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Monday, March 31st. Welcome to a new

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episode of System Update, our live nightly

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show that airs every Monday through Friday

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at 7 p.m. Eastern, exclusively here on

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Rumble, the free speech alternative to YouTube.

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Just realize that tomorrow is April 1st.

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Don't expect any kind of Tom Fullery

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on the show. I hate April 1st.

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I hate being fooled by tricks. I don't

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like doing them. So it's gonna be

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a very straightforward show for tomorrow, so

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I just want to warn you ahead

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of time. All right. For more than

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a decade most of the American right

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claim to be most offended by attacks

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on free speech and free thought on

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American campuses And they were right to

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be deeply concerned by that I was

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too But since the Trump administration began

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just a little over two months ago

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They have made it one of the

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top priorities the administration has one of

1:03

their very top priorities to purge all American

1:05

academia of quote bigotry aim not at

1:07

minority groups in general But one

1:09

minority group in particular And to

1:12

accomplish this, they're using a

1:14

combination of government coercion

1:16

and control, as well as

1:18

demands for expanded hate speech

1:20

codes on campus, exactly what

1:22

conservatives most loudly derided

1:25

and denounced. And the real

1:27

goal is clear, to ban real

1:29

criticisms of the foreign country of

1:31

Israel under the guise of combating

1:34

racism. Exactly what they accuse American

1:36

liberals of doing as well, labeling

1:38

everything racism and bigotry, to justify

1:40

suppression of those views. Now, this is something,

1:43

as viewers of this program know that

1:45

we have covered quite frequently and vocally,

1:47

but we are forced by events of

1:49

the last 72 hours to return to

1:51

this onslaught against free speech and academic

1:54

freedom, just since last Friday, last Friday

1:56

night, 72 hours ago. Several of America's

1:58

most accomplished academic institutions, Harvard, Columbia,

2:00

and NYU saw increasingly aggressive attempts

2:03

to punish fire and silence. Not

2:05

students, but academics, professors, for the

2:07

crime of opposing Israel. All is

2:10

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Anjahu openly

2:12

celebrates his control over the discourse

2:14

on American campuses. We are, according

2:17

to the Trump administration itself, Only

2:19

at the beginning, nowhere near the

2:21

end of the systemic assault on

2:24

free thought in American academia, the

2:26

place free thought, is supposed to

2:28

thrive most robustly. What's most amazing

2:31

of all is that this free

2:33

speech attack is not being waged

2:35

in defense of Americans or American

2:37

values, but instead in defense of

2:40

a foreign country often cheered most

2:42

by those who call themselves part

2:44

of the America First Movement. A

2:47

staggering irony among many. Deportations of

2:49

students who denounced or protested the

2:51

Israeli war in Gaza continues to

2:54

gather steam. Another student at the

2:56

University of Minnesota in the country

2:58

legally yesterday was really disappeared by

3:01

ICE agents. I used that verb,

3:03

disappeared quite deliberately. Nobody knows where

3:05

she is, including the university, and

3:08

it's all because she denounced or

3:10

protested Israel. Another student earlier this

3:12

last week at Tufts. is now

3:15

detained and imprisoned by ICE in

3:17

Louisiana because she wrote an op-ed

3:19

in her school paper advocating for

3:21

university divestment of Israel until the

3:24

blockade of Gaza and the occupation

3:26

of the West Bank ends. An

3:28

op-ed. The U.S. government is

3:31

not grabbing these names out of a

3:33

hat. They are being fed to them

3:35

by two extremely sketchy and shadowy groups

3:37

with deep ties to the Israeli state,

3:39

the Canary Project and Bettar. We'll tell

3:41

you what we know about these groups

3:43

and how they select people to go

3:45

on their McCarthyite blacklist that is now

3:47

allowing a foreign country to dictate the

3:49

limits of free speech about that country

3:51

inside the United States, including in academic

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help keep free speech on the

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internet alive. I try hard to

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avoid hyperbole in my journalism, my

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reporting, my analysis, my commentary, I

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It's also kind of softball just

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And so I say this with

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all due deliberation, with all consideration,

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I really do believe the United

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States is currently engaged in confronting

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one of the worst free speech

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crises we've confronted in many years.

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And I say that as somebody

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who is extremely vocal and relentless

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in denouncing the Biden administration's various

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ways to censor political speech from

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coercing. Big tech platforms

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to remove dissent to imposing

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all kinds of orthodoxies to

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endorsing and financing a Disinformation

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industry decide to censor What

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we're having now is a

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full frontal attack on The

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core rights of free speech

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and free discourse and academic

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freedom That is an incredibly

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important American value academic freedom

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Our country was built on

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the principles of the enlightenment

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And one of the things

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that Enlightenment thinkers most stood

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for was the idea that

7:58

in society generally, but especially

8:00

in academic institutions, you'd need...

8:02

to have full freedom to

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question and product and dissect

8:06

and deny and to call

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into question the most cherished

8:10

orthodoxies. It was crucial to

8:12

have at least one place

8:14

in society that was not

8:16

just tolerant of but encouraging

8:18

the most sacred and valued

8:20

priorities to be questioned and

8:22

denied. That's what academia is

8:24

for. That's what academic freedom

8:26

is about. And

8:28

all of that is being very

8:30

rapidly subverted, rapidly subverted by a

8:32

Trump administration that came in promising

8:35

to end censorship and to restore

8:37

the values of free speech in

8:39

the United States. And they're doing

8:41

so for the very obvious reason

8:43

that they want to prevent American

8:45

academia and American college campuses but

8:48

people in general from feeling free

8:50

to criticizing. the state of Israel

8:52

or questioning the US financing of

8:54

Israel and the relationship to Israel

8:56

where we give them billions of

8:58

dollars and arm them, they want

9:01

to make, create a climate where

9:03

people are afraid of what the

9:05

consequences will be if they speak

9:07

negatively or critically about Israel and

9:09

it's already having major repercussions. Sometimes

9:11

the Trump administration and officials are

9:14

directly punishing people or demanding censorship.

9:16

Other times the threat that they

9:18

have hovering over them is causing

9:20

self-censorship. which often is one of

9:22

the most pernicious forms of censorship,

9:24

one of the most pernicious outcomes,

9:27

is people and institutions start anticipating

9:29

what the punishment might be if

9:31

they exercise free speech so they

9:33

voluntarily renounce it in order to

9:35

keep the government pleased and happy

9:37

and at bay. Here is the

9:40

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as

9:42

well as Trump's former ambassador to

9:44

Israel David Friedmanman, who just yesterday

9:46

appeared in public to openly boast

9:48

about the fact, celebrate the fact

9:50

that the Trump administration is supposedly

9:53

waging a war against bigotry on

9:55

campuses just like the liberal left

9:57

said they were doing and is

9:59

curbing speech in the name of

10:01

stopping hate speech and racism just

10:03

like the liberal left said they

10:06

were doing. But at least the

10:08

American liberal left was doing some

10:10

of the name of protecting people

10:12

in the country, protecting Americans, protecting

10:14

America, that was their ostensible goal.

10:16

This is a censorship regime really

10:19

being engineered by a foreign government

10:21

and its loyal list inside the

10:23

United States and they're more than

10:25

happy to tell you that, listen

10:27

to that, listen to them talk.

10:31

These ignorant demonstrators, who

10:33

are they demonstrating for

10:35

for these murderers, these

10:37

rapists, this mass killers?

10:39

This is a reflection

10:41

of a deep rot

10:43

that has pervaded the

10:45

intellectual hub of free

10:47

societies. And this vilification

10:49

of Israel, the Jewish

10:51

people, and Western values

10:53

has been propagated by

10:55

systemic alliance between the

10:57

ultra-progressive left. and radical

11:00

Islam. It must be

11:02

resolutely fought by civilized

11:04

societies to safeguard their

11:06

future. This is why

11:08

we must all come

11:10

in. President Trump's decisive

11:12

actions against anti-Semitism. And

11:14

we must pressure other

11:16

governments to do the

11:18

same. A government can

11:20

do in too much.

11:22

So remember the conservative

11:24

critique of the censorship

11:26

regime that came from

11:28

on college campuses. Liberals

11:30

would constantly depict whatever speech they

11:32

just liked as inciting violence against

11:34

minorities as being racist, as being

11:37

transphobics, you know, phobic, whatever, and

11:39

then would say, no, this isn't

11:41

speech, this is violence, this is

11:43

incitement, this is bigotry. And not

11:45

only would they do that, but

11:47

a lot of the censorship, including

11:49

banning President Trump, while he was

11:52

still in office from Facebook and

11:54

Twitter, were based on the argument

11:56

that no, this isn't speech that

11:58

he is... uttering and spreading its

12:00

incitement to insurrection and there's a

12:02

big difference they said between speech

12:04

and hate speech or free speech

12:07

and bigotry or free speech and

12:09

incitement these are all the arguments

12:11

now being marshaled not by our

12:13

own leaders by a leader of

12:15

a foreign country who's proudly pouting

12:17

us on the head for engaging

12:19

in the kind of censorship that

12:22

he loves and telling other countries

12:24

they better do the same. Why

12:26

does this little country? that we

12:28

finance and it depends on the

12:30

American taxpayer, have any say in

12:32

what people can say at college

12:34

campuses, how we can protest. It's

12:37

so ironic because a lot of

12:39

conservatives or Trump supporters justify the

12:41

deportation of students from college campuses

12:43

by saying, well, they're just foreigners,

12:45

they're guests in our country, foreigners

12:47

have no right to comment on

12:50

our policies, to denounce anything, to

12:52

protest against anything. Very strange principle,

12:54

the idea that you were foreigners,

12:56

foreign students to your universities, because

12:58

that's how you get a lot

13:00

of brain drain into your country,

13:02

which both the Elon Musk and

13:05

Trump said was necessary when they

13:07

defended H-1B visas increasing, and then

13:09

Tallamaya can stay for eight years

13:11

and get degrees. You just have

13:13

to keep your mouth shut about

13:15

anything political. But here you have

13:17

Benjamin and Yahoo, and not only

13:20

did he say this, but last

13:22

week he mocked and denounced and

13:24

attacked and attacked and attacked. the

13:26

American judiciary and the American legal

13:28

system because he's facing a corruption

13:30

case and wants Americans to think

13:32

that the persecution of Donald Trump

13:35

was similar to his persecution, but

13:37

then also the President of El

13:39

Salvador, President Bochaley, went on to

13:41

Twitter and just mocked a court

13:43

order. That came from our judiciary

13:45

saying you cannot deport anyone to

13:48

all Salvador prisons without first giving

13:50

them a hearing So it's frozen

13:52

for now until we figure this

13:54

out and he went on and

13:56

said whoopsie mocked our court system

13:58

mocked our legal system And a

14:00

lot of people keep saying foreigners

14:03

have no right to comment on

14:05

our politics. We're all oh, thank

14:07

you. Thank you Prime Minister Netanyahu.

14:09

Thank you President Bukali for standing

14:11

up to the American judiciary. Here

14:13

is David Friedman speaking at the

14:15

same event. A government can do

14:18

in two months more than any

14:20

organization can do in its lifetime.

14:22

And so when we talk about

14:24

the importance of a bipartisan fight

14:26

against anti-Semitism, which of course I

14:28

endorse and I, as my predecessor

14:30

said, I condemn anti-Semitism on the

14:33

right and on the left, I'm

14:35

an equal opportunity, condemner of anti-Semitism.

14:37

You're alluding to Candace Owens and

14:39

Tucker Collins. Yeah, none of them

14:41

are any good on the right,

14:43

on the left, I don't like

14:45

any of these anti-Semites, and I'm

14:48

not shy about it. But the

14:50

government... a government, the United States

14:52

government or the government of France

14:54

or the government of any other

14:56

country, has the power to rein

14:58

in anti-Semitism in a much more

15:01

effective way. And people say, well,

15:03

you know, the governments are not

15:05

in the business of changing the

15:07

way people think. That's true, but

15:09

to my thinking, most people who

15:11

are anti-Semites, most of these people

15:13

running around, we're not going to

15:16

win their hearts and minds because

15:18

they don't have hearts and they

15:20

don't have minds. So, you know,

15:22

how are we going to, there's

15:24

no reason to think we're ever

15:26

going to convince them, but we

15:28

can deport them, we can put

15:31

them in jail, we can make

15:33

their lives miserable, we can cut

15:35

off their funding, and that's what

15:37

the Trump administration is going to

15:39

go to war against, bigotry. Not

15:41

anti-black racism, not misogyny, not transphobia,

15:43

not xenophobia, not Islamophobia. Who cares

15:46

about any of those types of

15:48

bigotry? We're going to let those

15:50

rain free because any attempt to

15:52

stop those on campuses, that censorship.

