Piers Morgan Uncensored - Columbia Uni Protests: "How DARE You Call Me A Racist!"
Episode Date: May 2, 2024In an explosive battle of words and minds, Piers Morgan invites Kat Timpf, Professor Cornel West, Xaviaer DuRousseau and Cenk Uygur onto the show to discuss the ongoing pro-Palestine protests sweeping... America’s university campuses. Passions run high on the issue of violence against both Jewish and pro-Palestine students, until Professor West outright calls Piers 'a racist' for his allegedly one-sided stance. Piers furiously hits back, stating unequivocally that he values the lives of Jewish and Palestinian people equally. YouTube: @PiersMorganUncensored X: @PiersUncensored TikTok: @piersmorganuncensored Insta: @piersmorganuncensored Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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That doesn't mean I don't have very strong views about what's happening in Gaza, because you know that I do.
So where is my lie?
Yeah, I know this.
Yeah, peers, I've just listened to you for 20 minutes, frame the issue in a purely 100% Israeli propaganda way.
So if you say, hey, listen, do you, the Jewish students shouldn't be harassed or attack?
Of course I agree.
I've got Jewish family.
So why have I lied?
No, no, no.
Stop interrupting.
The protesters wreaking havoc at some of America's top universities have a deadly serious point.
Unfortunately, many of them are fundamentally unserious people.
Nothing captured the insanity of this moment better than a PhD candidate at Columbia University
stepping out to demand humanitarian aid for the protesters.
I guess it's ultimately a question of what kind of community and obligation Columbia feels it has to its students.
Do you want students to die of dehydration and starvation or get severely ill,
even if they disagree with you.
If the answer is no, then you should allow basic...
I mean, it's crazy to say because we're on an Ivy League campus,
but this is like basic humanitarian aid we're asking for.
It seems like you're sort of saying,
we want to be revolutionary, so we want to take up this building.
Now would you please bring us some food?
Well, the completely straight face,
she demands urgent assistance for protesters
to spare them from dehydration, starvation, and severe illness,
as she and her mob friends voluntarily occupied a private building
in support of guards and people actually facing dehydration, starvation and severe illness.
Well, students protesting for peace is nothing new.
They have every right to do it, but clearly there are limits under the law.
At this point, they're doing a better job of Israeli propaganda than Israel's government.
Police have moved into eject students from Columbia's Hamilton Hall after reports they vandalized and barricaded the famous building, as the university said.
This was because of the protesters' actions, not because of their cause.
officers clashed for students at other campuses overnight,
including UCLA in Los Angeles,
where pro-Israel protesters moved on their rivals
and police patients ran out.
It's all beginning of unpleasant shades of the BLM riots in 2020,
a fundamentally just cause which became toxic and divisive,
fueled by people who know little about the issues,
a lot about causing chaos.
And quite apart from the absurdity of the individuals involved,
it raises serious questions and contradictions.
Many of former President Trump's fears his critics
shuddered at his blatant crackdown
on most 2020 protests,
how does St. Joe Biden's supporters
defend the scenes we're witnessing now?
And on the other hand,
many of the staunchest defenders of free speech
have been the loudest supporters of Israel
and the fiercest critics
of the campus protesters.
So where is the line?
And is it the police or the protesters who've crossed it?
Well, in a moment, we'll debate all this with an all-star panel.
Well, first, joining me now is pro-Palestinian activist
Nadine Kiswani,
who organised protests outside Colombia
and City University in New York last night.
Okay, Nadine, welcome back to
uncensored. You were there last night. There's a current ban on you and others from Columbia,
dated from last week, saying that you are considered persona on all Columbia University
owned property due to alarming and concerning behavior. So why were you back there?
I wasn't inside the gates of Columbia. I was outside of Columbia. And, you know, I'm able to
be able to protest outside of Columbia and support of the students as a New Yorker, just like New Yorkers
have been consistently showing outside of the gates of Colombia
in support of the students,
even before they launched the Gaza's solidarity encampment.
My organization within our lifetime
mobilized in support of Columbia students
from Jewish Voice for Peace and from students
for Justice in Palestine who were both suspended months ago.
And we're just continuing that tradition,
that support from the community to the students.
So we had a protest
that started at NYU, went to the new school,
made a stop at FIT, the Fashion Institute of Technology.
We made our way over to Columbia by train,
and then ended at CUNY.
So just showing solidarity to all of the encampments.
But it's not quite a straightforward as just showing solidarity.
Mobs inside and outside the campus have been chanting interfaida.
And anyone who knows the history of the conflict
between Palestine and Israel knows what interfaida means.
it means a violent uprising.
They've been chanting from the river to the sea,
which of course involves the eradication of Israel.
We've seen Jewish students being harassed by the mob.
We've seen Jewish professors not being allowed in to teach
because of fears for their safety.
We've seen others being held in effective captivity
following the breaking in, the violent breaking in,
of an historic building.
All of this, a lot of it is criminal,
from trespass to vandalism, to avatism,
to actually potentially kidnapping people
if you're not letting them out when you break in.
How do you...
So no kidnappings have happened.
Well, hang on.
