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Update 4-25-24: Speaker Johnson and Rep. Malliotakis Speak Up For Jewish Community; Columbia Prez Shafik Up For Censure Vote · OneLegUpAlex Media

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  Here's your host, Alex Garrett, and again here on April twenty fifth,
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  twenty twenty four, six seventeen pm. When I record this podcast, my
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  main question is why isn't doctor Schaffique fired from Columbia University. Why hasn't she
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  been forced to resign? You know, it's amazing. On this podcast,
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  I'm doing a cause to combat anti Semitism on our college campuses. On my
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  Instagram, I'm talking about limb Lass awareness. So I've got a couple of
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  campaigns going on this podcast dedicated to eradicating the anti Semitism on our college campuses
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  right now, and the instagram honoring those with lim lass and you can find
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  that out at Alex g NYC one. But right now, here's the update.
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  We'll get into what's happening tomorrow. But did you hear Mike Johnson speaker
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  Mike Johnson yesterday amidst the chaos, speaking at Columbia University alongside Congressman Nicole Malia
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  Takis. We are endowed by our creator with certain and alienable rights. They
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  should not be infringed. The founders and the great leaders who had come through
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  this institution in the past believed in religious liberty. They believed in democracy,
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  They believed in morality and virtue and the dignity of every human person. They
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  believed in the free exchange of ideas, and they detested mob rule. We
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  are standing here right now in the steps of the Low Library, in this
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  very building right behind US. Columbia University once awarded Winston Churchill in an honorary
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  degree, and it was Churchill who said, it is manifestly right that Jews
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  should have a national home where they may be reunited. We believe in that
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  principle, and today I'm here to proclaim to all those who gnash their teeth
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  and demand to wipe the state of Israel off the map and attack our innocent
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  Jewish students this simple truth. Neither Israel nor these Jewish students on this campus
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  will ever stand alone. Today Hamas issued an endorsement statement of the protesters on
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  this campus. They called them the future leaders of America. It is detestable
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  all of this has to be said, because the cherished traditions of this university
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  are being overtaken right now by radical and extreme ideologies. They place a target
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  on the backs of Jewish students in the United States, and here on this
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  campus, a growing number of students have chanted in support terrorists. They have
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  chased down Jewish students, they have mocked them and reviled them. They have
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  shouted racial epithets. They have screamed and those who bear the Star of David
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  enjoy your free speech. They've told Jewish students who wear the Star of David
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  to leave the country and share aimfully. Some professors and faculty have joined the
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  mobs. Things that have gotten so out of control that the school's canceled in
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  person classes. And now they've come up with this hybrid model where they will
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  discriminate against Jewish students. They are not allowed to come to class anymore for
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  fear of their lives. And it's detestable as Columbia has allowed these lawless agitators
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  and radicals to take over. The virus of anti Semitism has spread across other
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  campuses. By some counts, as many as two hundred universities have a similar
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  form of protest right now. At Yale, a Jewish student was stabbed in
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  the eye with a Palestinian flag, and forty five students were arrested. At
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  NYU pro hamas protesters were shouting from the river to the sea, anti Israel,
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  and campments are popping up at universities all across this country. The madness
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  has to stop. The madness has to stop. We just left the meeting
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  with students Jewish students who told us of the heinous acts of bigotry that they
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  experienced simply because of their faith. Their bravery is inspiring, much more inspiring
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  than some of the activities were seen here. And they should never have to
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  confront such hate on an American college campus instead of such a revered institution.
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  Anti Semitism has been growing in America, and it's clear why powerful people have
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  refused to condemn it, and some have even peddled it themselves, from university
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  professors to public officials. People in positions of authority have denied the horrific facts
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  of September eleven, two thousand and one, the attacks on the United States
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  that happened right here in New York City, and they've attempted to excuse or
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  to ignore the barbaric attack of Hamas in Israel October seven, twenty twenty three,
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  where Israeli women and children were savagely raped and murdered, and infants were
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  cooked in ovens crowds of redicllect activists have chanted death to America and honor our
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  own streets in this country, and sub public officials have refused to condemn them.