15:54

That's woke ideology. But, says David

15:56

Friedman, the government can and is

15:58

going to do a lot to

16:01

fight bigotry in the United States.

16:03

Is that the government's role? now,

16:05

including putting people in prison for

16:07

saying anything anti-Semitic, not even anti-Semitic,

16:09

in their view anti-Semitic, they think

16:11

that any criticism of Israel is

16:14

anti-Semitic. Try and go one day,

16:16

even if you're in support of

16:18

Israel, just try and go one

16:20

day, where you criticize Israel in

16:22

some forum, online, wherever, and count

16:24

how many seconds it takes for

16:26

somebody to accuse you of being

16:29

anti-Semitic. These people think that anti-Semitism

16:31

doesn't mean denying the Holocaust or

16:33

talking about the inherent degeneracy of

16:35

Jews, like classic anti-Semitism. They've expanded

16:37

radically the definition of that term.

16:39

In fact, the Trump administration is

16:41

imposing on various administrations at colleges

16:44

the requirement that they expand what

16:46

anti-Semitism means to include a whole

16:48

range of... common credits of Israel.

16:50

We showed me that many times

16:52

the House actually passed a law

16:54

to implement and formalize that expanded

16:56

definition of anti-Semitism which actually is

16:59

implemented in the EU because they

17:01

have a lot of hate speech

17:03

codes that JD Vance went to

17:05

Europe and said this is antithetical

17:07

to our values. Ted, censor in

17:09

the name of hate speech is

17:11

exactly what the Trump administration is

17:14

doing. Here's

17:16

what the Trump administration did to

17:18

Columbia University from CNN on March

17:21

7th Trump administration cancels $400 million

17:23

in grants and contracts With Columbia

17:25

University the Trump administration said Friday

17:27

that it's pulling $400 million from

17:29

Columbia Cancelling grants and contracts because

17:32

of what the government describes as

17:34

the Ivy League school's failure to

17:36

squel anti-Semitism on campus, etc. It's

17:38

the same thing that we heard

17:41

all the time now We went

17:43

over that letter Because

17:45

what was so disturbing at the

17:47

letter that came from the Trump

17:50

administration to Colombia is not just

17:52

that they demanded not foreign students

17:54

but American students who protested Israel

17:57

and the Israeli war in Gaza

17:59

and the Biden administration. policy of

18:01

financing network, they demanded that American

18:04

students, including American Jewish students, be

18:06

severely punished, suspended, and or expelled.

18:08

That was one of the Trump

18:11

administration's demands of Colombia and they

18:13

have now started to expel citizens

18:15

of the United States who participated

18:18

in that protest in those protests.

18:20

But on top of that, the

18:22

Trump administration also demanded that the

18:25

Columbia Middle East Studies Program, which

18:27

has been a target for years,

18:29

decades, of Israel's strongest loyalist in

18:31

the United States. In fact, Barry

18:34

Weiss got her start at Columbia,

18:36

the free speech queen, as a

18:38

19 or 20 or the anti-counsel

18:41

culture queen, as a 19 and

18:43

20 year old, agitating for all

18:45

sorts of Arab professors or Israel

18:48

critics to be fired. She was,

18:50

that was her starting point. And

18:52

then at some point she rebranded

18:55

herself a free speech warrior but

18:57

never gave up those ideas. And

18:59

now the Middle East studies program

19:02

that the Barry Weisses of the

19:04

world have long aided has to

19:06

be put under a receivership, meaning

19:09

someone from outside the department no

19:11

longer the chair of the department

19:13

controls what their curriculum is, obviously

19:16

to make sure that it's pro-Israel.

19:19

that are academic institutions and every

19:21

professor who works there and everything

19:23

that is taught must be aligned

19:25

with the view of the Israeli

19:27

government and Israeli supporters. And on

19:29

top of that, they're demanding as

19:31

well that this expanded hate speech

19:33

definition of anti-Semitism, the IHRA definition

19:35

that we've gone over many times

19:37

before that bears you from comparing

19:39

Israel to the Nazis, even if

19:42

you think the comparison is up,

19:44

you're not allowed to say that

19:46

on campus or you'll be punished.

19:48

You're not allowed to say the

19:50

Jews killed Jesus. You're not allowed

19:52

to accuse certain Jewish people of

19:54

having primary loyalty to Israel, even

19:56

if you think it's true. A

19:58

whole long list of things are

20:00

you can't apply double standards to

20:02

Israel, meaning you can't criticize them.

20:05

way, unless you make sure you're

20:07

criticizing every other country the same.

20:09

You're not allowed to call Israel

20:11

a racist endeavor, even though you

20:13

can say that about every other

20:15

country freely, including the United States.

20:17

It is actually an assault to

20:19

outlaw Israel critics' protests against Israel,

20:21

including peaceful ones. We'll show you

20:23

in a minute, and we talked

20:25

about before, that one of the

20:27

students being deported, who was in

20:30

the United States illegally, the only

20:32

transgression, was that she wrote an

20:34

oped. a very mild outbed in

20:36

her student paper. Writing out beds

20:38

is now, she didn't harass any

20:40

Jewish students, she didn't occupy buildings

20:42

or whatever all the allegations are,

20:44

neither did Mahmoud Khaleo by the

20:46

way, he didn't harass any Jewish

20:48

students or block their entrance and

20:50

their egress and ingress, he didn't

20:53

attack anyone, he didn't hurt anybody,

20:55

he didn't advocate for Hamas, he

20:57

didn't occupy buildings. This is all

20:59

about punishing. Israel critics and I

21:01

tell you right now it's so

21:03

so far the deportations I've been

21:05

confined to people are green card

21:07

holders married to an American you're

21:09

married to an American citizen your

21:11

wife is eight months pregnant your

21:13

American wife she's about to get

21:16

birth and you get deported because

21:18

you participated in a protest against

21:20

Israel even though you're a permanent

21:22

resident here but what is I'm

21:24

telling you what is next I

21:26

promise you what is next is

21:28

that they're going to take American

21:30

citizens who are naturalized American citizens

21:32

like Elon Musk, people not born

21:34

in the United States, but who

21:36

came to the United States and

21:38

became naturalized, they're going to strip

21:41

them of their citizenship, and then

21:43

immediately say, because they're no longer

21:45

citizens, they can be deported, and

21:47

they're going to deport them for

21:49

the crime of criticizing Israel. And

21:51

as I said, it's already affecting

21:53

the free speech rights of Americans

21:55

when you're imposing these kinds of

21:57

constraints. On the academic freedom at

21:59

colleges, you're obviously affecting not just

22:01

foreign students, if you don't care

22:04

about that, but also everyone on

22:06

the campus, including American students, including

22:08

Jewish students, sacred Jewish students, who

22:10

you want so badly to defend

22:12

and protect and keep safe, you

22:14

want to hold them close. hug

22:16

them. You're also causing an erosion

22:18

of their free speech rights. Substantial

22:20

minorities of Jewish students and Jews

22:22

in general oppose the Israeli war

22:24

in Gaza. One of the things

22:27

that has happened that I think

22:29

has not gotten enough attention is

22:31

being the president of an Ivy

22:33

League university was previously one of

22:35

the safest jobs in the world.

22:37

Just being a university president in

22:39

general, I was, I remember when

22:41

I went to NYU law school

22:43

and College in George Washington as

22:45

well. The University of Presidents stayed

22:47

for decades. The President of Princeton

22:49

was my constitutional law professor at

22:52

NYU. He was very young, maybe

22:54

in his early 30s. He stayed

22:56

there for years, went to Princeton,

22:58

worked his way up, became Princeton

23:00

President, like 1996. Christopher eyes grouber,

23:02

and he's still the president of

23:04

Princeton. These are jobs that people

23:06

keep for life. And yet, since

23:08

October 7th, four different. Ivy League

23:10

American presidents have been forced out

23:12

of their job all over the

23:15

same issue Israel and allowing bigotry

23:17

on campus to thrive anti-Semitism. Two

23:19

of them at Columbia, one at

23:21

Harvard, one at the University of

23:23

Penn, Pennsylvania, and now Kewat Columbia,

23:25

the latest Columbia professor, a university

23:27

president, rather, was just forced out

23:29

on Friday. Even though she agreed

23:31

to all the Trump administration's terms

23:33

because she reportedly, someone claimed, the

23:35

free press claimed, Barry Weiss's, pro-Israel

23:38

thing, claimed that she had said

23:40

privately, yes, I'm agreeing to these,

23:42

but I'm going to slow walk

23:44

them. We're not going to just

23:46

rush and do these. And the

23:48

Trump administration went ballistic. Israel supporters

23:50

went ballistic and forced the second

23:52

university president of Colombia out in

23:54

a year and replaced her. with

23:56

somebody who actually has appeared on

23:58

the stage of APAC to vow.

24:00

bipartisan loyalty to Israel to talk

24:03

about the need to keep bipartisan

24:05

support and financing of Israel. She's

24:07

a Jewish woman who has appeared

24:09

at APAC and still there's already

24:11

a move to get rid of

24:13

her too on the grounds that

24:15

she's insufficiently pro-Israel. You can be

24:17

a Jewish woman who goes to

24:19

APAC, gets up on the stage

24:21

and talks about... the importance of

24:23

keeping bipartisan support for Israel and

24:26

still be insufficiently pro-Israel to the

24:28

point where the government won't allow

24:30

you to assume the presidency of

24:32

Colombia. Here from the Wall Street

24:34

Journal on Friday, Columbia University president

24:36

steps down and made Trump battle.

24:38

Quote, the university's board co-chair Claire

24:40

Shipman was named acting president Katrina,

24:42

Armstrong is returning to leave the

24:44

school's Irving Medical Center. Armstrong is

24:46

the second president to exit in

24:49

seven months. as Columbia has navigated

24:51

a series of crises stemming from

24:53

pro-Palestinian protests that disrupted campuses last

24:55

year. Last week, the school reached

24:57

an agreement with the administration that

24:59

included restricting masks, empowering campus police,

25:01

and appointing a senior vice provost

25:03

with broad authority to oversee the

25:05

Department of Middle East, South, Asian,

25:07

and African studies. Over the weekend,

25:09

Armstrong held closed-door meetings with anxious

25:11

faculty about the deal. You know

25:14

why the faculty is anxious? Because

25:16

in America, the government isn't supposed to

25:19

dictate the curriculum and the administration and

25:21

the teaching of what can be done

25:23

at hourly colleges. That's supposed to be

25:25

left up to academics, professors. That's what

25:27

academic freedom means, is the ability to

25:29

teach and to say and to express

25:31

yourself how you want free of government

25:34

coercion and control. This would be like

25:36

if the Biden administration came to universities

25:38

and said we're going to take away

25:40

all your funding unless you fire every

25:42

last conservative. You still have a few

25:44

conservatives on the campus, they oppose affirmative

25:47

action, they oppose the EI, we think

25:49

that's racist, you have to get rid

25:51

of them, or who say that there's

25:53

only two genders and that's transphobic and

25:55

it incites violence against trans people, you

25:57

have to get rid of them. Do

25:59

you think conservatives would be supporting that

26:02

and saying, oh yeah, that's the role

26:04

of the government, that's totally fine, of

26:06

course not, they would be screaming that

26:08

Joe Biden is a tyrant, they should

26:10

be doing the same now that Trump

26:12

is doing that just in defense of

26:15

a different group? The article goes on,

26:17

quote, some faculty said they were concerned

26:19

that Armstrong was playing down what Columbia

26:21

had agreed to and presenting one message

26:23

to the faculty and another to the

26:25

government. The Trump administration pushed her to

26:27

clarify her position on Tuesday. She issued

26:30

a statement publicly affirming her commitment to

26:32

the agreement on Friday after Armstrong stepped

26:34

down. The Trump administration's anti-Semitism task force

26:36

said, quote, the action taken today by

26:38

Columbia's trustees, especially in light of this

26:40

week's concerning revelation, is an important step

26:43

toward advancing negotiations as set forth in

26:45

the preconditional understanding reached last Friday between

26:47

the University and the task force to

26:49

combat anti-Semitism. Is

26:51

this, is going on a crusade

26:53

to purge bigotry from American campuses

26:56

using a combination of government coercion

26:58

and control and expanded hate speech

27:00

codes what conservatives wanted? Because I

27:03

had always understood that conservatives were

27:05

deeply offended by those sorts of

27:07

things. And the reason I thought

27:10

that was because they'd been screaming

27:12

that for as long as I

27:14

can remember. One of the weird

27:17

things, really weird things, is that

27:19

there are a lot of members

27:21

of the Republican Party in Congress.

