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Columbia University has become the epicenter of a growing showdown between student protesters, college administrators and Congress over the war in Gaza and the limits of free speech.

Nicholas Fandos, who covers New York politics and government for The Times, walks us through the intense week at the university. And Isabella Ramírez, the editor in chief of Columbia’s undergraduate newspaper, explains what it has all looked like to a student on campus.

Guest: 

• Nicholas Fandos, who covers New York politics and government for The New York Times
• Isabella Ramírez, editor in chief of the Columbia Daily Spectator

Background reading: 

• Inside the week that shook Columbia University.
• The protests at the university continued after more than 100 arrests.

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While an SNP motion calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza will be debated in the House of Commons today, all eyes are on Labour. The party has tiptoed around a position on the war in Gaza since the terrorist attacks of October 7th, causing divisions among MPs and supporters. Will Keir Starmer’s eleventh hour call for “an immediate humanitarian ceasefire” be enough to see off another rebellion and hold his party together in an election year? 

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In the past 7 days Sir Keir Starmer has had to face down a leak over his big policy U-turn, a policy U-turn and the suspension of two Labour candidates for anti-Israel and/or anti-Semitic comments. A third person in the room at the time is, we understand, being 'spoken to'.

It's probably not been a great week for party morale - but has any of it hit Labour's poll lead?

And will any of it translate into actual voting in the by election results tomorrow? We talk to pollster Luke Tryl from More in Common.

Later - rats, open sewage, cockroaches and drugs. Chief Inspectorate of Prisons Charlie Taylor talks us through the worst report he's ever penned on our prison system as we ask whether the justice system or the accommodation limitations dictate who is put behind bars.

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Michael Roth of Wesleyan University doesn’t hang out with other university presidents. He also thinks some of them have failed a basic test of good sense and decency. It’s time for a conversation about college, and courage.  

• SOURCE:
  • Michael S. Roth, president of Wesleyan University.

• RESOURCES:
  • "Opinion: College Presidents Are Supposed to Be Moral Leaders, Not Evasive Bureaucrats," by Michael S. Roth (Los Angeles Times, 2023).
  • "Transcript: What Harvard, MIT and Penn Presidents Said at Antisemitism Hearing," by CQ Roll Call Staff (Roll Call, 2023).
  • "To Testify or Not to Testify in Congress? Your Job Could Hang in the Balance," by Annie Karni (The New York Times, 2023).
  • "You Could Not Pay Me Enough to Be a College President," by Daniel W. Drezner (The Chronicle of Higher Education, 2023).
  • "The Case for College: Promising Solutions to Reverse College Enrollment Declines," by Katharine Meyer (Brookings, 2023).
  • "Arab Funding of American Universities: Donors, Recipients, and Impact," by Mitchell G. Bard (American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise, 2023).
  • "Racist Attack Spotlights Stefanik’s Echo of Replacement Theory," by Annie Karni (The New York Times, 2022).
  • "Why Is There So Much Saudi Money in American Universities?" by Michael Sokolove (The New York Times Magazine, 2019).
  • Safe Enough Spaces: A Pragmatist’s Approach to Inclusion, Free Speech, and Political Correctness on College Campuses, by Michael S. Roth (2019).
  • "The Opening of the Liberal Mind," by Michael S. Roth (The Wall Street Journal, 2017).

• EXTRAS:
  • "Academic Fraud," series by Freakonomics Radio (2024).
  • "Freakonomics Radio Goes Back to School," series by Freakonomics Radio (2022).

Reports of crimes targeting Jews, Muslims and Arabs have risen around the world in since the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel, and the Israeli military’s retaliatory operation in Gaza. While previous conflicts in the Middle East also sparked a backlash outside the region, this time it is more intense and the wave of hate may be far from cresting, according to advocacy groups, former law enforcement officials and analysts. In this Bloomberg Radio special report, Stephen Carroll examines how these communities are confronting a global surge in hate speech and hate crimes.

