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Victor Davis Hanson: Columbia University, Higher-Ed’s “Partisan, Political,” Refusal to Protect Jewish Students

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🗓️ 13 March 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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What is it going to take for universities like Columbia University to start protecting their Jewish students? Having the President of the United States cut off $400 million in federal funding is a good start, says Victor Davis Hanson in today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words.” “ It's widespread in higher education and the country's been appalled by it. But for some reason, higher education seems to equate Jewish Americans and, by definition, Israel with the white oppressor side of their Marxist binary, which is non-white oppressed versus white oppressor. “ For a long time, the university has decided that it will make no more pretense that it's disinterested. It's partisan, and it's political, and it's left-wing, and it's proud of it.” Don’t miss out on Victor’s latest videos by subscribing to The Daily Signal today. You’ll be notified every time a new piece of content drops: https://www.youtube.com/dailysignal?sub_confirmation=1 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Have you noticed the dilemma that higher education is in?

0:03.4

Recently, the Trump administration cut off $400 million in federal grants and aides to Columbia University

0:11.1

for its inability to stop rampant, overt, and shameless anti-Semitism on the campus.

0:16.5

For a long time, the university has decided it's partisan, it's political, and its left wing, and it's proud of it.

0:22.8

It's widespread in higher education, and the country's been appalled by it.

0:26.9

But for some reason, higher education seems to equate Jewish Americans and, by definition, Israel,

0:33.0

with the white oppressor side of their Marxist binary. Hello, this is Victor Davis-Hansson for the Daily Signal.

0:52.3

Have you noticed the dilemma that higher education is in?

0:57.2

Recently, the Trump administration cut off $400 million in federal grants and aides to Columbia

1:05.1

University for its inability to stop rampant, overt, and shameless anti-Semitism on the campus. It's widespread in higher

1:14.4

education, and the country's been appalled by it, but for some reason, higher education seems to

1:20.6

equate Jewish Americans and, by definition, Israel, with the white oppressor side of their Marxist binary, which is non-white

1:30.7

oppressed versus white oppressor.

1:33.4

What I'm getting at is it's almost as if people who chase Jewish students down, scream

1:38.8

at them, yell anti-Semitic epithets, disrupt their classes, have a free pass because they're self-described diversity, equity, inclusion students.

1:50.0

There's other things that are going on that are even more serious, though.

1:54.0

For a long time, the university has decided that it will make no more pretense that it's disinterested.

2:00.0

It's partisan and it's political and it's left wing and it's proud of it.

2:05.5

We can see that in the way that speakers are treated at campus.

2:09.4

If you go to a campus as an invited speaker and you speak in any fashion

2:14.5

to express doubts about abortion on demand, transgenderism in general,

2:21.6

New Green Deal, unlimited support for the Ukraine war, you may find yourself the object of

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