I'm just saying it potentially could be categorized as that.
So my question for you is,
why would you support all this?
Why do you support chanting about a violent uprising?
Why are Jewish students being harassed in this manner?
Why would you support the wanton vandalism involved in smashing into an historic building?
So I'm going to try to answer this in the order of everything.
You said, first of all, intifada means shaking off in Arabic or uprising.
It's not just using the Palestinian context, but against people fighting against oppression everywhere.
And the City University of New York, where I was a student in undergrad and for law school,
actually investigated SJP for the use of the word intifada in previous years.
They released a report in 2016 that is public.
Right now, you can find it online.
That clarifies that intifada is not an anti-Semort.
There have been two interfad, hang on, there have been two interfadders.
The first and second interfada in the conflict in the last 30 years,
have been these two infamous interfadders, which led to deaths of many, many people on both sides.
Both were violent uprisings.
So when people chant about, when you have a pro-Palestinian, when a pro-Palestinian group
chants.
It started as boycotts.
Hang on.
Are you going to let me respond?
Because you actually made a lot of accusations.
Well.
And I'm going to try to respond to all of them in order.
Okay.
So I'm not going back and forth.
Are you going to try and deny that either interfaida was violent?
I believe that the Israeli colonizers, the Zionists, made it violent by attacking peaceful protests,
just like we saw the NYPD attack protesters at CUNY and at Columbia that made the situation
that wasn't previously violent, violent.
And all the acts of terrorism perpetrated by pro-Palestinians against Israelis during the two
Intifada's?
What do you think of those?
I'm not here to debate the first and second intifada with you.
I told you the definition of the word.
But that is why when people, when pro-Palestin,
you're being disingenuous,
when people, pro-Palestinian groups
outside of New York University
chant about intifada,
they know what they're doing,
and Jewish people know what they're doing.
They are invoking the first and second interfaida,
which involved a lot of violence
and a lot of terrorism.
Has been chanting intifada for decades.
So, you know, and let's go back,
let's go to the second phrase,
you say, from the river to the sea.
Yeah.
Now they want to make a problem with that.
Any chant that we say, you know, there's this accusation of anti-Semitism
because every single pro-Palestinian activist has been accused of anti-Semitism
as a way to silence them.
Even though just, you know, you mentioned Jewish students before,
so many of these Jewish students are standing with us,
are with the protests inside and outside.
Many are not.
Many are being harassed.
Jewish Voice for Peace was suspended by Colombia.
Many Jewish students are not, and they're being harassed.
And they're being harassed.
They're being threatened.
They're being banned from going in to be taught
to be harassed nonstop since October 7th.
But you're not in Gaza doing this.
You're doing it in the middle of New York.
What does this have to do with being in Gaza?
We're here as New Yorkers, as Arabs, Muslims and Palestinians,
and we're harassed daily constantly, not just since October 7th,
but for as long as we have lived here.
And, you know, that's constantly ignored.
But when Palestinian students are finally speaking up
against the slaughter of their people in Gaza
and all over Palestine, you know, it becomes a problem.
Now they want to, you know, pay attention to these things.
You know, I think every Palestinian organization,
including my own, has made it clear
that we stand against anti-Semitism
and that these smears of anti-Semitism
against pro-Palestinian activists
are a long-held tradition by the Zionist lobby,
by Zionist organizations
as an attempt to discredit people.
If protesters get violent,
is that acceptable resistance to the people?
oppression? I haven't seen any violence happening at protest, so I don't even know why this
is a question. Nobody's advocating for violent protests and nobody's saying that that's acceptable,
including myself. Would it be justified? I just answered that. You're just repeating the same
question. I feel like you're being disingenuous when I've already made this clear. You didn't answer if it
would be justified. I just said it's not acceptable. How could it be justified? Right. So the only
violence that we see being unleashed, which is completely unacceptable,
is by the NYPD who have maced protesters.
They mace people at NYU, which I saw with my own eyes.
They maced people at QILE.
Last night, they whipped out their batons.
They beat people until they bled.
People got punched in the face.
They were bleeding from their teeth.
You know, this is the violence that's completely unacceptable.
That's because a howling violent mob,
chanting into FADD,
broke into an historic building on a private property.
It's not their property.
They committed acts of vandalism,
Cuban acts of trespass.
They were holding people against their will.
They'd been threatening and harassing Jewish students.
I'm sorry, that's not a peaceful protest.
The people that were not protesting peaceful.
The people that were Columbia students forced to stay inside the journalism school.
You know, the NYPD literally poked their head in an open door
and told the CUNY journalism students that if they left that building, they would be arrested.
Columbia admin came to say that they should have the right to report,
that they can't limit the freedom of speech.
the freedom of the press, and the NYPD actually threatened Columbia administration.
So the only people who were being held against their will were the Columbia students by the
NYPD and other students who were not part of the journalism school, part of the other schools
or in their dorms were also ordered to shelter in place by the Columbia administration.
So everything you brought up from the violence to people being held against their well, this
is being perpetuated by the people in positions of power, by the administrations of these
universities and by the police department who is being used to crush peaceful protests,
who is being used to show up in riot and turn an otherwise peaceful situation into a riot.