27:24

who are not Jewish, but who

27:26

are more fanatical about Israel than

27:28

almost every Jewish member of Congress.

27:31

And they love to speak for

27:33

all Jewish people. They've irrigated to

27:35

themselves the right to speak for

27:38

Jewish people. So here is Congressman

27:40

Michael Lawler of New York, who

27:42

is not Jewish, despite how much

27:45

he loves to purport to speak

27:47

for Jewish people everywhere. Like kind

27:49

of the white Savior hero. who

27:52

comes down and protects all Jews,

27:54

so grateful to him, so, so

27:56

grateful. Kind of like the like

27:59

a Robindie Angelo type, but for

28:01

Jews. And the new... president of

28:03

Columbia, the third one, is Claire

28:06

Shipman, who as I said is

28:08

a Jewish woman, who has actually

28:10

been at APAC. She's married to

28:13

Obama's former press secretary, Jay Kearney,

28:15

who's served for the last decade

28:17

as the spokesperson for Amazon. He's

28:20

not actually far left radicals. These

28:22

are like, corporateist types. Claire Shipman

28:24

is very much pro-isual. But here

28:27

was Michael Algar on Friday saying

28:29

she has to go because she's

28:31

not Jewish enough. He quote tweeted

28:34

the New York Post. New York

28:36

Post said Columbia's new president called

28:38

Congress's hearings on anti-Semitism quote nonsense.

28:41

And then Mike Lawler said, this

28:43

is a slap in the face

28:45

to every Jewish student on your

28:48

campus. Resign out. She's the third

28:50

president. She barely is in office

28:52

like six seconds. And he's saying,

28:55

you're offensive to all Jewish people.

28:57

Step down. Who is Mike Lawler

28:59

to speak for all Jewish students?

29:02

Huge numbers of Jewish students participated

29:04

in those protests. We had them

29:06

on our show. In fact, so

29:09

many Jewish students were participating in

29:11

the protests that they had a

29:13

Shabbat dinner every Friday night inside

29:16

the protest encampment. Here is Claire

29:18

Shipman, the new president, who Michael

29:20

Aller and many others think is

29:23

insufficiently pro-Israel to lead Colombia. Here

29:25

she was on the stage at

29:27

APAC with the Democratic Senator Chris

29:30

Coons, a virulent supporter of Israel,

29:32

obviously very bipartisan bipartisan. And they

29:34

talked about the need to maintain

29:37

bipartisan support for APAC. Here's just

29:39

a little snippet. Thanks for coming

29:41

today. Thanks for coming today. Great

29:44

to be with you, Claire. Thanks

29:46

to APAC for a great conference

29:48

and a chance to join you

29:51

again. Senator Kins. You

29:53

just returned from a trip to

29:55

Israel. We were talking about it

29:57

backstage. It sounds as though it

29:59

was fascinating you had an opportunity

30:02

to meet. with Prime Minister Netanyahu

30:04

visit the Syrian border. What is

30:06

your candid sense of Israel's security

30:08

situation coming away from the trip?

30:11

Well I was a great... I

30:13

mean the whole thing was all

30:15

about Israel and how fortunate and

30:17

grateful you should be that you

30:20

got to go make pilgrimage to

30:22

Benjamin Netanyahu, the most important leader

30:24

in the world who represents the

30:26

most important country. This is the

30:29

Jewish woman who congressional Republicans are

30:31

saying is insufficiently pro-Israel to leave

30:33

Colombia. She needs to resign now.

30:35

Here from the Columbia Spectator, the

30:37

student newspaper at Columbia, from yesterday,

30:40

here's what to know about Claire

30:42

Shipman, Columbia's new acting president. Quote,

30:44

Shipman and award-winning journalists served as

30:46

co-chair of the Board of Trustees

30:49

before assuming the presidency. She was

30:51

married to Jay Carney, who served

30:53

as the White House Press Secretary

30:55

under former President Barack Obama. It's

30:58

a little background on her. This

31:00

is not some like... far left

31:02

pro-homas radical or whatever they're trying

31:04

to imply she is to force

31:07

out the third Columbia president in

31:09

the last seven months over this

31:11

one foreign country Here is Minosha

31:13

Fique who was testifying before the

31:16

house and Wasn't nobody had to

31:18

say about Columbia's administration? I have

31:20

seen we have had pro-Israeli demonstrations

31:22

on Canada. I should say this

31:25

is the first, this is the

31:27

president at the time that October

31:29

7th happened. She made all sorts

31:31

of statements condemning the protesters. She

31:34

called NYPD multiple times to have

31:36

them all arrested. Not enough. She

31:38

was forced out. But here's what

31:40

she was saying in April 2024

31:43

when she was still the Columbia

31:45

president. I have seen, we have

31:47

had. pro-Israeli demonstrations on campus. No,

31:49

no, no. But not protest that

31:52

was against Muslims. No. Have you

31:54

seen one against Arabs? No, I

31:56

have not. Have you seen one

31:58

against Palestinians? No, I have not.

32:01

Have you seen against one? against

32:03

Jewish people? Have you seen a

32:05

protest saying we are against Jewish

32:07

people? No, I have seen. Okay,

32:09

thank you for that clarification. I

32:12

mean, think what you want about,

32:14

I don't know, I really don't

32:16

care. That was a very clever

32:18

and effective way of asking this

32:21

question. Because she did say, yes,

32:23

there have been protests against Israel.

32:26

So then, Elianomer said, well,

32:28

are there protests against Muslims,

32:30

Muslims and Arabs and Palestinians,

32:32

meaning the pro-Israel protests, and

32:34

she said, no, those weren't

32:36

protests against those groups, and

32:38

then Eliano said, what about

32:40

any other protests, including the

32:42

protests against the Israeli destruction

32:44

of Gaza, were those protests

32:46

against Jews? And she was

32:48

forced to say, no, because

32:50

of course they weren't. This

32:52

is the point. Everybody involved

32:54

in American discourse understands. that

32:56

criticism of Israel is immediately

32:58

depicted as anti-Semitic. I mean,

33:00

you're allowed to criticize Israel

33:02

as long as you're still

33:05

pro-Israel. You're allowed to say,

33:07

oh, I think Israel should

33:09

be more aggressive here, pull

33:11

back a little here. thinking

33:13

any other government's wrong when

33:15

they're doing it. I mean,

33:17

you can, as long as

33:19

you're pledging your loyal to

33:21

Israel, you can criticize them

33:23

for constructive reasons to help

33:25

Israel, but you cannot criticize

33:27

it in a way that

33:29

shows that you're opposed to

33:31

either what they're doing in

33:33

wars or the US support

33:35

for them. That's anti-Semitic. I

33:37

mean, it's just true. I

33:39

am somebody who has spent

33:41

nine years, eight years. Denouncing

33:43

what I regarded as baseless

33:45

or excessive attacks on Donald

33:47

Trump, attempts to malign him,

33:49

fabrications of scandal. I don't

33:51

just go around or flexively

33:53

criticizing the Trump administration, but

33:55

when I see, as somebody

33:57

who really does believe in

33:59

the constitution, who really does

34:01

believe in the value of

34:03

free speech, an academic free

34:05

speech. and free discourse and

34:07

free protest and due process.

34:09

Speaking of other issues as

34:11

well, I'm not going to

34:13

sit by and watch college

34:15

campuses have their free speech

34:17

rights destroyed in service of

34:19

a foreign government and not

34:21

say anything. Here's Mike Johnson,

34:23

the Speaker of the House,

34:25

who in April of 2024

34:27

decided that he wanted to

34:29

dictate who should be Columbia's

34:31

president. Sadly, Colombia's administrators have

34:33

chosen to let the threats,

34:35

the fear, and the intimidation

34:37

of the mob rule to

34:39

overtake American principles like free

34:41

speech and the free exchange

34:43

of ideas and the free

34:45

exercise of religion. They have

34:48

co-opted First Amendment arguments to

34:50

protect genocide and to elevate

34:52

the voices of anti-Semitism. I

34:54

mean, it's just so ironic,

34:56

so so ironic. To

34:58

hear one of the leading lights

35:00

of the conservative movement go to

35:03

a college campus and say We

35:05

need to stop this kind of

35:07

speech because it's pro-genocidal or inciting

35:10

genocide You just heard the college

35:12

President say there's no protest against

35:14

Jews on campus. That's because the

35:17

protests are filled with Jews Jewish

35:19

critics of Israel Liberals have been

35:22

doing for a decade. They say,

35:24

oh, you cannot criticize the trans

35:26

people because that's inciting genocide. You

35:29

cannot criticize any dogma designed to

35:31

help black people get ahead because

35:33

that's racist and we'll incite violence

35:36

against them. It's hate speech, etc.

35:38

You know all the argument. These

35:40

are the arguments now being repeated

35:43

in order to justify a censorship

35:45

regime, but in defense of a

35:47

group that the Republican Party for

35:50

whatever reason. And there are a

35:52

lot of different reasons. Financial, cultural,

35:54

religious, ideological. holds above all the

35:57

others, holds it, holds it sacred.

36:00

The same thing is now spreading

36:02

to Harvard here from today the

36:04

New York Times. The Trump administration

36:06

will review billions of dollars in

36:08

funding for Harvard. Now, I just

36:10

want to, I will get to

36:12

the point in just a second

36:14

about why it is that the

36:16

U.S. government provides research funding to

36:18

American universities. There's actually a very

36:20

good reason for it. It's not,

36:22

they're not funding gender studies programs.

36:24

There, these are what funds the

36:26

leading research institutes in the country,

36:28

in the world. that

36:31

produce cures for diseases, scientific advancements,

36:33

advances in AI in space, and

36:35

intact. So I'll get to that

36:38

in a minute, but here's the

36:40

Trump administration. They're not threatening to

36:42

withdraw financial federal funding for all

36:45

universities, just the ones that they

36:47

think are allowing too much anti-Israel

36:49

speech. Quote, in a statement on

36:51

Monday, the administration, the Trump administration

36:54

says it was examining about $256

36:56

million in contracts. as well as

36:58

another 8.7 billion in what it

37:01

described as quote multi-year grant commitments.

37:03

This administration quote, this administration has

37:05

proven we will take swift action

37:08

to hold institutions accountable if they

37:10

allow anti-Semitism to fester a senior

37:12

official at the germs. Let me

37:15

go back a little bit. Let

37:17

me just read you this quote.

37:19

Pretend this is coming from the

37:21

Biden administration. Quote, this administration, the

37:24

by administration, has proven that we

37:26

will take swift action to hold

37:28

institutions accountable if they allow racism

37:31

against black people or transphobia or

37:33

xenophobia to fester. A senior official

37:35

at the General Service Administration added,

37:38

quote, we will not hesitate to

37:40

act if Harvard fails to do

37:42

so. Alan M. Garber, Harvard's president,

37:45

was not immediately available for company.

37:47

I should add that Harvard's current

37:49

president and. I think it's like

37:51

six out of the last seven

37:54

have been Jewish. Many of their

37:56

major donors are Jewish. Their faculty

37:58

is filled with. People

38:01

who are Jewish, who hold all kinds

38:03

of views about Israel, some vehemently pro-Israel,

38:05

like Alan Dershwitz was, all those decades

38:07

he was at Harvard, some critical of

38:09

Israel, mildly but still supportive of Israel,

38:11

some vocally, it's a diversity of opinion,

38:13

which is what we're supposed to have.

