Major Escalation in Attempts to Purge U.S. Universities of Israel Critics; Who are the Israel Groups Providing Lists to the U.S. Government to Deport & Punish?
The Trump administration threatens to deport more students over Israel criticism while threatening universities' federal funding. Plus: Glenn exposes the shady groups doxing students who voice opposition to Israel's destruction of Gaza.
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All right, for tonight, For more than a decade, most of the American right claimed to be most offended by attacks on free speech and free thought on American campuses, and they were right to be deeply concerned by that.
I was too.
But since the Trump administration began just a little over two months ago, they have made it one of the top priorities the administration has, one of their very top priorities, to purge all of American academia of, quote, bigotry.
Aim not at minority groups in general, but one minority group in particular.
And to accomplish this, they're using a combination of government coercion and control, as well as demands for expanded hate speech codes on campus, exactly what conservatives most loudly derided and denounced.
And the real goal is clear, to ban real criticisms of the foreign country of Israel under the guise of combating racism.
Exactly what they accuse American liberals of doing as well, labeling everything racism and bigotry to justify suppression of those views.
Now, this is something, as viewers of this program know, that we have covered quite frequently and vocally, but we are forced by events of the last 72 hours to return to this onslaught against free speech and academic freedom since just since last Friday, last Friday night, 72 hours ago.
Several of America's most accomplished academic institutions, including Harvard, Columbia, and NYU, saw increasingly aggressive attempts to punish, fire, and silence, not students, but academics, professors, for the crime of opposing Israel.
All as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu openly celebrates his control over the discourse on American campuses.
We are, according to the Trump administration itself, Only at the beginning, nowhere near the end of the systemic assault on free thought in American academia, the place free thought is supposed to thrive most robustly.
What's most amazing of all is that this free speech attack is not being waged in defense of Americans or American values, but instead in defense of a foreign country often cheered most by those who call themselves part of the America First movement, a staggering irony among many.
Then, Deportations of students who denounced or protested the Israeli war in Gaza continues to gather steam.
Another student at the University of Minnesota in the country, legally, yesterday was really disappeared by ICE agents.
I use that verb, disappeared quite deliberately.
Nobody knows where she is, including the university, and it's all because she denounced her protest in Israel.
Another student earlier this last week at Tufts is now detained and imprisoned by ICE in Louisiana because she wrote an op-ed in her school paper advocating for university divestment of Israel until the blockade of Gaza and the occupation of the West Bank ends.
An op-ed.
I'm sorry.
The U.S. government is not grabbing these names out of a hat.
They are being fed to them by two extremely sketchy and shadowy groups with deep ties to the Israeli state.
The Canary Project and Betar will tell you what we know about these groups and how they select people to go on their McCarthyite blacklist that is now allowing a foreign country to dictate the limits of free speech about that country inside the United States, including in academic institutions.
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I think it just is very discrediting.
It's also kind of softball just to leap to the most dramatic rhetoric possible the minute you want to make a point about something.
And so I say this with all due deliberation, with all consideration.
I really do believe the United States is currently engaged in confronting one of the worst free speech crises we've confronted in many years.
And I say that as somebody who is extremely vocal And relentless in denouncing the Biden administration's various ways to censor political speech from coercing big tech platforms to remove dissent to imposing all kinds of orthodoxies to endorsing and financing a disinformation industry designed to censor.
What we're having now is a full frontal attack on the core rights of free speech and free discourse and academic freedom.
That is an incredibly important American value.
Academic freedom.
Our country was built on the principles of the Enlightenment.
And one of the things that Enlightenment thinkers most stood for was the idea that in society generally, but especially in academic institutions, you need to have full freedom to question and prod at and dissect and deny and to call into question the most cherished orthodoxies.
It was crucial to have at least one place in society That was not just tolerant of, but encouraging of the most sacred and valued priorities to be questioned and denied.
That's what academia is for.
That's what academic freedom is about.
And all of that is being very rapidly subverted, rapidly subverted by a Trump administration that came in promising to end censorship.
And to restore the values of free speech in the United States, and they're doing so for the very obvious reason that they want to prevent American academia and American college campuses, but people in general, from feeling free to criticizing the state of Israel or questioning the U.S. financing of Israel and the relationship to Israel where we give them billions of dollars and arm them.
They want to create a climate where people are afraid of what the consequences will be If they speak negatively or critically about Israel, it's already having major repercussions.
Sometimes the Trump administration and officials are directly punishing people or demanding censorship.
Other times the threat that they have hovering over them is causing self-censorship, which often is one of the most pernicious forms of censorship, one of the most pernicious outcomes, is people and institutions start anticipating What the punishment might be if they exercise free speech so they voluntarily renounce it in order to keep the government pleased and happy and at bay.
Here is the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as well as Trump's former ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, who just yesterday appeared in public to openly boast about the fact, celebrate the fact that The Trump administration is supposedly waging a war against bigotry on campuses, just like the liberal left said they were doing, and is curbing speech in the name of stopping hate speech and racism, just like the liberal left said they were doing.
But at least the American liberal left was doing so in the name of protecting people in the country, protecting Americans, protecting America.
That was their ostensible goal.
This is a censorship regime really being engineered by a foreign government and its loyalists inside the United States.
And they're more than happy to tell you that.
Listen to them talk.
These ignorant demonstrators.
Who are they demonstrating for?
For these murderers, these rapists, these mass killers?
This is a reflection of a deep rot that has pervaded the intellectual hub of free societies.
And this vilification of Israel, the Jewish people, and Western values Wait, This is why we must all commend President Trump's decisive actions against anti-Semitism.
And we must pressure other governments to do the same.
A government can do in two months.
so... Remember the conservative critique of the censorship regime that came from on college campuses?
Liberals would constantly depict whatever speech they disliked as inciting violence against minorities, as being racist, as being transphobic, xenophobic, whatever, and then would say, no, this isn't speech, this is violence, this is incitement, this is bigotry.
And not only would they do that, but a lot of the censorship, including banning President Trump while he was still in office from Facebook and Twitter, were based on the argument that, no, this isn't speech that he is uttering and spreading, it's incitement to insurrection.
And there's a big difference, they said, between speech and hate speech, or free speech and bigotry, or free speech and incitement.
These are all the arguments now being marshaled, not by our own leaders, by a leader of a foreign country who's proudly Patting us on the head for engaging in the kind of censorship that he loves and telling other countries they better do the same.
Why does this little country that we finance, that depends on the American taxpayer, have any say in what people can say at college campuses, how we can protest?
It's so ironic because a lot of conservatives or Trump supporters justify the deportation of students from college campuses by saying Well, they're just foreigners.
They're guests in our country.
Foreigners have no right to comment on our policies, to denounce anything, to protest against anything.
Very strange principle, the idea that you lure foreigners, foreign students to your universities because that's how you get a lot of brain drain into your country, which both Elon Musk and Trump said was necessary when they defended H-1B visas increasing.
And then tell them, oh yeah, you can stay for eight years and get degrees.
You just have to keep your mouth shut about anything political.
But here you have Benjamin Netanyahu, and not only did he say this, but last week he mocked and denounced and attacked the American judiciary and the American legal system because he's facing a corruption case and wants Americans to think that the persecution of Donald Trump was similar to his persecution.
But then also the president of El Salvador, President Bukele, went onto Twitter and just mocked a court order That came from our judiciary saying you cannot deport anyone to El Salvador prisons without first giving them a hearing and so it's frozen for now until we figure this out and he went on and said whoopsie, mocked our court system, mocked our legal system and a lot of people keep saying foreigners have no right to comment on our politics.
We're all oh, thank you.
Thank you Prime Minister Netanyahu.
Thank you President Bukele for standing up to the American judiciary.
Here is David Friedman speaking the same event.
A government can do in two months more than any organization can do in its lifetime.
I'm Alluding to Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson.
Yeah, none of them are any good on the right.
On the left, I don't like any of these anti-Semites, and I'm not shy about it.
But the government, a government, the United States government, or the government of France, or the government of any other country, has the power to rein in anti-Semitism in a much more effective way.
And, you know, people say, well, you know, the governments are not in the business of changing the way people think.
That's true, but, you know, to my thinking, most people who are, you know, anti-Semites, most of these people running around, we're not going to win their hearts and minds, because they don't have hearts and they don't have minds.
