats seriously?
00:17:03.820 Look, absolutely, yes.
00:17:05.260 But it starts with the university administration.
00:17:08.720 They are so terrified of the politics of this that they're paralyzed, that they refuse to do anything about it.
00:17:16.840 So, John Podhoritz sent this out on Twitter.
00:17:20.460 He said, I just got this from a Columbia chat.
00:17:22.740 And this is someone who said, quote,
00:17:25.720 My husband just picked up our freshman daughter at school.
00:17:30.340 He double parked and barged through the gate to get her on college walk and escorted her out through a gauntlet of nasty protesters. 1.00
00:17:40.280 She tried to put up with being on campus, quote, staying strong and, quote, holding her ground.
00:17:47.380 But the noise and viciousness finally got to her, and she couldn't sleep or concentrate anymore.
00:17:56.660 My husband and daughter felt like refugees fleeing a war zone.
00:18:02.580 And to top it all off, at the 116th and Amsterdam gate, they yelled to my husband to, quote, go back to Poland.
00:18:12.600 And this is vicious, this is racist, this is nakedly anti-Semitic, and this is the poison being taught at our universities right now.
00:18:24.520 Yeah, it's World War II rhetoric if you want to get right down to it.
00:18:28.160 That is exactly right.
00:18:30.700 By the way, at Yale, they blocked Jewish students from going into campus, and one Yale student, a girl, was stabbed in the eye with a Palestinian flag and was hospitalized for it.
00:18:44.940 So this was not just threats of violence.
00:18:47.560 It was actual violence that is unfolding.
00:18:50.980 And you have to ask, all right, what is Columbia doing?
00:18:54.380 What is Yale doing to ensure that students are safe?
00:19:01.560 Yeah, and the question is, what are they going to do when it comes to the next round of students that are going to come through?
00:19:07.100 Is it basically, hey, if you're Jewish, you can come here, but we're not going to keep you safe?
00:19:11.140 We're not going to protect you?
00:19:12.080 Because that looks to seem like that is the policies of these universities so far.
00:19:16.660 The same universities that demand tolerance and safe spaces.
00:19:20.620 I remember just back a few years ago, Senator, when everybody was obsessed with having, quote, safe spaces.
00:19:25.540 What happened to that on college campuses?
00:19:27.260 Well, it is safe spaces only for leftists.
00:19:31.220 And look, we've talked about this a lot because, listen, there are a lot of people who are politically left of center who are looking at what's happening at campuses, and they're horrified.
00:19:41.900 They're just saying, I don't understand.
00:19:43.380 I don't understand where this anti-Semitism is coming from, and we've talked a lot on this podcast about it.
00:19:50.240 The origins is cultural Marxism, and cultural Marxism has taken over our college campuses.
00:19:56.300 It has become the dominant ideology.
00:19:58.400 And the Marxist worldview divides the world into victims and oppressors, and they have defined Jews. 0.72
00:20:08.460 And let's be clear, I'm not saying Israelis. 0.56
00:20:10.900 I am saying Jews.
00:20:12.440 If you're an American Jew, they have defined you as an oppressor, and they have defined Palestinians as victims.
00:20:20.460 Let's be clear, the people chanting anti-Semitic chants are not limiting it to people who live in Israel.
00:20:27.280 They are directing it at American Jews, and it is the poison that is being taught to our students, that is being echoed by professors, that is being echoed by administrators.
00:20:39.540 And it's why administrators are paralyzed to do anything about it, because they see the pro-Hamas protesters, and in their hierarchy of values, because they are protesting for Palestinians, they are more right, they are more just than the Jews who are coded as oppressors. 0.95
00:21:00.400 And it is wrong, it is a lie, it is vicious, it is racist, and it is the ideology that we have allowed to take over our campuses.
00:21:10.220 And as far as I'm concerned, any college president, we've seen the president of Penn and the president of Harvard resign, but any college president who does not act to protect students, who does not stand up and say, every student on my campus shall be safe.
00:21:23.900 And by the way, if you had a bunch of Jewish students threatening violence against Palestinian students, I'd say the same thing, but let's be clear, that's not happening.
00:21:33.360 This is not, you know, I will say online that there is a sort of whataboutism, there is a sort of both-sidesism, well, you know, both sides are doing this.
00:21:44.280 No, that's not right.