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  Others have openly defended these acts on campus and the harassing and the intimidation
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  and the threatening of innocent Jewish students simply because of who they are. They
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  called that peaceful protests, and some have even gone as far as calling for
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  the state of Israel to be eliminated. These are words we expect from iatolas
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  in Iran, not American lawmakers, and not American students, and unsurprisingly,
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  it has given way to threats and violence and a generation of students who feel
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  safe in their own classrooms, who don't feel safe in their own classrooms,
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  or where they live or where they worship. Let me say this very simply,
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  No American of any color or creed should ever have to live under those
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  kinds of threats. That is not who we are in this country. Sadly,
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  Colombia's administrators have chosen to let the threats, the fear, and the
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  intimidation of the mob rule to overtake American principles like free speech and the free
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  free exchange of ideas and the free exercise of religion. They have co opted
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  First Amendment arguments to protect genocide and to elevate the voices of anti Semitism.
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  They've proven themselves to be incapable of achieving their basic responsibility, which is keeping
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  students safe. We just can't allow this kind of hatred and anti semitism to
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  flourish on our campuses, and it must be stopped in its tracks. Those
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  who are perpetrating this violence should be arrested. And I'm here today. I
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  am here today joining my colleagues and calling on President Shaffi to resign if she
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  cannot immediately bring order to this chaos. As Speaker of the House, I
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  am committing today that the Congress will not be silent as Jewish students are expected
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  to run for their lives and stay home from their classes, hiding in fear.
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  In the House of Representatives, We've already acted to address anti semitism on
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  campuses. We have passed a number of statutes to address this matter, and
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  we call upon the US Senate to act upon our legislation. That was really
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  powerful, I thought from Speaker Johnson amidst the chaos on Columbia university, and
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  here's what Congressman Nicole Mollia Tuck has had to say on the steps of the
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  Low Library on the campus of Columbia. Welcome to New York City. Yes,
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  indeed, well, thank you very much for coming today. I'm so
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  happy to welcome the speaker to New York City and we appreciate his leadership and
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  coming here to condemn the anti Semitism that has been allowed to fester on this
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  campus. We just met with a group of students who told us that not
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  only have they been bullied, but they've been many of them assaulted, they
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  have been spat on, They have had to walk the halls of this campus
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  to see swaps painted. These are clear examples of anti semitism, and it's
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  shocking to see that it's happening in the most diverse and welcoming city in America.
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  It is truly outrageous, and it's clear that the president of this university
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  cannot control the campus they can. She cannot and will not hold students who
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  are doing these types of anti Semitic activities accountable, and that she cannot keep
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  the students who are of Jewish faith, who paid a lot of money and
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  have worked very hard to get to an IVY League institution like this, that
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  she cannot keep them safe. And that is why I joined my colleagues in
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  calling for her resignation. Thank you, and there you have it from the
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  Columbia University steps Congresswoman Nicole Molly and Takas and Speaker Mike Johnson stepping out in
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  front of it and in favor of the Jewish student body population. And why
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  I play these two is because it means calls are growing. When the Speaker
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  of the House calls for the resignation of a college president such as Colomba University,
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  that's a big deal. When a congresswoman from Staten Island comes all the
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  way to Morningside Heights and says enough's enough, President Schaffique must resign, that
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  says a lot too. But then there's this, Then there is this.