So, you know, how are we going to, there's no reason to think we're ever going to convince them, but we can deport them, we can put them in jail, we can make their lives miserable, we can cut off their funding, and that's what the Trump administration is doing for the first time.
There's all those Israelis applauding, but you know what we're going to do?
The Trump administration is going to go to war against bigotry.
Not anti-black racism, not misogyny, not transphobia, not xenophobia, not Islamophobia.
Who cares about any of those types of bigotries?
We're gonna let those reign free because any attempt to stop those on campuses, that's censorship.
That's woke ideology.
But, says David Friedman, the government can and is going to do a lot to fight Bigotry in the United States?
Is that the government's role now?
Including putting people in prison for saying anything anti-semitic?
Not even anti-semitic.
In their view, anti-semitic.
They think that any criticism of Israel is anti-semitic.
Try and go one day, even if you're not, even if you're in support of Israel, just try and go one day where you criticize Israel in some forum, online, wherever, and count how many seconds It takes for somebody to accuse you of being anti-semitic.
These people think that anti-semitism doesn't mean denying the Holocaust or talking about the inherent degeneracy of Jews, like classic anti-semitism.
They've expanded radically the definition of that term.
In fact, the Trump administration is imposing on various administrations and colleges the requirement that they expand what anti-semitism means to include a whole range of Common credits of Israel.
We've shown you that many times.
The House actually passed a law to implement and formalize that.
Expanded definition of anti-semitism, which actually is implemented in the EU because they have a lot of hate speech codes that JD Vance went to Europe and said this is antithetical to our values.
To censor in the name of hate speech is exactly what the Trump administration is doing.
Here's what the Trump administration did to Columbia University from CNN on March 7th.
Trump administration cancels $400 million in grants and contracts with Columbia University.
The Trump administration said Friday that it's pulling $400 million from Columbia, canceling grants and contracts because of what the government describes as the Ivy League school's failure to squelch anti-semitism on campus, etc, etc.
It's the same thing that we heard all the time.
Now, we went over that letter Because what was so disturbing at the letter that came from the Trump administration to Colombia is not just that they demanded not foreign students but American students who protested Israel and the Israeli war in Gaza and the Biden administration's policy of financing that war.
They demanded that American students, including American Jewish students, be severely punished, suspended, and or expelled.
That was one of the Trump administration's demands of Columbia, and they have now started to expel citizens of the United States who participated in that protest, in those protests.
But on top of that, the Trump administration also demanded that the Columbia Middle East Studies Program, which has been a target for years, decades, of Israel's strongest loyalists in the United States, in fact, Barry Weiss got her start at Columbia, The free speech queen as a 19 or 20 or the anti-cancel culture queen as a 19 and 20 year old Agitating for all sorts of Arab professors or Israel critics to be fired She was that was her
Starting point and then at some point she rebranded herself a free speech warrior, but never gave up those ideas And now the Middle East studies program that the Barry Weiss's of the world have long aided has to be put under a receivership, meaning someone from outside the department,
no longer the chair of the department, controls what their curriculum is, obviously to make sure that it's pro-Israel, that our academic institutions and every professor who works there and everything that is taught must be aligned with the view of the Israeli government and Israeli supporters.
And on top of that, they're demanding as well that this expanded hate speech definition of anti-Semitism be IHRA definition that we've gone over many times before that bars you from comparing Israel to the Nazis.
Even if you think the comparison is apt, you're not allowed to say that on campus or you'll be punished.
You're not allowed to say the Jews killed Jesus.
You're not allowed to accuse certain Jewish people of having primary loyalty to Israel, even if you think it's true.
A whole long list of things.
You can't apply double standards to Israel, meaning you can't criticize them in a certain way unless you make sure you're criticizing every other country the same.
You're not allowed to call Israel a racist endeavor, even though you can say that about every other country freely, including the United States.
It is actually an assault to outlaw Israel critics, protest against Israel, including peaceful ones.
We'll show you in a minute, we talked about before, that one of the students being deported who was in the United States illegally, the only transgression was that she wrote an op-ed, a very mild op-ed, in her student paper, writing op-eds.
She didn't harass any Jewish students.
She didn't occupy buildings or whatever all the allegations are.
Neither did Mahmoud Khalil, by the way.
He didn't harass any Jewish students or block their entrance and their egress and ingress.
He didn't attack anyone.
He didn't hurt anybody.
He didn't advocate for Hamas.
He didn't occupy buildings.
This is all about punishing Israel critics.
And I'm telling you right now, so far the deportations have been confined to people who are green card holders.
You're married to an American citizen.
Your wife is eight months pregnant, your American wife.
She's about to give birth and you get deported because you participated in a protest against Israel even though you're a permanent resident here.
But what is, I'm telling you what is next.
I promise you what is next is that they're going to take American citizens who are naturalized American citizens like Elon Musk or Melania Trump, people not born in the United States but who came to the United States and became naturalized, they're going to strip them of their citizenship and then immediately say because they're no longer citizens they can be deported and they're going to deport them for the crime of criticizing Israel.
You're obviously affecting not just foreign students, if you don't care about that, but also everyone on the campus, including American students, including Jewish students, sacred Jewish students who you want so badly to defend and protect and keep safe.
You want to hold them close and hug them.
You're also causing an erosion of their free speech rights.
Substantial minorities of Jewish students and Jews in general oppose the Israeli war in Gaza.
One of the things that has happened that I think has not gotten enough attention is being the president of an Ivy League university was previously one of the safest jobs in the world.
Just being a university president in general, I was, I remember when I went to NYU Law School and college in George Washington as well, the university president stayed for decades.
The president of Princeton was my constitutional law professor At NYU, he was very young, maybe in his early 30s.
He stayed there for a few years, went to Princeton, worked his way up, became Princeton president like 1996.
Christopher I. Zgruber, and he's still the president of Princeton.
These are jobs that people keep for life.
And yet, since October 7th, four different Ivy League American presidents have been forced out of their job all over the same issue, Israel, and allowing bigotry on campus to thrive, anti-Semitism.
Two of them at Columbia, one at Harvard, one at the University of Penn, Pennsylvania, and now two at Columbia.
The latest Columbia professor, university president rather, was just forced out on Friday, even though she agreed to all the Trump administration's terms because she reportedly, someone claimed, the free press claimed, Barry Weiss's pro-Israel thing claimed that She had said privately, yes, I'm agreeing to these, but I'm going to slow walk them.
We're not going to just rush and do these.
And the Trump administration went ballistic.
Israel's supporters went ballistic and forced the second university president of Colombia out in a year and replaced her with somebody who actually has appeared on the stage of AIPAC to vow bipartisan loyalty to Israel, to talk about the need to keep bipartisan support and financing of Israel.
She's a Jewish woman who has appeared at AIPAC and still there's already a move to get rid of her too on the grounds that she's insufficiently pro-Israel.
You can be a Jewish woman who goes to AIPAC, gets up on the stage and talks about the importance of keeping bipartisan support for Israel and still be insufficiently pro-Israel to the point where the government won't allow you to assume the presidency of Colombia.
Here from the Wall Street Journal on Friday, Columbia University president steps down amid Trump battle.
Quote, the university's board co-chair Claire Shipman was named acting president.
Katarina Armstrong is returning to lead the school's Irving Medical Center.
Armstrong is the second president to exit in seven months.
As Columbia has navigated a series of crises stemming from pro-Palestinian protests that disrupted campuses last year.
Last week, the school reached an agreement with the administration that included restricting masks, empowering campus police, and appointing a senior vice provost with broad authority to oversee the Department of Middle East, South Asian, and African Studies.
Over the weekend, Armstrong held closed door meetings with anxious faculty about the deal.
You know why the faculty is anxious?
Because in America, the government isn't supposed to dictate the curriculum and the administration and the teaching of what can be done at our elite colleges.
That's supposed to be left up to academics, professors.
That's what academic freedom means, is the ability to teach and to say and to express yourself how you want, free of government coercion and control.
This would be like if the Biden administration came to universities and said, we're going to take away all your funding unless you fire every last conservative.
You still have a few conservatives on the campus.
They oppose affirmative action.
They oppose DEI.
We think that's racist.
You have to get rid of them.
Or who say that there's only two genders and that's transphobic and incites violence against trans people.