00:21:45.160 There are no pro-Israel protesters on college campuses who are threatening Palestinians.
00:21:53.760 It is one-sided only.
00:21:56.860 And so, for example, you know, I spent much of Sunday afternoon tweeting and pushing out these videos because you really need to see them.
00:22:04.760 And one kind of very outspoken person on the left came back and said, well, this is the problem with people like Cruz, the issue is framed, but it's not, it is not just the left.
00:22:20.280 Because what I tweeted was, wow, truly stunning.
00:22:24.900 Read what the Orthodox rabbi at Columbia Barnard wrote to Jewish students, return home as soon as possible. 0.99
00:22:31.220 Columbia, New York City cannot, will not protect your safety.
00:22:35.200 Radical leftist anti-Semitism is a sickness that is destroying our universities.
00:22:40.720 And this person pushed back and said, no, no, no, it's not leftist.
00:22:44.260 And my response was to say, it is not honest to both sides this.
00:22:52.060 All of the students attacking Jews right now on college campuses are leftists.
00:22:58.260 So are all of the professors. 0.93
00:23:01.620 This is the poison fruit of Marxist ideology. 0.97
00:23:04.760 Where universities teach that Jews are oppressors and Palestinians are victims. 0.91
00:23:11.020 And it is, it is direct, it is ideological. 0.96
00:23:15.440 And that is the poison that now has become commonplaces at universities.
00:23:20.660 Yeah, great point.
00:23:21.380 In 2024, many of you listening may have made the decision that I made.
00:23:25.340 And that is, I'm going to not give my money willfully every day to hardcore leftist causes, organizations, and companies that fight against my values.
00:23:36.840 There are a lot of woke coffee companies out there.
00:23:41.340 When I said that, you probably had a name or two instantly jump into your head.
00:23:46.240 Now, look, I love a good cup of coffee.
00:23:48.560 Every morning, I get on the radio at 7 a.m.
00:23:51.140 I've got to be awake.
00:23:52.580 I got to go through the biggest news of the day and what happened overnight.
00:23:55.420 And I'm not going to compromise.
00:23:57.760 Now, I also am not going to buy a woke cup of coffee any longer.
00:24:01.380 And that is why I want you to know about blackout coffee.
00:24:04.860 This is not an average cup of coffee.
00:24:07.380 This is an amazing premium cup of coffee.
00:24:10.800 And I start my day with it every single day.
00:24:13.180 And I'm not going back.
00:24:14.560 It's America's first cup of coffee.
00:24:16.580 And it is coffee that is 100% USA, 0% woke.
00:24:22.800 Blackout coffee is committed to conservative values from sourcing the beans, the roasting process, customer support, and shipping.
00:24:29.860 They embody true American values.
00:24:32.120 And they accept no compromise on the quality, the taste, and that's what you're going to love the most.
00:24:38.120 Now, I want you to try blackout coffee because if you do, you're going to love it and you're going to stay with it because it's just so good.
00:24:46.900 I'm going to save you money.
00:24:48.080 Go to blackoutcoffee.com slash verdict.
00:24:51.280 That's blackoutcoffee.com slash verdict.
00:24:54.040 Use the coupon code verdict for 20% off your first order.
00:24:59.140 All right?
00:24:59.420 Use promo code verdict for 20% off your first order.
00:25:01.660 Now, one other thing.
00:25:02.940 Check out their instant coffee.
00:25:04.140 It is insanely good.
00:25:05.720 I travel with it now.
00:25:06.920 I do a lot of shows in hotel rooms.
00:25:09.000 Don't have time to run downstairs and get every cup of coffee.
00:25:11.780 It is amazing.
00:25:13.180 Check that out as well.
00:25:14.060 You'll save 20% off your first order.
00:25:16.560 Blackoutcoffee.com slash verdict.
00:25:18.600 Use coupon code verdict for 20% off your first order.
00:25:22.820 Senator, we hear from the President of the United States of America a lot on certain issues, moral issues.
00:25:28.520 We see the President come out and he has no problem jumping in if it's on something like Black Lives Matter.
00:25:33.560 But what we're not seeing is the White House condemn these actions in a real way.
00:25:39.200 White House press secretary was asked about some protesters this week chanting, long live Hamas.
00:25:44.540 And this was the question the White House press secretary and listen to her answer.