Never forget that in 1968, 150 protesters occupied the same exact hall that the students of
Columbia were occupying as of last night and forced to come out of, Hamilton Hall, which they
renamed Hens Hall in honor of the five-year-old Palestinian girl who was killed, who had to sit in a
car with her family members for hours, her family members for hours while they decayed,
while they rotted after being killed by the Israeli army.
And she starved to death.
Nobody was able to get to her.
So, you know, in 1968, Hamilton Hall was occupied by over 150 students protesting South
African apartheid.
And this kind of police violence wasn't used against them.
And they are remembered in history as heroes.
So continuing the long-held tradition of university activism, this is what they were
We're doing at Colombia.
This is what we were doing at CUNY and all the encampments that we see popping up.
Not just in the US, but all seven continents.
Nadine, I have to move on because I have four other guests, but I appreciate you joining me.
Thank you very much.
But joining me now is the independent presidential candidate Cornel West, who teaches at Colombia
and joins some of the student protests.
The Fox News contributor Kat Tim, former BLM supporter Javier de Russo of Prager Yu,
who broke into a pro-Palestinian encampment at UCLA and the young Turks founder, Jank Yuga.
Kat, I want to start with you because I know you've got a,
a slight time constraint.
So I want to start with you and just talk about one aspect of this,
which is the whole issue of free speech in this debate.
And we're going to get into the two sides part of it in a moment with the other guests.
But from a free speech perspective, what is your take on what we're seeing here?
So I've been very open about this issue.
I think there's been not quite enough focus on the free speech issue.
I think that, for example, you could look at Texas.
Governor Abbott, who in 2019 was saying there has to be free speech on campuses, there has to be
the First Amendment on campuses. Then on March 27th, he signed something that limits speech on
campus, including constitutionally protected speech, including criticism of Israel's government.
I think that what the Constitution says is very, very clear that even hate speech is free speech,
right? So you can debate whether something is or is not hate speech. And the debate,
you just have it through your last guess proves that there is some.
disagreement on that. And the main point is the government should not be the one deciding what is
and is not. We have a spokesperson for the Indiana police department saying hate speech isn't free speech.
Well, that just simply isn't true. And it's the whole idea of what it's always been,
which is that you don't want the government to be in the position of deciding what speech is and is
not allowed, because that is going to be dangerous for anyone, including Jewish students, right?
I mean, there was no free speech, obviously, in Hitler's Germany, right?
And saying that free speech, something is First Amendment protected free speech,
is not that you don't have to say you agree with it.
And you can totally bring up the fact that maybe it's been less consistent in terms of all of a sudden,
now a lot of these university presidents are super pro-free speech when it comes to this,
when they haven't been in the past.
But to me, that's not going to cause me to be hypocritical on this issue.
I'm a First Amendment absolutist.
I was in 2019. I was before 2019, and I still am today.
What if you are chanting interfaida, given the history of interfathers between Israel and Palestine, twice in the last 30 years,
we know what interfathers have been there, they've been violent uprisings with many people dying?
And what if you chart from the river to the sea, which Jewish people believe absolutely means the eradication of Israel?
I was just asking...
The First Amendment...
I will come to everybody else, but Cat has to go, so I've...
I want to just get this free speech part of the debate out of the way.
Kat.
The First Amendment is actually clear on that,
where you have to have a very, very, very specific exception
where that would not be allowed.
So, for example, a peaceful protest
where people are marching and saying from the river to the sea
is constitutionally protected speech,
an incident where you were targeting a specific Jewish student
and chanting that at that student
where a protest had become violent,
then that maybe would not be.
It's very, very narrow, and it's supposed to be very, very narrow,
where it has to be directed and likely to produce imminent action
and also true threats.
Those are the only exceptions which are very, very narrow.
And the law is clear on this.
But if you have people, and we've seen pictures of them, inside and outside campus,
who appear to be supporting Hamas rhetoric,
who are wearing maybe insignia relating to Hamas or His Balor or whatever,
If you're brazenly supporting organizations, groups of people that are deemed to be terrorists by large sways of the world, does that cross the line?
This is utter nonsense, Pierce.
Can I just answer the question?
You got genocide taking place.
You got IDF terrorism taking place.
You can't say a mumlin word about 12 universities that have been leveled to the ground.
Hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of professors have been killed.
Students have been killed.
You're a journalist.
Yes. Have you talked about the 112 journalists who have been killed, brother?
Yes, I have done.
You just said lies that this.
Well, hang on.
I actually.
Cornell, hang on.
Cornell.
Cornell.
Unfairly.
Cornell.
And then you just start lying.
You start lying.
Man, it's ridiculous.
Cornell.
I'm not lying about anything.
Why?
No, you are.
I agree with Cornell West completely.
You're totally utterly lying through your framing.
The framing of this is a total of free of yourself.
No, I can't.
hear you both speak at the same time. Cornel,
just to be clear, I have posted,
sorry, hang on,
Lee, hang on, I have posted
about the journalists who've died
in Gaza, right?
