William Jacobson: It's Time to Defund Universities that Promote Antisemitism | Top Story
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- American Jewry was taken by storm as a wave of not only anti-Israel but also antisemitic protests exploded across US campuses. Worse yet, campus leaders and university presidents stood idly as Jewish students were intimidated, shouted down and in some cases assaulted. How did this happen? More importantly, what can be done? Can universities and academia be reformed?
To discuss all this, JNS editor-in-chief talks with the founder of Legal Insurrection and a decades-long fighter for Western values and free speech to be preserved on campus William Jacobson.
"Outside pressure is the only thing that can protect our society from what's going on on the campuses."
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Indeed, stop all subsidies and do not allow subsidies from abroad !
The problem is, for over half a century students have been taught lies. I tried taking a middle eastern history class, at UCLA, in 1977. The textbook was a tissue of lies, that ignored all the history of the indigenous peoples of the Levant, Jews, Yazidis, Kurds, Copts, Maronites, etc. and pretended that Arabs always lived there. I went to the ombudsman's office, to complain, and was told there was nothing that could be done, because Saudi Arabia owned that department. They hired the professors, chose the texts, and set the curricula. When I told Hillel about this, they were unconcerned, as all their effort was in freeing the refuseniks. I'm not the only student who complained, but no Jewish organization gave a damn.
Soooo, Saudi-Arabia owns American universities? Very, very interesting. What about seeing a good doctor?
@@christianx8494 Qatar and the Saudis do provide BILLIONS in endowments to our top universities, and guess what, money talks. They can say I want a course taught using X, with instructors from X, and give students from X scholarships.
@@user-ne9su4mt2f If that is so, nationalize your universities, free them from private donorship, give more power to democratic institutions. I see no difference between influence between Saudi, Russian, Israeli Pressuregroups.
@@christianx8494 The difference is clearly in how the pressure has been used.
When did you last see a pro-Israel group riot on campus?
@@christianx8494no outside influence must be allowed in our universities
Never send you kid to any school which has a DEI department.
Not defund shut down
October 7th was done so sadistically - and then celebrated. Utter evil
Like the IDF dancing in the street after they kill Palestinians?
Celebrated by the Democratic party
Yeah, people don’t really consider the societal parts. Israel is a peaceful democratic country willing to work with others and focus on growth. Palestine is a Jihad hateful brainwashing self harming group that plays victim about everything. No nayyer what you feel about the past, only an idiot would blame that difference on “land” or “oppression”. You don’t have to study much history to know events and conflict don’t prevent peace, especially when one group is as easy to work with as Israel. All you have to do is not be genocidal or racist. They’ve literally said this, the Palestinians can have their own country if they aren’t genocidal. It’s a values issue.
@@samuelalonso22 Indeed so - it is no longer the party I became part of when I came of age. We now have the Democrat Jim Crow practices of ballot harvesting, registering non-citizens to vote among many other forms of election interference (not the least of which is the Trump lawfare debacle) being practiced by this party that dilutes the votes and voices of citizens. Indeed the "royalist" Democrats proudly assert that they are the anti-populist party (read: they are no longer the party of the people). When it comes to the plight of those facing the economic travails caused inflation, one can almost imagine them say, "Let them eat cake." They've aligned themselves with the Nazis of the 21st century. They are elitists who are out for their own interests. When Nancy says, "we have to do this for the children," she's talking about her own children and grandchildren - not ours.
Don’t forget tucker and Candice
Super excellent interview!!!!!! Everything the guest said was 100% right! Please keep up the good work!!!
Gents, if you think Sep-Oct’s going to be crazy? Wait for Nov-Jan once #WethePeople vote #AmericaFirst in overwhelming numbers!🙏🇺🇸🇮🇱 #StandingWithIsrael
Warn all parents; don't send your kids to universities unless they'll be studying specifically medicine, engineering, law or business administration -- and in any case to stay away from the "liberal arts" and "social studies" side of campus.
