00:01:22.080He's been targeted by anti-Israel activists with a doctored video.
00:01:27.340And this is a story that if you are a listener of Verdict, we need your help to make sure that this goes viral.
00:01:34.500Put this on social media because it's time that we stand with these professors that are being targeted.
00:01:39.900And Senator, I'll let you take it and fill people in from there.
00:01:42.160Well, over the last two months since October 7th, we have seen anti-Semitism spiking across the country, particularly on college campuses.
00:01:49.880And it's a manifestation of the warped and twisted leftist ideology that unfortunately has grown and festered on college campuses now for decades.
00:02:00.560We have seen students being harassed across the country.
00:02:04.520We have seen, tragically at MIT, Jewish students being prevented from going to class and the administration doing nothing about it, refusing to punish the anti-Semitic protesters who are harassing the Jewish students.
00:02:19.020And the reason MIT gave is, well, those students are on student visas.
00:02:24.500And so if we expelled them, they would have their student visa revoked.
00:02:28.360So it really is an astonishing willingness to bend over to woke ideology.
00:02:32.560But I got to say, USC really takes the cake with this because we had seen students unable to go to campus.
00:02:40.920Now at USC, we're seeing a professor unable to go to campus.
00:02:45.080Professor John Strauss is an economics professor.
00:02:47.540And he was walking by a protest, a pro-Palestinian protest, organized by the USC Student Coalition Against Labor Exploitation, USC Graduates for Palestine, and the Trojans for Palestine.
00:03:02.640And Professor Strauss, as he walked past, commented, he said, ignorant, really ignorant.
00:03:08.460And then one of the students engaged him, and the professor added, quote, Hamas are murderers.
00:03:35.420It got millions of views on Twitter, and it was characterized as the professor saying that all Palestinians should be killed, which is, of course, not what he said.
00:03:49.140Well, the consequence of that, unsurprisingly, he's been subjected to threats of violence because of the deliberate mischaracterization of what he said.
00:04:00.300But the university responded not by saying, we're going to protect you, Professor Strauss, but instead by sending a letter to him directing him that he must conduct all of his classes for the remainder of the year via Zoom, via distance learning, that he's not allowed to physically be on campus.
00:04:25.480And the reason, USC said, was, quote, to minimize disruption to the educational environment, to ensure a safe environment for both you and students.
00:04:36.000It truly is stunning that the administration at USC is so embraced in the woke ideology, the ideology of colonialism, the ideology that says Jews are the oppressors and Palestinians are the victims.
00:04:53.260This is the Marxist lens that I talk about at great length in my new book, Unwoke.
00:04:58.540USC is so embraced by that ideology that they're now telling their professor, you're not allowed on campus because you said what is indisputably true is that Hamas are murderers and the Hamas terrorists should be killed.
00:05:13.420And to be clear, this is punishing this professor not being able to go on to campus.
00:05:20.240That is also not just a slap on the wrist to him and clearly attacking him and what he is as a human being, being Jewish.
00:05:29.460But this is also sending a message, I would think, to any other student that is Jewish or that supports Israel.
00:05:37.620So you better be careful what you say on campus, because this is what we'll do to a professor.
00:05:42.920Imagine what we would do to a student.
00:05:45.480Well, and I'm hearing reports literally on a daily basis from friends of mine who have have kids in college who are Jewish.
00:05:54.160And they're reporting that they they fear for their safety.
00:05:58.540And this is at at premier universities, Ivy League universities, supposedly elite universities that that virtually all of them have embraced this leftist ideology.
00:06:10.400And under their worldview, they view Jews as evil Zionists.
00:06:16.720And so the universities, too many of them are unwilling to protect their students.
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00:08:22.780Make sure this story goes viral because people need to understand that what's happening to this professor is wrong.
00:08:29.040But if you are a Jewish student at a lot of the elite universities around the country, this is the treatment that a lot of them are receiving.
00:08:37.660And they are not being protected by these universities.
00:08:42.040Because this is not just a pattern or a trend.
00:08:45.640This is almost an indoctrination by these public universities and private universities at the highest level that we are not going to allow you to be pro-Israel on our campus, period.
00:08:56.100Senator, I want to move on to the other topic that we mentioned earlier.
00:08:59.900And that is wokeness has really infiltrated our politics, especially when it comes to the Biden administration.
00:09:07.400The national security has now gone woke.
00:09:10.260Disney is now facing some consequences.
00:09:12.380Plus, you've got this Customs and Border Patrol memo that orders agents not to misgender members of the public.