I have posted about this. I have highlighted
the deaths of those journalists,
right? Put it in the framework.
Well, I'm going to.
I was going to come to you about the framework.
No, you're not.
All the vandalism about one hall,
and you, Charlie can say a mummling word
about universities, libraries gone,
completely schoolrooms gone completely.
You see how truncated and narrow your framework is?
You're just lying, man.
You ought to be shame of yourself.
Okay.
When you say lying,
what you're trying to imply
that I don't care about the other stuff you've just mentioned.
Yes, that's not a lie.
That's definitely right.
Not have the same value as an Israeli life.
That's what I'm saying.
Okay, let me bring in change.
Let me bring in change.
Let me bring in change.
Just to be clear, I haven't lied about anything, right?
I haven't talked about what's happened in Gaza yet
because we haven't come to that part of the debate.
But, Chank, I don't believe,
you've always seemed to me to be one of the more rational voices
in this debate, prepared to accept what Hamas did
was horrendous and so on.
I don't believe that you think it's right
that Jewish students should be intimidated and harassed.
You come right back to the thing?
Can I just answer this for God's sake?
We are debating the protests, okay?
Come on, brother. Come on, man.
I don't think it's right.
They should be subjected to intimidation.
Okay, peers.
Nobody thinks it's right.
Nobody thinks that's right.
It's not right.
No, let Jake speaking.
I'll come back to you.
A girl who has a hall named after her
because she and 15,000 other children
have been killed by the IDF terrorist
that you don't even call terrorists,
but you can call the students terrorists.
That's not a double standards.
Man, that's just outright mendacity,
hiding criminality on your show,
and you're supposed to be uncensored,
concerned about the truth.
You just said I called them terrorists.
I haven't called them terrorists.
I haven't called them.
terrorist, that ironically is a lie.
Jenk, I want to bring you in.
You're getting very angry about this too.
Just to be clear, I am expressing an opinion
that what has happened at Colombia has crossed a line
and that if I'm a Jewish student there,
I think it's completely outrageous.
I'm being intimidated and harassed
for the actions of Israel's government
thousands of miles away.
That doesn't mean I don't have very strong views
about what's happening in Gaza,
because you know that I do.
So where is my lie in all this?
Yeah, peers.
I've just listened to you for 20 minutes, frame the issue in a purely 100% Israeli propaganda way.
So if you say, hey, listen, Jewish students shouldn't be harassed or attacked.
Of course I agree.
I've got Jewish family.
So why have I lied?
No, no, no.
Stop interrupting.
But what you don't talk about is you say from the river to the sea is an unacceptable change.
Did you mention to the audience in these last 20 minutes that Benjamin Netanyahu actually said it recently?
Not only that, he's actually doing it.
He's in the middle of wiping out the Palestinians from the river to the sea.
That is the grotesque violence.
He has slaughtered 25,000 women and children.
They were all innocent.
So when Hamas kills 860 innocent Israeli civilians, I call them out and I say that is terrible.
But when Israel slaughters 25,000 women and children, we're saying, oh, I don't like
a pro-Palestinian chant a chant that's what we're concerned about and now you turn to the the
violence that has happened on college campuses there is one case of overwhelming violence and that
happened last night at UCLA and it was pro-Israeli protesters that violently attacked the peace
protesters that didn't do anything they attacked an old lady and said oh yeah good luck trying
to defend yourself old lady these are vicious vigilante
thugs and they have done more violence than all of the peace protesters in the country combined.
Where are the arrests?
Where is the outrage?
Where is the indignation?
You pretend that you care about protecting students, but you only care about protecting one side,
whereas the other side is assaulted.
No, I don't, actually, no, because if no, no, no, no.
And all you want to do is cancel their speech.
You're part of cancel culture and admit it right now.
Can I respond?
about protesting people. Can I respond? Can I respond? Can I respond? By the way. Okay, this is not the United
States of Israel. Fine. America, America is a major point. America's get to protest a foreign government.
Okay, let me respond. Just to be clear. You've lost the right wing, you've lost the left wing,
you've lost America. Just to be. Just to be. America's not going to stand here and let Israel
dictate who's allowed to speak and who's going to be arrested. All right, you can keep shouting.
I gave you 20 minutes to do propaganda. Okay, go ahead now. It's not propaganda. I have many views of
all of this. We're talking specifically about the protests at Columbia, which I think you've crossed
a line. By the way, you talk about cancel culture. I'm entitled to my view with that you and Dr.
West screaming liar, genocide, supporter, and all this other bullshit. Okay, do you condemn the
drugs? Let me get clear. Do you condemn them? I'm doing the same thing you are. Wait a minute.
Do you condemn them? Wait a minute. Can I answer the question? If this was Jewish students
that were breaking into this building violently.
No, you don't have to go with a hypothetical.
No, sorry, I am going to go with the hypothetical
because you're trying to make out that somehow,
I'm only doing this because I'm pro-Israel's government.
I'm not pro-Israel's government.
What I am pro is the safety of Jewish students being protected
because they are not responsible
for the actions of an Israel government thousands of miles away.
They're entitled, having paid $400,000 for their education.