00:25:48.120 And just to follow up on the protests, I get you don't want to go into specifics, but what does the President think about young people in America saying things like, we are all Hamas and long live Hamas?
00:26:01.020 I will say, look, this is a President that has been, since he's been in office, and the reason why he ran has been very clear about what he witnessed in Charlottesville.
00:26:12.740 Let's not forget what we saw, the anti-Semitism, the bigotry, the hate that we saw in the street of Charlottesville, which, as I just stated, was one of the reasons that he decided to run.
00:26:23.220 And no president has taken more action to combat anti-Semitism than this president.
00:26:29.580 And so, you know, in our national strategy, we made clear that when Jews are targeted because of their beliefs, because of their identity, or when Israel is singled out because of anti-Jewish hatred, that is anti-Semitism.
00:26:44.920 And that is completely, completely unacceptable.
00:26:48.220 So there's your generic, right? Well, you know, we've got a lot going on here, and, you know, Biden ran, and we're going to go back to this other issue.
00:26:58.240 How hard is it for the White House to come out, and specifically the President, to come out and condemn this?
00:27:03.400 Well, and I will say, late Sunday afternoon, the White House finally put out a statement condemning the anti-Semitism at Columbia because it had gotten so bad.
00:27:11.540 But I'll tell you, you and I are recording this right now. It is 12.24 a.m., late Sunday night, beginning of Monday morning.
00:27:19.160 And I just right now, as we're recording this, I looked at Joe Biden's Twitter account.
00:27:25.180 Bingo.
00:27:25.880 In the past 24 hours, and this is as of 12.24 a.m., Joe Biden has tweeted about legalizing marijuana,
00:27:33.260 and he's sent multiple tweets calling for legalizing marijuana and pardoning everyone who's convicted of possession of marijuana,
00:27:40.100 and multiple tweets attacking Donald Trump.
00:27:43.700 He has not said one single word about the anti-Semitism we're seeing at Columbia and Yale on his Twitter account.
00:27:52.040 They put out an official White House statement that gets a little bit of attention,
00:27:58.580 but on Twitter, complete silence, and there's a reason.
00:28:03.000 I mean, I asked the question, why not?
00:28:04.600 Well, and you know this. That's the check the box diplomacy on this.
00:28:09.040 They are not sending the President out, and forget sending him.
00:28:14.240 There are certain moments when you're a leader that you just know your voice should be heard on an issue.
00:28:19.980 This is that moment where the President should come out,
00:28:23.060 there shouldn't even need to be a meeting about this, and condemn it.
00:28:27.040 And this is where they're trying to have it both ways.
00:28:29.560 Well, and that's because these angry leftists are their base right now,
00:28:37.560 and they're terrified of angering their base.
00:28:42.380 It is the sad reality of where we are right now.
00:28:47.060 This also comes down to, and we're seeing even more and more data,
00:28:51.280 younger voters, which Joe Biden desperately needs, those 35 and under,
00:28:56.000 are he's at risk of them not showing up.
00:29:00.020 The ones that voted for him last time, if they don't show up this time, can cost them the election.
00:29:05.540 We've seen a lot of pandering.
00:29:07.140 We've seen yet another round of, hey, I'm going to pay off your student loans,
00:29:10.280 and I don't care how many millions or billions it costs.
00:29:13.080 We're going to buy votes that way.
00:29:15.020 We also see him coming out and not making the big statements defending Israel
00:29:19.900 because the young people have been indoctrinated.
00:29:22.300 And this goes back to what we're witnessing on college campuses.
00:29:24.940 They've been indoctrinated to hate Israel.
00:29:27.760 And so that's why I think we've seen the president not say anything in a real way publicly.
00:29:32.920 In fact, he's talked about what they've leaked from the White House.
00:29:36.760 Let's talk about the leaks over the last two weeks.
00:29:38.740 They claim that the First Lady told Joe Biden to stop it, stop it now, referring to Israel's attacks on the terrorists.
00:29:46.940 And that was leaked by senior staff.
00:29:49.140 Obviously, there's real leaks that are shocking, and then there's leaks that you do on purpose to get a news cycle.
00:29:55.300 That was clearly a purposeful leak.
00:29:57.120 And then we also had it coming out of the White House that apparently the president, in essence, told Israel,
00:30:03.260 hey, your Iron Dome worked.