00:09:22.560Well, this really is a triumvirate of wokeness.
00:09:25.280And it's striking to see CBP and NSA and Disney all getting hit with the consequences of their ideology.
00:09:32.580And you mentioned a moment ago that it's Cyber Monday.
00:09:35.060Cyber Monday, I'll point out my brand new book, Unwoke, which just came out a couple of weeks ago, has spent two weeks on the New York Times bestseller list.
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00:09:54.160Because every one of these topics we're discussing is discussed at length in the book, Unwoke, how to defeat cultural Marxism in America.
00:10:02.140Let's start with CBP. CBP had an internal memo that was obtained by the Heritage Foundation that prohibits agents from using he, him, she, or her pronouns when initially interacting with members of the public.
00:10:17.120The memo goes on to encourage agents to use, quote, a universal greeting, such as good morning or good evening, in the initial greeting.
00:10:25.680Now, Ben, for Pete's sake, our country is being invaded.
00:10:30.0808.6 million illegal immigrants have crossed into this country under Joe Biden.
00:10:34.900There are dead bodies every single day.
00:10:37.600There are children being sexually assaulted, women being sexually assaulted.
00:10:41.720100,000 Americans died of drug overdoses last year.
00:10:45.380Fentanyl is flooding into the country.
00:10:46.940And here's what the Biden administration is telling CBP to be concerned about.
00:10:51.540Quote, if an incorrect pronoun is used and corrected by the individual, acknowledge the oversight and use the correct pronoun.
00:11:00.760The memo also lists, quote, key terms with definitions next to each.
00:11:05.960Bisexual, gay, gender expression, gender identity, gender nonconforming, intersex, lesbian, non-binary, queer, questioning, sex assigned at birth, sexual orientation, transgender, transgender woman, transgender man, and transitioning are all listed.
00:11:20.460What in the hell are these people doing, Ben?
00:11:23.440This is the Border Patrol is supposed to be securing the border.
00:11:27.820Explain to me why exactly they should be having a conversation with a human trafficker, a drug trafficker, or an illegal alien.
00:12:13.820Look, this started off with an executive order from the White House directing every agency to elevate diversity, equity, and inclusion above everything else.
00:12:23.760To ignore the law, to ignore their job.
00:12:53.520So I guess he wants them to say, you know, good morning and then have a conversation about their gender identity while shipping them to every city in America.
00:13:03.580It truly is, it's a stunning, screwed up priority that is right at the heart of where this administration is.
00:13:13.660It also, though, I think sends the message to Customs and Border Patrol agents, we're not on your side.
00:13:22.200And if you don't do what we tell you to do and you actually do your job the right way, there may be consequences for you doing your job.
00:13:30.340And if you don't push our agenda items the way we're telling you to do it, we'll come after you.
00:13:38.300Because that's what I would get out of this.
00:13:39.720This is a shot across the bow of every man and woman that's putting their life on the line at the southern border to basically say, you don't do your job the way you think you do it.
00:13:50.760Well, this Biden administration is an administration that is fundamentally unserious.
00:13:55.020They're not serious about the goal of securing the border because they don't want to secure the border.
00:13:59.560They want it to be maximizing the number of illegal aliens.
00:14:04.040They're they're unserious about national security.
00:14:06.180And as a result, Biden inherited peace and prosperity.
00:14:09.580We've now got two wars waging across the world right now as a result of their weakness.
00:14:14.720And when you have federal agencies with with serious grave responsibilities and you put political apparatchiks in charge who are not serious, who are not up to the task,
00:14:27.140you end up with, number one, not doing the job they're there for.
00:14:31.300But number two, getting distracted by political priorities that have nothing to do with the core mission.
00:14:36.760Another example you mentioned, the NSA, the National Security Administration, they prepared a 34 page glossary that they issued that that directs employees to to focus on diversity, equity and inclusion.
00:14:56.520And it includes terms ranging from anti-racist to Z and Zer.
00:15:01.680And and and it it provides it was published May 6, 2022.
00:15:08.060And it identifies itself as, quote, a glossary of terms and language commonly used in dialogue reversing regarding diversity, equity and inclusion and social justice.
00:15:19.960And it cites critical race theory advocates such as Robin DiAngelo and Ibram X.
00:15:26.640Kendi. It cites D'Angelo and it defines white fragility.
00:15:31.500All right. This is the NSA, mind you, defining white fragility is, quote, the state in which even a minimum amount of racial stress becomes intolerable, triggering a range of defensive moves in white people.
00:15:42.900It adds these behaviors function to reinstate white racial equilibrium.