It’s high time to turn attention to trade schools. Qualified tradesmen are becoming a rarity. Most of them often make more than the people behind the screens. With modern power tools - it’s a trip, not a day’s job.
Thank you so much for this very informative interview. I’m Jewish, daughter of two Holocaust survivors..Both my children had the priviledge of studying in Ivy League Colleges.. I had absolutely NO clue something as sinister as this could be happening behind the scenes! I’m still trying to make sense of all of the madness I Watch in the news! And let me tell you, if l were an American citizen and could vote in the upcoming elecfion , my vote and my son’s would be 100% Republican! We need to get rid of this madess. By the way, one of the October 7th hostages is my brother in law’s niece. Fortunately she has been released thanks to negotiations by the Mexican Government, but her boyfriend is still a hostage. So yes, all of this breaks my heart and hits very close to home. Thanks again for sharing your valuable knowledge!
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if you own a phone you support slave labor in china, you should also get no sympathy for any suffering that might befall you, hypocrite
@@Peter-ov6xhby owning a phone you support child labor and also dont deserve any sympathy for any suffering that may befall you or your family, you are a hypocrite
It is awful. My son is going to Israel in a week to help. I've had 2 large 20 something mus men throw trash on me and scream Jews don't belong in Jerusalem. I live in Hollywood. I'm 62 years old. My son said, don't speak Hebrew outside. It's madness. Ahava to you and your family. Ahava Adonai. Ahava Israel. 🫂😇😇❤️❤️🇮🇱🇮🇱🙏🫂🫂🫂❤️❤️❤️❤️😇😇😇😇🫂🫂😇
HAVING PARENTS THAT SURVIVED THE HOLOCAUST, YOU SHOULD UNDERSTAND THIS CONFLICT,, I AM NOT JEWISH NOR AM I A MUSLIM A PALESTINIAN OR AN ARAB , LOOK AT BOTH THE TRUEHISTORY BEHIND THE NAZI AND THIS ISRAELI GOVERNMENT , SIMILAR TRUTHS AND HISTORY, ISRAEL HAS OPPRESSED AND MURDERED THE INDEGINOUS PALESTINIAN FROM THE DAY THEY ARRIVED IN PALESTINE ,DO SOME RESEARCH FOR YOURSELF IN ORDER TO UNDERSTAND THAT ISRAEL HAS BEEN ALL ABOUT PROPPAGANDA LIES AND OPPRESSION. I DONT CONSIDER THEM REPRESENTING THE TRUE JEWS OF FAITH, THEY THE JEWS THEMSELVES RECOGNISE THAT ISRAEL DOES NOT REPRESENT THE JEWISH FAITH. THERE IS NO ANTISEMITISM AMONG THESE STUDENTS , BUT THERE IS ANTI MURDER ANTI GENECIDE AGAINST ISRAEL.SEARCH FFOR NORMAN FINKLESTINE HIS PARENTS SURVIVED THE HOLOCAUST ALSO, HE HAS SPENT 50 YEARS RESEARCHING THIS CONFLICT, HE HAS A LOT IN COMMON WITH YOURSELF, AND PAINTS A TRUTHFUL PICTURE OF HISTORY , THESE STUDENTS ARE INTELLIGENT NOT ANTISEMITES, YOUNG PEOPLE THA DEFEND HUMAN RIGHTS NO MATTER WHICH HUMAN. HOPE YOU STOP TRUSTING ISRAELI AND AMERICAN RETORICAND PROPAGANDA , LOOK FOR YOURSELF,, NO BODY IS HATING THE JEWS, BUT THEY SURELY DETEST THE MURDEROUS STATE THAT IS ISRAEL.
Wonderful presentation. Thank you.