You have to get rid of them.
Do you think conservatives would be supporting that and saying, oh yeah, that's the role of the government.
That's totally fine.
Of course not.
They would be screaming that Joe Biden is a tyrant.
They should be doing the same now that Trump is doing that just in defense of a different group.
The article goes on, quote, some faculty said they were concerned that Armstrong was playing down what Columbia had agreed to and presenting one message to the faculty and another to the government.
The Trump administration pushed her to clarify her position on Tuesday.
She issued a statement publicly affirming her commitment to the agreement on Friday after Armstrong stepped down.
The Trump administration's anti-Semitism task force said, quote, the action taken today by Columbia's trustees, especially in light of this week's concerning revelation, is an important step toward advancing negotiations that set forth in the preconditional understanding reached last Friday between the university and the task force to combat anti-Semitism.
Is going on a crusade to purge bigotry from American campuses using a combination of government coercion and control and expanded hate speech codes what conservatives wanted?
Because I had always understood that conservatives were deeply offended by those sorts of things.
And the reason I thought that was because they'd been screaming that for as long as I can remember.
One of the weird things, really weird things, is that there are a lot of members of the Republican Party in Congress Who are not Jewish, but who are more fanatical about Israel than almost every Jewish member of Congress.
And they love to speak for all Jewish people.
They've irrigated to themselves the right to speak for Jewish people.
So here is Congressman Mike Lawler of New York, who is not Jewish, despite how much he loves to purport to speak for Jewish people everywhere.
Kind of the white savior hero.
Who comes down and protects all Jews.
So grateful to him.
So, so grateful.
Kind of like a Robin DiAngelo type, but for Jews.
And the new president of Columbia, the third one, is Claire Shipman, who, as I said, is a Jewish woman who has actually been at AIPAC.
She's married to Obama's former press secretary, Jay Carney, who's served for the last decade as the spokesperson for Amazon.
These are not actually far-left radicals.
These are like corporatist types.
Claire Shipman is very much pro-Israel.
But here was Mike Lawler on Friday saying she has to go because she's not Jewish enough.
He quote tweeted the New York Post.
The New York Post said Columbia's new president called Congress's hearings on anti-Semitism quote nonsense.
And then Mike Lawler said this is a slap in the face to Every Jewish student on your campus, resign now.
She's the third president, she barely is in office like six seconds, and he's saying, you're offensive to all Jewish people, step down.
Who is Mike Lawler to speak for all Jewish students?
Huge numbers of Jewish students participated in those protests.
We had them on our show.
In fact, so many Jewish students were participating in the protests that they had a Shabbat dinner every Friday night inside the protest encampment.
Here is Claire Shipman, the new president who Mike Waller and many others think is insufficiently pro-Israel to lead Colombia.
Here she was on the stage at AIPAC with the Democratic Senator Chris Coons, a virulent supporter of Israel, obviously very bipartisan, and they talked about the need to maintain bipartisan support for AIPAC.
Here's just a little snippet.
Thanks for coming today.
Great to be with you, Claire.
Thanks to AIPAC for a great conference and a chance to join you again.
Senator Coons, you just returned from a trip to Israel.
We were talking about it backstage.
It sounds as though it was fascinating.
You had an opportunity to meet with Prime Minister Netanyahu, visit the Syrian border.
What is your candid sense of Israel's security situation coming away from the trip?
I mean, the whole thing was all about Israel and how fortunate and grateful you should be that you got to go make pilgrimage to Benjamin Netanyahu, the most important leader in the world, who represents the most important country.
This is the Jewish woman who congressional Republicans are saying is insufficiently pro-Israel to leave Colombia.
She needs to resign now.
Here from the Columbia Spectator, the student newspaper at Columbia from yesterday, here's what to know about Claire Shipman, Columbia's new acting president.
"Shipman, an award-winning journalist, served as co-chair of the Board of Trustees before assuming the presidency.
She was married to Jay Carney, who served as the White House press secretary under former President Barack Obama.
It's a little background on her.
This is not some like far-left pro-Hamas radical or whatever they're trying to imply she is to force out the third Columbia president in the last seven months over this one foreign country.
Here is Manoj Shafiq, who was testifying before the House and listen what he had to say about Colombia's administration.
I have seen, we have had pro-Israeli demonstrations on campus.
I should say this is the first, this is the president at the time that October 7th happened.
She made all sorts of statements condemning the protesters.
She called NYPD multiple times to have them all arrested.
She was forced out, but here's what she was saying in April 2024 when she was still the Columbia president.
I have seen, we have had pro-Israeli demonstrations on campus.
No, no, no, but just a protest that was against Muslims.
Have you seen one against Arabs?
No, I have not.
Have you seen one against Palestinians?
No, I have not.
Have you seen against one against Jewish people?
Have you seen a protest saying we are against Jewish people?
No, I have, I have seen...
Okay, thank you for that clarification.
I mean, think what you want about Elian Omar, I really don't care.
That was a very clever and effective way of asking this question.
Because she did say, yes, there have been protests against Israel, and there have been protests in favor of Israel.
So then, Elian Omar said, well, are there protests against Muslims and Arabs and Palestinians, meaning the pro-Israel protests?
She said, no, those weren't protests against those groups.
And then Ilya Nohmer said, what about any other protests, including the protests against the Israeli destruction of Gaza?
Were those protests against Jews?
I mean, you're allowed to criticize Israel as long as you're still pro-Israel.
You're allowed to say, oh, I think Israel should Be more aggressive here, pull back a little here, think the Netanyahu government's wrong when they're doing it.
I mean, you can, as long as you're pledging your loyalty to Israel, you can criticize them for constructive reasons to help Israel.
But you cannot criticize Israel in a way that shows that you're opposed to either what they're doing in wars or the US support for them.
That's anti-semitic.
And that is what is being systemically outlawed by what the Trump administration is doing.
I mean, it's just true.
I'm somebody who has spent nine years, eight years denouncing what I regarded as baseless or excessive attacks on Donald Trump, attempts to malign him, fabrications of scandal.
I don't just go around reflexively criticizing the Trump administration, but what I see as somebody who really does believe in the Constitution, who really does believe in the value of free speech and academic freedom and free discourse and free protest and due process, Speaking of other issues as well, I'm not going to sit by and watch college campuses have their free speech rights destroyed in service of a foreign government and not say anything.
Here's Mike Johnson, the Speaker of the House, who in April of 2024 decided that he wanted to dictate who should be Columbia's president.
Sadly, Columbia's administrators have chosen to let the threats I mean,
it's just so ironic, so, so ironic to hear one of the leading lights of the conservative movement Go to a college campus and say we need to stop this kind of speech because it's pro-genocidal or inciting genocide.
You just heard the college president say there's no protest against Jews on campus.
There's protests against Israelis on campus and that's because the protests are filled with Jews, Jewish critics of Israel.
But that's what The liberals have been doing for a decade.
They say, oh, you cannot criticize the trans people because that's inciting genocide.
You cannot criticize any dogma designed to help black people get ahead because that's racist and will incite violence against them.
It's hate speech, et cetera.
You know all the arguments.
These are the arguments now being repeated in order to justify a censorship regime, but in defense of a group that the Republican Party, for whatever reason, and there are a lot of different reasons, financial, cultural, religious, ideological, Holds above all the others.
Holds it sacred.
The same thing is now spreading to Harvard.
Here from today, the New York Times, the Trump administration will review billions of dollars in funding for Harvard.
Now, I just want to, I will get to the point in just a second about why it is that the U.S. government provides research funding to American universities.
There's actually a very good reason for it.
It's not, they're not funding Gender studies programs.
They're there.
These are what funds the leading research institutes in the country in the world That produce cures for diseases scientific advancements advances in AI in space And intact So I'll get to that in a minute, but here's the Trump administration.
They're not threatening to withdraw financial federal funding for all universities just the ones that they think are Allowing too much anti-Israel speech.
Quote, in a statement on Monday, the administration, the Trump administration, says it was examining about $256 million in contracts, as well as another $8.7 billion in what it described as, quote, multi-year grant commitments.
This administration, quote, has, this, quote, this administration has proven we will take swift action to hold institutions accountable if they allow anti-Semitism to fester.
A senior official at the, just let me go back a little bit.
Let me just read you this quote.