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Today on the Matt Walsh Show, the Left has launched a full scale war against Elon Musk to punish him for allowing free speech on his platform. They're doing it all under the pretense of "combating anti-semitism." We'll talk about their real motivations today. Also, thousands of hours of January 6th footage are being released, and the footage tells a very different story from the one we were told. And the Miss Universe pageant this weekend featured an obese woman and two dudes. Miss Universe has also gone bankrupt, not surprisingly. We'll talk about all of that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.

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In the European country with both the largest Jewish and largest Muslim populations, a rise in antisemitic acts brings particular perils; we examine them. Winemaking was always going to be hit hard by climate change. Our oenophile correspondent looks at how things are already changing—and it is not all bad news (08:52). And why India’s explosives industry is blowing up (16:04). 

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Megyn Kelly begins the show by discussing some of the most disgusting anti-Semitic and pro-Hamas displays around the world over the weekend, New York's anti-Israel protest over the weekend and their disturbing chants, dangerous protests in the U.K., some positive developments with pro-Israel demonstrations in Paris, and more. Then Megyn is joined by Konstantin Kisin, co-host of the TRIGGERnometry podcast, to discuss why the lies about how great immigration is for the U.S. and the U.K. have led us to anti-Israel protests now, the scary concept of decolonization pro-Palestinian groups say they want, the dangerous Islamist and “woke” ideology and why it has invaded college campuses and schools,disturbing Hitler references from anti-Israel protesters, how the real "far right" brainwashed into racist ideology are those supporting Hamas and displaying anti-Semitism, why multiculturalism is not multiethnicity, why "smart" people can become the most radical, why he now supports an end to the Ukraine war and what a peace deal could look like, and more. Then Teryn Gregson and Ernest Ramirez, director and co-star of the "Shot Dead" documentary, join to discuss the tragic deaths of children and babies after getting the COVID vaccine, doctors seeing the effects of the vaccine on patients, government pushing vaccine mandates without highlighting the potential harms of it, Ramirez’s tragic story of how his healthy 16-year-old son died five days after his son's first COVID vaccine shot, the myocarditis effect of the COVID vaccine and of COVID, more families affected by potential vaccine-related deaths, pregnant women and how the COVID vaccine could affect babies, and more. 

Kisin: https://www.konstantinkisin.com

Gregson: https://wethepatriotsusa.org/shot-dead-movie/

Ramirez: https://www.jrsguardianvoice.com

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Megyn Kelly begins the show by discussing Christiane Amanpour's outrageous CNN interview with Jordan’s Queen Rania exposing extreme anti-Israel and anti-Semitic sentiments, her failure to acknowledge the murders of Jews in Israel by Hamas, and more. Then Gad Saad, host of "The Saad Truth," joins to discuss the lack of moral clarity by those attacking Israel but apologizing for Hamas' horrific actions, Jew hatred on public display in the West, discuss posters continuously being torn down of Israeli hostages at universities, one Jewish student in Boston explaining why she was doing it, polling about Europeans shockingly supporting Hamas in the conflict, the Northwestern professor who claims Hamas never committed certain atrocities against Israel, why universities all of a sudden care about “free speech,” fearing for the future of the West after the hatred over Israel and Hamas, Megan Rapinoe supporting Palestinians but not Jews, the connection between being anti-Israel and anti-Jewish, Hamas interrogations and bragging about killing Jews, why Saad the "happy warrior" is feeling negative about the future, the state of Canadian politics, and more. Then Evita Duffy-Alfonso, The Federalist contributor, and Will Witt, author of "Do Not Comply," join to discuss Governor Ron DeSantis disbanding pro-Hamas college groups, if this is an overreach on DeSantis’s part and if he is overstepping on freedom of speech, students displaying anti-Israel sentiment and if and employers potential reactions, the state of the GOP primary, Trump's verbal stumbles and if it will affect his gigantic lead in the race, Biden's mental decline and whether it's the biggest issue in America today, radical gender ideology leading to doctors trying to rename men's and women's body parts as "chesticles" or "dicklets," Britney Spears’s new memoir that describes disturbing childhood stories, why our next generation should read it and learn, chasing after fame and the harms of doing so, and more.

Saad: https://www.gadsaad.com

Duffy-Alfonso: https://thefederalist.com/author/evitaduffy/

Witt: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/will-witt/do-not-comply/9781546005582/?lens=center-street

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