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Alrighty, meanwhile, I know a little bit about the kinds of speech that are generally welcome on campus.
I've been banned from quite a few campuses, including DePaul University.
I've spoken at more than a few campuses at which violence broke out over my speeches, including Cal State University at Los Angeles, Penn State University of California at Berkeley.
I also know that were I a student at any of these universities, and if I said as a student what I routinely say as a speaker, I would undoubtedly be dragged before the administration and hit with some sort of sanctions.
I'd be responsible for microaggressions, for saying things like Western culture is superior.
I'd be responsible for harmful language, for saying that human beings ought to be judged not based on race, but on merit.
These are the kinds of things that are verboten on college campuses all over the country, which is why free speech has never been a top-of-mind issue for many of the administrators on college campus.
Instead, sensitivity has.
But apparently, at the top universities in America, all of those sensitivities disappear magically for one group specifically.
Jews.
Yesterday, House Republicans held a hearing in which the heads of major universities were grilled regarding the rise of antisemitism on their campuses over the past few weeks.
We've been talking about that spike in antisemitism for weeks, from threats of violence to near riots, from tearing down hostage posters to openly Jew-hating slurs being promulgated in public.
Some of the students from these universities explained the situation on campus.
Here, for example, was a student named Bella Ingber of New York University.
What is it like to be a Jew at NYU?
Being a Jew at NYU is walking to class and passing torn and defaced posters of innocent hostages with the words occupier and murderer written across their faces.
It is going to Booth's library to study and being interrupted by unauthorized protests where students and faculty call for a globalized intifada revolution, an incitement to violence against Jews everywhere, and a call for the annihilation of the Jewish state and my friends and family who live there.
Being a Jew at NYU is being surrounded by students and faculty who support the murder and kidnapping of Jews because after all, as they say, resistance is justified when people are occupied.
It is being surrounded by social justice warriors and self-proclaimed feminists whose calls for justice end abruptly when the rape victims are Jews.
Being a Jew at NYU has meant being physically assaulted in NYU's library by a fellow student while I was wearing an American-Israeli flag and having my attacker still roam freely throughout the campus.
Being a Jew at NYU is experiencing how diversity, equity, and inclusion is not a value that NYU extends to its Jewish students.
She, of course, is exactly right on all of that.
Here was Ayalia Cobey at the University of Pennsylvania describing similar experiences at that top university.
I love Penn.
I've wanted to attend this university since before I can remember.
I'm here because the Penn I attend today is unrecognizable from the Penn I once used to know.
Penn, once renowned for groundbreaking discoveries like the mRNA vaccine, is now a chilling landscape of hatred and hostility.
Our university, revered for its pursuit of knowledge, has devolved into an arena where Jewish students tiptoe through their days, uncertain and unsafe.
The situation at Penn has escalated into a full-blown crisis, with students openly asserting their intentions to proceed with plans with or without university permission.
Penn's ambivalence fuels a crisis that has shattered my academic sanctuary.
Policies meant to safeguard us have become hollow promises.
And let us be clear, if they fail Jewish students today, tomorrow they will fail the rest of us.
Nonetheless, I refused to go back to 1939 when Jews had to hide their religious symbols and hide who they are due to the intimidation and harassment of us.
I used to think this was nonsense, fear-mongering, until I was made aware that Penn recommended to students, quote, not wear clothing slash accessories related to Judaism.
Now imagine that black students had arrived in Congress to describe similar experiences.
Calls for genocide.
Celebration of terror and rape against black Americans.
Physical threats against black Americans.
Does anyone think these respective university presidents would have sat grinning at the lawmakers who were quizzing them on their actions?
That's precisely what happened yesterday.
Again, if you want to say that everyone should just be less sensitive, whatever, anything goes on campus, that's one thing, but that's not what is happening on these college campuses, where sensitivity is extended to everyone except for the you wouldn't.
Here was Representative Elise Stefanik of New York questioning the presidents of University of Pennsylvania, Harvard University, and MIT about genocidal language chanted on campus.
Listen to these responses.
It's a long clip.
We're going to stop and start it because there's a lot here.
