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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
It is Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz Ben Ferguson with
you and Senator this show is an important one. We
are seeing anti Semitism exploding all over this country, especially
over the weekend, specifically on college campuses, putting Jewish students'
lives at risk on many college campuses. This over the
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Jewish holiday that is beginning as well.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Well, that's exactly right where right now, at the beginning
of Passover, and in the last forty eight hours, we
have seen truly horrific demonstrations of anti Semitism on college
campuses across the country. This has been growing since October seventh.
We've seen it all over the country, but the last
forty eight hours have been really uniquely stomach turning. We've
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seen it at Columbia, We've seen it at Yale, and
it is reached a new level where we now have
Jewish students and Jewish professors actively fearing for their life.
We're going to do a deep dive into this and
the sickness that has sadly taken over so many of
our universities that is threatening the next generation of Americans
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with a poison from the left.
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I want to talk about how this is This is
almost a org and eyes explosion of anti Semitism on
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a second level. We saw this early on, right after
the attack on Israel that was six months ago, and
we even saw some of the heads of universities come
before Congress. Some of them had to step down from
their leadership roles, but didn't actually lose their jobs and
they still get their major paydays. And now we are
saying this second wave, which is even I would argue,
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more grotesque than what we saw at the beginning, and
it also seems to be somewhat orchestrated because it is
growing not getting weaker.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Well, that's exactly right, and it seems clear that somebody
is paying for this. We don't know who, we don't
know where the money is coming from, but it is,
it is organized, it is persistent, and to give you
a sense of just how bad it has gotten, yesterday,
the Orthodox Rabbi at Columbia Barnard sent a WhatsApp message
to more than two hundred and ninety Jewish students, recommending
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that they go home until it's safe for them to
be on camp again. And I want to read you
this diar yavde. What we are witnessing in and around
campus is terrible and tragic. The events of the last
few days, especially last night, have made it clear that
Columbia University's public safety and the NYPD cannot guarantee Jewish
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students safety in the face of extreme anti semitism and anarchy.
It deeply pains me to say that I would strongly
recommend you return home as soon as possible and remain
home until the reality in and around campus has dramatically improved.
It is not our job as Jews to ensure our
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own safety on campus. No one should have to endure
this level of hatred, let alone at school. If you
need assistance, please reach out to me, may we see
better days on campus soon, Signed by the director of
ou Jlicee at Columbia, Barnard.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
These types of notes are something that to me is
somewhat unimaginable, and yet here we are. We also witness
video that went viral over the weekend of students that
were actually blocking Jewish students from entering a building on
a college campus.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Was a Seene.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Yeah, that was at Yale and you witnessed this happening.
And my question is to the university center, how are
they not suspending students that are involved in these actions.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
So every administrator that is the turning a blind eye,
every administrator that is allowing this to occur, should resign
in disgrace. The university's basic job is to protect the
safety of every student, and these students are being threatened.
Look that is an email from the rabbi at Columbia saying,
if you're a juice Jewish student, you are not safe
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on campus. You are physically in danger because the school
that you were paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to
go four years to is not willing to protect you
because their ideology is so twisted that they will allow
people to threaten your lives. That is truly twisted. Look
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and by the way, it's not just students. It is
also striking that a Columbia professor, Shy Dividai, sent out
on Twitter quote, I just sent this message to the
leadership at Columbia University. I'm going to be on campus
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Monday morning, and I am requesting police escort. Police escort
simply for going to my own place of work. And
here's the letter he sent. He sent dear President Shafik,
who's the president of Columbia, Vice President Rosberg, Chief Operating
Officer Cass Holloway, General Counsel Rosendine mcglaris. Last I checked,
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I am still a professor at Columbia University. Therefore, I
plan to go tomorrow, Monday morning, and sit peacefully right
in the center of the illegal encampment that you have
allowed the Prohamas mob to establish in the middle of campus.
I will be joined with several Jewish and Israeli students, faculty,
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and staff. Since the events of last night have shown
me that you have completely failed to protect the safety
of your Jewish and Israeli students, I am requesting approval
to have a police escort of at least ten cops
with me. I would ask for escort from the school's
public safety, but they have proven themselves useless versus these mobs,
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and I do not want to put their lives at risk.
We will be coming. I am an employee and they
are your students. You have a responsibility to protect our
physical safety. Safety sincerely, shy Dividai like, what the hell
that their own professors do not feel safe on campus
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because they've allowed hundreds of pro Haamas protesters to set
up tents, to camp in the middle of campus and
to threaten the safety of Jewish students.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
And let's talk about the makeup here.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
And this is where it goes back to the organization
aspect of this number one. Yes, there are certainly in
these groups of protesters students. I think we need to
make that very clear. But there's also what you would
refer to as outside of agitators who are involved as well,
who and this is well organized. That is the part
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in you. As you mentioned earlier, we don't know who's
funding this yet.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
We've got to follow the money.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Yeah, we've got to follow the money. But that goes
back to my point. If you're not a student center
and you. You're there as an agitator and you're threatening
the well being of students. Doesn't that give the universe
even more grounds to be able to say, you don't
go to school here, you're out of here, like arrest them,
take them away.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
So absolutely yes, and understand what we are seeing here.
This is not free speech. Free speech gives you the
right to say what you want. Free speech doesn't give
you the right to threaten violence, especially against other students.
Nobody has the right to threaten violence against other students.
That the Ku Klux Klan showed up on campus, burned
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across and said we are going to beat up or
kill African American students, they would naturally be arrested. You
don't get to threaten violence. And it's important to understand.
So you get in the sort of woke online world,
you get people say no, no, no, no. These are not
pro Hamas protesters. These are just people who are standing
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with the innocent Palace Stinian people. I want you to
listen to some of the chants that we're going on
at Columbia. UH play the audio.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Ben and for people, by the way, when you hear this,
I want you to understand. So some of this is loud,
and I'm going to give you a few of the
lines so that you can kind of hear this here
so you understand what to listen for. We say, just
as you say, how burn tel Aviv to the ground.
