Antisemitism U

WSJ Opinion: Free Expression

Gerard Baker, Editor at Large, The Wall Street Journal

Society & Culture, News

4.6 • 591 Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Have our elite universities become seedbeds of hatred? Since Hamas’ murderous attacks on Israel on October 7th, and the war in Gaza that followed, demonstrations have exploded on the campus of American universities. In the last two weeks, the mayhem has escalated. Columbia University especially has been overrun by angry protesters, many of them pushing nakedly antisemitic messages and harassing Jewish students - who have been advised to steer clear of campus for their own safety. One Columbia professor who has challenged the encampments, Shai Davidai, has even found himself barred from the campus. On this episode of the Free Expression podcast, Davidai tells Gerry Baker about the growth of Hamas and Hezbollah-supporting organizations at Columbia and other universities and describes the threat they pose not just to Jews but to the wider population. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Boardrooms love buzzwords.
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0:17.1	From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Free Expression with Jerry Baker.
0:24.5	Hello and welcome to Free Expression from the Wall Street Journal.
0:27.7	I'm Jerry Baker, editor-at-large of the journal.
0:30.3	If you're not already a subscriber, please do sign up to Free Expression wherever you get your podcasts.
0:35.8	This week, as an elite U. elite US university is in effect shut down
0:40.0	by pro-Palestinian protesters, and as Jewish students are warned to stay away from campus
0:45.4	for their own safety, we take a look at what's really happening in this country's supposedly
0:50.2	elite colleges. How did the nation's most prestigious places of higher education become
0:56.2	hotbeds of hatred and fanatical extremism? And what can we do to reverse the tide?
1:00.9	A week ago, the President of Columbia University, the Ivy League School in New York City,
1:04.2	called in the police to remove more than 100 anti-Israel pro-Palestinian demonstrators who'd camped
1:09.1	out on the university's main quad. President
1:11.1	Manus Shafik hoped that clearing them out would mark the end of the protests and deflect criticism
1:15.6	that her university had, like so many other elite colleges, become home to extremists,
1:21.8	anti-American, anti-Israeli, and anti-Semitic extremists. But this week, the protesters were back in even greater numbers, paralyzing the campus.
1:30.7	The administration replaced regular classes with remote Zoom sessions for the students,
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