Dr. Kornbluth, at MIT, does calling for the genocide of Jews violate MIT's code of conduct or rules regarding bullying and harassment?
Yes or no?
You've targeted individuals, not making public statements.
Yes or no?
Calling for the genocide of Jews does not constitute bullying and harassment?
I have not heard calling for the genocide for Jews on our campus.
But you've heard chants for Intifada?
I've heard chants, which can be anti-Semitic, depending on the context, when calling for the elimination of the Jewish people.
So those would not be according to the MIT's code of conduct or rules?
That would be investigated as harassment, if pervasive and severe.
Ms.
McGill, at Penn, does calling for the genocide of Jews violate Penn's rules or code of conduct?
Yes or no?
If the speech turns into conduct, it can be harassment.
Yes.
I am asking specifically calling for the genocide of Jews.
Does that constitute bullying or harassment?
If it is directed and severe or pervasive, it is harassment.
So the answer is yes.
It is a context-dependent decision, Congresswoman.
It's a context-dependent decision.
That's your testimony today.
Calling for the genocide of Jews is depending upon the context.
That is not bullying or harassment.
This is the easiest question to answer yes, Ms.
McGill.
So is your testimony that you will not answer yes?
Yes or no?
If the speech becomes conduct, it can be harassment.
Yes.
Conduct meaning committing the act of genocide?
The speech is not harassment?
This is unacceptable, Ms.
McGill.
I'm going to give you one more opportunity for the world to see your answer.
Does calling for the genocide of Jews violate Penn's Code of Conduct when it comes to bullying and harassment?
Yes or no?
It can be harassment.
The answer is yes.
Can be.
And Dr. Gay, at Harvard, does calling for the genocide of Jews violate Harvard's rules of bullying and harassment, yes or no?
It can be, depending on the context.
What's the context?
Targeted at an individual.
It's targeted at Jewish students, Jewish individuals.
Do you understand your testimony is dehumanizing them?
Do you understand that dehumanization is part of antisemitism?
I will ask you one more time.
Does calling for the genocide of Jews violate Harvard's rules of bullying and harassment?
Yes or no?
Anti-Semitic rhetoric when it crosses into conduct that amounts to bullying, harassment, intimidation, that is actionable conduct and we do take action.
So the answer is yes, that calling for the genocide of Jews violates Harvard Code of Conduct, correct?
Again, it depends on the context.
It does not depend on the context.
The answer is yes, and this is why you should resign.
These are unacceptable answers across the board.
I mean, they're amazing answers because, again, just substitute the language.
Now, we're not talking here whether the First Amendment protects activity.
For example, like the KKK marching through Skokie, the First Amendment does protect that activity.
We are talking about college campuses where there are strict speech codes that exist on every one of these college campuses.
So if you don't want to have speech codes, don't have speech codes.
But if you are going to, it is weird that it only applies to everyone except for one group.
Can you imagine going at Harvard University and leading a rally saying, death to all black people, all black people should be killed?
Can you imagine that not being punished by Harvard University with expulsion?
Can you imagine the University of Pennsylvania, some sort of rally where everyone is yelling at the top of their lungs, death to gay people, all gay people should die?
And that not being punishable at University of Pennsylvania.
But when you chant from the river to the sea, Palestine should be free or intifada revolution, there is only one solution.
When you chant those things that is now considered perfectly acceptable at these schools, quote unquote, dependent on context.
Now, what's amazing is that the context very often includes conduct when they say things like.
We're not worried about speech, but when it bleeds over into conduct, we have a problem.
The truth is that depending on the conduct, they're fine with that too.
How many students have been suspended or expelled for actively harassing students who are Jewish?
For lining up outside libraries and pounding on the doors in acts of intimidation?
And all of this is ridiculous.
Listen to the amount of obfuscation that they are putting forward.
Listen to the amount of spin.
Can you imagine during the Black Lives Matter protests anyone saying something remotely similar as a university president about any of this?
It's difficult to imagine.
These icons of sensitivity and diversity, equity and inclusion would be nearly so sanguine about slurs against any other racial or ethnic minority in America.