Another one that you'll hear them chant is Hamas, we
love you, we support your rockets too. And then another
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one is red, black, green and white. We support Hamas's fight.
That's just some of what you're gonna hear. Listen carefully,
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you know, I mean, center you you listen to that,
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and I go back to what they were saying. It
is right, it is right to rebel Hamas, give them
hell Palestine.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
Yeah, let me read through the entire chant that what
you heard. The opening line is Alka, Sam, you make
us proud, take another soldier out. So it's calling on
Hamas to murder Israeli soldiers. We say justice, you say,
how burn tel Aviv to the ground. Next line, Hamas,
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we love you. We support your rockets too, rockets that
are aimed at civilians, to murder civilians, Red, black, green,
and white. We support Hamas's fight. It is right to
rebel Alca Sam, give them hell. It is right to
rebel Hamas, give them Hell, free, free Palestine. These are
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open Jihadis. They are cheering on Hamas murdering Jews. This
is not simply having a political discussion about the state
of the Gaza Strip or the West Bank. This is
advocating in support of terrorists who are murdering civilians. And
they are doing this on Columbia's campus and doing it
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directly to threaten Jewish students on campus.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
So when you look at the universities now, I also
think this brings up a bigger conversation. And there was
one of my friends that went to Colombia, for example,
and said that they were never could have imagined that
this would be their campus where they graduated from, that
they would be this ashamed of being an alumnus watching
this take place on their college campuses. We've seen a
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lot of others saying that I think this is the
moment of reckoning, and I mean it sincerely when I
say this 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. It
used to be simple, you go to the best school
you could get into. That was the logic, and then
it was if you got into an ivyleg school, you should,
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you know, celebrate and run to that school. What we're
now witnessing in the indoctrination of anti Semitism on these
college campuses, 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?
Speaker 3 (13:49):
Look? Look sadly, it's something a lot of parents are considering,
a lot of parents are wondering, why exactly do I
spend a half million dollars to send my children an
institute to brainwash them to hate America and hate their
mother and father. Look. Look, there was another image that
was sent around, and this is again on Columbia, where
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some Jewish students were holding Israeli and American flags, and
in front of them stood a young woman. She is
covering up her face in what looks like a Palaestadian headscarf.
Although she's a blond woman by appearances, she certainly does
not appear Palestinian. She appears like a blonde, young liberal.
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And her sign is handwritten on cardboard and it says
al Cassam's next targets and it has an arrow pointing
to the Jews behind her waving Israeli flags at American flags.
Now understand, she is deliberately threatening other students with murder,
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saying they should be murdered by terrorists. And I'll tell
you I put out on Twitter yesterday I said, if
this is a student, she should be expelled. If this
is a Columbia professor, she should be fired. No university
should allow one member of the community to advocate the
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murder of other members of the community. Now understand, this
is not free speech anymore. Go back to the clan example.
You would not allow a student to say the clan
should lynch these African American students. That would be grotesque
and you would expel that student because you don't get
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to threaten her, harass, or advocate the murder of your
fellow students. There are obligations every student has. You can
argue peacefully and civilly, but you do not get to
threaten violence. And when you are standing there saying murder
these students, that is exactly what you were doing.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
What comes next, I think from and I'm a government response.
You know, it's amazing how easily we can put people
on watch lists. If you're if your parent that goes
to a school board meeting. But these are people that
are calling for for terrorism, calling for murder, calling for death.
They're right there, They've got their signs. Is there a
responsibility of the of the government law enforcement to look
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into these and take these threats seriously?
Speaker 3 (16:28):
Look absolutely yes, But it starts with the university administration.
They are so terrified of the politics of this that
that that they're paralyzed that they refuse to do anything
about it. So John pot horitz Uh sent this out
on Twitter. He said, I just got this from a
Columbia chat and and this is someone who said, quote,
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my husband just picked up our freshman daughter at school.
He double parked and barged through the gate to get
her on college walk and escorted her out through a
gauntlet of nasty protesters. She tried to put up with
being on campus, quote staying strong and quote holding her ground,
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but the noise and viciousness finally got to her and
she couldn't sleep or concentrate anymore. My husband and daughter
felt like refugees fleeing a war zone. And to top
it all off, at the one hundred and sixteenth in Amsterdam,
gate they yelled to my husband to quote, go back
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to Poland. This is vicious, this is racist, this is
nakedly anti Semitic, and this is the poison being taught
at our universities right now.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Yeah, twour War two rhetoric, if you want to get
right down to.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
It, that is exactly right. 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. So this
was not just threats of violence, it was actual violence.
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That is unfolding. And you have to ask, all right,
what is Columbia doing, What is what is Yale doing
to ensure that that that students are are safe?
Speaker 2 (18:26):
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. Is it basically, Hey,
if you're Jewish, you can come here, but you were
not going to keep you safe.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
We're not going to protect you.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Because that looks to seem like that is the policies
of these universities so far, the same universities that the
demand tolerance and safe spaces. I remember just back a
few years ago center, when everybody was obsessed with having
quote safe spaces.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
What happened to that on college campuses?
Speaker 3 (18:52):
Well, it is it is safe spaces only for leftists,
and it in the look. We've talked about this a lot,
because listen that 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 that they're just saying,
I don't understand. I don't understand where this anti semitism
is coming from. And we've talked a lot on this
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podcast about it. The origins is cultural Marxism, and cultural
Marxism has taken over our college campuses. It has become
the dominant ideology. And the Marxist worldview divides the world
into victims and oppressors. And they have defined Jews. And
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let's be clear, I'm not saying israelis. I am saying Jews.
If you're an American Jew, they have defined you as
an oppressor and they have defined Palestinians as victims. Let's
be clear. The people chanting anti Semitic chants are not
limiting it to people who live in Israel. They are
directing it at American Jews, and it is the poison
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that is being taught to our students, that is being
echoed by professors, that is being echoed by administrators. And
it's why administrators are paralyzed to do anything about it,
because they see the pro Haamas protesters and in their
hierarchy of values, because they are protesting for Palestinians, they
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are more right, they are more just than the Jews
who are are coded as oppressors. 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. And as far as I'm concerned,
any college president We've seen the president of Penn and
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the president of Harvard resigned, 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.
