WTH is Antisemitism Exploding on College Campuses? Hillel International’s Adam Lehman Explains
What the Hell Is Going On
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🗓️ 2 May 2024
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Self-proclaimed “anti-Israel” and “anti-war” protests have gripped college campuses ever since Hamas’ brutal terrorist attack killed, injured, and took hostage thousands of Israeli civilians on October 7. However, in recent weeks, protesters have begun taking siege to universities across the country, setting up 77 “encampments” on quads, vandalizing property, barricading themselves in buildings, and physically and verbally assaulting Jewish students who dare to pass by them. The response from many college administrators and faculty has been timid, when not directly supportive of protesters that have turned violently antisemitic. Where does this antisemitism come from? And what can we do to stamp out the pervasive Jew-hatred plaguing our universities?
Adam Lehman is the President and CEO of Hillel International, the largest Jewish student organization in the world. Adam started his career at Skadden, Arps, and spent two decades as an executive and entrepreneur, including as a Senior Vice President at AOL. He was a Harry S. Truman Scholar at Dartmouth College and is a graduate of Harvard Law School.
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is brought to you by the American Enterprise Institute. |
| 0:03.1 | If you like what you hear, please subscribe, rate, review, and share. Thanks for listening. Here's our show. What the hell's going on? What the hell is going on? What the hell is going on? I don't know what the hell he's talking about. You don't have to know what the hell is on it. What hell's the matter with these guys? We don't know what's going on. Hotels gone on. |
| 0:01.0 | Who in God's name knows what it's all about. |
| 0:29.1 | Hi, I'm Daniel Plutka. |
| 0:31.0 | I'm Mark Tiesin. |
| 0:32.2 | Welcome to our podcast. |
| 0:33.8 | What the hell is going on? |
| 0:35.8 | What, Mark, what the hell is going on? What the hell is going on is the |
| 0:41.6 | pro-Hamas left has taken over dozens of college campuses across the country. There are, I think, |
| 0:50.5 | 77 encampments. 77 encampments across the country. |
| 0:55.2 | In Columbia University, the other day, they ordered them to shut down their encampment, |
| 1:01.1 | and the students, not only did they not shut down their encampment, |
| 1:04.3 | they took over the main campus building. |
| 1:06.6 | And by the way, can I say just an aside, |
| 1:10.3 | if you were outraged by January 6th and you're not |
| 1:14.3 | outraged by this, you're a hypocrite. |
| 1:17.6 | The students marching into a campus building, breaking windows, taking over a school in |
| 1:22.6 | support of terrorism. |
| 1:23.9 | I mean, it's disgusting. |
| 1:25.1 | And we all believe in the free speech. |
| 1:27.4 | We all believe in the First Amendment. We all believe in the First |
| 1:28.6 | Amendment. The First Amendment does not give you the right to break the law. The First Amendment |
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