00:30:05.140 Take the win, right?
00:30:06.580 Don't retaliate against the people attacking you.
00:30:10.720 Just be excited that you got the win.
00:30:13.040 If that's the messaging from the White House when it comes to actual war,
00:30:17.700 then it's very clear this is all orchestrated as well.
00:30:20.800 Yeah, understand, it's not just Israel that the angry left hates.
00:30:28.600 I want you to play a video of what happened at Yale this weekend.
00:30:34.320 And it's going to be hard to tell from the audio, but after you listen to the audio,
00:30:37.700 I'm going to explain what you just listened to.
00:30:39.820 But play that audio, Ben.
00:30:41.900 Viva Viva Palestina!
00:30:43.700 Senator, I wish people could see that video, because if you witness it, it's up on your Twitter right now.
00:31:00.940 It will make you enraged at what they're cheering.
00:31:03.300 Yeah, you really need to see this video.
00:31:06.200 So this occurred on the Yale campus, and they're chanting Viva Viva Palestina.
00:31:10.300 But what they're doing is they're pulling down the American flag from a flagpole.
00:31:17.740 And by the way, the image of the students, strikingly, the students, the Yale students that are there,
00:31:24.240 if any of them are Palestinian, they don't appear to be.
00:31:26.900 And there is, in the foreground of the image, there is this young blonde kid who appears to be just your typical woke leftist American.
00:31:39.980 Although he's got short blonde hair, and he's wearing a Palestinian scarf.
00:31:44.440 And as the American flag goes down, he thrusts his fist in the air.
00:31:49.000 And the cheering you hear is when the flag goes all the way down and hits the ground.
00:31:55.400 These are Yale students cheering, the American flag being torn down.
00:32:01.020 Play the audio again and understand the cheering is when the American flag hits the ground.
00:32:05.280 Play the audio again, Ben.
00:32:06.860 Viva Viva Palestina!
00:32:08.660 You also see people that are smiling and, in essence, laughing, Senator.
00:32:21.080 Like, they can't believe this is happening on their campus and enjoying the moment.
00:32:25.880 They've been camping out there.
00:32:27.520 But this is at Yale.
00:32:28.920 And if you see this at Yale and you realize Yale is allowing this to happen,
00:32:33.400 the question is, why on earth would you send your kid to Yale and go half a million dollars or more into debt
00:32:40.160 or have to pay that money for your kids to be indoctrinated in a place that is clearly not coming down hard on these actions?
00:32:48.620 Now, look, that is exactly right.
00:32:51.120 And it's because the Yale administrators are terrified to engage with against the left because they support the views of the left.
00:33:02.400 I'll tell you something else that was tweeted.
00:33:04.940 There's a story in the Free Beacon.
00:33:07.740 The dean of students of Northwestern attended a protest targeting the campus Jewish Community Center.
00:33:16.100 So the dean of students went to a rally where protesters said the school, quote,
00:33:21.620 weaponizes anti-Semitism to silence pro-Palestinian activism.
00:33:26.400 And let me read you that article.
00:33:28.680 The dean of students at Northwestern University attended an anti-Israel protest this week targeting Hillel,
00:33:33.940 the school's Jewish student community center, to defend the demonstrator's, quote, right to free speech.
00:33:39.240 Dean of students Mona Dugo said she showed up at the rally on Monday to support anti-Israel's activists, quote,
00:33:45.720 right to protest and to protect the right to free speech, according to the Daily Northwestern.
00:33:51.240 Protest organizers demanded that the university end its relationship with Hillel,
00:33:56.380 a 100-year-old nonprofit group that operates Jewish community centers on campuses around the world, including Northwestern.
00:34:03.760 The protest took place during Northwestern's Admitted Students Day,
00:34:08.080 which seeks to introduce incoming students to campus life.
00:34:11.320 So imagine you're a Jewish student coming, going, oh, great, this is a welcoming place for me.
00:34:15.920 Quote, Hillel is one of the many places in which this university is complicit in infusing Jewishness with Zionism, 0.71
00:34:26.060 said one protest organizer in a speech at the rally.
00:34:30.180 A leaflet handed out by protesters accused Northwestern of, quote,
00:34:34.040 funneling Jewish students into Hillel, the Zionist foundation for Jewish life.