Simply put, they wouldn't.
One can make the case for free speech on campus.
I can, and I do.
But one cannot pretend that universities protect students against harassment and then soft-pedal Holocaust-level rhetoric.
These university presidents don't even like free speech, but they're perfectly fine not only mouthing language they certainly don't believe about free speech, but then smiling while they violate these prescriptions.
So why are they so sanguine?
There are two reasons, and we'll get to those in just one second.
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So, as we're saying, there are two reasons why the left is so comfortable on campus with excluding the Jews when it comes to all of their language about rhetoric, diversity, harassment, all the rest.
First, the left, and university presidents are almost the platonic ideal of intellectual leftists, believe that Jews are not part of the intersectional coalition of oppression.
By leftist logic, Jews are part of the superstructure of power, since all success is merely a reflection of hierarchies of power, and Jews are disproportionately successful.
Success equals power.
Power equals bad.
Antisemitism is merely the ugliest guise for the oppressor-oppressed binary.
But it isn't the only one.
Just ask the newest white Americans, Asian Americans.
On university campuses, who are now white because they scored too high on their SATs.
Thus, it's okay to discriminate against them.
Then there's the second reason.
The left really, really hates Israel.
The left hates Israel because, like American Jews, Israel is too successful in the region in which it is located.
Israel, according to the left, is a colonialist outpost of the West.
The West is evil because it is too successful.
The West is therefore exploitative and oppressive.
Therefore, Israel is exploitative and oppressive as a outlet of the West in the Middle East.
Hence, the deep and passionate attempt by the left to pretend that anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism are unrelated.
The left does not want to be perceived as openly anti-Semitic.
They want to pretend that they are actually tolerant and diverse.
But they understand that anti-Zionism can provide a heartening opportunity to oppose Jewish and Western flourishing.
Hence, the left's rabid attachment to the idea that calls for Israel's destruction are somehow not anti-Semitic, but actually a reflection of a more universalistic humanitarian creed.
Sure, that creed would result in the death of millions of Jews and the dominance of radical Muslim terror all over the Middle East.
But that doesn't matter.
After all, Israel is the real problem because the West is the real problem.
And we know that's true because, again, the West is successful and because Israel is successful and success equals power and power equals exploitation.
According to the left, radical Muslim regimes that impoverish and oppress their citizens aren't worth one bit of attention.
I mean, they're poor, which means they're victimized, which means that they're the oppressed.
Israel, by contrast, being tolerant, diverse, open and successful ought to be destroyed.
That's why yesterday, in a subtle bit of maneuvering, Harvard President Claudine Gay, among the other college presidents, acknowledged that Israel does have a right to exist, but not as a Jewish state, which is like saying that Ireland has a right to exist, but not as an Irish country.
President Gay, do you believe that Israel has a right to exist as a Jewish nation?
I agree that the state of Israel has the right to exist.
Ms.
McGill, same question.
I agree, Chairwoman Fox, the state of Israel has the right to exist.
Dr. Kornbluth.
Absolutely.
Israel has the right to exist.
Israel has the right to exist, but that's not the question.
You notice that the chairwoman is actually asking, as a Jewish state, which is the definition of Israel.
And all three of those college presidents ignore that.
They're doing that for a reason, because Israel is bad.
So if Israel is a Jewish state, then it doesn't have the right to exist by that definition.
So, what ought to be done?
Bill Ackman, the CEO of Pershing Square and a major donor to Harvard, wrote that the college presidents, quote, must all resign in disgrace.
If a CEO of one of our companies gave a similar answer, he or she would be toast within the hour.
Why has anti-Semitism exploded on campus and around the world?
Because of leaders like Presidents Gay, McGill and Kornbluth, who believe genocide depends on the context.
To think that these are leaders of Ivy League institutions that are charged with the responsibility to educate our best and brightest.
Ackman is right, of course, but that isn't nearly sufficient.
The universities across America are corrupt through and through.
Their endorsement of DEI, diversity, equity, and inclusion, has been a curse to reason and decency.
Their politics are vile.
