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The Ben Shapiro Show

Ep. 1840 -  What I Learned At Oxford

The Ben Shapiro Show

The Daily Wire

News Commentary, News

4.4152.4K Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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I speak at Oxford and have my worst suspicions of the West’s weakness confirmed; the international community increasingly calls for a ceasefire to protect Gazan civilians while Hamas brags about exploiting them; and a university professor explains the Left-wing perspective on race relations.   Click here to join the member exclusive portion of my show: https://utm.io/ueSEj   Ep.1840    - - -    DailyWire+:   Get your 30% off Jeremy’s Chocolate here: https://bit.ly/45uzeWf   Get your Ben Shapiro merch here: https://bit.ly/3TAu2cw    - - -    Today’s Sponsors:   ExpressVPN - Get 3 Months FREE of ExpressVPN: https://expressvpn.com/ben   Grand Canyon University - Find your purpose at Grand Canyon University: https://www.gcu.edu/   Helix - Get 20% OFF + 2 FREE pillows with all mattress orders https://helixsleep.com/BEN   ZipRecruiter - Try ZipRecruiter for FREE: https://www.ziprecruiter.com/dailywire   - - -   Socials:   Follow on Twitter: https://bit.ly/3cXUn53   Follow on Instagram: https://bit.ly/3QtuibJ   Follow on Facebook: https://bit.ly/3TTirqd   Subscribe on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3RPyBiB Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Last night, I visited Oxford University in Great Britain.

0:09.9

My wife had some hesitance about me visiting the UK at all, given safety concerns.

0:13.5

After all, on Saturday, some 100,000 people marched in support of Hamas.

0:18.0

Anti-Semitic hate crime is apparently up 1,350% in London over the last few weeks.

0:23.1

Imams shout in Nottingham, oh Muslim, here is a Jew behind me, kill him.

0:27.4

But we felt that it was important, particularly at a time when the West seems unsure of its

0:31.0

moral qualifications to condemn absolute evil in the form of Hamas, to go to Oxford.

0:35.7

After all, Oxford is a thousand-year-old institution, one of the chief intellectual lights of the West. If we in the West of Hamas to go to Oxford. After all, Oxford is a thousand-year-old institution,

0:38.2

one of the chief intellectual lights of the West. If we in the West lose Oxford, it's a good

0:41.9

indicator the West as a whole is in trouble. Well, I'm here to report the West is in trouble.

0:46.8

The university itself is gorgeous. It's a monument to the greatness of mankind. The architecture

0:51.2

is magnificent. The history speaks from the walls from Churchill to

0:54.3

C.S. Lewis from 1096 to 1945. But the institution itself has been honeycombed with people

1:00.4

who are in full support of Islamic terrorism. My opening remarks last night focused on the West's

1:05.8

shyness about its own values. It's failure to recognize that not everybody thinks like Westerners

1:10.2

do and the

1:11.0

consequent importation of people who believe that the West is actually deeply evil. Those remarks

1:15.8

were borne out in the actual event. When student after student approached the microphone to offer

1:19.4

a bevy of morally obfuscatory arguments in support of Hamas, the most common was the

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