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. This
is not You will say online that there is a
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sort of what about ism, there is a sort of
both sides as them, Well, you know, both sides are
doing this. No, that's not right. There are no pro
Israel protesters on college campuses who are threatening Palestinians. It
is one sided only. And so, for example, you know,
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I spent much of Sunday afternoon tweeting and pushing out
these videos because you really need to see them. And
one kind of very outspoken person on the left came
back and said, well, this is the problem with people
like Cruise. The issue is framed.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
But it's not.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
It is not just the left. Because what I tweeted
was wow, truly stunning. Read what the Orthodox rabbi at
Columbia Barnard wrote to Jewish students return home as soon
as possible. Columbia, New York City cannot will not protect
your safety. Radical leftist anti Semitism is a sickness that
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is destroying our universities. And this person pushed back and said, no, no, no,
it's not leftists. And my response was to say, it
is not honest to both sides this. All of the
students attacking Jews right now on college campuses are leftists.
So are all of the professors. This is the poison
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fruit of Marxist ideology, where universities teach that Jews are
oppressors and Palestinians are victims. And it is it is direct,
it is ideological, and that is the poison that now
has become commonplaces at universities.
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We hear from the President of the United States of
America a lot on certain issues, moral issues. We see
the President come out and he has no problem jumping
in if it's on something like.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
Black Lives Matter.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
But what we're not saying is the White House condemned
these actions in a real way. White House Press secretary
was asked about some protesters this week chanting long Live
a Moss.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
And this was the.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
Question the White House Press Secretary and listen to her answer,
and just to follow.
Speaker 4 (25:13):
Up on the protests, I guess 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
a Moss and long lived a Moss.
Speaker 5 (25:26):
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. 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. And no president
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has taken more action to combat anti Semitism than this president.
And so you know, in our national strategy, we may
clear that when Jews are targeted because of their beliefs,
because of their identity, or when Israel is singled out
because of anti Jewish hate hatred, that is anti Semitism,
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and that is completely, completely unacceptable.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
So there's your generic, right.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
Well, you know, we've got a lot going on here,
and you know, Biden ran and we're going to.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
Go back to this other issue.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
How hard is it for the White House to come
out and specifically the President to come out and condemn this.
Speaker 3 (26:28):
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. But I'll
tell you you and I are recording this right now.
It is twelve twenty four am, late Sunday night, beginning
of Monday morning. And I just right now, as we're
recording this, I looked at Joe Biden's Twitter account bingo
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in the past twenty four hours and this is as
of twelve twenty four am. Joe Biden has tweeted about
legalizing marijuana and he sent multiple tweets calling for legalizing
marijuana and pardoning everyone who's convicted a possession of marijuana,
and multiple tweets attacking Donald Trump. He has not sent
said one single word about the anti semitism we're seeing
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at Columbia and Yale on his Twitter account. They put
out an official White House statement that that that that
that gets uh that that that that gets a little
bit of attention, but on Twitter, complete silence. And there's
a reason. I mean, I asked the question why.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
Now, and you know this, that's to check the boxes
diplomacy on this. They're they're they are not sending the
president out and forget sending him. There's certain moments when
you're a leader that you just know your voice should
be heard on an issue. This is that moment where
the President should come out there shouldn't even need to
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be a meeting about this and condemn it. And this
is where they're trying to have it both ways.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
Well, and that's because these angry leftists hosts are their
base right now and they're terrified of angering angering their base.
It is the sad reality of where we are right now.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
This also comes down to and we're seeing even more
and more data younger voters, which Joe Biden desperately needs.
Those thirty five and under are he's at risk of
them not showing up. The ones that voted for him
last time. If they don't show up this time, can
cost in the election. We've seen a lot of pandering.
We've seen yet another round of Hey, I'm going to
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pay off your student loans and I don't care how
many millions or billions it costs.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
We're going to buy votes that way.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
We also see him coming out and not making the
big statements to fitting Israel because the young people have
been in doctrine and this goes back to what we're
witnessing on college campuses.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
They've been indoctrined to hate Israel.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
And so that's why I think we've seen the President
not say anything in.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
A real way publicly.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
In fact, he's talked about what they've leaked from the
White House. Let's talk about the leaks over the last
two weeks. They claim that the first Lady told Joe
Biden to stop it, stop it now, referring to Israel's
attacks on the terrace, and that was leaked by senior staff. Obviously,
there's real leaks that are shocking. And then there's leaks
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that you do on purpose to get a news cycle.
That was clearly a purposeful leak. And then we also
had it coming out of the White House that apparently
the President in essence told Israel, hey, your Iyan Dome worked.
Take the win, right, don't retaliate against against the people
attacking you. Just be excited that you got the win.
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If that's the messaging from the White House when it
comes to actual war, then it's very clear this is
all orchestrated as well.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
Yeah, understand it's not just Israel that the angry left hates.
I want you to play a video of what happened
at Yale this weekend. And it's going to be hard
to tell from the audio, but after you listen to
the audio, I'm gonna explain what you just listened to.
But but but play that audio, Ben.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
Senator.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
I wish people could see that video because if you
witness it, it's up on your on your Twitter right now,
it will make you enraged at what they're cheering.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
Yeah, you really need to see this video. So this
occurred on the Yale campus and they're chanting Viva Viva Palestina.
But what they're doing is they're pulling down the American
flag from a flagpole. And and by the way, the
the image of the students strikingly the students, the Yale
students that are there, if any of them are Palestinian,
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they don't appear to be. Uh. And and there is
in in the foreground of the image there is this
young blonde kid, uh who appears to be just your
typical woke leftist American. All. He's got short blonde hair,
and he's wearing a Palestinian scarf. And as the American
flag goes down, he thrusts his fist in the air.