Those politics also make the universities corrupt factories of moral depravity.
Which means that first, every major donor to these universities should, like Bill Ackman, think about cutting funding.
Of course, some of us were on this bandwagon years ago.
Like 20 years ago.
I wrote a book titled Brainwashed How Universities Indoctrinate America's Youth when I was still at UCLA.
I was 19 years old.
The book came out when I was 20 in 2004.
In it, I wrote that conservatives ought to, quote, pull money from universities.
I also said that tactic wouldn't be nearly sufficient, that other sources, including radical Islamic regimes, would fill the gap, which is what happens.
Saudi Arabia, Qatar, there are plenty of places who are willing to pour their money into these universities because those universities very often reflect their values.
That means the universities ought to be hit with another tactic.
Business people must stop falling for the credentialing scam that universities represent.
They ought to be hiring bright kids out of high school directly and giving them internships or hiring from solid state schools.
That's what these universities are anyway.
They are just factories for diplomas.
And the entire idea here is that if you get a really good SAT score and you go to Harvard, this means you're smart.
Well, I can tell you're smart just by the SAT score and your GPA coming out of high school.
I don't need you to go $200,000 into debt and be indoctrinated in queer theory in order for me to recognize that you're a smart person.
Instead, businesses should just hire people out of high school if they have good SAT scores and good grades, for example.
Finally, parents need to seriously think about not sending their kids to these universities at all, especially in the liberal arts.
They're indoctrination mills for truly immoral garbage.
If you want a case in point as to how bad these universities are, here's actually a great case in point.
Young liberal Jews.
A whole generation of young Jewish kids have been sent to university by their parents who believed in the upwardly mobile American dream.
A lot of Jewish parents out there who say that their great dream is to get their kid into a place like Harvard.
There, these kids were then turned against their parents and their roots.
The New York Times has a fascinating story today about many young Jews, meaning, of course, people who were born Jewish, but have nothing to do with actual Jewish practice or identity, as even the Times recognizes.
And the New York Times says that many of these young Jews are, quote, abandoning Israel in the name of leftist ideology.
Here is the Times, quote.
Mark Kornblatt prepared uneasily last month for his daughter Louisa to arrive for 10 days with the family.
Her homecomings once brought the comfort of movie nights and card games, but this year was different.
He and his wife Judith had moved away from Madison, Wisconsin to live in Tel Aviv, where they felt a real sense of belonging as Jews.
Around the same time, their daughter, attending graduate school at the University of California, Berkeley, came to oppose the existence of Israel as a Jewish state.
That daughter, wait for it, wait for it, wait for it, sometimes uses the pronouns they them.
Shocker.
It's all the uni thing.
It's all one thing.
Everyone who supports trans rights also supports Palestine.
Everyone who supports Palestine also supports abortion.
It's the uni left-wing thing.
According to the Times, at Berkeley, she read Audre Lorde, Mariam Kama, Ruth Wilson Gilmore and other black feminist thinkers who prompted her to consider questions around power, privilege, and whiteness.
Ms.
Kornblatt came to feel that her emotional ties to Jewish statehood undermined her vision for collective liberation.
Over the last year, she became increasingly involved in pro-Palestine activism, including through Jewish Voice for Peace, an anti-Zionist activist group, and the If Not Now movement.
I don't think the state of Israel should ever have been established, she said.
It's based on this idea of Jewish supremacy, and I'm not on board with that.
Actually, the concept of Israel is based on, you know, Jewish existence.
But that's really what leftism opposes, for all the reasons we have talked about.
Universities are a disaster area.
Full stop.
Parents should pull their kids unless those kids are prepared for the raging hellstorm of foolishness and immorality they are about to be taught.
Okay, in just one second.
We are going to get to the latest on the Israel-Hamas war and the battle inside Congress over anti-Semitism.
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There's some of this actually from both sides of the aisle.
So, for example, Republicans yesterday put forward a resolution condemning anti-Zionism as anti-Semitism.
This led Representative Jerry Nadler to suggest that anti-Zionism is not anti-Semitism.
Now, the reason he's doing this is because there are people inside his own coalition who wish that Israel would just disappear, that it would be destroyed.
