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Piers Morgan Uncensored

Outrage at Columbia University

Piers Morgan Uncensored

Piers Morgan Uncensored

Society & Culture, Sports, News

3.6375 Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

The White House has condemned what it calls “blatantly antisemitic” statements at student protests against the war in Gaza. Fractious demonstrations at Columbia University in New York have rumbled on for six days, while arrests have been made at other major colleges including Yale. Jewish students at Columbia have been warned to go home, with classes moved online. Some pro-Palestine protesters have been suspended. Critics say this is a free speech issue, conflating criticism of Israel with hatred of Jews. Others say it’s simply unacceptable that Jewish students do not feel safe. To debate, Piers is joined by the Editor of the Yale Free Press, Sahar Tartak, who was jabbed in the eye with a Palestinian flag by a protester. Arab-Israeli Journalist, Yoseph Haddad, who was assaulted at a protest at Columbia University Host of Breaking Points, Krystal Ball  And author of Go Back to Where you Came From, Wajahat Ali  YouTube: @PiersMorganUncensored X: @PiersUncensored TikTok: @piersmorganuncensored Insta: @piersmorganuncensored Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

The White House has condemned what it calls blatantly anti-Semitic statements at student protests against the war in Gaza.

0:06.4

Fractious demonstrations at Columbia University in New York have rumbled on for six days,

0:10.2

while arrests have been made at other major colleges, including Yale.

0:13.6

Jewish students at Columbia have been warned to go home, with classes moved online.

0:18.0

Some pro-Palestine protesters have been suspended.

0:22.3

Critics say this is a free speech issue, conflating criticism of Israel with hatred of Jews. Others say it's simply unacceptable that

0:27.8

Jewish students do not feel safe. Would you know me now discuss all this are the editor of the Yale

0:32.2

Free Press, Sahar Tartak, who was jabbed in the eye with a Palestinian flag by a protester, the Arab-Israeli journalist,

0:39.3

Yusuf Haddad, who was assaulted at a protest at Columbia University, the host of Breaking Points,

0:44.3

Crystal Ball, and author of Go Back to Where You Come From, Vajahat Ali.

0:49.3

Well, welcome to all of you.

0:50.3

Let me start with you, if I may, Saha, tell me exactly what happened to you.

0:58.1

Sure. So I went to a large anti-Semitic campus rally on Saturday night to document the protest

1:06.2

with another visibly Jewish friend. He wears a black hat and sit-sit, which are ritual

1:12.0

fringes and has a beard, and I dress in ritually modest clothing and wear a star of David.

1:18.2

And we were immediately identified by protest organizers as, I guess, the enemy. And so they

1:26.3

blockaded us by creating a human blockade, as in standing in a line with their arms linked in front of us.

1:32.8

And eventually, Netanel and I were separated. And so each of us were assigned separate human blockades made of protest organizers that taunted us and waved flashlights in our face.

1:43.3

And as the other 500 anti-Semitic students at the rally noticed us and identified us,

1:50.0

they joined in on the taunting.

1:53.0

And so I was encircled by 500 students who were singing and dancing against the Jewish people in a circle around this plaza at Yale,

2:03.4

basically the central plaza on our campus. And as they taunted me and waved their middle finger

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