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And the cheering you hear is when the flag goes
all the way down and hits the ground. These are
Yale students cheering the American flag being torn down. Play
the audio again and understand the cheering is when the
American flag hits the ground. Play the audio again. Ben.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
You 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.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
They've been camping out there. But this is at Yale.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
And if you see this at Yale, and you realize
Yelle 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 into debt or
have to pay that money for your kids to be
indoctrinated at a place that is clearly not coming down
hard on these actions.
Speaker 3 (32:13):
Now, look that that is exactly right, and it's because
the Yale administrators are terrified to engage with against the
left because they support the views of the left. I'll
tell you something else that was tweeted. There is a
story in the Free Beacon the Dean of students of
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Northwestern attended a protest targeting the campus Jewish community Center.
So the Dean of students went to a rally where
protesters said the school quote weaponizes anti Semitism to silence
pro Palestinian activism, and let me read you that article.
The Dean of students at Northwestern University attended an anti
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Israel protest this week targeting Hillel, the school's Jewish student
community center, to defend the demonstrator's quote right to free speech.
Dean of Students Monadugo said she showed up at the
rally on Monday to support anti Israel's activist quote right
to protest and to protect the right to free speech.
According to The Daily Northwestern, protest organizers demanded that the
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university end its relationship with Hillel, a one hundred year
old nonprofit group that operates Jewish community centers on campuses
around the world, including Northwestern. The protest took place during
Northwestern's Admitted Students Day, which seeks to introduce incoming students
to campus life. So imagine you are Jewish students coming going.
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Oh great, this is a welcoming place for me. Quote.
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. A leaflet
handed out by protesters accused Northwestern of quote funneling Jewish
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student into Hillel, the Zionist Foundation for Jewish Life. It
also claimed the school quote weaponizes claims of anti Semitism
on campus to silence pro Palestinian activism. This is the
dean of students, now, I will say. After this became public, Northwestern,
at least to their credit, they put out a statement
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claiming the dean of students goes to every protest to
make sure there's not violence. Maybe it sure doesn't sound
like that from the article that was printed in the
campus paper. But I'm at least glad they're feeling the
need to try to explain it. I suppose that is
marginally better then saying, yep, that's where we stand.
Speaker 2 (34:43):
It's American college campuses, and it's all coming and being organized,
as you mentioned earlier, by the left. And if you
look at this, you go back to what you said
at the beginning about how important is to follow the money.
Why is it that when it comes to these issues,
And I'm going to answer my own question here, but
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it's like the media doesn't exist when it comes to
investiative reporting. I 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?
Not as single stories being written about it though.
Speaker 3 (35:22):
No, because they don't care. Because the media is ultimately
supportive of these goals. They're not. They're not covering it.
By the way, I will give some credit, and this
is something painful for me to do, but I'm gonna
give a little bit of credit to see it in.
You know who's been most vocal speaking out on this.
Speaker 2 (35:38):
CNN has had a lot of coverage that you're you're correct,
especially this past weekend.
Speaker 3 (35:42):
And Jake Tapper in particular, And listen, I've been very
critical of Jake. You and I both know Jake very well,
but on this issue, Jake, Jake Tapper has been the
single most outspoken major media figure and I'm gonna give
him credit for that because because his colleagues and his
colleagues at other networks and newspapers should.
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anti Semitic protests are directly connected to Democratic donors, Democratic
Party Party, what are the chances that the media covers
it or what do you bet we're the only ones
people hear about it from zero?
Speaker 3 (38:37):
The media won't cover that. They have no interest in
it whatsoever. They have no interest in who's promoting this,
who's funding it, who's paying people. Listen, Ben, as you know,
I have had anti Israel Prohamas protesters at my home
every Saturday morning for over three months now. It's the
same group of about fifteen people. They're clearly being paid
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by somebody. Nobody cares who's paying them. Somebody is paying
them to and they're doing this at the homes of
other people as well, other elected officials. As well. This
is a concerted effort, but do you know where this
ends up?
Speaker 1 (39:14):
Where's that?
Speaker 3 (39:15):
If you want to see where this ends up, take
a look at Europe. Sadly, Europe has for a long time,
for centuries, been on the cutting edge of anti Semitism,
and you can look to Europe to see perhaps the
next step of where these college campuses are. This weekend,
the London police threatened to arrest a man for being
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quote openly Jewish, and I want to read from a
post that Jonathan Turley put up this weekend quote the
London police are under fire this week for threatening to
arrest aman wearing a kuipa near the near a pro
Palestinian march. Officers inform Gideon Falter, head of the Campaign
Against Anti Semitism Watchdog, that he was quote and antagonizing
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the protesters by being quote openly Jewish near such a march.
He was told that if he tried to cross the
street while being quote openly Jewish, he would be arrested
for breach of the peace. In the video police officer,
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one police officer said quote, you are quite openly Jewish.
This is a pro Palestinian march. I'm not accusing you
of anything, but I'm worried about the reaction to your presence.
Another 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, or if you choose to
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remain here because you are causing a breach of peace
with all these other people, you will be arrested. Now
I want you to pause and reflect on that. In
London it is now an arrestable offense according to police,
to be openly Jewish, to wear a yamica.
Speaker 1 (41:04):
You're the one.
Speaker 3 (41:05):
If you are simply Jewish and and acknowledge your Jewish
heritage and don't hide it, that is grounds for being
arrested in London. That's where this heads. That is the
fruit of the cultural Marxist leftist ideology, that is the
fruit of the anti Semitism infusing our universities.
Speaker 2 (41:28):
It's a reminder to pray for the Jewish people now
more than ever before, and the students on these college
campuses to keep them and the professors safe.
Speaker 1 (41:37):
Don't forget the center.
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Speaker 2 (00:01):
It is Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz Ben Ferguson with
you and Senator this show is an important one. We
are seeing anti Semitism exploding all over this country, especially
over the weekend, specifically on college campuses, putting Jewish students'
lives at risk on many college campuses. This over the
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Jewish holiday that is beginning as well.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Well, that's exactly right where right now, at the beginning
of Passover, and in the last forty eight hours, we
have seen truly horrific demonstrations of anti Semitism on college
campuses across the country. This has been growing since October seventh.