That'd be like Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib.
And he doesn't wish to condemn them, so he's gonna pretend that anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism are totally unrelated.
The way that he gets out of this particular box, since, obviously, Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib are anti-Semites and hate Jews and Israel, the way he gets out of this box is he suggests, well, you know there are some Jews who are anti-Zionist.
This is the favorite tactic.
And the people he cites are Satmar Hasidim.
Which is a sect of ultra-Orthodox, who, by the way, when it says they're anti-Zionist, let's be clear what they mean by anti-Zionist.
What's Satmar Hasidim, this ultra-Orthodox sect, which is a tiny, tiny, tiny percentage of even the Orthodox, what exactly is their belief system?
Their belief system is that there should, in fact, be a Jewish country in Israel, but it should be a Davidic monarchy with the reestablishment of the Third Temple.
Not quite the anti-Zionism of, you know, the Palestinians, who wish to see every Jew obliterated from the region, The Samar Hasidim don't believe in a secular state of Israel.
They believe in a Jewish theocracy.
So if you're talking about these people as though what they actually want is for all Jews to be removed from the region, no, actually what they want is for there to be a Jewish monarchic theocracy in the land, complete with high priesthood and a third temple built right now instead of what they think of as an obstacle to that, the secular Jewish state of Israel.
That's what you're talking about.
So you're playing a word game.
When you say the Saddam Hussein want the same thing as, for example, Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar, that they're the same kind of quote-unquote anti-Zionist, that's ridiculous.
That's ridiculous.
That's like saying that somebody who wants a Christian theocracy in the United States is in the same camp as someone who wants to tear down the government of the United States and replace it with a communist dictatorship.
Not quite the same thing.
In any case, here's Jerry Nadler, and what he's really doing here, obviously, is he's covering for Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar and other members of the Democratic Party who don't actually like Israel and don't like Jews.
Unfortunately, this resolution does absolutely nothing to genuinely counter the scourge of anti-Semitism, nor does it help bring us together with the unity of purpose that this topic merits.
Rather, it is another attempt in a long series of veiled efforts by the GOP to weaponize
Jewish lives for political gains.
It is another partisan gotcha game that amounts to cheap value signaling, not serious action.
But if there ever was a time for real action, it is now.
Today, in the face of the largest increase in anti-Semitism, both violent and virulent,
In this nation's history, we have a clear choice.
We can abuse this moment to try to inflict inter-party political damage, or we can rise to the occasion and do something real and powerful to actually help the Jewish community.
Well, you know what's one thing that I noticed?
I noticed that Jerry Nadler, when he says, well, you know, we shouldn't look to inflict intraparty damage on one another over antisemitism.
Again, this is the same guy who also did not vote to censure Rashida Tlaib over her comments with regard to Israel, which are complete antisemitic lies.
He says he vehemently disagrees with her, but he has not called her, for example, an antisemite, which she clearly, clearly is.
So I'll take my tips on antisemitism from someplace else.
Meanwhile, Democratic representative Pramila Jayapal, how she answered the questions by my colleague Dana Bash on Sunday on this.
Pramila Jayapal, who spent yesterday basically trying to walk back her comments that rape
was not that big a deal when it's against Jewish ladies in Israel.
Pramila Jayapal, how she answered the questions by my colleague Dana Bash on Sunday on this.
Did that play any part in your push to in your push to draft this resolution?
Well, this really has been in the works since, as I said, what really it's been in the works
for many months and we started hearing the stories from the women in Ukraine and then
of course again this now with Hamas and its atrocities and.
And I try not to have my actions here be dictated by inartful comments by other members.
This is a much more serious issue than one member.
And it has to be said by all.
Rape and sexual assault as a tool of war, as a weapon of war, is not acceptable.
It's not hard for you to say this very eloquently and very clearly.
Why is it for others?
Now you're asking me to be a psychiatrist or a psychologist?
You know what?
They have to answer for themselves, and I'll answer for myself, but I do think I speak for the overwhelming majority.
Republicans, Democrats here, people with good hearts.
