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Sid & Friends In The Morning

Gerard Filitti | Pro-Israel Voice | 03-24-25

Sid & Friends In The Morning

77 WABC

Sports, News, Comedy

4.2826 Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Pro-Israel voice Gerard Filitti makes his debut on the program with Sid to discuss how, contrary to mainstream reporting, Columbia University is not meeting the demands of the Trump administration regarding anti-Semitism running rampant on the Ivy League school's campus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

So here's what Gerard Beliti writes.

0:02.3

He writes, contrary to what is being reported,

0:05.3

Columbia University has not implemented the U.S.D.Gov,

0:10.9

the nine requirements from Trump for combating campus anti-Semitism

0:15.9

in order to negotiate the restoration of federal funding.

0:20.0

In fact, it goes out to say, Gerard, Columbia's announcement falls far short of meeting

0:25.5

the government's requirements.

0:28.0

And he goes on to say it meets about two of the nine.

0:33.6

Did you know that, Noam?

0:35.5

About two of the nine.

0:37.2

Yeah, the thing is, though, when the students come back, they're coming back from spring break today, there is the university reached out.

0:43.8

They said that they've actually done some of the work. They hired 39 new police officers. There's a face mask ban in place this morning. This is what they claim.

0:53.0

They've also said they've limited the locations

0:55.0

where demonstrators are allowed. Those are some of the things that the White House has asked for.

1:01.1

And yesterday, the Education Secretary Linda McMahon said that she thought Columbia was well on

1:05.8

its way to regaining those federal funds.

1:08.2

All right. So there's one side of it. Let's hear the other side from Gerard,

1:11.6

who doesn't feel like Columbia is ready to really cooperate.

1:14.7

Gerard, good morning, pal.

1:15.6

How are you?

1:16.8

Good morning.

1:17.4

Thank you for having me.

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