We've seen it all over the country, but the last
forty eight hours have been really uniquely stomach turning. We've
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seen it at Columbia, We've seen it at Yale, and
it is reached a new level where we now have
Jewish students and Jewish professors actively fearing for their life.
We're going to do a deep dive into this and
the sickness that has sadly taken over so many of
our universities that is threatening the next generation of Americans
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with a poison from the left.
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I want to talk about how this is This is
almost a org and eyes explosion of anti Semitism on
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a second level. We saw this early on, right after
the attack on Israel that was six months ago, and
we even saw some of the heads of universities come
before Congress. Some of them had to step down from
their leadership roles, but didn't actually lose their jobs and
they still get their major paydays. And now we are
saying this second wave, which is even I would argue,
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more grotesque than what we saw at the beginning, and
it also seems to be somewhat orchestrated because it is
growing not getting weaker.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Well, that's exactly right, and it seems clear that somebody
is paying for this. We don't know who, we don't
know where the money is coming from, but it is,
it is organized, it is persistent, and to give you
a sense of just how bad it has gotten, yesterday,
the Orthodox Rabbi at Columbia Barnard sent a WhatsApp message
to more than two hundred and ninety Jewish students, recommending
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that they go home until it's safe for them to
be on camp again. And I want to read you
this diar yavde. What we are witnessing in and around
campus is terrible and tragic. The events of the last
few days, especially last night, have made it clear that
Columbia University's public safety and the NYPD cannot guarantee Jewish
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students safety in the face of extreme anti semitism and anarchy.
It deeply pains me to say that I would strongly
recommend you return home as soon as possible and remain
home until the reality in and around campus has dramatically improved.
It is not our job as Jews to ensure our
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own safety on campus. No one should have to endure
this level of hatred, let alone at school. If you
need assistance, please reach out to me, may we see
better days on campus soon, Signed by the director of
ou Jlicee at Columbia, Barnard.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
These types of notes are something that to me is
somewhat unimaginable, and yet here we are. We also witness
video that went viral over the weekend of students that
were actually blocking Jewish students from entering a building on
a college campus.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Was a Seene.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Yeah, that was at Yale and you witnessed this happening.
And my question is to the university center, how are
they not suspending students that are involved in these actions.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
So every administrator that is the turning a blind eye,
every administrator that is allowing this to occur, should resign
in disgrace. The university's basic job is to protect the
safety of every student, and these students are being threatened.
Look that is an email from the rabbi at Columbia saying,
if you're a juice Jewish student, you are not safe
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on campus. You are physically in danger because the school
that you were paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to
go four years to is not willing to protect you
because their ideology is so twisted that they will allow
people to threaten your lives. That is truly twisted. Look
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and by the way, it's not just students. It is
also striking that a Columbia professor, Shy Dividai, sent out
on Twitter quote, I just sent this message to the
leadership at Columbia University. I'm going to be on campus
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Monday morning, and I am requesting police escort. Police escort
simply for going to my own place of work. And
here's the letter he sent. He sent dear President Shafik,
who's the president of Columbia, Vice President Rosberg, Chief Operating
Officer Cass Holloway, General Counsel Rosendine mcglaris. Last I checked,
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I am still a professor at Columbia University. Therefore, I
plan to go tomorrow, Monday morning, and sit peacefully right
in the center of the illegal encampment that you have
allowed the Prohamas mob to establish in the middle of campus.
I will be joined with several Jewish and Israeli students, faculty,
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and staff. Since the events of last night have shown
me that you have completely failed to protect the safety
of your Jewish and Israeli students, I am requesting approval
to have a police escort of at least ten cops
with me. I would ask for escort from the school's
public safety, but they have proven themselves useless versus these mobs,
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and I do not want to put their lives at risk.
We will be coming. I am an employee and they
are your students. You have a responsibility to protect our
physical safety. Safety sincerely, shy Dividai like, what the hell
that their own professors do not feel safe on campus
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because they've allowed hundreds of pro Haamas protesters to set
up tents, to camp in the middle of campus and
to threaten the safety of Jewish students.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
And let's talk about the makeup here.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
And this is where it goes back to the organization
aspect of this number one. Yes, there are certainly in
these groups of protesters students. I think we need to
make that very clear. But there's also what you would
refer to as outside of agitators who are involved as well,
who and this is well organized. That is the part
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in you. As you mentioned earlier, we don't know who's
funding this yet.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
We've got to follow the money.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Yeah, we've got to follow the money. But that goes
back to my point. If you're not a student center
and you. You're there as an agitator and you're threatening
the well being of students. Doesn't that give the universe
even more grounds to be able to say, you don't
go to school here, you're out of here, like arrest them,
take them away.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
So absolutely yes, and understand what we are seeing here.
This is not free speech. Free speech gives you the
right to say what you want. Free speech doesn't give
you the right to threaten violence, especially against other students.
Nobody has the right to threaten violence against other students.
That the Ku Klux Klan showed up on campus, burned
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across and said we are going to beat up or
kill African American students, they would naturally be arrested. You
don't get to threaten violence. And it's important to understand.
So you get in the sort of woke online world,
you get people say no, no, no, no. These are not
pro Hamas protesters. These are just people who are standing
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with the innocent Palace Stinian people. I want you to
listen to some of the chants that we're going on
at Columbia. UH play the audio.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Ben and for people, by the way, when you hear this,
I want you to understand. So some of this is loud,
and I'm going to give you a few of the
lines so that you can kind of hear this here
so you understand what to listen for. We say, just
as you say, how burn tel Aviv to the ground.
Another one that you'll hear them chant is Hamas, we
love you, we support your rockets too. And then another
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one is red, black, green and white. We support Hamas's fight.