Sexual assault should not be a tool of war, and it's not acceptable.
It has to be criminalized, and it has to be called out.
I don't understand why this is very tough.
It really, really is not.
And meanwhile, on the right side of the aisle, Thomas Massie put out what is pretty obviously an anti-Semitic meme yesterday.
It was a meme in which he compared American patriotism to Zionism.
He said, Congress these days.
American patriotism, it's the meme of Drake.
You know, basically it's a binary meme.
One where he's shunning a thing and one where he's giving it a thumbs up.
This is Congress these days shunning American patriotism.
Congress these days giving a thumbs up to Zionism.
And obviously, the idea here is that American patriotism is somehow directly opposed to Zionism.
Now, there are a couple reads on this that are possible.
There's the more charitable read, which is that there are Democrats in the Democratic Party who, for example, don't like American patriotism, but they're okay with Zionism.
And that's weird, and they should be okay with both.
And then there's the read, which is the more obvious read, which is that American patriotism is somehow opposed to Zionism, that you can't be both an American patriot and a Zionist, which of course is ridiculous.
I mean, just ridiculous, full stop, crazy, considering that that has been the mainstream position in the United States since the birth of the state of Israel, is being an American patriot and being a Zionist, being in favor of the existence of a Jewish state of Israel, are not in favor, are not in conflict in any way, shape, or form.
And you can read it in in either of those two ways.
There's the more charitable way in which the argument is that Congress should not be shunning American patriotism.
They should be embracing American patriotism in the same way that many Democrats embrace Zionism.
That's the more charitable way.
The other way is that Representative Massey, who's voted alongside Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib with regard to any Any indication of support for Israel actually just doesn't like Zionism.
And so, what he actually wants is for Congress to dismiss Zionism, and he's really saying the two are directly in conflict.
The White House, and we're talking about scoring political points, so the White House immediately jumps on that.
And the White House suggests that it's time for Republicans to condemn the post.
Herbie Ziskin of the White House said, So, here's the deal.
leadership should condemn this virulent anti-Semitism from a sitting member of Congress.
So here's the deal.
We should condemn anti-Semitism wherever it exists.
If what Massey meant is the latter, which again, given his voting record, would not
shock me, that American patriotism and Zionism are somehow in direct conflict, then yeah,
that's anti-Semitism and it should be condemned.
Bye.
Also, what Pramila Jayapal did the other day, anti-Semitism should be condemned.
This is not particularly tough.
The fact that it is tough demonstrates once again, everything can be made a partisan issue, even hatred of Jews.
Speaking of which, one of the things that's been lost in this entire fight between Israel and Hamas is the simple fact that there is a good side here and there is a bad side, and Hamas is the bad side.
Benjamin Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of Israel yesterday, he gave a speech in which he was beside himself because he's pointing out that as the tales come out from October 7th of rape of women, by the way, reports of rape of men as well, which is just horrifying on a weirdly different level, I mean, I know stories of things that are happening that happen to hostages that are not public knowledge at this point.
And I got to tell you, it's way worse than anything you have heard.
Way, way worse than anything you have heard.
And the international community is still poo-pooing this and pretending that there's some sort of moral equivalence here.
Netanyahu was beside himself yesterday speaking about this.
The women's rights organizations to the human rights organizations.
You've heard of the rape of Israeli women?
Horrible atrocities, sexual mutilation.
Where the hell are you?
I expect all civilized leaders, governments, nations to speak up against this atrocity.
Well, they're not going to.
And the reason they're not going to is, again, because they have to have that moral equivalence.
Israel is bad, and that means anything that is done against it is justified.
In the Franz Fanon oppressor oppressed coalition of the wretched idea, The basic idea is that if you are a member of the oppressed class, you get to do whatever the hell you want to members of the so-called oppressor class.
That has been a moral equation that has been done by a number of insanely anti-Semitic and self-hating Jewish people.
And it's totally wild.
But it has become mainstream.
It has become absolutely mainstream.
By the way, it is worth noting at this point, That Israel has actually hit a shocking number of terrorists.