38:17

Quote, but he has previously

38:19

emphasized the importance of federal

38:21

money to the university's operation,

38:23

is the president of Harvard.

38:26

Quote, we could not carry

38:28

out our mission the way

38:30

we do without substantial federal

38:33

research support. Nor can we

38:35

provide the benefits to the

38:37

nation that we do now

38:39

without that support, Dr. Garber

38:42

said, in a December interview

38:44

with the Harvard Crimson, the

38:46

campus newspaper. Again, this is

38:49

not studying undergraduate programs. This

38:51

is funding. the most sophisticated

38:53

medical centers and hospitals and

38:55

scientific research into cures. This

38:58

is why we have these

39:00

kinds of government funding. In

39:02

fact, Mark Andreessen, who was

39:05

one of the people credited

39:07

correctly with developing the modern

39:09

internet in the late 1990s.

39:12

He is credited with developing the

39:15

browser Netscape that was then sold

39:17

to Microsoft. He's now become a

39:19

Very vocal Trump supporter His firm

39:21

Andreessen Horowitz Has people placed all

39:23

around the Trump administration. He spent

39:25

time Maralago a lot of time

39:27

in the transition. He's a Trump

39:29

supporter Mark Andreessen and he gave

39:32

an interview to the New York

39:34

Times columnist rough throughout in January

39:36

17th just a few days before

39:38

The administration was to take office

39:40

Trump administration and the title was

39:42

how Democrats drove Silicon Valley into

39:44

Trump's arms Mark Andreessen explains the

39:46

newest faction of conservatism But one

39:49

of the things Mark Andreessen pointed

39:51

out in this interview Was that

39:53

that the reason the United States

39:55

developed the internet, the reason the

39:57

United States became a leader of

39:59

the internet, the reason Silicon Valley

40:01

exists that drove so much American

40:03

wealth is because the U.S. government

40:06

funded so many academic research institutions

40:08

to do research into the internet,

40:10

into browsing, into all of that.

40:12

That's why we fund American academic

40:14

institutions because it produces innovation and

40:16

benefits that benefit the entire country.

40:18

Here's what Andreessen said, quote, basically

40:20

I'm a product of the great

40:23

land grant universities. The University of

40:25

Illinois, Urbana, champagne. It was a

40:27

huge leap to actually leave that

40:29

state and go to a university

40:31

that large where I came from.

40:33

And they had this incredible influx

40:35

of money at the time from

40:37

the federal government for supercomputers and

40:40

what turned out to be the

40:42

internet. He went on actually by

40:44

the way that was kind of

40:46

that was kind of led by

40:48

Al Gore when he was in

40:50

the Senate I always thought he

40:52

got Unfairly treated by how people

40:54

describe this later But he led

40:57

the push and then do foul

40:59

interjects. Oh you mean that he

41:01

took the lead on Inventing the

41:03

internet and Andrew that was one

41:05

of the things when Al Gore

41:07

was running president 2000? Conservatives attacked

41:09

him for saying I invented the

41:11

internet and here's Andreessen about that

41:14

so the famous quote is I

41:16

invented the internet He actually never

41:18

said that. I'll defend Al Gore's

41:20

honor to the death. What he

41:22

said is, I took the lead

41:24

in the Senate in creating the

41:26

internet. What he meant is that

41:28

he was the tip of the

41:31

spear for funding for national supercomputering

41:33

centers. They picked four college campuses

41:35

and Illinois was one of them.

41:37

So the Illinois campus, when I

41:39

was there, was like living in

41:41

the future. We had computers which

41:43

literally cost up to $30 million

41:45

a pop that basically representative of

41:48

what was to come. We just

41:50

had them a decade before everybody

41:52

else because of this program. So

41:54

if you're going to take the

41:56

view that the American government should

41:58

just stop funding universities, you can

42:00

certainly take that view. the right,

42:02

the U.S. government is not forced

42:05

to fund research institutes at universities,

42:07

but it would cripple innovation in

42:09

the United States if you did

42:11

that. But that's not even what's

42:13

happening here, the Trump administration is

42:15

not defunding American academic institutions. They're

42:17

using that funding as leverage to

42:19

force them to Israel on their

42:22

campus. And they're all complying because,

42:24

as the President of Harvard said,

42:26

we wouldn't be the leading academic

42:28

institute that we were if we

42:30

lost federal funding. It's not the

42:32

classroom that makes us the leading

42:34

institutes that are, that we can

42:36

attract the leaders of each field

42:39

knowing that they'll have the opportunity

42:41

to engage in research that leads

42:43

to cures, leads to innovations that

42:45

then benefits the entire country. But

42:47

the Trump administration is not... Defunding

42:49

universities are just using it as

42:51

a leverage to suppress speech they

42:53

dislike. Here from the Jewish News

42:56

Syndicate on March 31st 2025, this

42:58

happened on Friday night as well,

43:00

the head of Harvard's Middle East

43:02

Studies program, Study Center, told to

43:04

step down by the end of

43:06

the year, quote, Rabbi David Wolp,

43:08

a former member of Harvard Antisemitism

43:10

Advisory Group, said that the change

43:13

in leadership was quote, good news.

43:15

Just like they're changing. the control

43:17

of Colombia's Middle East study program,

43:19

they're doing the same at Harvard

43:21

now, so that people like Rabbi

43:23

David Wolpe can step in, just

43:25

like Benjamin Nano, who was celebrating,

43:27

like David Friedman, was threatening, to

43:30

outlaw criticism Israel. They've always been

43:32

very concerned that American academic institutions

43:34

were the epicentre of protests against

43:36

Israel. And this is not the

43:38

first time, by the way, that...

43:40

Disruptive protests have happened across American

43:42

college campuses. It's kind of an

43:44

iconic tradition in American academic life.

43:47

In part because when you're 18

43:49

and 20... in 21 you're looking

43:51

for your political expression, 23, 24,

43:53

a grad student, you're much more

43:55

apt to protest than when you

43:57

have a family and a job.

43:59

So protesting is a young person's

44:01

activity in general so when you

44:04

congregate a bunch of young people

44:06

on a college campus it's likely

44:08

to lead to protests. I certainly

44:10

had a lot of protests at

44:12

the schools I went to. Obviously

44:14

it was one of the things

44:16

that helped stop the Vietnam War.

44:18

Protests were often violent and disruptive.

44:21

At colleges across the United States

44:23

and the 60s against the Vietnam

44:25

War in favor of the civil

44:27

rights movement, far more so than

44:29

these protests were. One of the

44:31

things that scares Israel and its

44:33

supporters so much was that the

44:35

epicentre of activism against the apartheid

44:38

regime in South Africa that helped

44:40

to bring it down was a

44:42

protest movement throughout American campuses demanding

44:44

that their schools divest. from South

44:46

Africa to bring down the apartheid

44:48

regime. And that's why Israel wants

44:50

to make it illegal. And in

44:52

many places in Europe, they've done

44:55

so and have started to do

44:57

so in the United States, too,

44:59

to advocate a boycott of Israel.

45:01

So they look at the United

45:03

States, Israel does, and they're like,

45:05

where do we need to go

45:07

to stop this growing sentiment against

45:09

our country? Oh, well, Tiktok, here's

45:12

Tik. They allow a lot of

45:14

Israel criticism. We need to ban

45:16

that. The ADL said ban that.

45:18

And that's what caused enough votes

45:20

from the Democratic Party to finally

45:22

ban Tiktok, not in fear of

45:24

China, but a fear that after

45:26

October 7th, Tiktok was allowing too

45:29

much pro-Palestinian or anti-Israel speech. So

45:31

they got rid of Tiktok, or

45:33

at least Trump. For now, it

45:35

was ignoring it, but at some

45:37

point, they're going to force a

45:39

sale or ban it. And then

45:41

college campuses is the other place,

45:43

and that's what their target is.

45:46

the foreign country targeting the civil

45:48

liberties and free speech rights and

45:50

academic freedom of our country that

45:52

have long been crucial to our

45:54

country's prosperity. If all that wasn't

45:56

enough here at NYU as reported

45:58

by the Canadian outlets CTV news

46:00

on March 30th, the headline Climate

46:03

of Fear, a Montreal doctor, says,

46:05

NYU canceled her presentation. Dr. Joanne

46:07

Lou, the former international president of

46:09

Doctors Without Borders, just by the

46:11

way, Doctors Without Borders, an organization

46:13

that goes around to the most

46:15

deprived and repressed places, usually in

46:17

war zones, and they have volunteer

46:20

doctors from around the world who

46:22

go and work on the people

46:24

who are. facing starvation or need

46:26

surgery because of bombs. It's like

46:28

one of the most noble things

46:30

you could do, become a doctor

46:32

and then go join doctors without

46:34

borders. She was the international president

46:37

of Doctors Without Borders, and she

46:39

said, quote, the abrupt cancellation in

46:41

NYU speaks to the, quote, climate

46:43

of fears universities in the U.S.

46:45

are now living under, in which

46:47

they preemptively, quote, self-censor themselves to

46:49

avoid retaliation. The night before the

46:52

presentation, she got a call from

46:54

the vice chair of the education

46:56

department in NYU had raised concerns

46:58

with the contents of her speech.

47:00

A couple of the slides in

47:02

her presentation touched on the casualties

47:04

in Gaza. during the Israel-Hubas War

47:06

as well as the cuts at

47:09

the U.S. AID. Loo said she

47:11

was told the slides about Gaza

47:13

quote could be perceived as anti-Semitic

47:15

while the U.S. aid section might

47:17

be perceived as quote anti-government. Lou

47:19

who was already in New York

47:21

when she got the call offered

47:23

to make edits to those slides.

47:26

She was going to change her

47:28

speech to appease the NYU and

47:30

most particularly the Trump administration. So

47:32

she wasn't going to criticize the

47:34

cuts to U.S. AID quite as

47:36

harshly. She would tone down her

47:38

rhetoric about how many people were

47:40

killed in Gaza. I don't know

47:43

if she was going to like

47:45

dilute the numbers to please the

47:47

government. But even after she offered

47:49

to edit the slides in her

47:51

speech, three hours later after some

47:53

deliberation, she said the university apologized

47:55

and said they had to cancel,

47:57

quote, I was stunned, Lou said.

48:00

Remember that whole thing about

48:03

cancel culture and how bad

48:05

it is when speakers come

48:08

to campus and they're not

48:10

allowed to speak because their

48:12

views offend people? This is

48:15

a doctor at a major

48:17

university who was just had

48:20

her speech canceled because it

48:22

contained sides about the death

48:25

hole in Gaza. And then

48:27

we covered previously the... Tough

48:30

student who Was apparently detained

48:33

because she? Cover it and

48:35

not that but we also

48:37

want to cover why this

48:40

is happening who is behind

48:42

These Lists that are being

48:44

circulated and maintained and then

48:47

given to the government of

48:49

who should be punished who

48:51

should be expelled who should

48:54

be deported Two sketchy

48:56

groups in particular are the ones

48:58

compiling these lists, doxing people, putting

49:00

their names publicly as anti-Semites, if

49:03

they criticize Israel in a way

49:05

these groups dislike, these radical pro-Israel

49:07

groups dislike, that are funded by

49:09

and connected to Israel and the

49:12

Israeli government in various Israelis who

49:14

are now dictating the limits of

49:16

free speech in our country as

49:19

well, and we're going to tell

49:21

you about that, right, off of

49:23

this. individual cases of students who

49:25

are legally United States who in

49:28

secret the State Department and Mark

49:30

Arubio revokes their green card or

49:32

their visa and with their green

49:35

card and visa secretly revoked meaning

49:37

they weren't given notice to come

49:39

and contest it or prove they

49:41

didn't do anything wrong. They were

49:44

just canceled summarily. They instantly become

49:46

illegally in the country and then

49:48

they send ice. plane close ice

49:50

agents to accost them in their

49:53

apartment or on the street and

49:55

detain them and grab them Put

49:57

them in a detention facility and

50:00

then ship them to Louisiana even

50:02

though they have no connection with

50:04

Louisiana, the government's hoping that Louisiana

50:06

has more conservative judges who will

50:09

defer to the Trump administration and

50:11

deport people even if it's for

50:13

their free speech rights. Now, the

50:16

government is not collecting its own

50:18

lists. They're relying on pro-Israel activist

50:20

groups. Very sketchy, two in particular.