That's just some of what you're gonna hear. Listen carefully,
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you know, I mean, center you you listen to that,
(11:29):
and I go back to what they were saying. It
is right, it is right to rebel Hamas, give them
hell Palestine.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
Yeah, let me read through the entire chant that what
you heard. The opening line is Alka, Sam, you make
us proud, take another soldier out. So it's calling on
Hamas to murder Israeli soldiers. We say justice, you say,
how burn tel Aviv to the ground. Next line, Hamas,
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we love you. We support your rockets too, rockets that
are aimed at civilians, to murder civilians, Red, black, green,
and white. We support Hamas's fight. It is right to
rebel Alca Sam, give them hell. It is right to
rebel Hamas, give them Hell, free, free Palestine. These are
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open Jihadis. They are cheering on Hamas murdering Jews. This
is not simply having a political discussion about the state
of the Gaza Strip or the West Bank. This is
advocating in support of terrorists who are murdering civilians. And
they are doing this on Columbia's campus and doing it
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directly to threaten Jewish students on campus.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
So when you look at the universities now, I also
think this brings up a bigger conversation. And there was
one of my friends that went to Colombia, for example,
and said that they were never could have imagined that
this would be their campus where they graduated from, that
they would be this ashamed of being an alumnus watching
this take place on their college campuses. We've seen a
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lot of others saying that I think this is the
moment of reckoning, and I mean it sincerely when I
say this 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. It
used to be simple, you go to the best school
you could get into. That was the logic, and then
it was if you got into an ivyleg school, you should,
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you know, celebrate and run to that school. What we're
now witnessing in the indoctrination of anti Semitism on these
college campuses, 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?
Speaker 3 (13:49):
Look? Look sadly, it's something a lot of parents are considering,
a lot of parents are wondering, why exactly do I
spend a half million dollars to send my children an
institute to brainwash them to hate America and hate their
mother and father. Look. Look, there was another image that
was sent around, and this is again on Columbia, where
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some Jewish students were holding Israeli and American flags, and
in front of them stood a young woman. She is
covering up her face in what looks like a Palaestadian headscarf.
Although she's a blond woman by appearances, she certainly does
not appear Palestinian. She appears like a blonde, young liberal.
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And her sign is handwritten on cardboard and it says
al Cassam's next targets and it has an arrow pointing
to the Jews behind her waving Israeli flags at American flags.
Now understand, she is deliberately threatening other students with murder,
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saying they should be murdered by terrorists. And I'll tell
you I put out on Twitter yesterday I said, if
this is a student, she should be expelled. If this
is a Columbia professor, she should be fired. No university
should allow one member of the community to advocate the
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murder of other members of the community. Now understand, this
is not free speech anymore. Go back to the clan example.
You would not allow a student to say the clan
should lynch these African American students. That would be grotesque
and you would expel that student because you don't get
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to threaten her, harass, or advocate the murder of your
fellow students. There are obligations every student has. You can
argue peacefully and civilly, but you do not get to
threaten violence. And when you are standing there saying murder
these students, that is exactly what you were doing.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
What comes next, I think from and I'm a government response.
You know, it's amazing how easily we can put people
on watch lists. If you're if your parent that goes
to a school board meeting. But these are people that
are calling for for terrorism, calling for murder, calling for death.
They're right there, They've got their signs. Is there a
responsibility of the of the government law enforcement to look
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into these and take these threats seriously?
Speaker 3 (16:28):
Look absolutely yes, But it starts with the university administration.
They are so terrified of the politics of this that
that that they're paralyzed that they refuse to do anything
about it. So John pot horitz Uh sent this out
on Twitter. He said, I just got this from a
Columbia chat and and this is someone who said, quote,
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my husband just picked up our freshman daughter at school.
He double parked and barged through the gate to get
her on college walk and escorted her out through a
gauntlet of nasty protesters. She tried to put up with
being on campus, quote staying strong and quote holding her ground,
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but the noise and viciousness finally got to her and
she couldn't sleep or concentrate anymore. My husband and daughter
felt like refugees fleeing a war zone. And to top
it all off, at the one hundred and sixteenth in Amsterdam,
gate they yelled to my husband to quote, go back
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to Poland. This is vicious, this is racist, this is
nakedly anti Semitic, and this is the poison being taught
at our universities right now.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Yeah, twour War two rhetoric, if you want to get
right down to.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
It, that is exactly right. 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. So this
was not just threats of violence, it was actual violence.
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That is unfolding. And you have to ask, all right,
what is Columbia doing, What is what is Yale doing
to ensure that that that students are are safe?
Speaker 2 (18:26):
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. Is it basically, Hey,
if you're Jewish, you can come here, but you were
not going to keep you safe.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
We're not going to protect you.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Because that looks to seem like that is the policies
of these universities so far, the same universities that the
demand tolerance and safe spaces. I remember just back a
few years ago center, when everybody was obsessed with having
quote safe spaces.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
What happened to that on college campuses?
Speaker 3 (18:52):
Well, it is it is safe spaces only for leftists,
and it in the look. We've talked about this a lot,
because listen that 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 that they're just saying,
I don't understand. I don't understand where this anti semitism
is coming from. And we've talked a lot on this
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podcast about it. The origins is cultural Marxism, and cultural
Marxism has taken over our college campuses. It has become
the dominant ideology. And the Marxist worldview divides the world
into victims and oppressors. And they have defined Jews. And
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let's be clear, I'm not saying israelis. I am saying Jews.
If you're an American Jew, they have defined you as
an oppressor and they have defined Palestinians as victims. Let's
be clear. The people chanting anti Semitic chants are not
limiting it to people who live in Israel. They are
directing it at American Jews, and it is the poison
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that is being taught to our students, that is being
echoed by professors, that is being echoed by administrators. And
it's why administrators are paralyzed to do anything about it,
because they see the pro Haamas protesters and in their
hierarchy of values, because they are protesting for Palestinians, they
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are more right, they are more just than the Jews
who are are coded as oppressors. 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. And as far as I'm concerned,
any college president We've seen the president of Penn and
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the president of Harvard resigned, 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.
