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What's Really Driving the Antisemitic Protests on College Campuses

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🗓️ 25 April 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Pro-Palestine protests on the campuses of some of America's most elite colleges have resulted in hundreds of arrests and led Columbia University in New York to move classes online for the remainder of the semester.  The pro-Hamas, anti-Israel protests at Columbia University, Yale, and New York University aren't just representative of an “antisemitic movement,” but a “fundamentally an anti-Western and anti-American movement,” Bill Jacobson says.  Jacobson, a Cornell University law professor and the founder of Legal Insurrection and the Equal Protection Project, joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to explain who or what is driving the antisemitism on America’s college campuses.  Jacobson points to the activist organization National Students for Justice in Palestine as the organizing force behind the current protests.  “They are an organization I have followed and written about for well over a decade,” Jacobson says of the pro-Palestine group. “They support terrorists. They honor people like Rasmea Odeh, who killed two Jewish students in Jerusalem.” Jacobson points to the ideology of critical race theory, which has spread across college campuses, for this rise in antisemitism. The related push for "diversity, equity, and inclusion," or DEI, is fundamentally anti-colonialism, Jacobson says, explaining that Israel is viewed by antisemites as “colonial occupiers.”  The anti-Israel and anti-American sentiment likely will continue on college campuses, he says, because “unless you are going to change the faculty at these schools, unless you are going to change the fundamental ideologies which drive them, removing students from the courtyard isn't going to change a thing.”  Enjoy the show! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is not just an anti-Israel movement. It is not just an anti-Semitic movement.

0:07.0

It is fundamentally an anti-Western and anti-American movement. Welcome to the Daily Single Podcast.

0:17.0

Welcome to the Daily Signal Podcast.

0:18.8

It's Thursday, April 25th.

0:20.6

I'm Virginia Allen, and that was Cornell Law Professor Bill Jacobson.

0:25.6

He is the founder and publisher of Legal Instruction and the founder of Equal Protect.org.

0:31.7

He's joining us on today's show to discuss the ongoing protests at some of America's top universities like Columbia, Yale, and New York University.

0:41.0

These are anti-Semitic protests, pro-Palestine protests, and have gone so far that at

0:46.7

Columbia University they've canceled on-campus classes for the rest of the semester giving students the opportunity to

0:54.2

attend classes online out of safety concerns. Stay with us as we discuss this

1:00.1

growing issue and what the root is of this anti-Semitism on America's college campuses.

1:07.0

Conservative women are problematic women. Why? Because we don't adhere to the

1:16.8

agenda of the radical left. Every Thursday morning on the Problematic Women

1:21.6

Podcast, Kristen I-K, Lauren Evans, and me,

1:24.7

Virginia Allen, are joined by other conservative women to break down the big issues

1:30.1

and news you care about. Whether you're interested in hot takes and conversation and We sort through the news to keep you up to date on the issues that are of particular interest to conservative

1:46.3

leaning, that is problematic women.

1:49.8

Find problematic women wherever you like to listen to podcasts and follow the show on

1:54.6

Instagram.

2:00.0

It is my pleasure to welcome back to the Daily Signal Podcast, Professor Bill Jacobson.

2:05.7

Professor Jacobson is a Cornell Law Professor, he is the founder and publisher of legal

2:10.9

insurrection and the founder of equal protect.org.

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