Pretend this is coming from the Biden administration.
Quote, "This administration, the Biden administration, "has proven that we will take swift action "to hold institutions accountable "if they allow racism against black people "or transphobia or xenophobia to fester." A senior official at the General Service Administration added, quote, "We will not hesitate to act "if Harvard fails to do so.
"Allen M. Garber, Harvard's president, "was not immediately available for coming." I should add that Harvard's current president, and I think it's like six out of the last seven, have been Jewish.
Many of their major donors are Jewish.
Their faculty is filled with people who are Jewish, who hold all kinds of views about Israel.
Some vehemently pro-Israel, like Alan Dershowitz was all those decades he was at Harvard.
Some critical of Israel, mildly, but still supportive of Israel.
Some, vocally, it's a diversity of opinion, which is what we're supposed to have.
Quote, but he has previously emphasized the importance of federal money to the university's operation, says the president of Harvard.
Quote, we could not carry out our mission the way we do without substantial federal research support, nor could we provide the benefits to the nation that we do now without that support, Dr. Garber said in a December interview with the Harvard Crimson, the campus newspaper.
Again, this is not studying undergraduate programs.
This is funding The most sophisticated medical centers and hospitals and scientific research into cures.
This is why we have these kinds of government funding.
In fact, Marc Andreessen, who was one of the people credited correctly with developing the modern internet in the late 1990s, He is credited with developing the browser Netscape that was then sold to Microsoft.
He's now become a very vocal Trump supporter.
His firm, Andreessen Horowitz, has people placed all around the Trump administration.
He spent time at Mar-a-Lago, a lot of time in the transition.
He's a Trump supporter, Mark Andreessen.
And he gave an interview to the New York Times columnist, Roth Duthout, on January 17th, just a few days before The administration was to take office, the Trump administration.
And the title was, How Democrats Drove Silicon Valley Into Trump's Arms.
Mark Andreessen explains the newest faction of conservatism.
But one of the things Mark Andreessen pointed out in this interview was that the reason the United States developed the internet, the reason the United States became a leader of the internet, the reason Silicon Valley exists, it drove so much American wealth, is because the US government funded so many academic research institutions to do research into the internet, into browsing, into all of that.
That's why we fund American academic institutions, because it produces innovation and benefits that benefit the entire country.
Here's what Andreessen said, quote, basically, I'm a product of the great land grant universities, the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, It was a huge leap to actually leave that state and go to a university that large where I came from.
And they had this incredible influx of money at the time from the federal government for supercomputers and what turned out to be the internet.
He went on, actually, by the way, that was kind of led by Al Gore when he was in the Senate.
I always thought he got unfairly treated by how people described this later.
But he led the push and then Dufault interjects, oh, you mean that he took the lead on inventing the internet.
And that was one of the things.
When Al Gore was running for president in 2000, conservatives attacked him for saying I invented the internet.
And here's Andreessen about that.
So the famous quote is, I invented the internet.
He actually never said that.
I'll defend Al Gore's honor to the death.
What he said is, I took the lead in the Senate in creating the internet.
What he meant is that he was the tip of the spear for funding four national supercomputing centers.
They picked four college campuses, and Illinois was one of them.
So the Illinois campus, when I was there, was like living in the future.
We had computers, which literally cost up to $30 million a pop, that basically were representative of what was to come.
We just had them a decade before everybody else because of this program.
So, if you're going to take the view that the American government should just stop funding universities, you can certainly take that view.
The U.S. government is not forced to fund research institutes at universities.
But it would cripple innovation in the United States if you did that.
But that's not even what's happening here.
The Trump administration is not defunding American academic institutions.
They're using that funding as leverage to force them to be less permissive about criticism of Israel on their campus.
And they're all complying because, as the President of Harvard said, we wouldn't be the leading academic institute that we were if we lost federal funding.
It's not the classroom that makes us the leading institute, it's that we can attract The leaders of each field knowing that they'll have the opportunity to engage in research that leads to cures, leads to innovations, that then benefits the entire country.
But the Trump administration is not defunding universities, they're just using it as a leverage to suppress speech they dislike.
Here from the Jewish News Syndicate on March 31st, 2025, this happened on Friday night as well, the head of Harvard's Middle East Studies program, Just like they're changing the control of Columbia's Middle East study program, they're doing the same at Harvard now.
So that people like Rabbi David Wolpe can step in, just like Benjamin Nahu was celebrating, like David Friedman was threatening.
To outlaw criticism of Israel.
They've always been very concerned that American academic institutions were the epicenter of protests against Israel.
And this is not the first time, by the way, that disruptive protests have happened across American college campuses.
It's kind of an iconic tradition in American academic life.
In part because when you're 18 and 20 and 21, you're looking for your political expression.
You're 23, 24, a grad student.
You're much more apt to protest than when you have a family and a job.
So protesting is a young person's activity in general.
So when you congregate a bunch of young people on a college campus, it's likely to lead to protests.
I certainly had a lot of protests at the schools I went to.
Obviously, it was one of the things that helped stop the Vietnam War.
Protests were often violent and disruptive.
At colleges across the United States in the 60s against the Vietnam War in favor of the civil rights movement, far more so than these protests were.
One of the things that scares Israel and its supporters so much was that the epicenter of activism against the apartheid regime in South Africa that helped to bring it down was a protest movement throughout American campuses demanding that their schools divest from South Africa to bring down the apartheid regime.
And that's why Israel wants to make it illegal.
And in many places in Europe, they've done so and have started to do so in the United States, too, to advocate a boycott of Israel.
So they look at the United States, Israel does, and they're like, where do we need to go to stop this growing sentiment against our country?
Oh, well, TikTok.
Here's TikTok.
They allow a lot of Israel criticism.
We need to ban that.
The EDL said ban that.
And that's what caused enough votes from the Democratic Party to finally ban TikTok.
Not in fear of China, but a fear that after October 7th, TikTok was allowing too much pro-Palestinian or anti-Israel speech.
So they got rid of TikTok.
Or at least Trump, for now, is ignoring it.
But at some point, they're going to force a sale or ban it.
And then college campuses are the other place.
And that's what their target is.
It's a foreign country targeting the civil liberties and free speech rights and academic freedom of our country that have long been crucial to our country's prosperity.
If all that wasn't enough, here at NYU, as reported by the Canadian outlet CTV News on March 30th, the headline, Climate of Fear, a Montreal doctor says NYU canceled her presentation.
Dr. Joanne Liu, the former international president of Doctors Without Borders, just by the way, Doctors Without Borders is an organization that goes around to the most deprived and repressed ... places usually in war zones and they have volunteer doctors from around the world who go and work on the people who are facing starvation or need surgery because of bombs.
It's like one of the most noble things you could do become a doctor and then go join Doctors Without Borders.
She was the international president of Doctors Without Borders, and she said, quote, the abrupt cancellation at NYU speaks to the, quote, climate of fears universities in the U.S. are now living under, in which they preemptively, quote, self-censor themselves to avoid retaliation.
The night before the presentation, she got a call from the vice chair of the education department at NYU, who had raised concerns with the contents of her speech.
A couple of the slides in her presentation touched on the casualties in Gaza.
During the Israel-Habas war, as well as the cuts at the USAID, Liu said she was told the slides about Gaza, quote, could be perceived as anti-Semitic, while the USAID section might be perceived as, quote, anti-government.
Liu, who was already in New York when she got the call, offered to make edits to those slides.
She was going to change her speech to appease NYU and most particularly the Trump administration.
So she wasn't going to criticize the cuts to USAID quite as harshly.
She would tone down her rhetoric about how many people were killed in Gaza.
I don't know if she was going to dilute the numbers to please the government.
But even after she offered to edit the slides in her speech, three hours later after some deliberations, she said the university apologized and said they had to cancel.
Quote, I was stunned, Lou said.
Remember that whole thing about cancel culture and how bad it is when speakers come to campus And they're not allowed to speak because their views offend people this is a Doctor at a major university who Was just had her speech canceled because it contained slides about About the death toll in Gaza,
and then we covered previously the Tough student who was apparently detained because she covered it.
Not that, but we also want to cover why this is happening.
Who is behind these lists that are being circulated and maintained and then given to the government of who should be punished, who should be expelled, who should be deported.