Very sobering interview about how much of a problem antisemitism and anti-Israel hatred is in the universities, these problems were around for a long time, but October 7th uncovered the scab. However, this problem isn't very complicated, it all starts at the top. In Florida, Ron Desantis stopped the encampments about fifteen minutes after they started. He made a public declaration that these activities will not be tolerated on any campus in Florida. They didn't have negotiations with the protesters. As a result, all students could attend school in peace and safety. Hopefully, if Trump wins the election, they will cut funding to these schools that are unwilling to change. The schools lack moral clarity, and a complete overhaul of school leadership and faculty needs to happen.
Why is this video not getting more views? This needs to go viral. This is absolutely horrifying.
Excellent guest speaker.
THIS UNI-EVEL-SITIES MOST DESAPER !!!!!!!
Odd how you had no problem with non Jewish student safety
So so so true! Tenure/Full doesn’t give a prof the right to disagree with the admin or the current fads. If u don’t agree, u will go from star with most grant money and awards every other week to junk. Incidentally, I actually turned down a faculty position once at Columbia…environment seemed to chilly.
Great analysis
10 years ago, the idea of the federal government defunding everything and leaving all cultural issues to the states was a crazy idea. Now, I think anyone who takes America seriously knows this needs to be done.
Right ! I used the word ״fashionable” when the protests started…no, oct 8th 💙🇮🇱💙🇮🇱
Philanthropists should donate $1 to universities then publish a photo of the donation in the leading dailies.
Truth but hopefully not too little too late 😔
absolutely, time to de-fund and reorganize. It MAY not be too late to reverse for the next generation
Those students get paid up to 3000 dollors a month
I don't patronize venues where I'm not welcome or respected.
Mr. Jacobson's comments are to the point although he underestimates the time frame involved: there was no "free marketplace of ideas" in the universities I attended, and I was Class of 1975. I solved my problem by transferring to the engineering school and later had a successful, 50 year career as a warship designer. Indeed, American academia is sick, and has been since universities caved to student activism in 1968. We should heed Dr. Jacobson's suggestions and seek more adult supervision of Federal funds, but we also need to get better control over foreign students -- they are another source of radical ideology -- and foreign donations, which, as one of the other posts says, is rewarding the hiring of more professors of Middle Eastern history with a lopsided Arabist background. Not only might it be necessary to interfere in the faculty hiring process, but also to reform the tenure process and remove some of the deadwood. I'd like to see alternative universities and disagree with Dr. Jacobson -- he's assuming the alternative universities must be organized and funded like today's. I think free enterprise could find better ways of educating the young.
Exactly..I’m tenured & full prof at a major university… I could tell stories from years ago, including being blamed for 9/11.
The strange thing is after 9/11 nobody came out and said, we are Al Q the way after Oct 7,they say we are Hamas
@@johndoe-vc1we so true!
These people attacked us in Corporate America.
University of Austin was mentioned- what about Hillsdale?
The most concerning threat is ALWAYS that from within.
*"First address the problem of The Apostates / Seculars, then arrend to The Infidels."
Oldest formula.
why defund choice universities? why not defund the whole Dept of Education, that is the elementary, middle and high schools also. switch to Milton Friedman vouchers and complete LIBERTY to create any school program by any team of teachers. give me a good reason why government should use my taxes to support these hoodlums. if they need higher education - let them find ways to pay for it themselves, there are plenty of opportunities in America for anyone that really wants anything.
Those are 2 different issues and while I agree with getting rid of the Department of Education, it won’t affect the current Woke universities’ antisemitism issues.
@@alesh2275 of course, it would. The problem with dept of Ed and American education does not begin with the absurd leftists ideas and their clever decades long strategy of institutional infiltration. It begins with the parents, the regular moms and dads that for old reasons do not participate in the education of their kids and would rather let someone handle it. In today’s American public school the kids are often instructed by their teachers not to reveal study materials to their parents and it only became known during the covid quarantine when kids where learning by Zoom what exactly they are being taught, also resulting in much uncovering of the details of the trans epidemic. Getting rid of monopolized government education will most definitely change the infiltration of woke cretinism into a public mind - faced with a choice a parent WILL actually try to choose a school for a kid, - would it be very safe to assume that people that have kids would want them to have a kind of education that will perpetuate these values, family, kids, prosperity, rather than the stuff now being offered by the complete prvrts, let’s just begin to speak more honestly. The woke idiocy will be forgotten and done with within a period from first grade to 12th. Bombing, killing, annihilating the damned dept of education is the first and most essential medicine to heal America and all of the West. Whether this is the only measure required is a question, but without it - dissolution of the current education monopoly - America will be finished within a few generations.