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  Tomorrow, doctor Mmit Schaffique will most likely be facing a censure ship vote,
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  according to New York Times. Now, I was looking through what update I
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  can give you guys on this today, and I'm going to post a link
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  up about this. But as during chaotic day, Columbia's university president fights for
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  her job. The Columbia board has made in support of doctor Scheffique clear,
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  but the university's senate might admonish her, might censure her. Here are some
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  excerpts from this article in The Times that I want to share with you tonight
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  on the eve of most likely her censorship vote. Does If doctor Scheffique ultimately
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  remains a top Columbia, her meeting with the university Senate made plain, it
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  will likely be as a scarred one. Now you would think it's because it's
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  the fact that she's endangered the lives of Jewish people, of Jewish of the
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  Jewish student body, and Jewish professors. But the resolution coil the New York
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  Times that is written here says this. The university resolution says doctor Chefik had
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  endangered both the welfare and the futures of the arrested students that were protesting and
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  saying vile anti Semitic things. Yes, the resolution that the University Senate wants
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  to censor her for is not for endangering the lives of Jewish students. It's
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  the lives of the protesters. For my vantage point any encampment, there should
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  be no future for those who have said anti Semitic things, for those who
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  have encamped on a college university with hatred. The futures of the arrested students
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  and the suspensions should hold. The future should not be a future as far
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  as I could see, if they're going to sit there on in the encampment
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  and promote anti Semitic ideology and boo when the speaker of the House calls for
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  the safety of Jewish people. So far, the university Senate is not expected
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  to call for her removal, but a censor vote is meant to signal serious
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  disapproval, not a demand for an ouster. So basically, according to the
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  Times, she's up for a censorship vote, but not for the reason you
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  would think. Not for the reason that she's endangered the lives of the Jewish
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  student body. No, no, no, she's in dangered the lives of
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  the protesters. The coddling of anti Semitism is continuing in Colombia. Think about
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  that, by not only allowing her to be president still, but by censuring
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  her for not doing enough to protect the protesters who are encamping on private property
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  and spewing anti Semitic ideals. See where I have a problem with this resolution.
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  When I heard that she's up for censure a center, and I was
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  excited, Oh my god, finally someone's speaking out on behalf of the Jewish
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  people. But no, the resolution is saying doctor Sheviki endangered the welfare in
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  the future of the arrested students, not those who are at home, and
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  of fear of going to college for a degree that, as Congressman Molly Takers
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  says, they are earning, they are paying for it, says the doctor.
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  Cheffiku, according to those in the meeting with her, used part of
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  a roughly hour long appearance to acknowledge that the decision to bring in the police
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  had exacerbated the problems, so she blamed the cops for clearing out two While
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  we're at it. This woman should not be leading Columbia University anymore. And
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  I've been on this for three days now and I'll continue to be I'll let
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  you know how the censorship vote goes. But it's not a censorship to say,
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  oh, you should be censured for the way you've treated the Jewish people.
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  Know it's the way you've treated the protesters. Columbia University Senate, what
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  are you doing? What are you doing? You should be protecting the rights
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  of the Jewish people. Now, I'm sure if she censured, I think
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  the board should then fire her. And maybe that'll help the lives of the
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  Jewish people. So maybe indiscriminately, if you will, they are helping the
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  Jewish people, accidentally helping Thejewish people instead of being that the main focus of
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  the University Senate. I might reach out to a Columbia spectator and see what's
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  going on up there. Tomorrow, once we get more word on the censorship
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  vote by the Columbia University Senate, she'll be a scarred figure, all right,
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  but not for abandoning the safety of the Jewish people, but for causing
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  the arrest of the anarchists. Think about that as we hit Friday tomorrow.
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  Think about that that she's going to be scarred for endangering the lives of the
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  protesters who are in fact indigenerous lives of real students that are of Jewish descent.
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  And that protest that became anarchy, that became ten City, has spread
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  to other chemps as Princeton today dealing with it, Brown University, USC Texas,
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  all because doctor Schaffique has let this happen in our very own city.
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  It is disgusting and I'm so proud of Mike Johnson and Congresswoman Malia Takis Speaker
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  Johnson for coming up to Morningside Heights, for going up to morning Inside Heights
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  and speaking up for the Jewish population. This isn't over yet, and we're
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  gonna stay on it. On The Alex Garrett Podcast Network