But you say no, you don't want to protect the peace programs.
I don't think more rules should be allowed to.
go on. So when you talk about this is a private university campus, they are entitled to not have
their buildings desecrated in this manner, and they are entitled eventually to have the police remove them.
Be honest. When they were doing it in a public space, you were all, everybody in media,
in American media said, how dare they do it in a public space? They do it in a private place.
You go, how dare they do it in a private place? You shouldn't be breaking into buildings full stop.
You know what? When Martin Luther King in Selma, Alabama, across the Edmund Pettus Bridge, you know what,
they said, how dare they interrupt the bridge?
How dare they go in a public place?
How dare those protesters?
Civil rights leaders should know their role,
should know their place, boy.
That's what people like.
Everyone in American media is saying right now
to the people in favor of not slaughtering
any more Palestinians.
You guys sound exactly like Bull Connor.
Okay. I know you have to go.
I just want to just bring you back in just briefly.
Look, this is incredibly, as you can tell.
This is a very incendiary debate
and passions run very high.
about this. As anything you've just been listening to, giving you any more clarity about how we
resolve this situation? Because presumably, these protests are not going to go away. They may get
bigger in number. They may affect more universities. This is a bad situation getting progressively
quickly worse. What do we do about this? Right. Again, going back to what I was saying before,
I think that the law on these things is clear. I think that we want to be. We want to be.
be careful to not give up any of our rights as Americans in response to things that we see.
There was also a bipartisan legislation proposed about having anti-Semitism monitors on campuses.
I mean, what could go wrong there, right?
And I've been open as a First Amendment absolutist, and I've had people send me videos of things
like smash windows, well, is this free speech cat?
Obviously not, and I'm not saying that it is.
I think that the robust debate surrounding this proves all the more reason why there are strong disagreements on what counts as what and what means this or what means that,
that we should not have the government be in the position to decide ever what you can and cannot say,
because any of these rules that some people are pushing for, that would, you know, some of the slogans that the Palestinian protesters are chanting to silence any of that could then, based on what else someone else thinks,
could be used to, say, prevent an IDF soldier
from coming to campus to speak.
So I think that there are two separate things
that we need to keep how you feel about the speech personally,
how you feel about the issue personally,
and then how you feel about the government involvement in it,
those are two completely separate things
and is not the same to be pro-first amendment and anti-Semitic.
You make some great points.
Kat, we've got to let you go.
Thank you very much indeed for joining us.
I greatly appreciate it. Thank you.
I want to bring in Javier, Derrissa.
You've been waiting patiently.
You posted on X yesterday, breaking inside the UCLA anti-Israel encampment.
Journalist Cam Higby and I snuck into the ongoing encampment to see what was going on.
Cam was caught after asking too many common-sense questions and physically removed by the protesters.
We have a bit of footage of that, I think.
About the same wristbands as the anti-Semites so that we could sneak into their camp and whoo chat out the ghetto.
First of all, they had gender-neutral buckets to urinate and poop in.
The whole place smelled like musty tear.
and shit. But the fact that they were forcing out conversation and journalists makes it clear
that they don't have the answers to explain why they're there. And I was overhearing the most
racist conversations about white people just in general. These people are literally BLM rebranded and
more extreme. Look, that's pretty inflammatory stuff, but you're here now. Do you think what you
did last night was the right thing to do? Absolutely. First of all, thank you for having me, Pierce.
It was the right thing to do.
I'm somebody.
I hate propaganda from either side.
I hate being told what I'm supposed to believe.
So I like to go in and see for myself.
So I snuck into the camp.
It was very easy.
I just put on a tacky outfit and went and bought the same wristbands from Staples.
And I saw the conditions that were back there.
I saw the sanitation hazards of them all using the same bucket to poop in.
And I saw the, I overheard the conversations that they were having in there.
It was full of hate speech.
It was full of just calling for the bloodshed of Zionists.
It was them being angry and it ultimately started to get violent once my friend Cam Higby's cover was blown.
Once they realized as they were describing him as a white Republican, they immediately knew that they had to kick him out.
And they locked arms.
They were shoving him up the stairs and then back down the stairs to get him out of the encampment.
And it just goes to show how aggressive these college students are getting.
I'm all for free speech.
I'm all for freedom of expression.
But that is limited once you start, one, prohibiting these students who pay a lot of money to go to these college campuses to go to class.
as well as you start becoming violent towards journalists
and people who are just there trying to get an inside story
on what's actually happening on these universities
that we are being asked to pay for.
Dr. West, coming back to you,
Donald Trump got horrendous criticism
for cracking down on the BLM process in 2020.
Is Biden not just doing the same here
and is there a double standard
in the way that people are looking at these two different situations?
I mean, one, any time you have massive military occupation of a community, that's what BLS was about.
That's what the Black Lives Matter was about, which is that a 400-year affair.
I don't know whether the brother would want to do that in the 1960, see, who was using the urine with King and Malcolm and Fannie Lou Hamer and others.
But there were other issues they were zeroing in on.
It's called American terrorism.
It's called American Jimpa or American police murder.
during other young people of different colors,
just supposedly chocolate, right?
