“A book written in 1978 was called Harvard Hates America. And it’s still true and people sense it.”

“A book written in 1978 was called Harvard Hates America. And it’s still true and people sense it.”

I appeared tonight on the Laura Ingraham show, with guest host Lisa Boothe and co-panelist Roger Severino.

The topic was the ongoing fight between the Trump administration and Harvard University.

Partial Transcript – auto-generated, may contain transcription errors, lightly edited for transcript clarity:

Boothe (00:01):

You heard her get her act together. Alright, with us now, William Jacobson, law professor at Cornell University and Roger Severino, vice President of domestic policy. Now both are graduates of Harvard Law. So it makes this interesting…..

Boothe (00:56):

… And Professor, I want to get you on this because it’s not just these judges that have Trump derangement syndrome, it’s also the Democrats in Congress as well. So Senators Markey and Blumenthal, well, they’re very concerned about what will happen to poor little Herbert. Let’s watch this.

[Markey video](01:11):

This is authoritarianism on steroids. This is an attempt to intimidate, uh, universities across our nation. We have to fight every single day against this dictator,

[Blumenthal video] (01:23):

Very serious escalation of pressure on Harvard of the most pernicious kind. Because what they’re doing essentially is using antisemitism as a pretext to crack down on Harvard’s academic independence and freedom.

Boothe (01:41):

So professor, is this authoritarianism on steroids or is he just standing up for Jewish students?

WAJ (01:47):

Well, I think he’s standing up for our country more than anything. And Jewish students and other students on campus. The campuses have turned into riot zones. The campuses have turned into takeovers and a lot of it is fomented by the faculty and by outside groups.

Harvard notoriously has failed to react to it. We remember how disastrous the prior president was in congressional hearings.

So there’s a huge cultural gap that people are looking at in the country and saying, you know, Harvard has turned into a bubble which really in many ways opposes the country.

There was a book written in 1978 called Harvard Hates America. And it’s still true and people sense it and people say, Harvard can do whatever it wants, but we don’t have to pay for it. That’s the issue….

Boothe (04:20):

You know, professor, as Roger pointed out in the backdrop of all these anti-Semitic protests and of that horrific murder of those two Israeli embassy workers that he mentioned, we see this activist Rebecca Jones speak out in favor of what happened two nights ago. Now, she was upset that the murdered man posted online in support of his own country, watch this.

[Jones Video] (04:41):

He was a monster representing a foreign adversarial government currently conducting a Holocaust. And they want us to feel sorry for him. Even if I hadn’t looked at his profile, I would’ve said that representatives of a genocidal country should not feel safe in America because we’re supposed to stand in opposition to that. And now having seen it good ridden

Boothe (05:08):

Now, professor, where is the line between free speech, hate speech, and incitement?

WAJ (05:14):

People are allowed to say ugly things. They’re allowed to say hateful things as long as they don’t act on it in a physical way. But what we’ve seen on the campuses is not speech. We’ve seen actions. We’ve seen intimidation, we’ve seen checkpoints, we’ve seen building takeovers. We’ve seen trashing of buildings, we’ve seen threats. And of course in DC we just saw, saw an assassination.

People need to understand that when they attack the Jewish students, when they engage in antisemitism, that is a reflection of a much deeper problem on the campuses. The guy from Columbia who’s trying to be deported and he’s fighting it, he ran a group whose stated goal was the destruction of Western civilization.

In almost every one of these protests, when they burn an Israeli flag, they also burn an American flag. So what you’re seeing on campuses at its core is anti-Americanism. Anti Westernism, which is playing out as antisemitism.

Boothe (06:15):

You know, and of course when these students call for the global Intifada or from the river to the sea, that’s what they wanted. what happened in Washington DC. Professor and Roger, thank you so much. We appreciate your insight.

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