Two sketchy groups in particular are the ones compiling these lists, doxing people, putting their names publicly as anti-Semites if they criticize Israel in a way these groups dislike, these radical pro-Israel groups dislike, that are funded by and connected to Israel and the Israeli government and various Israelis, who are now dictating the limits of free speech in our country as well, and we're going to tell you about that right after this.
All right, so we have covered the individual cases of students who are legally in the United States who, in secret, the State Department and Marco Rubio revokes their green card or their visa, and with their green card and visa secretly revoked,
meaning they weren't given notice to come and contest it or prove they didn't do anything wrong, they were just cancelled summarily, they instantly become illegally in the country and then they send ICE Plainclothes ICE agents to accost them in their apartment or on the street and detain them and grab them, put them in a detention facility and then ship them to Louisiana.
Even though they have no connection with Louisiana, the government's hoping that Louisiana has more conservative judges who will defer to the Trump administration and deport people even if it's for their free speech rights.
Now, the government is not collecting its own lists.
They're relying on pro-Israel activist groups.
Very sketchy, two in particular.
So here's the New York Times on what happened.
There you see the headline, federal government detains an international student at Tufts.
Quote, the university was told that the student's visa had been terminated, its president said in a late night email to students and faculty members.
The student, Rumesa Ozturk, a Turkish citizen, had a valid student visa as a doctoral student at Tufts.
According to a statement from her lawyer, Masha Kanbabi.
Magic Kambabe.
Ms. Orstek, who is Muslim, was heading out to break for a Ramadan fast with her friends Tuesday night when she was detained by agents from the Department of Homeland Security near her apartment in Somerville, Massachusetts.
Ms. Kambabe said, quote, we are unaware of her whereabouts and have not been able to contact her, the lawyer said, quote, no charges have been filed against Rameza to date that we are aware of.
A statement attributed to a senior spokesman for Homeland Security claimed on Wednesday that Ms. Odturk had, quote, engaged in activities in support of Hamas, considered grounds for visa insurance to be terminated.
Now, I think it's important to note here that just like you'll be called anti-Semitic if you criticize Israel too much, you'll also be called pro-terrorist or pro-Hamas if you oppose the Israeli war in Gaza, Or question American funding and financing of Israel, why the American taxpayer has to pay for Israel's wars.
You'll immediately be called pro-terrorist and pro-Hamas.
And this is a tactic from the war on terror that Bush and Cheney used all the time.
If you said like, hey, you're imprisoning people in Guantanamo and elsewhere indefinitely with no due process.
And a lot of the people you're accusing have turned out to be innocent.
Like, shouldn't you give them a hearing?
They would say, you're pro-terrorist.
Why are you defending terrorists?
And you would say, No, the whole point is you don't know if they're terrorists until they get a hearing and they would say you're pro-terrorists.
Hey, like you're torturing people, you're kidnapping them off the streets of Europe, you're rendering them to Egypt and Syria to be tortured.
Is that really what we should be doing?
You're putting them in CIA black sites and they would say, oh, you're pro-terrorists.
People who opposed the invasion of Iraq were called pro-Saddam Hussein.
People who opposed regime change in Libya were called pro-Qadhafi.
People opposed regime change in Syria, pro-Assad.
People who Don't want the U.S. financing the war in Ukraine or called pro-Kremlin or pro-Putin or whatever.
It's a very common warmongering tactic.
And this is what the government means by pro-Hamas.
I get called pro-Hamas every day, even though I've never uttered a single peep of praise or support for Hamas, just like I haven't for Putin.
I'm called pro-Putin all the time.
It's the tactic.
I was called pro-terrorist when I was opposing the war on terror and the civil liberties abuses.
When they say pro-Hamas, they don't mean someone praised Hamas Justified Hamas.
All you have to do is criticize Israel and that's enough to be called pro-Hamas.
Here is the Washington Post and this video circulated everywhere showing how chilling this detention was.
Remember, this is a person illegally inside the United States who just gets accosted and notice how her phone is taken while she's using it which will enable Homeland Security then to look in her phone And find out who she's talking to, find out everything about her with no warrants.
Watch what happened.
This is a security camera at when the Tufts student was arrested on March 25th by Homeland Security.
There you see an unmarked car that pulls up.
And just plainclothes officers, not even identified, get out.
You wouldn't have any idea they were plainclothes.
Ironically, they're wearing masks, even though the Trump administration is demanding that protesters get banned from wearing masks, and now they're accosting her.
She has her phone, and they just grab her.
She has no idea who these people are.
I mean, she's screaming.
She doesn't know who they are.
They could be anybody.
She's a PhD student.
And they grabbed her phone, forcibly grabbed her phone, and then they surrounded her, and they detained her.
And there you see the ICE agents were masked, even though protesters are not allowed to be masked.
And she says, can I just speak to the cops?
And they say, we are the police.
She had no idea that she was being detained by the police because they're in plain clothes.
They have unmarked cars.
Oscar co-authored an op-ed in the student paper criticizing university leaders for their stance on the war in Gaza.
That's her crime.
The Trump administration is targeting college students for arrest and deportation, has raised alarms and sparked lawsuits.
I mean, this looks like the most dystopian, repressive country you can think of, where you write an op-ed, you're a law-abiding citizen, you're a PhD student, you've never been charged with a crime in your life, and then a bunch of Homeland Security agents descend upon you, grab your phone, and then grab you, and put you in a prison, and ship you to Louisiana, a state you've never been to, have no connection with.
Because they don't like an op-ed that you wrote?
Not even the government is, the government doesn't even bother to claim that she did anything other than write the op-ed.
Here is the Assistant Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security, Tricia McLaughlin, on March 26th, quote, I gotta go back to that in a second.
A visa is a privilege, not a right.
Glorifying and supporting terrorists who kill Americans is ground for a visa issuance to be terminated.
This is common sense security.
Okay, first of all, she has never in her life, there's zero evidence, uttered a peep of support for Hamas.
The only thing we, we don't even know that she participated in any protests.
All we know is that she wrote an op-ed that is the only basis for her detention that anybody And there's nothing remotely in this op-ed that could be construed as supporting Hamas.
But notice this slimy rhetoric that Hamas is a foreign terrorist organization that relishes the killing of Americans.
That is an absolute lie.
Hamas is an organization devoted to one cause and purpose only, which is defending Gaza and Palestinians from what they perceive as aggression by Israel.
They've never engaged in terrorism in the United States or targeted American citizens.
And this is one of the things that Israel supporters try to say about why the United States should go fight Israel's wars, that, oh, one of the remaining hostages, one of the only remaining living hostages who's American is still in Hamas custody.
Do you know why he ended up in Hamas custody, this American citizen?
Because he left the United States to go to Israel, and he joined a foreign army, the IDF, and he was in uniform, in a tank, when Hamas took him.
Usually we would call that a prisoner of war.
He's an active duty soldier.
But the idea that if you're an American citizen, and you go join some foreign army, and as part of your fighting in that army you get captured, now the United States has a responsibility to wage war to rescue you.
Obviously if they join the American military and that happens, of course the United States has a responsibility.
But not when you go fight in a foreign army, and they're using this, they're exploiting this, To say, oh, look, they're targeting Americans, too.
They had a bunch of Thai citizens there.
Do you think they're targeting Thailand?
These are people who are in Israel.
Here's Marco Rubio when being asked about what the justification is for having deported this Turkish PhD student whose crime is writing an op-ed.
Here's how he, quote unquote, responded.
Mr. Secretary, a Turkish student in Boston was detained and handcuffed on the street by plainclothes agents.
A year ago, she wrote an opinion piece about the Gaza War.
Could you help us understand what the specific action she took led to her visa being revoked?
And what was your State Department's role in that process?
Oh, we revoked her visa.
It's an F1 visa, I believe.
We revoked it and here's why and I'll say it again.
I said it everywhere Let me be abundantly clear.
Okay, if you go apply for a visa right now anywhere in the world Let me just send this message out if you apply for a visa to enter the United States and be a student and You tell us that the reason why you're coming to the United States is not just because you want to write op-eds But because you want to participate in movements that are involved in doing things like vandalizing Universities harassing students taking over buildings creating a ruckus.
We're not going to give you a visa if you lie to us She didn't do any of that.
This is a completely deceitful statement designed to mask what they're actually doing.