Related to Code Pink look up who a co-founder Jodi Evans married: I.T. mogul Roy Singham.
How dare they !
How dare who ?
or Cornell can establish a policy of free tuition to students of Cayuga background
How much money is being funneled to oposition nations such as Africa in the UN against Israel via Qatari and other nations?
There is so much distortation
I don’t think enough attention is given to cultural relativism’s contribution to the problem. The moment academia failed to draw a line between acceptable and unacceptable practices, we were doomed.
Likewise, the perverse interpretation of academic freedom that permits professors to spout non-scholarly opinions in areas about which they have no expertise. I was a philosophy major at a top 10 university 30 years ago. I could not tell you the political leanings of any of my professors on highly controversial subjects like animal rights, medical ethics, and political philosophy. This is as it should be.
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How to pronounce "ideology":
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Promote Antisemitism in facts with new generations it's another level up 2 date your software algorithm and AI
What donations, you just said the student groups get tiny budgets from the University. Why insinuate? You are a professor. Bring the data. Let's talk about where University funding comes from.
Name the donors. And interview them.
And not bias at all , no children’s are dying okay 👌!
As in all wars.
Propaganda or story’s ?
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So there is no diversity. Lolol !!!
Where was all this support for non Jewish student safety from 1999 to present day? If I search the archives, will I find a video for support for non Jewish safety at grade schools and universities after they were held hostage and killed? Hmmmm point me to it.
To what anti- non-Jewish (Arab) incidents do you refer- from 1999 to the present?
The reason you don’t hear about it is because any anti-Arab sentiment, on university campuses at least, is nipped in the bud the moment it surfaces. Plus, you won’t find any Muslim country bashing by professors. Did you catch the part about zero viewpoint diversity?
Wait a second, students were attacking the Jewish population, you sir are not qualified to say anything if you don't understand what the river to the sea means, I'm an American Texan and I immediately understood what that means,
Ignorance big time like all students protest for centuries, I like this guy , don’t his name, denial!
Free Palestine, from the river to the sea
Tiresome cliche uttered by silly parrots.
Yep but keep donating to Israel 🇮🇱 okay 👌
Absolutely.
I've seen little to no actual anti-semitism with the campus protestors or the pro-palestinians in general. Criticism of Israel is not anti-semitism. The only thing happening here is an attack on our freedom of speech rights by the pro-Israelis. For this reason alone, I give my support to the pro-Palestinians.
Criticism of Israel is antisemitism in a pretty tutu.
I'd post links but CZcams might still be eating them. You can Google the following:
"My Friends Wish I Was Dead" Tablet magazine
"Harvard Students Slapped With Criminal Charges for Accosting Israeli Classmate" Washington Free Beacon
"University of Michigan regent says anti-Israel protesters intruded at his home at 4:40 AM: 'Not peaceful'" Fox News
"Death threat, vandalism among 1,000 complaints against anti-Israel encampment: DePaul" The College Fix
Be honest with yourself, would you be complaining about infringement of free speech rights if the KKK was told to disband its encampment?
So, a collection of law school student groups committing to ban all Zionist speakers (regardless of topic btw) isn’t an assault on free speech?
This is complete propaganda. Cornell has a vibrant Jewish studies department with almost 30 affiliated faculty.
Jewish Studies are often captured by farLeft ideological demagogues.
#AllEyesonRafah
#StopArmingIsrael
#StopGenocide
#BDS
#FreePalestine
Have you got anything to say? I suspect not.