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. This
is not You will say online that there is a
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sort of what about ism, there is a sort of
both sides as them, Well, you know, both sides are
doing this. No, that's not right. There are no pro
Israel protesters on college campuses who are threatening Palestinians. It
is one sided only. And so, for example, you know,
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I spent much of Sunday afternoon tweeting and pushing out
these videos because you really need to see them. And
one kind of very outspoken person on the left came
back and said, well, this is the problem with people
like Cruise. The issue is framed.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
But it's not.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
It is not just the left. Because what I tweeted
was wow, truly stunning. Read what the Orthodox rabbi at
Columbia Barnard wrote to Jewish students return home as soon
as possible. Columbia, New York City cannot will not protect
your safety. Radical leftist anti Semitism is a sickness that
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is destroying our universities. And this person pushed back and said, no, no, no,
it's not leftists. And my response was to say, it
is not honest to both sides this. All of the
students attacking Jews right now on college campuses are leftists.
So are all of the professors. This is the poison
(22:27):
fruit of Marxist ideology, where universities teach that Jews are
oppressors and Palestinians are victims. And it is it is direct,
it is ideological, and that is the poison that now
has become commonplaces at universities.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
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We hear from the President of the United States of
America a lot on certain issues, moral issues. We see
the President come out and he has no problem jumping
in if it's on something like.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
Black Lives Matter.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
But what we're not saying is the White House condemned
these actions in a real way. White House Press secretary
was asked about some protesters this week chanting long Live
a Moss.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
And this was the.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
Question the White House Press Secretary and listen to her answer,
and just to follow.
Speaker 4 (25:13):
Up on the protests, I guess 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
a Moss and long lived a Moss.
Speaker 5 (25:26):
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. 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. And no president
(25:49):
has taken more action to combat anti Semitism than this president.
And so you know, in our national strategy, we may
clear that when Jews are targeted because of their beliefs,
because of their identity, or when Israel is singled out
because of anti Jewish hate hatred, that is anti Semitism,
(26:09):
and that is completely, completely unacceptable.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
So there's your generic, right.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
Well, you know, we've got a lot going on here,
and you know, Biden ran and we're going to.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
Go back to this other issue.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
How hard is it for the White House to come
out and specifically the President to come out and condemn this.
Speaker 3 (26:28):
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. But I'll
tell you you and I are recording this right now.
It is twelve twenty four am, late Sunday night, beginning
of Monday morning. And I just right now, as we're
recording this, I looked at Joe Biden's Twitter account bingo
(26:50):
in the past twenty four hours and this is as
of twelve twenty four am. Joe Biden has tweeted about
legalizing marijuana and he sent multiple tweets calling for legalizing
marijuana and pardoning everyone who's convicted a possession of marijuana,
and multiple tweets attacking Donald Trump. He has not sent
said one single word about the anti semitism we're seeing
(27:14):
at Columbia and Yale on his Twitter account. They put
out an official White House statement that that that that
that gets uh that that that that gets a little
bit of attention, but on Twitter, complete silence. And there's
a reason. I mean, I asked the question why.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
Now, and you know this, that's to check the boxes
diplomacy on this. They're they're they are not sending the
president out and forget sending him. There's certain moments when
you're a leader that you just know your voice should
be heard on an issue. This is that moment where
the President should come out there shouldn't even need to
(27:49):
be a meeting about this and condemn it. And this
is where they're trying to have it both ways.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
Well, and that's because these angry leftists hosts are their
base right now and they're terrified of angering angering their base.
It is the sad reality of where we are right now.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
This also comes down to and we're seeing even more
and more data younger voters, which Joe Biden desperately needs.
Those thirty five and under are he's at risk of
them not showing up. The ones that voted for him
last time. If they don't show up this time, can
cost in the election. We've seen a lot of pandering.
We've seen yet another round of Hey, I'm going to
(28:33):
pay off your student loans and I don't care how
many millions or billions it costs.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
We're going to buy votes that way.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
We also see him coming out and not making the
big statements to fitting Israel because the young people have
been in doctrine and this goes back to what we're
witnessing on college campuses.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
They've been indoctrined to hate Israel.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
And so that's why I think we've seen the President
not say anything in.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
A real way publicly.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
In fact, he's talked about what they've leaked from the
White House. Let's talk about the leaks over the last
two weeks. They claim that the first Lady told Joe
Biden to stop it, stop it now, referring to Israel's
attacks on the terrace, and that was leaked by senior staff. Obviously,
there's real leaks that are shocking. And then there's leaks
(29:17):
that you do on purpose to get a news cycle.
That was clearly a purposeful leak. And then we also
had it coming out of the White House that apparently
the President in essence told Israel, hey, your Iyan Dome worked.
Take the win, right, don't retaliate against against the people
attacking you. Just be excited that you got the win.
(29:38):
If that's the messaging from the White House when it
comes to actual war, then it's very clear this is
all orchestrated as well.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
Yeah, understand it's not just Israel that the angry left hates.
I want you to play a video of what happened
at Yale this weekend. And it's going to be hard
to tell from the audio, but after you listen to
the audio, I'm gonna explain what you just listened to.
But but but play that audio, Ben.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
Senator.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
I wish people could see that video because if you
witness it, it's up on your on your Twitter right now,
it will make you enraged at what they're cheering.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
Yeah, you really need to see this video. So this
occurred on the Yale campus and they're chanting Viva Viva Palestina.
But what they're doing is they're pulling down the American
flag from a flagpole. And and by the way, the
the image of the students strikingly the students, the Yale
students that are there, if any of them are Palestinian,
(30:50):
they don't appear to be. Uh. And and there is
in in the foreground of the image there is this
young blonde kid, uh who appears to be just your
typical woke leftist American. All. He's got short blonde hair,
and he's wearing a Palestinian scarf. And as the American
flag goes down, he thrusts his fist in the air.
(31:14):
And the cheering you hear is when the flag goes
all the way down and hits the ground. These are
Yale students cheering the American flag being torn down. Play
the audio again and understand the cheering is when the
American flag hits the ground. Play the audio again. Ben.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
You 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.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
They've been camping out there. But this is at Yale.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
And if you see this at Yale, and you realize
Yelle 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 into debt or
have to pay that money for your kids to be
indoctrinated at a place that is clearly not coming down
hard on these actions.