They promised mass deportations of people in the country illegally.
They're not giving that to you.
Joe Biden deported more people in these two months of last year than Donald Trump did.
Obama deported way more.
The immigration groups called Obama the deporter-in-chief because of how many people he deported.
Now they have closed the border almost entirely.
It's like down 94 percent.
And sometimes the deportation count comes from deporting people when they're detained at the border.
But there's nothing even remotely like mass deportations taking place of people in the United States illegally.
Their priority is not even people in the United States illegally.
Their priority is people who are in the United States illegally who committed the ultimate crime of criticizing Israel.
And they're lying to justify it.
Everybody knows she didn't go and vandalize anything.
No one suggests that she did anything illegal, anything aggressive, anything violent.
The only reason she ended up on these lists from these pro-Israel groups that are Dictating to the U.S. government who can and cannot stay in the United States is because she wrote this op-ed, and I want to show you that op-ed in a second, just to let you decide if you think it's anything radical, let alone remotely pro-Hamas or glorifying terrorism, other than unless you think that criticizing Israel or opposing Israel is inherently to be pro-terrorist, which is what a lot of people think, they just don't usually admit it.
And that's why Mark Ruby has to fabricate a bunch of claims that he knows isn't true about her when her only crime was writing this op-ed.
Here's the rest of him.
And once you've lost your visa, you're no longer legally in the United States and we have a right, like every country in the world has a right, to remove you from our country.
So it's just that simple.
I think it's crazy.
I think it's stupid for any country in the world to welcome people into their country that are going to go to your universities as visitors.
They're visitors.
And say, I'm going to your universities.
To start a riot.
I'm going to your universities to take over a library and harass people.
I don't care what movement you're involved in.
Why would any country in the world allow people to come and disrupt?
We gave you a visa to come and study and get a degree, not to become a social activist that tears up our university campuses.
And if we've given you a visa and then you decide to do that, we're going to take it away.
I encourage every country to do that, by the way, because I think it's crazy to invite students into your country that are coming onto your campus and destabilizing it.
By the way, not only is that a complete fabrication for this Turkish PhD student at Tufts, it's also a complete fabrication of what happened to Mahmoud Khalil, the first person in the United States legally who was snatched up under this program.
He was in the U.S. legally.
And he didn't He didn't vandalize any buildings.
He didn't occupy any buildings.
He didn't attack anybody.
And also, I just want to say, this whole framework of, oh, this is happening because the people lied on their visa applications.
If you apply for a student visa in 2022 or 2023, before October 7th, you're not prescient.
You can't see the future.
You don't know that the Israelis are going to destroy Gaza and all of civilian life in Gaza.
In a way that pretty much every human rights group in the world has said has been unparalleled and unseen in decades.
They're not professional protesters.
They rose up and protested like a lot of people did in response to what the Israelis were doing in Gaza.
Something they couldn't have known at the time they applied for their visa.
But there is nothing on the visa application that says, are you a critic of Israel?
Do you oppose Israel?
Do you believe in the Palestinian cause?
Because, of course, That is well within the realm of free speech.
Here's the rest of Marco Rubio.
You have to leave.
Every country in the world has a right to decide who comes in as a visitor and who doesn't.
If you invite me into your home because you say I want to come to your house for dinner and I go to your house and I start putting mud on your couch and spray-painting your kitchen, I bet you you're gonna kick me out.
Well, we're gonna do the same thing if you come into the United States as a visitor and create a ruckus for us.
We don't want it.
We don't want it in our country.
Go back and do it in your country, but you're not gonna do it in our country.
Sure. Just tell me your follow-up and I'll tell everyone.
Depending on your question, I'll answer it or not.
All right, and I'll invite our Guyanese representative.
Can I get her follow-up real quick?
Go ahead.
Could you confirm, there's no reporting that 300 visas are missing to go 300?
Maybe more.
It might be more than 300 at this point.
We do it every day.
Every time I find one of these lunatics, I take away their visa.
You're saying it could be more than 300 visas?
Sure, I hope.
I mean, at some point I hope we run out because we've gotten rid of all of them, but we're looking every day.
Okay, like I said, these are all false claims.
False claims.
Some of the leading protesters at Columbia who occupied Hamilton Hall were American Jewish students who are now expelled because the Trump administration required it.
So, congratulations on protecting American Jews by getting them expelled from college for protesting.
Fantastic. Jews all over are very grateful.
But these are not the people who have been doing this, the people they're targeting.
And they're prioritizing it over what they promised people in the campaign that people voted for them on the basis of not removing legal immigrants who are Israel critics, but removing people and mass deporting people who are in the country illegally.
They're not doing that.
This is their priority.
To protect Israel from criticism and activism.
And none of the people who have been removed, certainly not the ones who have become controversial, did anything remotely like vandalize buildings.
This is all Marco Rubio's fabrications.
Here is the criminal op-ed that this student wrote along with three other students at Tufts.
And the headline is, Try Again, President Kumar, Renewing Calls for TOFS to Adopt the March 4th TCU Senate Resolutions.
And here is the pro-Hamas criminal op-ed.
It's amazing that there's such a thing as a criminal op-ed that can get you removed from the country whether you're in the United States legally.
No criminal record, no criminal charges, a PhD student contributing positively to the country.
Here's her op-ed quote on March 4th the Tufts Community Union Center Senate passed three out of four resolutions demanding that the university acknowledge the Palestinian genocide Apologize for university president Sunil Kumar's statements disclose its investments and divest from companies with direct or indirect ties to Israel We're good to
go. Although graduate students were not allowed by the University into the Senate meeting, which lasted for almost eight hours, our presence on campus and financial entanglement with the University via tuition payments and the graduate work that we do on grants and research makes us direct stakeholders in the University's stance.
We reject any attempt by the University or the Office of the President to summarily dismiss the role of the Senate and mischaracterize its resolution as divisive.
we as graduate students affirm the equal dignity and humanity of all people and reject the university's mischaracterization of the Senate efforts, we urge President Kumar and the Tufts administration to meaningfully engage with and actualize the resolutions passed by the Is that like a terrorist creed?
Is that something that should result in your deportation, that you express views as a graduate student in a Tufts newspaper?
A community in which you've been invited to participate, not just to study and keep your mouth shut.
There's no free country in the world where that's the rule for entering the country.
Now, again, these, the government, Marco Rubio is not finding these people.
Homeland Security's not finding them.
ICE is not finding them.
ICE isn't even looking for them.
They're here legally.
They only become illegal when Marco Rubio secretly revokes their green card or their visa because they criticize Israel.
So how do they know where to find these people?
There are two incredibly shady Israel groups, pro-Israel groups, connected to Israel.
Typically their funding is completely anonymous.
There's been reporting on where they get funding.
Who they are is even anonymous.
One of them is the Canary Mission and they have been now for a decade.
If a student expresses in a classroom criticism of Israel, they take the student's name and they put them on a website.
That has been highly funded so that it's the first Google result.
If you enter that student's name when they go apply for work, it'll be, here's a list of all the anti-Semites on American campuses.
While they're doxing students and professors and putting their name on the internet, these cowards will not say or identify themselves who's behind this mission, this canary mission.
And they have been quite boastful of the fact that their list is who Homeland Security and the State Department is using to determine who gets removed from the country.
In other words, pro-Israel fanatics are dictating to the U.S. government who can and cannot stay in this country based on whether they love Israel or not.
That is the literal truth of what is happening.
And I just don't understand how anybody who claimed to believe in free speech or the values of free discourse or academic freedom cannot be anything but enraged by this.
Can be anything but enraged by this.
It's exactly what you've been saying, you've so vehemently opposed.
But this time done to protect a foreign country.
Here's the Canary Mission on March 27th, boasting of their work to have her deported.
Quote, this is Rumeyza Ozturk, a Turkish national being deported for quote, activities in support of Hamas, according to DHS.
Sources point to her Canary profile as the primary cause.
So they're claiming credit.
They're saying our website, That's designed to destroy the reputation of anyone who doesn't revere and love Israel or who criticizes it, is the cause of why the government decided to deport her.
And then here is what they have to say about her.
There you see, Rameza Ozturk, Tufts University student, detained during a routine check-in due to, quote, activities in support of Hamas, according to DHS.