50:24

So here's a New York Times

50:26

on what happened. There you see

50:28

the headline, Federal Government Attains an

50:30

international student at Tufts. Quote, the

50:33

university was told that the student's

50:35

visa had been terminated as president

50:37

said in the late night email

50:39

to students and faculty members. The

50:41

student, Rumeysa Oz Turk, a Turkish

50:43

citizen, had a valid student visa

50:45

as a doctoral student at Tufts.

50:48

According to a statement from her

50:50

lawyer Mashakanbabe. Ms. Orstak, who is

50:52

Muslim, was heading out to break

50:54

for Ramadan fast with her friends

50:56

Tuesday night when she was detained

50:58

by agents from the Department of

51:01

Homeland Security near her apartment in

51:03

Somerville, Massachusetts. Mr. Kumbab, Ms. Kumbab,

51:05

I said, we quote, we are

51:07

unaware of her whereabouts and have

51:09

not been able to contact her

51:11

lawyer, the lawyer said, quote, no

51:13

charges have been filed against, remaise.

51:16

It's a date that we are

51:18

aware of. A statement attributed to

51:20

a senior spokesman for Homeland Security

51:22

claimed on Wednesday that Ms. Oddtirk

51:24

had, quote, engaged in activities in

51:26

support of Hamas, considered grounds for

51:28

visa insurance to be terminated. Now,

51:31

I think it's important to note

51:33

here that just like you'll be

51:35

called anti-Semitic, if you criticize Israel

51:37

too much, you'll also be called

51:39

pro-terrorist or pro-H Hamas. If you

51:41

oppose the Israeli war in Gaza.

51:44

or question American funding and financing

51:46

of Israel why the American taxpayer

51:48

has to pay for Israel's wars.

51:50

You'll immediately be called pro-terror or

51:52

pro-amaz. And this is a tactic

51:54

from the war on terror that

51:56

Bush and Cheney used all the

51:58

time. If you said like, hey,

52:00

you're imprisoning people. in Guantanamo and

52:02

elsewhere, indefinitely with no due process.

52:05

And a lot of the people

52:07

you're accusing have turned out to

52:09

be innocent, like shouldn't you give

52:11

them a hearing, they would say,

52:13

you're pro-terrorists, why are you defending

52:15

terrorists? And you would say, no,

52:17

the whole point is, you don't

52:19

know if they're terrorists, until they're

52:21

terrorists, you're defending terrorists. And you

52:23

would say, no, the whole point

52:25

is, you don't know if they're

52:27

terrorists, is that we should. People

52:29

who oppose the invasion of Iraq

52:31

were called pro-Saddam Hussein, people who

52:33

opposed regime change in Libya, were

52:35

called pro-Qadhafi, people who opposed regime

52:37

change to Syria, pro-Assad, people who

52:39

don't want the US finance in

52:41

the war in Ukraine or called

52:44

pro-Kremlin or whatever. It's a very

52:46

common war-mongering tactic. And this is

52:48

what the government means by pro-Homas.

52:50

I get called pro-homas every day,

52:52

even though I've never uttered a

52:54

single peep of praise or support

52:56

for Hamas, just like I have

52:58

in for Putin, I'm called pro-putin

53:00

all the time. It's the tactic.

53:02

I was called pro-terrorists when I

53:04

was opposing the war on terror

53:06

and the civil liberty abuses. When

53:08

they say pro-homas, they don't mean

53:10

someone praised Hamas, justified Hamas. All

53:12

you have to do is criticize

53:14

Israel, and that's enough to be

53:16

called pro-homas. Here

53:19

is the Washington Post in this

53:21

video circuit everywhere showing how chilling

53:23

this detention was. Remember this is

53:26

a person illegally inside the United

53:28

States who just gets accosted and

53:30

notice how her phone is taken

53:32

while she's using it which will

53:35

enable Homeland Security then to look

53:37

in her phone and find out

53:39

who she's talking to, find out

53:41

everything about her with no warrants,

53:43

watch what happened. This

53:47

is a security camera camera at

53:49

when the top student was arrested

53:51

on March 25th by Homeland Security.

53:54

There you see an unmarked car

53:56

that pulls up. and just plainclothes

53:58

officers not even identified get out

54:00

you wouldn't have any idea they

54:02

were playing clothes ironically they're wearing

54:04

masks even though the Trump administration

54:07

is demanding that protesters get banned

54:09

from wearing masks and now they're

54:11

costing her she has her phone

54:13

and they just grab her she

54:15

has no idea who these people

54:18

are I mean she's she's screaming

54:20

she doesn't know who they are

54:22

they could be anybody She's a

54:24

PhD student, and they grabbed her

54:26

phone, forcibly grabbed her phone, and

54:28

then they surrounded her, and they

54:31

detained her. And there you see,

54:33

the ICE agents were masked, even

54:35

though protesters are not allowed to

54:37

be masks. And she says, can

54:39

I just speak to the cops?

54:42

And they say, we are the

54:44

police. She had no idea that

54:46

she was being detained by the

54:48

police because they're in plain clothes.

54:50

They have unmarked cars. Oster co-authored,

54:52

or not bad. And the student

54:55

paper criticizing university university and university

54:57

university leader for their stance on

54:59

the war in Gaza. That's for

55:01

crime. The Trump administration is targeting

55:03

college students for arrest and deportation

55:06

has raised alarms and sparked lawsuits.

55:08

I mean this looks like the

55:10

most dystopian repressive country you can

55:12

think of where you write an

55:14

op-ed. You're a law abiding citizen.

55:16

You're a PhD student. You've never

55:19

been charged with a crime in

55:21

your life. And then

55:23

a bunch of Homeland Security agents to

55:25

send upon you, grab your phone, and

55:27

then grab you, and put you in

55:29

a prison and ship you to Louisiana,

55:31

state you've never been to, have no

55:33

connection with? Because they don't like an

55:36

op-ed that you wrote? Not

55:40

even the government is the government

55:42

doesn't even bother to claim that

55:44

she did anything other than the

55:46

right the op-ed Here is the

55:48

assistant deputy secretary of home and

55:50

security Tricia McLaughlin on March 26th

55:52

quote Rhemeza Ostirk is a Turkish

55:55

national and Tufts University graduate student

55:57

granted the privilege to be in

55:59

this country on a visa DHS

56:01

and ICE investigations found and support

56:03

of Hamas, a former terrorist organization

56:05

that relishes the killing of Americans.

56:07

I gotta go back to that

56:09

in a second. A visa is

56:11

a privilege, not a right. Gorefying

56:13

and supporting terrorists who kill Americans

56:15

is ground for visa issuance to

56:17

be terminated. This is common sense

56:19

security. Okay, first of all, she is

56:22

never in her life. There's zero

56:24

evidence uttered a peep of support for

56:26

Hamas. The only thing we shouldn't, we

56:28

don't even know that she participated

56:30

any protests. All we know is

56:32

that she wrote an op-ed that is

56:34

the only basis for her detention that

56:37

anybody has cited, and there is nothing

56:39

remotely in this op-ed that could be

56:41

construed as supporting Hamas. But notice this

56:43

slimy rhetoric that Hamas is a

56:46

foreign terrorist organization that relishes the

56:48

killing of Americans. That is an

56:50

absolute lie. Hamas is an organization

56:52

devoted to one cause and purpose

56:55

only, which is defending Gaza and

56:57

Palestinians from what they perceive as

56:59

aggression by Israel. They've never engaged

57:01

in terrorism in the United

57:03

States or targeted American citizens. And

57:06

this is one of the things that

57:08

Israel reporters try to say about why

57:10

the United States should go fight Israel's

57:12

wars, that, oh, one of the remaining

57:14

hostages, one of the only living remaining

57:17

hostage who's American is still in Hamas

57:19

custody. You know why? He ended up

57:21

in Hamas custody this American

57:24

citizen Because he left the

57:26

United States to go to Israel

57:29

And he joined a foreign army the

57:31

IDF And he was in uniform

57:33

in a tank When Hamas took him

57:36

usually would call that a

57:38

prisoner of war he's active duty

57:40

soldier, but the idea that

57:43

if you're an American citizen

57:45

And you go join some foreign army, and

57:47

as part of your fighting in that army,

57:49

you get captured. Now the United States

57:51

has the responsibility to wage war

57:53

to rescue you? Obviously if they

57:55

join the American military and that

57:58

happens, of course United States... is

58:00

a responsibility, but not when you

58:02

go fight in a foreign army.

58:04

And they're using this, they're exploiting

58:06

this to say, oh, look, they're

58:08

targeting Americans too. They had a

58:10

bunch of Thai citizens there. Do

58:13

you think they're targeting Thailand? These

58:15

are people who are in Israel.

58:17

Here's Marco Rubio when being asked

58:19

about what the justification is for

58:21

having deported this Turkish PhD student,

58:23

whose crime is writing it not

58:25

bad. Mr. Secretary, a Turkish student

58:27

in Boston was detained and handcuffed

58:29

on the street by plainclothes agents.

58:32

A year ago she wrote an

58:34

opinion piece about the Gaza War.

58:36

Could you help us understand what

58:38

the specific action she took led

58:40

to her visa being revoked? What

58:42

was your State Department's role in

58:44

that process? We revoked her visa.

58:46

She's an F-1 visa, I believe.

58:48

We revoked it and here's why.

58:51

And I'll say it again, I

58:53

said it everywhere, let me be

58:55

abundantly clear. If you go apply

58:57

for a visa right now, anywhere

58:59

in the world, let me just

59:01

send this message up. If you

59:03

apply for a visa to enter

59:05

the United States and be a

59:07

student, and you tell us that

59:10

the reason why you're in the

59:12

United States and be a student,

59:14

and you tell us that the

59:16

reason why you're coming to the

59:18

United States, it's not just because

59:20

you want to participate in movements,

59:22

and get a visa and then

59:24

enter the United States and with

59:26

that visa participate in that sort

59:29

of activity we're going to take

59:31

away your visa. She didn't do

59:33

any of that. This is a

59:35

completely deceitful statement designed to mask

59:37

what they're actually doing. They promised

59:39

mass deportations of people in the

59:41

country illegally. They're not giving that

59:43

to you. Joe Biden deported more

59:45

people in these two months of

59:48

last year than Donald Trump did.

59:50

Obama deported way more. The immigration

59:52

group is called Obama the Deporter

59:54

in Chief because of how many

59:56

people... he deported. Now they have

59:58

closed the border almost entirely, it's

1:00:00

like down 94% and sometimes the

1:00:02

deportation count comes from deporting people

1:00:04

when they're detained at the border,

1:00:07

but there's nothing even remotely like

1:00:09

mass deportations taking place of people

1:00:11

in the United States illegally. Their

1:00:13

priority is not even people in

1:00:15

the United States illegally, their priority

1:00:17

is people who are in the

1:00:19

United States illegally. who committed the

1:00:21

ultimate crime of criticizing Israel. And

1:00:23

they're lying to justify it. Everybody

1:00:26

knows she didn't go and vandalize

1:00:28

anything. No one suggests that she

1:00:30

did anything illegal, anything aggressive, anything

1:00:32

violent. The only reason she ended

1:00:34

up on these lists from these

1:00:36

pro-Israel groups that are dictating to

1:00:38

the U.S. government who can and

1:00:40

cannot say in the United States

1:00:42

is because she wrote this op-ed.

1:00:45

And I want to show you

1:00:47

that bad in a second. Just

1:00:49

to let you decide if you

1:00:51

think it's anything radical let alone

1:00:53

remotely pro-homast or glorifying terrorism Other

1:00:55

than unless you think that criticizing

1:00:57

Israel or opposing Israel is Inherently

1:00:59

to be pro-terrorist which is what

1:01:01

a lot of people think they

1:01:04

just don't usually admit it And

1:01:06

that's why Mark Ruby has to

1:01:08

fabricate a bunch of claims that

1:01:10

he knows isn't true about her

1:01:12

when her only crime was writing

1:01:14

the sawbed. Here's the rest of

1:01:16

him now once you've lost your

1:01:18

visa You're no longer legally in

1:01:20

the United States and we have

1:01:23

a right like every country in

1:01:25

the world has a right to

1:01:27

remove you from our country. So

1:01:29

it's just that simple. I think

1:01:31

it's crazy. I think it's stupid

1:01:33

for any country in the world

1:01:35

to welcome people into their country

1:01:37

that are going to go to

1:01:39

your universities as visitors. They're visitors.