00:15:48.620There's also a definition of whiteness.
00:15:51.140Now, you might think whiteness means someone being white.
00:15:54.000Nope, nope, nope, no, no, that that would be too simplistic.
00:15:57.100According to the NSA, whiteness is, quote, a broad social construction that embraces the white culture, history, ideology, racialization, expressions, experiences, epistemology, emotions and behavior.
00:16:10.180All in order to reap, quote, material, political, economic and structural benefits for those socially deemed white.
00:16:17.640This stuff is nonsense. It is garbage. It is poison.
00:16:21.400And you know what it isn't? National security, which is what the NSA is supposed to be focusing on.
00:16:27.000Yeah, and they're not they're not focusing on that.
00:16:28.780And that is something that has obviously come up with many people that are concerned about national security and our southern border.
00:16:34.660You and I have talked about this countless times, but there are more concerns now than we've had probably since 9-11.
00:16:40.100And yet when you hear that this isn't just like a one page memo, this is a full blown document.
00:16:49.940Yeah. I mean, do we have a 34 page memo on the on the on the number of people that have come across the border to your knowledge center that are on the terrorist watch list?
00:16:58.960Is there a 34 page memo on that? Not that I know of.
00:17:03.340And let me ask, you know, the jackasses that wrote this, the jackasses that are in charge of enforcing these policies.
00:17:09.060How come nobody at the NSA got signals intelligence on Hamas planning the biggest mass murder of Jews since the Holocaust on October 7th?
00:17:17.640Maybe because instead they were focused not only on critical race theory, but also queer theory and and it defines queer theory.
00:17:25.640If you think this this is Ben and me just making things up, according to the NSA, queer theory is an approach, quote, that critically deconstructs and challenges binaries such as male and female and or heterosexual and homosexual.
00:17:39.740And the D.E.I. glossary then goes on to list a whole bunch of words associated with queer theory like trans misogyny.
00:17:50.120What the hell is trans misogyny? Well, well, hold on. Hold a second.
00:17:56.860So trans misogyny is the intersection of transphobia and misogyny.
00:18:02.740Z and Xer, meanwhile, there were told they are gender neutral pronouns that can be used instead of he, she and his, her, while two spirit is defined as, quote, a Native American term for an individual who identifies as both male and female.
00:18:18.120Other terms defined in the glossary include genderqueer, AFAB, AMAB, which means assigned female at birth, assigned male at birth.
00:18:28.660Latinx, which there is not a single Latino or Latina on the face of the earth that uses that ridiculous term.
00:18:34.940Those are all woke, rich, white kids who want to show how woke they are by by insulting the Latino community.
00:18:43.300There's also, quote, same gender loving, which is a term that serves, quote, as a description for homosexuals who think that terms such as gay and lesbian carry negative connotations.
00:18:55.380There's also demigender. All right. Let me stop you, Ben. Quiz.
00:19:00.540What does demigender mean? I have a glossary.
00:19:02.880Yeah, I have no idea. And that's the part that I'm sitting here as you're going through this.
00:19:06.460I'm laughing because I'm like, how many sane people would know any of these?
00:19:10.720Yeah, I want you to stop if you're listening to the podcast and literally ask yourself if you were in taking a test, could you define the word demigender?
00:19:19.780I couldn't. I don't know. Demi Moore, she's like a really hot woman. Is that demigender?
00:19:23.600No, no, no, no. Demigender, and it has variations.
00:19:27.960It has demiboy and demigirl, although who knows what's a boy and who knows what's a girl.
00:19:32.620And what it says is it's defined as, quote, having a partial connection to one or more genders.
00:19:39.240Ah, the joys of making this up. But by the way, not only does this do ridiculous critical race theory and queer theory by its own terms, it also blasts the founding of the United States of America.
00:19:55.480And it has a definition of, quote, settler colonialism.
00:19:59.840We were talking in the first story about USC going after and punishing their own Jewish professor because they view Jews and they view Americans as settler colonialists.
00:20:11.360Well, here's the NSA's definition, quote, settler colonialism typically includes oppressive governance and enforcement of codes of superiority.
00:20:20.300And then it says examples include white European occupation of land in what is now the United States.
00:20:29.760So I want you to understand this is the friggin National Security Administration.
00:20:34.220By the way, has anyone there wondered what the word national refers to?
00:20:37.800Like what nation are they working for?
00:20:39.480Because apparently they think the founding of land that is now the United States is an example of oppressive governance and settler colonialism.
00:20:50.300And by the way, the solution, according to the NSA, it says white Europeans are guilty of colonialism.