But when you have massive military occupation,
that is a massive breakdown of a community.
If you can't have a leadership of a university,
they can have a dialogue about three claims.
We want transparency about your investments.
We don't want you to invest in genocide,
occupation, and ethnic cleansing.
And we want amnesty.
You can have a dialogue.
Ed Brown, they said they're going to have a dialogue.
They're going to have a vote.
But no, no, not Columbia and the others.
They've become such a corporation.
They're tied to their donors.
They're tied to their money masters.
They're tied to their benefactors.
They don't give a damn about what the students think.
The students are just canon fodder for their reputation,
who are highly talented, worked very hard,
but have hardly any voice.
And when you don't have a voice and you're moving a nonviolent way,
and Brother Pierce, you should know the two first antifoders were nonviolent.
They shot them down like dogs.
That's why Hamas didn't appear until 1988
and you had the vicious occupation of 1948.
If they had shot Mullet to King Jr. down and Rosa Parks down and so forth,
there's no doubt that black folk would have responded.
That's why we have the black people haven't created a black version of the Ku Klux Klan
because we had leaders like Martin and leaders like Fannie Lou.
You shoot them down like a dog.
It's going to be a very different situation.
Okay.
Okay, but let me ask you a question then.
going to have faults.
Okay, but let me ask you a question.
My question of you...
But we're talking about the main issue of genocide.
This ain't no game.
This ain't no.
No, it's not a game.
It's not a game.
People are dying, though, man.
I understand.
Journalists are dying.
Cornel, you must let me respond.
You teach you, you teach at Columbia and you join these protests.
You're in the theological seminary across the street.
I've been in the camps.
I didn't see anything to the other brothers saw.
But, you know, if he's,
He makes his judgment.
He makes his judgment.
But given that there has been clear intimidation and harassment of Jewish students,
it's been broadcast.
We've seen the videos of it.
You cannot be happy as a professor there that Jewish students are being harassed and intimidated
because people are critical of what an Israel government's doing thousands of miles away.
That is my point.
Of course.
Of course.
That goes without saying.
I try to be a decent person in my life.
So you agree with me.
After that diet,
All you want to talk about is protection of Jews.
It's not all I want to talk about, Cornell.
But that is actually what this debate is about.
Organization that are banned it back in October,
did you say a word about that?
When you've got massive children at universities
in the hospitals completely leveled
and you have something on your Twitter
rather than make that part of the framing of the issue,
then in fact you become an extension of propaganda.
And that's why I call you a racist,
because it means then that a Palestinian...
How do you?
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry, but how dare you...
I'm sorry, Dr. West.
You would not frame it in that way.
I'm sorry, but you...
How dare you call me a racist?
What you don't know is,
before I did this debate,
I did a long interview
with one of the IDF spokesman
in which I went after him
about their planned invasion of Raffa
because I think it would be a catastrophic mistake.
So don't call me a racist.
I don't assume...
Biden believes that.
Don't assume...
You think Biden believes the Palestinian life
has the same value as Israeli life?
Yes, I do.
Yes, I do.
I absolutely believe.
I believe Palestinian lives matter
just as much as any other lives.
And I've always said that.
Always.
It's not manifesting your framing, brother.
It's not manifested in your frame.
Don't throw around the word racist
without any evidence to support the fact that I'm a racist.
A lot of evidence.
And I've been hearing the evidence and I've thrown around.
not throwing around. It's a reality.
Me saying it is wrong that
Jewish students are being harassed is not
racism because I'm not also
talking about University of being
fat and Gaza. I think the thought of University of
being totally disingenuous.
All right, Jane, I'll bring you in. No.
Please. Okay. Look, peers,
you keep going back to the most obvious question in the world.
Should Jewish students be protected
from harassment or assault? Yes. Obviously.
Obviously, hold on.
agree with me.
No.
So why does that make me a racist?
Let me finish.
Let me finish.
So that's the most obvious point in the world.
And I already told you that I have Jewish family.
I have a nephew who wears a star David on a college campus.
I will go and help the people that are escorting them to their classes, et cetera.
That is not an issue.
But what you just did was you spent now 20 to 30 minutes framing it like that is the biggest issue.
and everyone is saying, oh, no, we should attack the Jewish students.
When no one is saying that, in reality, hold on, in reality,
vigilante thugs last night attacked the peace protesters at UCLA who had done nothing wrong.
It was a violent attack.
They beat them with sticks.
They pepper sprayed them.
And yet, I ask you a simple question.
You've got now 20 to 30 minutes of propaganda saying, oh, the Palestinians.
Protesters, the peace protesters,
they hate the Jews, they're anti-Semites,
anti-Semites, all the Jews are in danger,
etc. And I'm saying, of course, let's protect them.
And then you make it seem like
that's the 98% of the issue,
when in reality, the only protesters
that have been massively violent are the pro-Israel protesters.
And to this second, not only,
did you mention it for about two and a half seconds
out of 20 minutes, but you still haven't condemned them.
So do you condemn them, peers, the violent thugs?
I deliberately, I,
I deliberately held off writing or commenting about what was going on, Colombia,
for quite a few days.