1:01:42

And say I'm going to your

1:01:44

universities to take over a library

1:01:46

and harass people. I don't care

1:01:48

what movement you're involved in. Why

1:01:50

would any country in the world

1:01:52

allow people to come and disrupt?

1:01:54

We gave you a visa to

1:01:56

come and study and get a

1:01:58

degree not to become a social

1:02:01

activist that tears up our university

1:02:03

campuses. And if we've given you

1:02:05

a visa and then you decide

1:02:07

to do that, we're going to...

1:02:09

it away. I encourage every country

1:02:11

to do that, by the way,

1:02:13

because I think it's crazy to

1:02:15

invite students into your country that

1:02:17

are coming onto your campus and

1:02:20

destabilizing it. We're just not going

1:02:22

to have it. So we'll revoke

1:02:24

your visa, and once your visa

1:02:26

is revoked, you're illegally in the

1:02:28

country. And you know, by the

1:02:30

way, not only is that a

1:02:32

complete fabrication for this Turkish PhD

1:02:34

student at Tufts, who is... snatched

1:02:36

up under this program. He was

1:02:39

in the US legally. And he

1:02:41

didn't vandalize any buildings. He didn't

1:02:43

occupy any buildings. He didn't attack

1:02:45

anybody. And also, I just want

1:02:47

to say this whole framework of,

1:02:49

oh, this is happening because the

1:02:51

people lied on their visa applications.

1:02:53

If you apply for a student

1:02:55

visa in 2022 or 2023 before

1:02:58

October 7th, You're

1:03:00

not prescient, you can't see the future, you

1:03:02

don't know that the Israelis are going to

1:03:05

destroy Gaza and all of civilian life in

1:03:07

Gaza in a way that pretty much every

1:03:09

human rights group in the world has said

1:03:11

has been unparalleled and unseen in decades. They're

1:03:14

not professional protesters, they rose up and protested

1:03:16

like a lot of people did in response

1:03:18

to what the Israelis were doing in Gaza.

1:03:21

Something I couldn't have known at the time

1:03:23

they applied for their visa. There is nothing

1:03:25

on the visa application that says, are you

1:03:27

a critic of Israel? Do you oppose Israel?

1:03:30

Do you believe in the Palestinian cause? Because

1:03:32

of course, that is well within the realm

1:03:34

of free speech. Here's the rest of Mark

1:03:37

Arubio. You have to leave. Every country in

1:03:39

the world has a right to decide who

1:03:41

comes in as a visitor and who doesn't.

1:03:43

If you invite me into your home, because

1:03:46

you say I want to come to your

1:03:48

house for dinner, and I go to your

1:03:50

house and I start putting mud on your

1:03:53

couch on your couch and spray painting your

1:03:55

kitchen, I bet you're going to kick me

1:03:57

out. Well, we're going to do the same

1:03:59

thing if you come into the United States

1:04:02

as a visitor and create a rocket. for

1:04:04

us. We don't want it. We don't want

1:04:06

it in our country. Go back and do

1:04:09

it in your country, but you're not going

1:04:11

to do it in our country. Sure. Just

1:04:13

tell me your follow-up and I'll tell you,

1:04:15

depending on your question, I'll answer it or

1:04:18

not. All right, I know invite all of

1:04:20

Guyanese representatives. Can I get a follow-up real

1:04:22

quick? Maybe more than 300 at this point.

1:04:24

We do it every day. Every time I

1:04:27

find one of these lunatics I take away

1:04:29

their visa. You're saying it could be more

1:04:31

than 300 users? Sure, I hope. I mean,

1:04:34

at some point I hope we run out

1:04:36

because we've gotten rid of all of them,

1:04:38

but we're looking every day. Okay, like I

1:04:40

said, these are all false claims. False claims.

1:04:43

Some of the leading protesters at Columbia who

1:04:45

occupied Hamilton Hall were American Jewish students who

1:04:47

were now are now expelled because the Trump

1:04:50

administration required. So congratulations

1:04:52

on protecting American Jews by

1:04:54

getting them expelled from college

1:04:56

for protesting. Fantastic. Jews all

1:04:58

over are very grateful. But

1:05:00

these are not the people

1:05:02

who have been doing this,

1:05:04

the people they're targeting. And

1:05:06

they're prioritizing it over what

1:05:08

they promised people in the

1:05:10

campaign that people voted for

1:05:13

them on the basis of

1:05:15

not removing legal immigrants who

1:05:17

are Israel critics, but removing

1:05:19

people on mass supporting people

1:05:21

who are in the country

1:05:23

illegally. They're not doing that.

1:05:25

This is their priority. to

1:05:27

protect Israel from criticism and

1:05:29

activism. And none of the

1:05:31

people who have been removed,

1:05:33

certainly not the ones who

1:05:35

have become controversial, did anything

1:05:37

remotely like vandalized building. This

1:05:39

is all Marcarubio's fabrications. Here

1:05:41

is the criminal op-ed that

1:05:43

this student wrote along with

1:05:45

three other students at Tufts.

1:05:48

And the headline is, try again,

1:05:50

President Kumar, renewing calls for tops

1:05:53

to adopt the March 4th T.C.U.

1:05:55

Senate resolutions. And here is the

1:05:57

pro-Homosk. criminal op-ed. It's amazing that

1:05:59

there's such a thing as a

1:06:01

criminal op-ed that can get you

1:06:04

removed from the country whether you're

1:06:06

in the United States illegally. No

1:06:08

criminal record, no criminal charges, a

1:06:10

PhD student, contributing positively to the

1:06:12

country. Here's her op-ed, quote, a

1:06:15

March 4th Tufts Community Union Senate

1:06:17

passed three out of four resolutions

1:06:19

demanding that the university acknowledge the

1:06:21

Palestinian genocide. Apologize for university president

1:06:24

Sunil Kumar's statements, disclose its investments,

1:06:26

and divest from companies with direct

1:06:28

or indirect ties to Israel. These

1:06:30

resolutions were the product of meaningful

1:06:32

debate by the Senate and represent

1:06:35

a sincere effort to hold Israel

1:06:37

accountable for clear violations of international

1:06:39

law. Unfortunately, the university's response to

1:06:41

the Senate resolutions has been wholly

1:06:43

inadequate and dismissive of the Senate,

1:06:46

the collective voice of the student

1:06:48

body. Although graduate students were not

1:06:50

allowed by the university into the

1:06:52

Senate meeting, which lasted for almost

1:06:54

eight hours, our presence on campus

1:06:57

and financial entanglement with the university

1:06:59

via tuition payments and the graduate

1:07:01

work that we do, on grants

1:07:03

and research makes us direct stakeholders

1:07:05

in the university's stance. We reject

1:07:08

any attempt by the university or

1:07:10

the office of the president to

1:07:12

summarily dismiss the role of the

1:07:14

Senate and mischaracterize its resolution as

1:07:16

divisive, we as graduate students affirm

1:07:19

the equal dignity and humanity of

1:07:21

all people. and reject the university's

1:07:23

mischaracterization of the Senate efforts. We

1:07:25

urge President Kumar and the Tufts

1:07:27

administration to meaningfully engage with and

1:07:30

actualize the resolutions passed by the

1:07:32

Senate. Is that like a terrorist

1:07:34

creed? Is that something that should

1:07:36

result in your deportation that you

1:07:38

express views as a graduate student

1:07:41

in a Tufts newspaper? a

1:07:43

community in which you've been invited

1:07:46

to participate, not just to study

1:07:48

and keep your mouth shut, there's

1:07:50

no free country in the world

1:07:52

where that's the rule for entering

1:07:54

the country. Now, again, these, the

1:07:57

government, Mark Arubio is. not finding

1:07:59

these people. Homeland Security is not

1:08:01

finding them. ICE is not finding

1:08:03

them. ICE isn't even looking for

1:08:05

them. They're here legally. They only

1:08:08

become illegal when Mark Rubio secretly

1:08:10

revokes their green card or their

1:08:12

visa because they criticize Israel. So

1:08:14

how do they know where to

1:08:16

find these people? There are two

1:08:19

incredibly shady Israel groups, pro-Israel groups,

1:08:21

connected to Israel. Typically

1:08:23

their funding is completely anonymous. There's been

1:08:26

reporting on where they get funding. Who

1:08:28

they are is even anonymous. One of

1:08:30

them is the canary mission and they

1:08:32

have been now for a decade. If

1:08:35

a student expresses in a classroom criticism

1:08:37

of Israel, they take the student's name

1:08:39

and they put them on a website

1:08:42

that has been highly funded so that

1:08:44

it's the first Google result. If you

1:08:46

enter that student's name when they go

1:08:48

apply for work, it'll be. Here's a

1:08:51

list of all the anti-Semites. on American

1:08:53

campuses, while they're doxing students and professors

1:08:55

and putting their name on the internet,

1:08:58

these cowards will not say or identify

1:09:00

themselves who's behind this mission, this canary

1:09:02

mission. And they have been quite boastful

1:09:05

of the fact that their list is

1:09:07

who the Homeland Security and the State

1:09:09

Department is using to determine who gets

1:09:11

removed from the country. In other words,

1:09:14

pro-Israel fanatics are dictating to the U.S.

1:09:16

government who can and cannot stay in

1:09:18

this country based on whether they love

1:09:21

Israel or not. That is the literal

1:09:23

truth of what is happening. And I

1:09:25

just don't understand how anybody who claim

1:09:27

to believe in free speech or the

1:09:30

values of free discourse or academic freedom

1:09:32

cannot be anything but enraged by enraged

1:09:34

by this. can be anything but enraged

1:09:37

by this. It's exactly what you've been

1:09:39

saying, you've so vehemently opposed, but this

1:09:41

time done to protect a foreign country.

1:09:44

Here's the canary mission on March 27th,

1:09:46

boasting of their work to have her

1:09:48

deported. This is Rumeza Aztar, a Turkish

1:09:50

national being deported for quote, activities in

1:09:53

support of Hamas. According to DHS, sources

1:09:55

point to her canary profile as the

1:09:57

primary cause. So they're claiming our website

1:10:00

that's design. to destroy the reputation of

1:10:02

anyone who doesn't revere and love Israel

1:10:04

or who criticizes it is the cause

1:10:07

of why the government decided to deport

1:10:09

her. And then here is what they

1:10:11

have to say about her. There you

1:10:13

see Rameza, Oztok, Tufts University student, detained

1:10:16

during a routine check-in due to quote

1:10:18

activities in support of Hamas according to

1:10:20

DHS. She graduated from the Teachers College

1:10:23

at Columbia University in 2020 and has

1:10:25

been living in the US on a

1:10:27

student visa until her detention. And

1:10:30

this is her page on Canary

1:10:32

Mission. This is the kind of

1:10:34

thing they do. They put the

1:10:37

person's picture, their name, and they

1:10:39

pay a lot of money to

1:10:41

promote the website, to make sure

1:10:44

that it becomes the first Google

1:10:46

search. So obviously it's a blacklist,

1:10:48

it's like McCarthy, I list. And

1:10:51

they label someone a terrorist and

1:10:53

pro-Hamas, simply because they oppose Israel.

1:10:55

And here's their dossier in her.

1:10:58

This is the entirety of it.

1:11:00

Rhemeza Ostirk engaged in anti-Israel activism.

1:11:02

Ooh. In March 2024th, in the

1:11:05

wake of the Hamas terrorist attacks

1:11:07

on Israelis on October 7th, on

1:11:09

October 7th the mosque murdered approximately

1:11:12

1,200 Israelis kidnapped hundreds and wounded

1:11:14

thousands, war crimes including mass rape

1:11:17

and torture, many Palestinian civilians participated

1:11:19

in and supported the attacks and

1:11:21

Gazans working in the targeted Israeli

1:11:24

communities gave intelligence to Hamas somewhere

1:11:26

to strike. For more information see

1:11:28

the canary page on Hamas Aztec

1:11:31

is a supporter of the boycott

1:11:33

divestment sanctions movement And then they

1:11:35

have this page Remized a Oztec.

