The spiraling pro-Hamas encampments were the topic of my appearance last night on the Laura Ingraham show.
I’ve used this private Providence studio, which has hot links to major networks, so much that they have earpieces designated for me and a few others.
Though short, like all prime time appearances, I had a chance to touch upon some themes I’ve been writing and speaking about, particularly the anti-American, anti-western, and anti-capitalist core of the protests which have joined forces with Islamists.
IngrahamAlright, joining us now, Cornell Law Professor William Jacobson, founder of the Equal Protection Project. He dealt with this hostility from his own school because he dared to ask questions about the BLM movement.Professor, President Shafiq of Columbia said that the university designates certain areas for protest in order to guarantee free speech for the students, but to avoid disruption to other students like we’re seeing with these encampments. So why is the administration negotiating with the people that are violating its own rules?WAJI think that’s a great question and I think that’s one of the reasons she probably should be stepping down.This is a toxic situation with toxic ideologies. These are essentially an anti-American anti-Western anti-capitalist ideology, similar to Occupy Wall Street from a decade ago, mixed in with Islamist pro terror groups and mixed in with praise for Hamas and other terrorist groups. This is not really something that we’ve seen before and I’ve been covering these movements for over a decade. It’s worse now.IngrahamWell, CNN thinks that the police are perhaps the catalysts for the protests themselves and may make things worse. Watch.CNN Video PlayedThe action of bringing police into a group of people who are already feeling that they are sort of representative of the oppressed who are inspired by what happened with George Floyd in 2020 and seeing what is happening in Gaza. That has only really acted as a catalyst here. And so, um, I wonder at the wisdom of bringing in the armed police,IngrahamSo Professor Jacobson, apparently they’re supposed to just let these hundreds of tents without any sanitation, without any concern for the students who are actually trying to get a real education. Just let ’em stay up till they get tired.WAJYeah, well. This is obviously very highly organized. This is not spontaneous. There’s a group that’s organizing these around the country. If you look at a lot of the encampments, the tens are identical. Somebody bought them, somebody put in an order for these.These are not just students showing up and that’s really what’s going on here. It is no mistake, it is no coincidence that today on X, formerly Twitter, the Supreme Ayatollah in Iran praised the students and criticized the US cracking down on the student protests. This is not what it appears to be. This is a much more serious situation.IngrahamUh, yeah. This is infecting our country now and this is what the liberals wanted and this is what they got. Professor, thank you so much.
This is an example of identical tents. Who is paying for these protests?
I also had a chance to discuss the situation in even more detail on Fox News Rundown on radio.
It is fair to say the people of the United States take pride in their freedoms of speech and protest, laws that don’t exist everywhere in the world. Those rights are on full display in the number of protests across American college campuses railing against support for Israel, but as these protests become increasingly dangerous, including a stabbing at a Yale protest and protesters at Columbia University heard shouting pro-terrorist group Hamas slogans, are they still a demonstration of free expression? Or acts of intimidation?FOX’s Eben Brown speaks with William Jacobson, Cornell Law Professor, who has seen protests on his campus and says this has been building in academia for decades.
My segment starts at the 2:00 minute mark. Sorry, there is no transcript yet; if I can find the time, I’ll add it.
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