And I will do the same about what happened at UCLA until I've actually established for my...
Well, hang on.
Super convenient.
Sorry, it happened overnight.
And I will wait and see the facts.
And when I get the facts, I will pass judgment without fear or favor,
and certainly without any racism.
Now, Havier, you were there last night.
And Pierce, oh, no, hold on.
On the racism charge?
Hang on.
No, no.
Because we are, everyone who defends pass.
Palestinians in this country, no matter what they say. Like, I'm a perfect example. I condemn
Hamas. I want to protect the Jewish students. I want a beautiful pro-Palestine and Israel.
I want two states. And we're called anti-Semites, including by your guests, 24-7.
The minute someone calls you a racist back because Muslim lives don't matter.
All of a sudden, everybody catches feelings.
Except, I haven't called.
Except, which only goes one way. It only goes one way, right?
No, no. I've never called. I have never called you an anti-Sanmit.
I've never called Dr. West and as you semi.
I've never called either of you racist,
and yet both of you have gone along
with calling me a racist even though I'm not.
So yeah, if you're gonna dish it out,
if you're gonna dishing, be very careful.
Peers, are you gonna ignore the framing?
You know you framed it this way, and Pierce, you're not alone
and you're not the main culprit.
Just to be clear,
Let me give you a little bit of credit.
Alright, okay.
You are open to the Palestinian position 20% of the time.
Just to be clear.
That's why I come back on this show.
Just to be clear.
But the American media is filled with
racist against Muslims. American politicians are racist against Muslims and they revel in it.
Rivers of blood in Gaza. And the American politicians and the American media say,
not enough. Kill them more, Israel. Kill them more. Yeah, just to be clear.
Who objects to the wide slaughter of those people is called an anti-Semite.
Just to be clear. The American media is sick. Just to be clear, you were all booked to take part
in a debate specifically about the protests at Columbia. So when you're asking, why am I focusing on the
protests at Columbia, that is why you were all booked for this segment and debate.
So don't try and be disingenuous with viewers and make out that you were booked for any wider
purpose because you weren't. I wanted to debate all the issues around Moscow and New York and
interesting to me. Let's talk about Colombia. Let me finish. Let's talk about Colombia. Let me finish.
Those peace protesters are the same ones that came in 1868. I'm sorry. You don't just keep talking
on my show. I'm sorry. And propagandized against like people like you. Yeah, I'm not a propagandist,
I'm not a racist or any of these things, right? War is always
great. Peace is always the bad guys.
It's absurd. It's absurd. It's insanity.
I agree with you about it being absurd. Pears, do
you get that we are vomiting
your propaganda? We can't stand it anymore.
It isn't just about you.
It's all of media, all
of the politicians, with their non-stop
propaganda that the people in favor of peace,
the people who want to protect innocent
lives are somehow pro-terrorists
or the bad guys, or the
anti-Semites, or the racist, etc.
We're sick of the overwhelming
propaganda. I'm pretty
sick of being called a racist by you guys.
So we've all got across the bed.
Let me bring, let me bring.
Let me bring.
I know your show I asked me whether the IDF or terrorists.
Are the IDF a terrorist organization killing innocent children?
Yes or no.
I do not believe they're a terrorist organization, no.
Oh, come on.
Of course they're terrorists.
There's a big difference between being a war, being at war and being a terrorist.
You may think they are, Cornell, and you may think they are, jank.
You've asked me a question.
I do not think they are.
Okay.
Based on what?
Do I think the IDF has very serious questions to answer
about the way they are executing this war?
Absolutely.
Do we have international criminal courts?
Do we have criminal courts and laws and rules
to hold them to account?
Absolutely.
And do I want them to be held to account?
Damn right, I do, yeah.
And do I think they should be invading Raffer?
No, I do not.
I don't mean that much to you, man.
Come on.
Oh, it does mean as much to me.
Let me bring in Javier again.
No, they don't mean it.
You just talking.
You just talking.
This debate has got very unpleasant for reasons that are slightly lost on me,
given what the debate was supposed to.
Cornell, let Javier speak, okay?
Javier, you were there.
Javier, it's been very patient.
Javier, you were there last night,
and it's been pictured by Chank as it was simply a bunch of very violent pro-Israel protesters
attacking completely innocent pro-Palestinian protesters.
What was your experience there?
What did you see?
I mean, that's not what happened there, and it's not what's happened at any of these universities.
I don't know why he's trying to portray it as if the pro-Palestinians are there peacefully.
I also have a video on my Twitter of a pro-Palestinian chasing after a Jewish man trying to tase him
because she didn't like what was on his sign.
I also saw a man go and spit on a woman's dog simply because she was on the Zionist side.
So, no, it's not this situation where you have the pro-Palestinians who are just sitting there in their encampment and not doing anything.
These people have continuously been violent.
And I mean, even just looking over at what happened in Columbia,
you're not busting into windows and breaking into buildings
if you're there to be peaceful and to be protesting peacefully.
That's not the case.
So you are disingenuous saying if you're going to sit here
or pretend that the pro-Palestinians are just being innocent.