She graduated from the Teachers College at Columbia University in 2020 and has been living in the U.S. on a student visa until her detention.
And this is her page on Canary Mission.
This is the kind of thing they do.
They put the person's picture, their name, and they pay a lot of money to promote the website to make sure that it becomes the first Google search.
So obviously, it's a blacklist.
It's like a McCarthyite list.
And they label someone a terrorist and pro-Hamas simply because they oppose Israel.
And here's their dossier in her.
This is the entirety of it.
Rameza Ozturk engaged in anti-Israel activism, ooh, in March 2024 in the wake of the Hamas terrorist attacks on Israelis on October 7th.
On October 7th, Hamas murdered approximately 1,200 Israelis, kidnapped hundreds and wounded thousands, war crimes including mass rape and torture.
Many Palestinian civilians participated in and supported the attacks and Gazans working in the targeted Israeli communities gave intelligence to Hamas on where to strike.
For more information, see the Canary page on Hamas.
Ozturk is a supporter of the Boycott Divestment Sanctions Movement.
And then they have this page, Ramiza Ozturk.
By the way, you haven't heard anything specific about what she's done, other than write this op-ed.
Here under the page Anti-Israel Activism, this is what they say she did.
On March 26, 2024, Ozturk co-authored an op-ed published in the Tufts Daily newspaper entitled, Try Again, President Kumar, Renewing Calls for the Senate to Adopt Four TCU Senate Resolutions.
So on their dossier that they say is what caused her deportation, they're admitting the primary offense or primary transgression is published in that op-ed in the Tufts newspaper that they disliked because it was critical of Israel.
And now the government is obeying these pro-Israel groups on who to deport.
Not based on crimes they committed or property they destroyed or people they harassed or attacked, based on their ideas about one foreign country.
Published in a very professional, very moderately stated op-ed.
This group goes on, quote, the authors urge, quote, President Kumar and the Tufts administration to meaningfully engage with and actualize the resolutions passed by the Senate.
The op-ed referred to the passing of anti-Israel resolutions by the Tufts Community Union.
Senate, which demanded the university, quote, acknowledged the Palestinian genocide, apologized for university president Sunil Comer's statements, disclosed its investments, and divest from companies with direct or indirect ties to Israel.
That's the only thing it lists.
Obviously, if she had vandalized buildings or attacked Jewish students or praised Hamas, that would be in here.
They're very comprehensive.
The only thing they have on her is that she wrote that op-ed.
But that's enough for the United States government, eager to serve Israel, defend Israel, shield Israel from criticism, to deport her in the middle of her PhD program.
Here's another one of the groups that is taking credit for it as well.
And by the way, the Canary Mission, as I said, they're an extremely secretive group.
They have a lot of funding.
They won't say who their funders are.
They won't even say who they are.
That's who's dictating to the government who can stay in our country or not based on how much they love Israel or don't.
The other group is Batar Worldwide.
It is a radical pro-Israel group.
It's considered radical even in Israel.
And they too took credit.
Quote, she was on our list.
Many more jihadis are.
We will be making a new submission Monday with approximately 1,800 more jihadis.
Submit to us candidates with proof for ICE government to consider.
That's where the government's getting these names from, from these very sketchy Israel connected groups of people they want out of the country for criticizing Israel.
Here's Tammy Bruce, the Department of State spokesperson, being asked about all of this, and here's what she said.
Just going back to the visa revocations, there's a group called BETAR that has told CBS that they have provided thousands of names to the Trump administration of visa holders and naturalized foreigners who, quote, come to the West to rage against America and support U.S.-designated terrorist organizations.
Can you confirm whether that organization is providing lists to the Trump administration and whether those lists are being taken by the State Department and DHS to do any of this work?
That goes through the framework of the work that we're doing.
Whether it exists or not, I won't confirm.
It's a matter of, you know, we've got broad authority, certainly, but how they're coming to those decisions for the consular offices and visas, We will not discuss not only individual visas, but the process of what goes through in determining what happens with individuals and visas and whether they're issued or if they're revoked.
So I won't be talking about that today.
Yes, Nick?
So these groups are out there taking credit.
These groups, by the way, only have one cause, one mission, devotion to Israel.
The United States, Americans, not part of the agenda.
Just this foreign country of Israel.
And they're boasting about the fact But they're the ones who are telling Homeland Security and the State Department who to deport.
And when asked about it, the State Department won't deny that.
They won't even confirm.
They won't say how they're getting these names.
And above this video, where Tammy Bruce refused to say whether Batar and the Canary Mission, as we know they are, because they say so, are giving these lists to the U.S. government, Batar basically gave a thumbs up to her, said, good job.
A little pat on the head again from an Israeli group.
So many people in Washington crave, and will do anything for.
Here is the Jewish newspaper Forward on March 10th.
Doing a little profile, the Jewish groups targeted Columbia grad student Mahmoud Khalil, then ICE arrested him.
Documenting Jew hatred on campus, called to quote, deport Mahmoud Khalil days before the immigration agents detained him.
Quote, Ross Glick, a pro-Israel activist who previously shared a list of campus protesters with federal immigration authorities, said that he was in Washington DC for meetings with members of Congress during the Barnard Library demonstration and discussed Khalil with aides to Senators Ted Cruz and John Fetterman, who promised to, quote, escalate the issue.
He said that some members of Columbia's board had also reported Khalil to officials.
Glick! Here is one of the things that Betar says here from their Twitter account on February 20th, 2025. You see there a tweet.
From Laila Al-Aryan, who's been on our show before.
She says, these are the names of Palestinian babies.
A long list of Palestinian babies that Israel killed before they reached their first birthday.
Unfortunately, it is likely an undercount given the number of people missing and under the rubble.
Okay, just want to say this again.
This is a list of Palestinian babies in Gaza that the Israelis have killed through bombing, through shelling, Before they reached their first birthday, not even counting two-year-olds, three-year-old, four-year-old infants or toddlers, ones that did not reach their first birthday, six-month-old babies, three-month-old toddlers.
Now, you can blame Hamas, which I'm sure some of you do, whatever, but any decent person by definition would lament the loss of this huge number of babies who didn't reach their first birthday and had their lives extinguished in this war.
But not Bataar.
Who dictates to the US government who can and cannot stay.
They said, on top of this list, it's not enough.
Not enough.
We demand blood in Gaza.
They looked at this endless list, these degenerates, these morally burdened creeps.
You have to be a complete moral degenerate to look at a list of infants killed in a war, a long, long list, and say it's not enough.
We want more.
We want more blood in Gaza.
That's who's in charge.
of deciding who loves Israel enough or not to stay in the United States.
Here is the Israeli newspaper Haaretz on February 21st of this year.
Even the ADL hates this group.
Title of the article embraces Islamophobia and harasses Muslims.
The ADL lists far-right Bataar USA as a hate group.
A review of the ADL database indicates that the militant organization with ties to Israel's ruling Likud is the only Jewish group on the list.
Quote, a spokesman for the ADL said this database did not constitute an official list of hate groups and was merely a glossary.
Quote, our reporting speaks for itself.
The brand new entries draws parallels between the American branch of Bataar and the Jewish Defense League, a militant anti-Arab group founded by the American rabbi Meir Kahani, which has been designated a right-wing terrorist group by the FBI.
Quote, the US chapter of Bataar, which was revived in June of 2023, adopts the far-right Kahana slogan calling for every Jew for Jewish armament.
Quote, every Jew, a 22, openly embraces Islamophobia and harasses Muslims online and in person, says the ADL.
These are the very noble people that are determining our immigration policy.
Not for illegal immigrants, for legal immigrants, whose crime is criticizing the foreign country that, for whatever reason, has an immense amount of influence on our own, even though we pay for their wars and subsidize their society.
It probably shouldn't be the other way around.
We have a lot of influence on their country, but that's not how it works.
Here's the site The Electronic Intifada, which is a group of journalists that we've had on a show before as well, and they're doing reporting here.
Quote, group claiming credit for Mahmood Khalil, On its website, Bataar USA asked for donations from the public to combat the rising tide of anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism sweeping across college campuses and communities in the United States.
In 2024, Bataar USA obtained tax-exempt charitable status from the U.S. Federal Tax Agency, the IRS.
Bataar USA calls for donation checks to be mailed to a post office box in White Plains, New York.