Despite all of the talk about how Israel is not being specific enough in its attack, the reality is that according to the Israeli military, a leaked report from an off-the-record briefing for foreign journalists suggests that Israel believes that of the roughly 15,000 people that Hamas has reported dead, 5,000 of them are terrorists, which is an amazing ratio, by the way, like way better than the United States in, for example, Iraq.
Typically, urban warfare means that for every terrorist you kill, you're probably going to kill three to four civilians because they embed with civilians.
So Israel is being incredibly specific.
And yet what's amazing about this is that even if you point that, like even the New York Times is now admitting that.
Even the New York Times admitting that Israel hit like 5,000 terrorists in the course of killing 15,000 people.
Again, their goal was to hit the 5,000 terrorists and they killed 15,000 because Hamas hides among civilians.
And now they're complaining that Israel hasn't killed enough terrorists.
According to the Washington Post, quote, at least 5,000 Hamas militants have been killed, according to three Israeli security officials, leaving the majority of the group's estimated 30,000 strong military wing intact.
Why do you think that is?
Why do you think Israel hasn't killed all 30,000?
The answer is because they are being considered in how they go about this war.
It doesn't matter.
The narrative is set and the media are going to keep pumping it out there that Israel is somehow the inhumane party in this conflict.
Which is truly an astonishing reversal of the truth.
Okay, in just one second, we'll get to more fun and games on Capitol Hill.
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Chris Wray is the head of the FBI, and he's not been doing an excellent job over at the FBI.
Between the reports of the FBI targeting certain types of Christians in the United States, certain types of Catholics in the United States, and the FBI targeting, for example, pro-life people, and the FBI's disproportionate resources spent on anyone who's wandering around the Capitol on January 6th, And the FBI's complete failure with regard to the Hunter Biden laptop in 2020, it's been a bad stretch for the FBI.
Chris Wray was on the Hill, and Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana read him the Riot Act over the FBI's failure to say that the Hunter Biden laptop was real, which the FBI full well knew during the 2020 election.
These are very weak answers here from Chris Wray.
Why didn't the FBI just say, hey, the laptop's real?
Why don't you just tell everybody the laptop's real?
We're not vouching for what's on it, but it's real.
This isn't a fiction.
Well, as you might imagine, the FBI cannot, especially in a time like that, be talking about an ongoing investigation.
Second, I would tell you that, at least my understanding, is that both the FBI folks involved in the conversations and the Twitter folks involved in the conversations both say that the FBI did not direct Twitter to suppress that particular story.
But others were in government?
Well, again, I can't speak to others in government.
That's part of the point that I was trying to make, because the Fifth Circuit's opinion... But you're the FBI.
You're not part of the White House and part of Homeland Security.
You're not supposed to be political.
You see all this controversy going on.
Why didn't the FBI say, time out, folks.
We're not getting in the middle of this, but the laptop's real.
Again, we have to be very careful about what we can say, especially in the middle of an election season, because that's precisely some of the problems that led to my predecessor's negative findings from the Inspector General.
Okay, but that's not right.
Because, again, failure to say the true thing because your predecessor said not true things, that's not the same thing.
Again, actively involving yourself in an election cycle in which you announce that your activity, your activity is ongoing, which is what James Comey did with regard to Hillary Clinton a few days from the election in 2016.
He said, reopening the investigation because we found this laptop.
He didn't have to announce that because that was about his activity.
But if the FBI knows for a fact that a narrative is false, And that it's being promulgated by one of the campaigns and the media and other parts of the government.
And the FBI knows that.
It is, in fact, an act or omission that is material to the election for them not to say, we know the laptop is real.
That's ridiculous.
Either way, you are quote-unquote interfering, but on one side, you are quote-unquote interfering, but on behalf of a true thing.
That's not the same thing as what James Comey did in 2016.
Meanwhile, Chris Wray said, oh yeah, by the way, even though there are still court cases pending that suggest that we shouldn't be coordinating with social media about what can and cannot be said leading up to the election, we'll still be coordinating with social media.
Are you concerned about the Fifth Circuit saying, in effect, that you can't communicate with social media to alert them to threats?