I don't understand how you could even see it in that way.
Are you going to sit here?
There's videos online.
Are you going to sit here and lie to everyone and say that the pro-Israel side didn't attack?
Yes, on there.
Please.
Well, you both spoke over each other.
so we didn't hear what either person said.
Okay, all right, let me just ask Javier,
who's obviously lying about this.
There's videos online of the pro-Israel side,
clearly attacking the pro-Palestinian side,
with sticks and fireworks and pepper spray.
Are you going to sit here and lie on television
and say to everyone that that didn't happen?
Because go ahead.
You lose all credibility.
Go ahead, liar.
They were fighting back.
They were fighting back.
And don't call me a liar.
I'm not here to sit here and call and be childish like you
at your big age.
Oh, yeah.
You just called them.
The pro-Palestinian side, there is a woman who was put in the hospital because she was hit in the head.
Oh, Mr. Innocent all of a sudden.
Yeah, you just-
They were being dirty.
You don't sit there and poop in a gender-neutral bucket and sit there and act like you're not dirty.
I call it the health department.
It is filthy.
You hate Muslims.
I don't hate Muslims, but I do hate Muslim extremism.
I have a lot of fundamental issues with the Muslim extremism that's going on in the world.
If the only way that you can get your point across is going and raping people,
then you're probably a terrorist.
you're probably an extremist.
I do have an issue with that.
I do have an issue with the fact that you show an ankle
and you're killed in some of these nations.
Oh, no, I'm racist.
I'm not racist.
I don't have any issue with Muslims in general.
I didn't say, did I not just say extremists?
I just said extremists,
but you chose to hear what you wanted to hear.
It is, he said, he's getting into a bucket.
I wasn't even just talking about the Muslims.
I was talking about in the encampment.
The encampment is disgusting.
They're all sitting there with unwashed behinds,
protesting and screaming out.
for the bloodshed of Jews and Christians worldwide.
So, yeah, I have a problem with that.
I have a fundamental issue with that.
That's such a big deal.
Nonsense.
Propaganda.
What did I lie about?
Where was the lie?
Who's paying you, Javier?
Who's paying you, Javier?
The pro-Palestinian side started the aggression.
They started the violence when they went,
they attacked that Jewish girl who went to the hospital that night,
and then things began to escalate.
Don't know what you're talking about.
I mean, that's ridiculous.
That's like saying Nat Turner created he was the cause of the whole issue of white supremacy
because he's responding to white supremacy.
That's ridiculous.
And you know it's ridiculous.
Why are we still talking about white supremacy in 2024?
Why are we still talking about that hundreds of years later?
What do white people do that black people can?
How is white supremacy even still on the forefront of your mind?
You're stuck in the past.
You're stuck in these dated issues.
Oh, no.
You're really revealing your ignorance, brother.
You don't think white supremacy has anything to do with what's going on in Gaza at all?
I'm ignorant.
Is that right?
I've been black for 27 years and I have never been inferior to a white person.
What is the white supremacy that is affecting your life?
I would like to hear it.
Nobody in your family is.
I'd like to hear it.
What can't I do that a white person can do?
You want to a few black people never been mistreated.
Okay.
All right.
All right.
I see.
I see.
I see.
Every demographic has been mistreated.
White people get mistreated all of time.
I'm talking about because it be.
I'm talking about because.
getting retreated.
There are prejudice
from every single demographic.
So I don't understand
what you think
that is so unique to black people for.
All right.
You know what?
I've got to bring this,
I've got to bring Mr. Beethoven.
It was supposed to be specifically
about the protests.
I'm sorry that it got so heated
and personally abusive.
I would like to make it clear.
It wasn't your fault, peers.
I would like to make it clear
to Cornell and to Chink,
I'm not a racist.
And I genuinely care
about the,
safety of Jewish students of that university.
That's it. And that doesn't mean I don't care
about what's happening in Gaza or the journalists
there or the universities there or any of those
things because actually I do.
And I've expressed my concern about that many times.
Let's see it in your reporting. Let's see it in your
reporting. Well, if you bother to watch it,
Cornell, you would know. If you bother
to watch it, you would know.
I want it over and over again, but that's why I come on you
then you would not, then you would not
call me a racist.
Yeah, well, I'm sorry. You don't have a right
to call me a racist without evidence and you didn't
Oh, please, brother.
When the evidence is overwhelming,
you can't even say the IDF
as opposed to terrorists and Palestinians,
but Hamas terrorizes all the time.
Palestinian lies don't mean the same
as Israeli lies for you, admitted.
They do.
W wrestle with that in the midnight hour.
They do.
Ressle with that in a midnight hour.
Like I said to you,
I don't think you understand the definition of terrorism.
I value every life.
I value every life as equally important.
Even yours, Gornel.
How would white supremacy benefit?
I want you to tell me that.
I'm the blackest person in Ellis.
LA County. I've got to leave it there. Look, I value all of your lives. I value coming on the
program. I'm sorry things got so personal, but we move on and we'll continue debating it.
I believe that out of all the debate, hopefully we will get some solutions and we'll get
to a better place. So thank you for joining me.