As a New York-based charity, Bataar USA is required to register with the state before it can solicit donations from the public.
But despite being based in New York, the organization cannot be found in the state charity database.
In a phone call with the Electronic Intifada on Wednesday, an employee of the New York State Charities Bureau confirmed that he could find no registration for Bataar.
The employee confirmed that if a New York-based charity is soliciting donations without being registered, it is a violation of the law.
Then the New York Attorney General issued this statement on March 13th of this year.
Regarding Bataar, aka Bataar Zionist Organization, dear Ali Abunima, who's the journalist with that site, I am writing in response to your correspondence to the Attorney General's Charity Bureau concerning Bataar.
We have contacted Bataar, the Bataar Zionist Organization, Inc., to notify them of the requirement to register with the Charities Bureau.
Everything about them is just very sketchy.
They will not say where their funding comes from.
They will not say who they are.
While they drag everybody else's name into the spotlight and now have control over the US government's deportation policies.
Here from the Jewish Journal of the Forward in October of 2018, the Canary Mission blacklist is secretly bankrolled by major Jewish Federation.
Oh wow, you don't say!
That's such a surprise.
Quote, for three years a website called the Canary Mission, this is in 2018 when they were still in their beginning phases, a website called Canary Mission has spread fear Among undergraduate activists, posting more than a thousand political dossiers on student supporters of Palestinian rights.
The dossiers are meant to harm students' job prospects and have been used in interrogation by Israeli security officials.
At the same time, the website has gone to great lengths to hide the digital and financial trail connecting it to its donors and staff.
Registered through a secrecy service, the site is untraceable.
Now for the first time, The Forward has definitively identified a major donor to Canary Mission.
It is a foundation controlled by the Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco, a major Jewish charity with an annual budget of over $100 million.
The Federation's support of Canary Mission connects the American Jewish establishment itself to a website that is facing increasing criticism from young Jews.
Canary Mission has been controversial since it appeared in mid-2015, drawing comparisons to a McCarthyite blacklist.
While some of those listed on the site are prominent activists, others are students who attended a single event, or even student government representatives suspected of voting for resolutions that are critical of Israel.
All that it takes to get on their blacklist that then goes to the government is just doing anything that suggests you don't love Israel.
You attend a protest, a peaceful protest, this is 2018, you write an op-ed, you say something in your class, And then little spies in the class report it, and you go on a blacklist that can destroy your reputation and career that's intended to do that.
Never in their wildest dreams did they imagine that they would one day be dictating to the US government who can stay in the United States and who can't.
But that's how top of a priority, how unlimited of a commitment the Trump administration has to purging the country of people who criticize Israel or question US financing of Israel.
Here's the nation in December of 2023 who was funding of the Canary Mission inside the doxing operation targeting anti-Zionist students and professors.
Quote, Americans who give money to Canary Mission are potentially committing a serious crime by acting as agents of a foreign power.
That would be Israel.
Quote, like its campus spy operation, Israel on Campus Coalition, Canary Mission acts as a key intelligence asset for the Ministry of Strategic Affairs.
A highly secretive intelligence organization that is largely focused on the United States and the Shin Bet Security Service.
Not only is it intended to silence anti-Israel dissent, its list of names is also used to prevent those individuals from entering Israel and attempting to visit family, including both Jews and Palestinians, and professors as well as students.
One such victim was Columbia University Law School professor Catherine Franke, who at one time sat on the Academic Advisory Council Steering Committee for Jewish Voices for Peace.
She's a Jewish woman.
She's been on our show as well.
Upon her landing in Tel Aviv, an official at the airport showed her what appeared to be her Canary Mission profile.
After being kept in detention for 14 hours, she was deported and informed that she would be permanently banned from Israel.
There was a key reason for so much secrecy.
Those Americans who were financially supporting Canary Mission were potentially committing a serious crime, acting as agents of a foreign power.
They were financing a clandestine foreign organization with ties to Israel's Ministry of Strategic Affairs, an Israeli intelligence agency, which was using Canary Mission to identify, detain, and deport Americans entering the country, like Laura Al-Qasem and Professor Catherine Frank.
Again, note the irony here.
Whenever I talk about this, I have huge numbers of American conservatives, people who call themselves America First.
And they'll say, we don't care.
We want the foreigners gone.
Even if they're prioritizing foreigners legally in the US, even if they're only deporting the ones who criticize, we want them all gone.
We don't want any foreign influence in our country.
Even though it was Donald Trump and Elon Musk who both said, We're going to be issuing a lot more H-1B visas so that foreign workers can come and work for our corporations.
And MAGA opposed it and said, we should have American workers.
And they were told, no, we don't care about American workers.
We need foreign workers working for our company.
But the sentiment is, we don't want foreign influence in our country.
And yet, here's an Israeli spy campaign being run by the Israeli intelligence agency, spying on the American campuses, creating blacklists that include American students, Jewish students.
Now dictating to the United States government who should be deported.
And we just serve it, we obey it.
Because one of the Trump administration's top priorities is preventing free criticism of Israel, threatening universities, administrations, changing their presidents, changing their Middle East Studies directors to make sure that the curriculum at all American universities, no more academic freedom, is aligned with the Israeli government and its agenda.
Here's Marco Rubio on February 25th, 2022.
And this is at a CPAC speech that he gave in Florida.
For the first time now, we started to see the building momentum behind, first of all, like, there's now a speech code.
Right? This is Marco Rubio talking about the evils, the sinister evils of speech codes on college campuses as a way of Censoring political speech that liberals in the Biden administration dislike.
A very moving, stirring defense for Marco Rubio of the First Amendment and the importance, the critical importance of maintaining free discourse on American college campuses where all opinions can be heard without punishment.
So, so moving.
I look at this, I want to cry practically with inspiration about how devoted Marco Rubio was to the idea of free speech when he thought it was his side being targeted.
For the first time now, we started to see the building momentum behind, first of all, there's now a speech code.
Every single person in this room, and the overwhelming majority of people that you know, are one word away.
It didn't matter if you're 13 years old.
old when you said it.
You're one word, you're one statement, you're one retweet, you're one like away from destroying your life.
There are kids in America, there are kids in America that have been, had their admissions to a college revoked because of something they said or did or liked on social media when they were 14.
When they were 14.
But it goes beyond that.
There are now certain things that you're not allowed to say on a college Oh my god, really?
Things you're not allowed to say on a college campus?
What would those be?
I think that's true now as a result of Marco Rubio and the Trump administration.
In fact, I know it is.
And we all know what you're not allowed to say.
The government has made it extremely clear in multiple different ways.
And like I said at the beginning of the show, we've reported on this a lot.
We felt compelled to do so again tonight because of how many escalations and attacks there have been just in the last 72 hours of multiple universities across the country over this same issue.
Not people who engage in violence.
Not people who engage in vandalism.
Not people who block Jewish students or whatever the fabricated claims are.
A physician in Canada was the head of Doctors Without Borders who had her speech canceled at NYU because two of her slides talked about the number of people killed in Gaza by Israel.
A PhD student who wrote an op-ed, a peaceful op-ed, in Tufts' community newspaper, who's now deported because of it, an art college newspaper.
The Middle East Studies Department of Columbia in receivership, the heads of the Middle East Studies Department at Harvard, fired.
The fourth Ivy League president in the last year and a half, the second at Columbia, forced out.
All over this one foreign country, all over this one issue.
Because now it's conservatives who say, oh, there's bigotry on our college campuses and the U.S. government needs to step in to protect minority groups.
A one minority group.
The rest, who cares about those?
One minority group.
From words that upset them, from bigotry.
We're going to cleanse racism and bigotry from American college campuses.
We're going to do it through government control.
We're going to take control of these universities.
And we're going to expand hate speech codes.
And as David Friedman promised, you'll be imprisoned if you're an American.
We can't deport you when you say these things.
That's where we're headed.
And I know that there are a lot of people who are fine with it because they prioritize and revere Israel.
And it's very, very difficult to get yourself to care about free speech when the views that you most hate are being targeted as opposed to the views that you agree with or feel an affinity with.
But if you don't step up and defend free speech when it's those views that you most hate that are being silenced and punished and constrained and targeted, you don't actually believe in free speech at all.
that so many people are proving with their reaction to these assaults on free speech that that's very true of themselves.
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