1:11:38

By the way you haven't heard

1:11:40

anything specific about what she's done

1:11:42

Other than right to stop ed

1:11:45

Here under the page anti Israel

1:11:47

activism This is what they say

1:11:49

she did on March 26 2024

1:11:53

Oster co-public authored an op-ed published

1:11:55

in the Toffsdale newspaper entitled... try

1:11:57

again President Kumaar renewing calls for

1:11:59

the Senate to adopt four TCU

1:12:01

Senate resolutions. So on their dossier

1:12:04

that they say is what caused

1:12:06

their deportation, they're admitting the primary

1:12:08

offense or primary transgression is publishing

1:12:10

that off-head in the tough student

1:12:12

newspaper that they dislike because it

1:12:15

was critical of Israel. And now

1:12:17

the government is obeying these pro-Israel

1:12:19

groups on who to deport. Not

1:12:21

based on crimes they committed or

1:12:23

property they destroyed or people they

1:12:26

harassed or attacked or attacked or

1:12:28

attacked. based on their ideas about

1:12:30

one foreign country, published in a

1:12:32

very professional, very moderately stated op-ed.

1:12:34

This group goes on, quote, the

1:12:37

authors urge, quote, President Kumar in

1:12:39

the Tufts administration to meaningfully engage

1:12:41

with and actualize the resolutions passed

1:12:43

by the Senate. The op-ed referred

1:12:45

to the passing of anti-Israel resolutions

1:12:47

by the Tufts Community Union. Senate,

1:12:50

which demanded the university, quote, acknowledge

1:12:52

the Palestinian genocide, apologize for university

1:12:54

president Sunil Khomer's statements, disclose its

1:12:56

investments, and divest from companies with

1:12:58

direct or indirect ties to Israel.

1:13:01

That's the only thing it lists.

1:13:03

Obviously, if she had vandalized buildings

1:13:05

or attacked Jewish students or praised

1:13:07

Hamas, that would be in here.

1:13:09

They're very comprehensive. The only thing

1:13:12

they have on her is that

1:13:14

she wrote that up Ed. But

1:13:16

that's enough for the United States

1:13:18

government, eager to serve Israel, defend

1:13:20

Israel, shield Israel from criticism to

1:13:23

deport her in the middle of

1:13:25

her PhD program. Here's another one

1:13:27

of the groups that is taking

1:13:29

credit for it as well. And

1:13:31

by the way, the canary mission,

1:13:34

as I said, they're an extremely

1:13:36

secretive group. They have a lot

1:13:38

of funding. They won't say who

1:13:40

their funders are. They won't even

1:13:42

say who they are. That's who's

1:13:45

dictating to the government who can

1:13:47

stay in our country and not

1:13:49

based on how much they love

1:13:51

Israel or don't. The other group

1:13:53

is Batar worldwide. It is a

1:13:55

radical, pro-Israel group. It's considered radical

1:13:58

even in Israel. And they too

1:14:00

took credit. Quote, she was on

1:14:02

our list. Many more jihad. are.

1:14:04

We will be making a new

1:14:06

submission Monday with approximately 1,800 more

1:14:09

jihadis submit to us candidates with

1:14:11

proof for ICE government to consider.

1:14:13

That's where the government's getting these

1:14:15

names from from these very sketchy

1:14:17

Israel-connected groups of people they want

1:14:20

out of the country for criticizing

1:14:22

Israel. Here's Tammy Bruce the Department

1:14:24

of State spokesperson being asked about

1:14:26

all of this and here's what

1:14:28

she said. that has told CBS

1:14:31

that they have provided thousands of

1:14:33

names to the Trump administration of

1:14:35

visa holders and naturalized foreigners who

1:14:37

quote come to the West to

1:14:39

rage against America and support US

1:14:42

designated terrorist organizations. Can you confirm

1:14:44

whether that organization is providing lists

1:14:46

to the Trump administration and whether

1:14:48

those lists are being taken by

1:14:50

the state farmer and DHS to

1:14:52

do any of this work? I'm

1:14:55

not involved in those decisions and

1:14:57

I certainly can't speak on them,

1:14:59

certainly in general, not for the

1:15:01

State Department. That goes through the

1:15:03

framework of the work that we're

1:15:06

doing, whether it exists or not,

1:15:08

I won't confirm. It's a matter

1:15:10

of, you know, we've got broad

1:15:12

authority certainly, but how they're coming

1:15:14

to those decisions for the consular

1:15:17

offices and visas. We will not

1:15:19

discuss not only individual visas, but

1:15:21

the process of what goes through

1:15:23

in determining what happens with individuals

1:15:25

and visas and whether they're issued

1:15:28

or if they're revoked. So I

1:15:30

won't be talking about that today.

1:15:32

Yes, please. So these groups are

1:15:34

out there taking credit. These groups,

1:15:36

by the way, only have one

1:15:39

cause, one mission, devotion to Israel.

1:15:41

The United States, Americans, not part

1:15:43

of the agenda. Just this foreign

1:15:45

country of Israel. And they're boasting

1:15:47

about the fact. that they're the

1:15:50

ones who are telling Homeland Security

1:15:52

in the State Department who to

1:15:54

deport. And when asked about it,

1:15:56

the State Department won't deny that.

1:15:58

They won't even... confirm they won't

1:16:00

say how they're getting these names.

1:16:03

And above this video, where Tammy

1:16:05

Bruce refused to say whether Batar

1:16:07

and the canary mission, as we

1:16:09

know they are, because they say

1:16:11

so, are giving these lists to

1:16:14

the U.S. government, Batar basically gave

1:16:16

a thumbs up to her, said,

1:16:18

good job, a little pot on

1:16:20

the head again from an Israeli

1:16:22

group, something so many people in

1:16:25

Washington, crave, and we'll do anything

1:16:27

for. Here is the Jewish newspaper

1:16:29

forward on March 10. Doing little

1:16:31

profiled, the Jewish groups targeted Columbia

1:16:33

grad student Mahmoud Khalil, then Eister

1:16:36

arrested him. Documenting Jew hatred on

1:16:38

campus called to quote, deport Mahmoud

1:16:40

Khalil days before the immigration agents

1:16:42

detained him. Quote, Ross Glick,

1:16:44

a pro-Israel activist who previously shared

1:16:47

a list of campus protesters with

1:16:49

federal immigration authorities, said that he

1:16:51

was in Washington DC for meetings

1:16:53

with members of Congress during the

1:16:55

Barnard library demonstration and discussed colliell

1:16:57

with aides to senators 10 Cruz

1:16:59

and John Federman who promised to

1:17:02

quote escalate the issue. He said

1:17:04

that some members of Columbia's board

1:17:06

had also reported colliell to officials.

1:17:08

Glick. The activists who discussed the

1:17:10

Cleel case was done at Stafford's

1:17:12

was as until recently connected to

1:17:14

a far-right Jewish group called Bettar,

1:17:16

which began compiling a list last

1:17:19

fall of international students involved in

1:17:21

the protest and shared the database

1:17:23

with the Trump administration. Here is

1:17:25

one of the things that Bettar

1:17:27

says here from their Twitter count

1:17:29

on February 20th 2025. You see

1:17:31

there a tweet. From Lila Alarian

1:17:34

who's been on a show before

1:17:36

she says these are the names

1:17:38

of Palestinian babies a long list

1:17:40

of Palestinian babies that Israel killed

1:17:42

before they reached their first birthday

1:17:44

Unfortunately, it is likely an undercount

1:17:46

given the number of people missing

1:17:48

and under the rubble Okay, just

1:17:51

want to say this again. This

1:17:53

is a list of Palestinian babies

1:17:55

in Gaza Israelis have killed through

1:17:57

bombing, through shelling. Before they reach

1:17:59

their first birthday, not even counting,

1:18:01

two-year-old, three-year-old, four-year-old infants or toddlers,

1:18:03

ones that did not reach their

1:18:05

first birthday, six-month-old babies, three-month-old toddlers.

1:18:08

Now, you can blame Hamas, which

1:18:10

I'm sure some of you do,

1:18:12

whatever, but any decent person by

1:18:14

definition would lament the loss of

1:18:16

this huge number of babies. who

1:18:18

didn't reach their first birthday and

1:18:20

had their lives extinguished in this

1:18:23

war. But not Batar, who dictates

1:18:25

to the U.S. government who can

1:18:27

and cannot stay. They said on

1:18:29

top of this list, it's not

1:18:31

enough. Not enough. We demand blood

1:18:33

in Gaza. They looked at this

1:18:35

endless list, these degenerates, these morally

1:18:37

burden creeps. You have to be

1:18:40

a complete moral degenerate to look

1:18:42

at a list. of infants killed

1:18:44

in a war, a long long

1:18:46

list and say it's not enough,

1:18:48

we want more, we want more

1:18:50

blood in Gaza. That's who's in

1:18:52

charge of deciding who loves Israel

1:18:55

enough or not to stay in

1:18:57

the United States. Here is the

1:18:59

Israeli newspaper Haritz on February 21st

1:19:01

of this year. Even the ADL

1:19:03

hates this group. Title of the

1:19:05

article embraces Islamophobia and harassment Muslims.

1:19:07

The ADL list far right Batar

1:19:09

USA as a hate group. A

1:19:12

review of the ADL database indicates

1:19:14

that the militant organization with ties

1:19:16

to Israel's ruling Lakoud is the

1:19:18

only Jewish group on the list.

1:19:20

Quote, a spokesman for the ADL

1:19:22

said this database did not constitute

1:19:24

an official list of hate groups

1:19:27

and was merely a glossary quota

1:19:29

of reporting speaks for itself. The

1:19:31

brand new entries draws parallels between

1:19:33

the American branch and Batar and

1:19:35

the Jewish defense league. A militant

1:19:37

anti-Arab group founded by the American

1:19:39

Arab group founded by the American

1:19:41

Rabbi Meyer Kahani, which has been

1:19:44

designated a right-wing terrorist group by

1:19:46

the FBI terrorist group by the

1:19:48

FBI. Quote, the U.S. chapter of

1:19:50

Batar, which was revived in June

1:19:52

of 2023, adopts the far-right Kahana

1:19:54

slogan, calling for every Jew for

1:19:56

Jew. armament, quote, every Jew, a

1:19:58

22, openly embraces Islamophobia and harasses

1:20:01

Muslims online, and in person says

1:20:03

the ideal. These are the very

1:20:05

noble people that are determining our

1:20:07

immigration policy, not for illegal immigrants,

1:20:09

for legal immigrants, whose crime is

1:20:11

criticizing the foreign country that for

1:20:13

whatever reason has an immense amount

1:20:16

of influence in our own, even

1:20:18

though we pay for their wars

1:20:20

and subsidize our society, and it

1:20:22

probably should be the other way

1:20:24

around. We have a lot of

1:20:26

influence on their country, but that's

1:20:28

not how it works. Here's the

1:20:30

site the electronic in Tafada, which

1:20:33

is a group of journalists that

1:20:35

we've had on a show before

1:20:37

as well, and they're doing reporting

1:20:39

here. Quote, group claiming credit for

1:20:41

a Mahmoud Kaleel. arrested, a cop,

1:20:43

a coleal arrest demanded the, quote,

1:20:45

blood of Gaza's babies. On its

1:20:48

website, Batar USA asked for donations

1:20:50

from the public, quote, to combat

1:20:52

the rising tide of anti-Semitism and

1:20:54

anti-Zionism, sweeping across college campuses and

1:20:56

communities in the United States. In

1:20:58

2024, Batar USA obtained tax-exempt charitable

1:21:00

status from the U.S. federal tax

1:21:02

agency, the IRS. As a New

1:21:05

York-based charity, Batar USA is required

1:21:07

to register with the state before

1:21:09

it can solicit donations from the

1:21:11

public, but despite being based in

1:21:13

New York, the organization cannot be

1:21:15

found in the state charity database.

