I appeared on the Jesse Watters’ show on Fox News tonight to talk about the anti-Israel and anti-American campus riots and encampments sweeping colleges and universities.
Before I appeared, Jesse gave a 15-minute monologue which was very hard hitting on the nature of the protests.
My segment lasted just over 3 minutes, which is forever in prime time.
I felt I got to say what I wanted, and didn’t leave much on the table.
Watters (00:00):Cornell Law Professor William Jacobson joins me now. So you went through a little bit. What’s going on with you, professor?WAJ (00:10):Well, when I spoke out against Black Lives Matter [in 2020], I was targeted, but there’s a much bigger problem now than the riots of 2020.We have on our campuses and in our cities, a marriage between the extreme left, the extreme left that wants to tear us down, that hates the United States, is anti-American, anti-Western, anti-capitalist, and the Islamists who hate America, hate Israel.So everything you’re seeing is really a social contagion. You have highly ideologically motivated leaders, organizers, and you have a bunch of students who, many of them, maybe not most, but many of them are going along because it’s the thing to do. Hating Israel, hating the United States, chanting almost like cult-like phrases back and forth, has captured a lot of the campuses.But this is a serious situation. It’s the extreme left that wants to tear us down. Almost Khemer Rouge, go back to Year Zero and start over. And the extreme Islamists, who are worshiping Hamas, who want to take us back to the eighth century. So this is really a wake up call for this country that what is happening now is not just a social contagion. It is extremely dangerous. And this marriage of the extreme left and the Islamists is not something that we’ve really seen before. And people need to recognize this is a serious situation.Watters (01:38):So the Department of Justice tried to frame and concoct a connection between the right and Russia. Remember what they did there with Trump-Russia collusion. They did that fraudulently. There was never any connection between the right and Russia. Here you have the radical left. There’s a direct connection between Islamic forces. It’s staring us right in the face. They’re chanting it, they’re financing it, they’re encouraging it. How come the Feds aren’t looking at this the way they looked at the fake Trump-Russia collusion?WAJ (02:16):Yeah, that’s a great question. Because what we are seeing is right out in the open. They’re not even trying to hide it.They’re wearing Hamas headbands, they’re praising Hamas. They are projecting on buildings ‘glory to the martyrs’. They are chanting for an Intifada, which was the bloody suit of suicide bombing campaign that killed over a thousand Israeli Jews. They chant from the ‘river to the sea’ in English, but the Islamists who were chanting, when they chant it in Arabic, they chant ‘from the river to the sea, Palestine will be Arab.’So you have manipulation going on here. You have students who want to just be part of the crowd, just like in prior experiences. But it’s worse now because the people who are driving this and manipulating it and speaking really as the mouthpieces of Hamas and of the Iranian regime, have the worst intentions for our country.Watters (03:12):Yeah, they sure do. And if you’re a Republican waving a Russian flag, chanting, you know, praise Putin, ho, ho, ho, you’re getting a knock on your door. These people, they don’t mind, they, they let ’em do it all day and it’s just not right. There’s a national security situation here. We gotta look into it. Professor, thanks as always.WAJ (03:33):Great. Thank you.
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