Well of course, as you know, this is the subject of ongoing litigation.
The findings of the lower courts in that litigation are things that are hotly contested through the department's filings.
President Trump himself, rightly, In 2018 or 19, issued an executive order on this very subject, calling it a national emergency.
SISI, the Senate Intelligence Committee, on an overwhelmingly bipartisan basis, identified much the same and called for more engagement, more engagement with social media companies, not less.
The key, the key, is making sure that it's done in the right way, and that's what we're committed to do.
Focus on the hidden hand of the foreign actor, Not on the content itself posted.
Okay.
Well, I wish they would do that, but I don't trust you and I'm sure that no one else does either.
So once again, our administration is staffed.
I mean, this is the American government is staffed by people who are just not either good at their jobs or who very often are good at their jobs, but in the wrong way.
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According to the New York Times, President Biden's urgent push to replenish Ukraine's war chest and send aid to Israel is on the brink of collapse in the Senate, where Republicans are prepared on Wednesday to block funding unless Democrats agree to add strict measures to clamp down on migration at the U.S.
border with Mexico.
Why in the world is that even remotely controversial?
So Democrats will get what they want, namely the full funding to Ukraine.
Republicans will get, you know, a border that is not going to be completely open.
And Democrats are somehow blocking at this?
The meltdown apparently took place on the eve of a critical test vote in the Senate on the $110 billion emergency spending bill, and not only made it clear the measure would fail, but severely dimmed the prospects for any bipartisan agreement soon.
A vote to block aid would spotlight flagging U.S.
resolve at a critical time in Ukraine's war against President Putin's Russia.
We're about to abandon Ukraine, said Senator Chris Murphy.
Well, you know what you could do is you could just allow there to be border security.
You could do that.
I don't even understand why this is remotely controversial.
Border security, by the way, is being called for by Democrats down at the border.
It's amazing that basically Democrats in the Senate are so attached to their open borders nonsense that they are willing to scuttle their own support for Ukraine aid.
Senator Lindsey Graham says, count me in on Ukraine.
If we don't help get Ukraine and Putin gets away with this, you'll be in a war with NATO.
I got all that.
You'll get a robust Republican vote for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan if you have real border security.
But apparently, they're not doing anything on the border.
Chuck Schumer is now suggesting that if the bill fails because of the border, that's on Republicans.
Well, here's the thing.
Either Joe Biden wants the aid or he doesn't want the aid.
Either he thinks it's important for Ukraine not to collapse to the Russians and for Israel to win in Gaza, or he doesn't.
If he doesn't think it's that important, then, um, I suppose that Chuck Schumer is right, and he'll try to blame the Republicans for it.
If he thinks it's important, maybe he might try, you know, shoring up the border.
Here's Chuck Schumer trying to blame Republicans for what is obviously a Democratic failure here.
Let's remember three things as we move forward.
One, how important Ukraine is.
It's a turning point in Western civilization.
This is a historic moment, and this cannot be delayed any longer.
Zelensky, by the way, could not make it to our, something happened at the last minute to our briefing at three, but we'll hear, and you'll hear particularly from Mark Warner, who knows this so well, how desperate Ukraine is for the aid that the President has proposed.
But it's vital.
Vital.
Second, if this fails because of border, that's not a bipartisan failure.
That's a failure of the Republicans and the Republican leadership.
The only reason they added border was because a lot of members of their hard right said they want border.
But a lot of those same members aren't going to vote Ukraine no matter what is there.
I mean, first of all, that's not true.
First of all, it's not true.
Republicans are saying, why not add border to the package so you have bipartisan support for the bill?
Republicans support the Israel aid more than Democrats do.
Democrats support the Ukraine aid more than Republicans do.
So the idea is the compromise middle is going to be all those things plus border.
And Chuck Schumer is balking at that?
What is the high priority on leaving the border open?
Why exactly does he desperately want to leave the border open?
This is why people are suspicious of what exactly are the motives over here.
OK, in just one second, we're going to get to Joe Biden make an extraordinary comment.
With regard to the 2024 election.
We'll get to that momentarily.
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