00:34:39.540 It also claimed the school, quote, weaponizes claims of anti-Semitism on campus to silence pro-Palestinian activism.
00:34:48.860 This is the dean of students.
00:34:50.520 Now, I will say, after this became public, Northwestern, at least to their credit,
00:34:55.180 they put out a statement claiming the dean of students goes to every protest to make sure there's not violence.
00:35:02.500 Maybe it sure doesn't sound like that from from the article that was printed in the campus paper.
00:35:08.880 But I'm at least glad they're feeling the need to try to explain it.
00:35:12.360 I suppose that is marginally better than saying, yep, that's where we stand.
00:35:18.280 It's American college campuses, and it's all coming and being organized, as you mentioned earlier, by the left.
00:35:25.480 And if you look at this, you go back to what you said at the beginning about how important it is to follow the money.
00:35:31.900 Why is it that when it comes to these issues, and I'm going to answer my own question here,
00:35:37.840 but it's like the media doesn't exist when it comes to investigative reporting.
00:35:42.600 I would assume the media could figure it out pretty darn quickly, Senator, who's paying for this,
00:35:49.080 who's organizing it, who's behind it, where the money is originating from.
00:35:54.160 Not a single story is being written about it, though.
00:35:57.700 No, because they don't care, because the media is ultimately supportive of these goals.
00:36:03.860 They're not covering it.
00:36:05.460 By the way, I will give some credit, and this is something painful for me to do,
00:36:09.180 but I'm going to give a little bit of credit to CNN.
00:36:10.820 You know who's been most vocal speaking out on this?
00:36:13.540 CNN has had a lot of coverage.
00:36:15.100 You're correct, especially this past weekend.
00:36:17.260 And Jake Tapper in particular.
00:36:19.220 And listen, I've been very critical of Jake.
00:36:21.140 You and I both know Jake very well.
00:36:22.820 But on this issue, Jake Tapper has been the single most outspoken major media figure,
00:36:29.340 and I'm going to give him credit for that, because his colleagues and his colleagues
00:36:33.160 at other networks and newspapers should do the same.
00:36:36.400 Yeah, they should.
00:36:37.640 Let me tell you about Patriot Mobile.
00:36:39.480 If you have a cell phone, and about 99% of you do,
00:36:43.080 how would you like to know that every time you use your phone and every time you pay your bill,
00:36:47.580 you're actually standing up for the values you believe in in a very real way.
00:36:53.600 Patriot Mobile, for more than a decade, has been America's only Christian conservative wireless provider.
00:36:59.700 And when I say only, I mean it.
00:37:01.700 They're the only one.
00:37:03.180 Patriot Mobile is a company that actually got started to combat the left.
00:37:07.840 That's pretty amazing when you say, hey, why'd you start a company?
00:37:11.700 Well, we realized where the money was going when you paid Big Mobile.
00:37:15.340 It was going to hardcore leftist causes, candidates, organizations, and including Planned Parenthood.
00:37:23.440 When they found out how much money was going to those causes,
00:37:27.420 that is when Patriot Mobile said, we're going to start a conservative cell phone company.
00:37:31.400 Now, Patriot Mobile offers you dependable nationwide coverage,
00:37:35.900 giving you the ability to access all three major networks
00:37:39.380 so that same towers that you use right now are the same exact towers you're going to use
00:37:44.580 when you switch to Patriot Mobile.
00:37:46.880 But the best part is, when you make that switch, you're no longer funding the left.
00:37:50.940 And when you switch to Patriot Mobile, they take about 5% of your bill every month
00:37:55.560 at no extra charge to you.
00:37:57.460 And they give it back to organizations that support free speech, religious freedom,
00:38:02.880 support the sanctity of life, the Second Amendment,
00:38:06.420 and they also support our military, our wounded warriors, our veterans, and first responders.
00:38:12.520 It is easy to switch, whether it's you and your family's lines or a business, small or large.
00:38:19.040 You can keep your same phone number you have now.
00:38:21.340 Keep your same phone or upgrade to a new one.
00:38:23.180 But every month when you pay your bill, you're standing up for what you believe in.
00:38:27.060 So get rid of Woke Mobile and switch to Patriot Mobile.
00:38:31.260 The number, 972-PATRIOT.