1:21:17

And a phone call with the

1:21:19

electronic and a fought on Wednesday

1:21:22

employee of the New York State

1:21:24

Charities Bureau confirmed that if a

1:21:26

New York-based charity is soliciting donations

1:21:28

without being registered, it is a

1:21:30

violation of the law and the

1:21:32

New York Attorney General issued this

1:21:34

statement on March 13th of this

1:21:37

year. Regarding Batar, aka Batar

1:21:39

Zionist organization, dear Ali Abunima, who's

1:21:41

a journalist with that site, I

1:21:43

am writing in response to your

1:21:45

correspondence to the Attorney General's Charity

1:21:47

Bureau concerning Batar. We have contacted

1:21:49

Batar, the Batar Zionist Organization, Inc,

1:21:51

to notify them of the requirement

1:21:54

to register with the Charities Bureau.

1:21:56

Everything about them is just very

1:21:58

sketchy. They will not... where their

1:22:00

funding comes from, they will not

1:22:02

say who they are while they

1:22:04

drag everybody else's name into the

1:22:06

spotlight and now have control over

1:22:08

the U.S. government's deportation policies. Here

1:22:11

from the Jewish Journal the forward

1:22:13

in October of 2018, the Canary

1:22:15

Mission blacklist is secretly bankrolled by

1:22:17

major Jewish Federation. Oh wow, you

1:22:19

don't say. That's such a surprise.

1:22:21

Quote, for three years a website

1:22:23

called the Canary Mission, this is

1:22:25

in 2018 when they were still

1:22:27

in their beginning phases. A website

1:22:30

called Canary Mission has spread fear

1:22:32

among undergraduate activists posting more than

1:22:34

a thousand political dossiers on student

1:22:36

supporters of Palestinian rights. The dossiers

1:22:38

are meant to harm students' job

1:22:40

prospects and have been used in

1:22:42

interrogation by Israeli security officials. At

1:22:44

the same time, the website has

1:22:46

gone to great lengths to hide

1:22:49

the digital and financial trail connecting

1:22:51

it to its donors and staff.

1:22:53

Register through a secrecy service, the

1:22:55

site is untraceable. Now for the

1:22:57

first time, the forward has definitively

1:22:59

identified a major donor to a

1:23:01

canary mission. It is a foundation

1:23:03

controlled by the Jewish Community Federation

1:23:05

of San Francisco, a major Jewish

1:23:08

charity with an annual budget of

1:23:10

over $100 million. The Federation's support

1:23:12

of canary mission connects the American

1:23:14

Jewish establishment itself to a website

1:23:16

that is facing increasing criticism from

1:23:18

young Jews. Canary Mission has been

1:23:20

controversial since it appeared in mid-2015

1:23:22

drawing comparisons to a McCarthyite blacklist.

1:23:24

While some of those listed on

1:23:27

this site are prominent activists, others

1:23:29

are students who attended a single

1:23:31

event. Or even student government representatives

1:23:33

suspected a voting for resolutions that

1:23:35

are critical of Israel. All that

1:23:37

it takes to get on their

1:23:39

blacklist that then goes to the

1:23:41

government is doing anything that suggests

1:23:44

you don't love Israel. You attend

1:23:46

a protest. A peaceful protest. This

1:23:48

is 2018. You

1:23:50

write it not bad, you say

1:23:52

something in your class, and then

1:23:54

little spies in the class report

1:23:56

it, and you go on a

1:23:58

blacklist that can destroy your reputation

1:24:01

and grids, intended to do that.

1:24:03

Never in their wildest dreams would

1:24:05

they imagine that they would one

1:24:07

day be dictating to the U.S.

1:24:09

government who can stay in the

1:24:11

United States and who can't. But

1:24:13

that's how top of a priority

1:24:15

how unlimited of a commitment the

1:24:17

Trump administration has to purging the

1:24:20

country of people who criticize Israel

1:24:22

or question U.S. financing of Israel.

1:24:24

Here's the nation in December of

1:24:26

2023 who was funding of the

1:24:28

Canary Mission. Inside the doxing operation

1:24:30

targeting anti-Zionist students and professors, quote,

1:24:32

Americans who give money to canary

1:24:34

mission are potentially committing a serious

1:24:36

crime by acting as agents of

1:24:38

a foreign power, that would be

1:24:41

Israel. Quite like its campus spy

1:24:43

operation, Israel on campus coalition, canary

1:24:45

mission acts as a key intelligence

1:24:47

asset for the Ministry of Strategic

1:24:49

Affairs, a highly secretive intelligence organization

1:24:51

that is largely focused on the

1:24:53

United States. and the Shin Bet

1:24:55

security service. Not only is it

1:24:57

intended to silent anti-Israel dissent, its

1:25:00

list of names is also used

1:25:02

to prevent those individuals from entering

1:25:04

Israel and attempted to visit family,

1:25:06

including both Jews and Palestinians and

1:25:08

professors as well as students. One

1:25:10

such victim was Columbia University Law

1:25:12

School professor Catherine Frankie, who at

1:25:14

one time sat on the academic

1:25:16

advisory council Steering Committee for Jewish

1:25:18

Voices for Peace. She's a Jewish

1:25:21

woman. She's been on our show

1:25:23

as well. Upon her landing in

1:25:25

Tel Aviv, an official at the

1:25:27

airport showed her what appeared to

1:25:29

be her canary mission profile after

1:25:31

being kept in detention for 14

1:25:33

hours, she was deported and informed

1:25:35

that she would be permanently banned

1:25:37

from Israel. There was a key

1:25:40

reason for so much secrecy. Those

1:25:42

Americans who are financially supporting canary

1:25:44

mission were potentially committing a serious

1:25:46

crime acting as agents of a

1:25:48

foreign power. They were financing a

1:25:50

clandestine foreign organization with ties to

1:25:52

Israel's Ministry of Strategic Affairs, an

1:25:54

Israeli intelligence agency, which was using

1:25:56

canary mission to identify, detain to

1:25:58

port Americans entering the country, like

1:26:01

Laura Alcassam. and Professor Catherine Frank.

1:26:03

Again, note the irony here. Whenever

1:26:05

I talk about this, I have

1:26:07

huge numbers of American conservatives, people

1:26:09

who call themselves America first, and

1:26:11

they'll say, we don't care, we

1:26:13

want the foreigners gone, even if

1:26:15

they're prioritizing foreigners legally in the

1:26:17

US, even if they're only supporting

1:26:20

the ones who criticize them, when

1:26:22

are them all gone? We don't

1:26:24

want any foreign influence in our

1:26:26

country. Even though it

1:26:28

was Donald Trump and Elon Musk

1:26:30

both said, we're going to be

1:26:32

issuing a lot more H-1B visas

1:26:35

so that foreign workers can come

1:26:37

and work for our corporations, and

1:26:39

MAGA opposed it and said, we

1:26:41

should have American workers, and they

1:26:43

were told no, we don't care

1:26:45

about American workers, we need foreign

1:26:48

workers working for our company. But

1:26:50

the sentiment is, we don't want

1:26:52

foreign influence in our country. And

1:26:54

yet here's an Israeli spy campaign

1:26:56

being run by the Israeli intelligence

1:26:58

agency, spying on the American campuses,

1:27:00

creating black lists that include American

1:27:03

students, Jewish students, now dictating to

1:27:05

the United States government who should

1:27:07

be deported. And we just serve

1:27:09

it, we obey it, because one

1:27:11

of the top administration's top priorities

1:27:13

is Directors to make sure that

1:27:16

the curriculum at all American universities,

1:27:18

no more academic freedom, is aligned

1:27:20

with the Israeli government in its

1:27:22

agenda. Here's Mark Arubio on February

1:27:24

25th, 2022. And this is at

1:27:26

a CPAC speech that he gave

1:27:28

in Florida. For the first time

1:27:31

now, we started to see the

1:27:33

building momentum behind, first of all,

1:27:35

like, there's now a speech code,

1:27:37

right? This is Markarubio talking about

1:27:39

the evils. the sinister evils of

1:27:41

speech codes on college campuses as

1:27:43

a way of censoring political speech

1:27:46

that liberals by the administration dislike.

1:27:48

during defense for Markarubio of the

1:27:50

First Amendment and the importance, the

1:27:52

critical importance of maintaining free discourse

1:27:54

on American College campuses where all

1:27:56

opinions can be heard without punishment.

1:27:59

So, so moving. I look at

1:28:01

this, I want to cry practically

1:28:03

with inspiration about how devoted Markarubio

1:28:05

was to the idea of free

1:28:07

speech when he thought it was

1:28:09

his side being targeted. For the

1:28:11

first time now, we started to

1:28:14

see the building momentum behind first

1:28:16

of all like there's now a

1:28:18

speech code. Right? Every single person

1:28:20

in this room and the overwhelming

1:28:22

majority of people that you know

1:28:24

are one word away. It didn't

1:28:27

matter if you're 13 years old

1:28:29

when you said it. You're one

1:28:31

word, you're one statement, you're one

1:28:33

retweet, you're one light away from

1:28:35

destroying your life. There are kids

1:28:37

in America, there are kids in

1:28:39

America that have been had their

1:28:42

admissions to a college revoked because

1:28:44

of something they said or did

1:28:46

or liked on social media when

1:28:48

they were 14. When they were

1:28:50

14. But it goes beyond that.

1:28:52

There are now certain things that

1:28:54

you're not allowed to say on

1:28:57

a college campus. Oh my God,

1:28:59

really? Things you're not allowed to

1:29:01

say on a college campus? What

1:29:03

would those be? I think that's

1:29:05

true now. As a result of

1:29:07

Mark Ruby and the Trump administration,

1:29:10

in fact, I know it is.

1:29:12

And we all know what you're

1:29:14

not allowed to say. The government

1:29:16

has made it extremely clear in

1:29:18

multiple different ways. And like I

1:29:20

said at the beginning of the

1:29:22

show, we reported on this a

1:29:25

lot, we felt compelled to do

1:29:27

so again tonight, of

1:29:29

how many escalations and attacks there

1:29:31

have been just in the last

1:29:33

72 hours of multiple universities across

1:29:36

the country over the same issue.

1:29:38

Not people who engage in violence,

1:29:40

not people who engage in vandalism,

1:29:42

not people who block Jewish students

1:29:44

or whatever the fabricated claims are.

1:29:47

A physician in Canada was the

1:29:49

head of Doctors Without Borders who

1:29:51

had her speech canceled at NYU

1:29:53

because two of her slides talked

1:29:56

about the number of people killed

1:29:58

in Gaza by Israel. A PhD

1:30:00

student who were out of not

1:30:02

bad. a peaceful in Tufts, community

1:30:04

newspaper who's now deported because of

1:30:07

it, an art college newspaper. The

1:30:09

Middle East Studies Department of Columbia

1:30:11

in receivership, the heads of the

1:30:13

Middle East Studies Department at Harvard,

1:30:15

fired the fourth Ivy League president

1:30:18

in the last year and a

1:30:20

half, the second at Columbia, forced

1:30:22

out all over this one foreign

1:30:24

country, all over this one issue.

1:30:27

Because now it's conservatives who say, oh,

1:30:29

there's bigotry on our college campuses and

1:30:32

the US government needs to step in

1:30:34

to protect minority groups, a one minority

1:30:36

group, rest, who cares about those, one

1:30:39

minority group, one minority group, one minority

1:30:41

group, from words that upset them, from

1:30:43

bigotry, we're going to clean racism and

1:30:46

bigotry from our college campuses, we're going

1:30:48

to do it through government control, we're

1:30:50

going to take control of these universities,

1:30:53

and we're going to expand hate speech

1:30:55

codes. If you're an American, we can't

1:30:57

deport you when you say these things.

1:31:00

That's where we're headed. And I know

1:31:02

that there are a lot of people

1:31:04

who are fine with it because they

1:31:07

prioritize and revere Israel. And it's very

1:31:09

difficult to get yourself to care about

1:31:11

free speech when the views that you

1:31:14

most hate are being targeted as opposed

1:31:16

to the views that you agree with

1:31:18

or feel an affinity with. But

1:31:21

if you don't step up and defend free

1:31:23

speech when it's those views that you most

1:31:25

hate that are being silenced and punished and

1:31:27

constrained and targeted You don't actually believe in

1:31:29

free speech at all and that's so many

1:31:32

people are proving With their reaction to these

1:31:34

assaults on free speech that that's very true

1:31:36

of themselves All

1:31:40

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