Speaker 3 (32:13):
Now, look that that is exactly right, and it's because
the Yale administrators are terrified to engage with against the
left because they support the views of the left. I'll
tell you something else that was tweeted. There is a
story in the Free Beacon the Dean of students of
(32:34):
Northwestern attended a protest targeting the campus Jewish community Center.
So the Dean of students went to a rally where
protesters said the school quote weaponizes anti Semitism to silence
pro Palestinian activism, and let me read you that article.
The Dean of students at Northwestern University attended an anti
(32:56):
Israel protest this week targeting Hillel, the school's Jewish student
community center, to defend the demonstrator's quote right to free speech.
Dean of Students Monadugo said she showed up at the
rally on Monday to support anti Israel's activist quote right
to protest and to protect the right to free speech.
According to The Daily Northwestern, protest organizers demanded that the
(33:18):
university end its relationship with Hillel, a one hundred year
old nonprofit group that operates Jewish community centers on campuses
around the world, including Northwestern. The protest took place during
Northwestern's Admitted Students Day, which seeks to introduce incoming students
to campus life. So imagine you are Jewish students coming going.
(33:38):
Oh great, this is a welcoming place for me. Quote.
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. A leaflet
handed out by protesters accused Northwestern of quote funneling Jewish
(33:59):
student into Hillel, the Zionist Foundation for Jewish Life. It
also claimed the school quote weaponizes claims of anti Semitism
on campus to silence pro Palestinian activism. This is the
dean of students, now, I will say. After this became public, Northwestern,
at least to their credit, they put out a statement
(34:21):
claiming the dean of students goes to every protest to
make sure there's not violence. Maybe it sure doesn't sound
like that from the article that was printed in the
campus paper. But I'm at least glad they're feeling the
need to try to explain it. I suppose that is
marginally better then saying, yep, that's where we stand.
Speaker 2 (34:43):
It's American college campuses, and it's all coming and being organized,
as you mentioned earlier, by the left. And if you
look at this, you go back to what you said
at the beginning about how important is to follow the money.
Why is it that when it comes to these issues,
And I'm going to answer my own question here, but
(35:03):
it's like the media doesn't exist when it comes to
investiative reporting. I 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?
Not as single stories being written about it though.
Speaker 3 (35:22):
No, because they don't care. Because the media is ultimately
supportive of these goals. They're not. They're not covering it.
By the way, I will give some credit, and this
is something painful for me to do, but I'm gonna
give a little bit of credit to see it in.
You know who's been most vocal speaking out on this.
Speaker 2 (35:38):
CNN has had a lot of coverage that you're you're correct,
especially this past weekend.
Speaker 3 (35:42):
And Jake Tapper in particular, And listen, I've been very
critical of Jake. You and I both know Jake very well,
but on this issue, Jake, Jake Tapper has been the
single most outspoken major media figure and I'm gonna give
him credit for that because because his colleagues and his
colleagues at other networks and newspapers should.
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these organizations that are backing and clearly growing these these
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anti Semitic protests are directly connected to Democratic donors, Democratic
Party Party, what are the chances that the media covers
it or what do you bet we're the only ones
people hear about it from zero?
Speaker 3 (38:37):
The media won't cover that. They have no interest in
it whatsoever. They have no interest in who's promoting this,
who's funding it, who's paying people. Listen, Ben, as you know,
I have had anti Israel Prohamas protesters at my home
every Saturday morning for over three months now. It's the
same group of about fifteen people. They're clearly being paid
(38:59):
by somebody. Nobody cares who's paying them. Somebody is paying
them to and they're doing this at the homes of
other people as well, other elected officials. As well. This
is a concerted effort, but do you know where this
ends up?
Speaker 1 (39:14):
Where's that?
Speaker 3 (39:15):
If you want to see where this ends up, take
a look at Europe. Sadly, Europe has for a long time,
for centuries, been on the cutting edge of anti Semitism,
and you can look to Europe to see perhaps the
next step of where these college campuses are. This weekend,
the London police threatened to arrest a man for being
(39:37):
quote openly Jewish, and I want to read from a
post that Jonathan Turley put up this weekend quote the
London police are under fire this week for threatening to
arrest aman wearing a kuipa near the near a pro
Palestinian march. Officers inform Gideon Falter, head of the Campaign
Against Anti Semitism Watchdog, that he was quote and antagonizing
(40:01):
the protesters by being quote openly Jewish near such a march.
He was told that if he tried to cross the
street while being quote openly Jewish, he would be arrested
for breach of the peace. In the video police officer,
(40:21):
one police officer said quote, you are quite openly Jewish.
This is a pro Palestinian march. I'm not accusing you
of anything, but I'm worried about the reaction to your presence.
Another 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, or if you choose to
(40:42):
remain here because you are causing a breach of peace
with all these other people, you will be arrested. Now
I want you to pause and reflect on that. In
London it is now an arrestable offense according to police,
to be openly Jewish, to wear a yamica.
Speaker 1 (41:04):
You're the one.
Speaker 3 (41:05):
If you are simply Jewish and and acknowledge your Jewish
heritage and don't hide it, that is grounds for being
arrested in London. That's where this heads. That is the
fruit of the cultural Marxist leftist ideology, that is the
fruit of the anti Semitism infusing our universities.
Speaker 2 (41:28):
It's a reminder to pray for the Jewish people now
more than ever before, and the students on these college
campuses to keep them and the professors safe.
Speaker 1 (41:37):
Don't forget the center.
Speaker 2 (41:38):
And I do this podcast three days a week Monday,
Wednesday and Friday. There are a lot of big votes
coming up in DC this week. We're going to cover
all that for you on Wednesday, and make sure in
those in between days you grab my podcast, the Ben
Ferguson Podcasts. I'll keep you up to date on the
latest breaking news and the Center. I will see you
back here on Wednesday morning.
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