00:38:34.540 That's 972-PATRIOT.
00:38:36.720 Get free activation when you use the offer code VERDICT.
00:38:40.080 972-PATRIOT or PatriotMobile.com slash VERDICT.
00:38:43.820 That's PatriotMobile.com slash VERDICT.
00:38:48.140 Senator, last question for you on this one.
00:38:50.700 If we do find out that these organizations that are backing and clearly growing these anti-Semitic protests
00:39:01.800 are directly connected to Democratic donors, Democratic Party,
00:39:06.180 what are the chances that the media covers it?
00:39:09.340 Or what do you bet we're the only ones people hear about it from?
00:39:12.260 Zero.
00:39:12.980 The media won't cover that.
00:39:14.200 They have no interest in it whatsoever.
00:39:15.820 They have no interest in who's promoting this, who's funding it, who's paying people.
00:39:21.320 Listen, Ben, as you know, I have had anti-Israel pro-Hamas protesters at my home
00:39:27.360 every Saturday morning for over three months now.
00:39:31.160 It's the same group of about 15 people.
00:39:33.460 They're clearly being paid by somebody.
00:39:35.680 Nobody cares who's paying them.
00:39:36.960 Somebody is paying them to – and they're doing this at the homes of other people as well,
00:39:42.980 other elected officials as well.
00:39:44.800 This is a concerted effort.
00:39:46.560 But do you know where this ends up?
00:39:49.160 Where's that?
00:39:50.260 If you want to see where this ends up, take a look at Europe.
00:39:52.920 Sadly, Europe has for a long time, for centuries, been on the cutting edge of anti-Semitism.
00:40:00.200 And you can look to Europe to see perhaps the next step of where these college campuses are.
00:40:05.420 This weekend, the London police threatened to arrest a man for being, quote, openly Jewish.
00:40:15.780 And I want to read from a post that Jonathan Turley put up this weekend.
00:40:19.700 Quote, the London police are under fire this week for threatening to arrest a man wearing a kippah
00:40:25.100 near a pro-Palestinian march.
00:40:27.700 Officers informed Gideon Falter, head of the campaign against anti-Semitism watchdog,
00:40:33.900 that he was, quote, antagonizing the protesters by being, quote, openly Jewish near such a march.
00:40:43.140 He was told that if he tried to cross the street while being, quote, openly Jewish,
00:40:51.040 he would be arrested for breach of the peace.
00:40:53.900 In the video, police officer, one police officer said, quote,
00:40:59.060 you are quite openly Jewish.
00:41:01.020 This is a pro-Palestinian march.
00:41:03.580 I'm not accusing you of anything, but I'm worried about the reaction to your presence.
00:41:08.420 Another officer then adds later, quote, you will be escorted out of this area so you can go about your business,
00:41:14.540 go where you want freely.
00:41:15.700 Or if you choose to remain here because you are causing a breach of peace with all these other people,
00:41:23.700 you will be arrested.
00:41:26.780 Now, I want you to pause and reflect on that.
00:41:29.740 In London, it is now an arrestable offense,
00:41:33.900 according to police,
00:41:35.020 to be openly Jewish,
00:41:37.300 to wear a yarmulke.
00:41:39.520 You're the one.
00:41:40.600 If you are simply Jewish and acknowledge your Jewish heritage and don't hide it,
00:41:48.040 that is grounds for being arrested in London.
00:41:51.160 That's where this heads.
00:41:52.840 That is the fruit of the cultural Marxist leftist ideology.
00:41:57.800 That is the fruit of the anti-Semitism infusing our universities.
00:42:03.440 It's a reminder to pray for the Jewish people now more than ever before
00:42:07.620 and the students on these college campuses to keep them and the professors safe.
00:42:12.700 Don't forget, the Senator and I do this podcast three days a week,
00:42:16.120 Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.
00:42:17.960 There are a lot of big votes coming up in D.C. this week.
00:42:20.480 We're going to cover all that for you on Wednesday.
00:42:23.420 And make sure in those in-between days, you grab my podcast,
00:42:26.920 the Ben Ferguson podcast.
00:42:28.420 I'll keep you up to date on the latest breaking news.
00:42:31.280 Senator and I will see you back here on Wednesday morning.
00:42:35.280 This is an iHeart Podcast.
00:42:37.900 Guaranteed Human.