00:20:59.100And it defines decolonize as a process, quote, that requires a recognition of systems of oppression in order to unlearn values, beliefs and conceptions that have caused physical, emotional or mental harm to people through colonialization.
00:21:17.600At the same time, it defines white privilege as, quote, an unquestioned and unlearned set of advantages, entitlements, benefits and choices bestowed on people solely because they are white.
00:21:31.220This is garbage and it's not our national security, as you noted, the CBP is not allowed to secure the border because they're having to figure out the sexual orientation of human traffickers and drug traffickers instead of stopping them and arresting them.
00:21:48.260And now the NSA is not looking for terrorists because they're busy worrying about settler colonialism and queer theory.
00:21:55.760This is an administration that is fundamentally unserious and consumed with woke leftist politics.
00:22:02.920Yeah. And if you want to, you know, it's bad enough we see it in the private sector.
00:22:06.020But when you see our government doing it and then not doing their job, especially when it comes to national security issues, it's truly terrifying because the consequences are death and destruction when you get it wrong.
00:22:20.880I want to give credit to The Daily Wire because The Daily Wire broke this story.
00:22:24.480It's an article by Spencer Lindquist that published published this glossary.
00:22:29.760It would not be public if it were not for The Daily Wire.
00:22:32.680And this, you literally read it, and I would say it reads like a Saturday Night Live satire, but Saturday Night Live would never make fun of this because they're too afraid.
00:22:44.320By the way, one of the other things it defines is, quote, Eurocentric, which states, quote, quote, most use this term with a clear awareness of the historic oppressiveness of Eurocentric tendencies in U.S. and European societies.
00:22:58.340The phrase critical race theory references, quote, the intersectionality of race and racism, and its supposed aim is to, quote, pose a challenge to dominant ideology.
00:23:14.540There is nothing about this that is national security.
00:23:19.340And by the way, if you want to know what the NSA is supposed to do, from the NSA's own website, let me read you their mission.
00:23:27.380The National Security Agency slash Central Security Service leads the U.S. government in cryptology that encompasses both signals intelligence insights and cybersecurity products and services and enables a computer network operations to gain a decisive advantage for the nation and our allies.
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00:30:08.400This is Disney saying all along, yes, this is exactly what we're trying to do with your kids' minds.
00:30:14.880Yes, we are trying to use what used to be just innocent entertainment that you could trust your kid in front of Disney Channel or Disney movies.
00:30:24.880You no longer should have that trust with them.
00:30:29.860But look, there's reason to draw optimism from this third example, which is that for many woke corporations, I think they are feeling the heat and they're trying to change direction.
00:30:43.740You look at the CEO of Disney, Bob Iger.
00:30:46.780They brought him back because Disney was in such a world of hurt.
00:30:50.920They had screwed it up so badly that Bob Iger came back and he is seeking, in his own words, to, quote, quiet things down after putting politics front and center.
00:31:01.680Now, Iger presumably signed off on this corporate disclosure, and that may be a consequence of trying to pivot Disney back.
00:31:09.020Now, they're not doing a great job of it because the problem is that they have built a culture where their executives are invested in this woke ideology.
00:31:19.980And this is something I discuss at great length in the book on woke.
00:31:26.380But I talk about how all three of them, Disney, Bud Light, and Target, lost billions and billions of dollars.
00:31:34.680And number one, it's had an impact on all three.
00:31:37.080But number two, and this is where you should be encouraged, it is, I hope and believe, a powerful deterrent for other CEOs and other corporations that are sitting there saying,
00:31:48.400I don't want to be Bud Light, I don't want to be Target, I don't want to be Disney, and now Disney, according to its own corporate disclosure, Disney is saying, I don't want to be Disney.
00:31:57.800That may be promising and optimistic for the future.
00:32:01.060Yeah, I hope that people continue to vote with their dollars.
00:32:12.300People are looking for companies they want to work with that are un-woke, that aren't going to these radical extremes that we've witnessed and talked about.
00:32:20.000And the best thing we can do is when they do this, shine a light on it.
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00:36:04.360I mean, look, I've been going to McDonald's for as long as I can remember.
00:36:08.300And you used to be able to get a burger and fries and a Coke for five, six bucks.
00:36:15.300You know, when prices got more expensive, maybe it was seven or eight dollars.
00:36:19.400But $16, there's a reason voters are pissed.
00:36:24.820And this goes right to the heart of it.
00:36:26.520Then when you have Joe Biden and Kamala Harris and Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi spending trillions and trillions of dollars that we don't have,
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