To a 15 minute break ask you to reconvene at 2 30 p. M. Again thank you very much. [applause] [background noises] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] if i can invite everyone to take your seats. We are right on time. It is a great pleasure to invite might dear friend and her fellow panelists for our second panel enriching the u. S. Israel alliance by combating antisemitism. [applause] good afternoon everyone. It t is so wonderful to be here with you. And before we start i really want to just take a moment and think the Heritage Foundation for victoria coates who, for a whileee has been thinking about holding this important conversation i about the u. S. israel relationship. We were talking this weekend she said she believed it was Divine Providence because who knew how important this conversation would be at this moment in time. So again, so grateful to victoria coast for the Heritage Foundation for having usg today. I want to start with introducing my esteemed panel here who im so honored to be moderating this conversation for it on my right representative chip wright who is a devoted husband and father of twohe currently serving his third term in congress. Represented texas district. Can marcus under law distinguish fellow and formerly formal u. S. Assistant secretary of education for civil rights among other among other tremendous accomplishments. Lastly we have doctor charles ascher small founder of the institute for the study of global antisemitism andnd poli. Director of the Institute Fellowship trainingt program for critical contemporary study atmp cambridge. Also a prolific author and writer wonderful to have you with us gentlemen. I am going to start by framing a little bit where we are w today. I think of for juice all around the world right now we are in a state of shock and horror on october 7 while jews in israel celebrated the holiday hamas infiltrated the Jewish Community of southern israel. Massacring 1500 people. Since the holocaust. 80 of the murdered that date were tortured first. Hamas kidnap young women, toddlers, babies, elderly and it seems to have unleash the forces of hate across the world that day. Congressman roy, i wanted to ask you what do you think the american response should be on this unprecedented moment doocy anti sentiment of what took place on october 7 and could you, i know this is a lot. If you could comment on the call for ceasefire and the notions of proportional war . Personals great to be here. Thank you to victoria for her leadership on this issue. Kevin roberts, Heritage Foundation generally. This is such an extraordinarily important issue. It is no accident i dont know the exact numbers by memory. By the millions of jews around the world 80 or whatever of those individuals live in the United States of israel. About equal numbers roughly. Between israel and the United States the rest scattered around the globe. A few in europe and then scatter around. That is the cause of our strong connection and relationship with israel and importantly its a connection of faith. Its a connection of people its a connection geopolitically its connection in terms of a shared International Security interest its unmistakable and should remain unmistakable. You asked of the response should be overwhelming force to send a message but to win people onto monday morning quarterback and secondguess. So some news accounts you talk about what would we have been doing with 24n hour news looking every bomb dropped in germany or bomb dropped in japan or war have ever thought words are messy, wars kill people. That is lost on no one in terms of humanity. Terrorist leadership of your country is a cost to it until we are seeing in gaza. Israel cannot back off in america cannot back off it supported israel. [applause] you ask about this ceasefire. I have heard the Administration Talk about the need for ceasefire to get 100 million plus of whatever aid in humanitarian aid. Now again there are human beings in the crossfire. Let somebody startum the human beings were the target predominantly jewish Israeli Citizens were the targets of the terroristic barbaric actions of hamas. Thats where this started it is up to israel in the United States supporting israel to finish it. We have to remain vigilant in that endeavor. Throughout our history there is of course the proper place for dealing with humanitarian needs the red cross in dealing with the clear interest of humanitarian relief. But under no circumstances do we allow that to be a ruse for being gas and getting fuel and getting supplies to our enemies. Once we got to make sure sitting vigilant against we need to be careful what were doing when we can win this which is of course they win for america. Thank you, thank you sir. Ken, im going to continue now. Not only do we see these horrific crimes, atrocities committed against the jewish people but before israel had even responded we saw students across College Campuses come out and protest and rally in support ofst hamas. To help us a little bit of your assessments and whats going on on her College Campuses . The something called the markets doctrine thats attributed to tell us what that is. On how it ties into what were seeing today . Thank you, thank you to the Heritage Foundation. I have been fighting Campus Antisemitism for some 20 years it gets worse and worse. But never anything like the last couple of weeks. It has been surging over the last couple of years but it reallyt has been something unlikely sawng before. So think about whats happening now. But we just saw and ellie described was massive torture, murder, rape of civilians burning people alive, decapitation. The Immediate Response from College Campuses in many places was to support the terrorists. In one case professor talking about being exhilarated. In many cases student groups arguing that we should join the resistance meaning the genocidal attack on jewish people. This goes beyond the hostile environments we have seens over recent years. What we are experiencing nowg is a mass coming down. Once we see it we cannot un see it. For University President s and the public we nowth have to face the fact that on our College Campuses something monstrous is developing. We have very substantial movements of pro hamas pro terrorist pro genocidal groups and some of the most important universities in the United States. Right now University President s argument about whether they should or should not issue a statement. Those president s who either dont issue a statement who want a full site statement are utterly incapable of understanding moral issues. But even those who do issue a statement and if they with moral clarity it is just a statement. If you are the president of the university today you are now aware that for all of the millions you have put into de i you have created the opposite of the ei. For all your admissions is done to try to student body that reflects the values you pretend hold you have created a student body which is in favor of murder. For all that you say you were curriculum should do more than just provide information or criticalde thinking, you have curricula training pro terrorisv people. It is beyond statement. We are at a time if you are a University President and you have not thought about cleaning house you should not be there. Its not about do you issue a statement it is about do you realize you are running an institution that is fundamentally and totally wrongheaded in its approach and is sending this country in the wrong direction. Even aec good statement is not enough. What i call the 2006 policy and onwhat other people call the marcus policy or the markets doctrine is perhaps the reason i called Something Different than the others. That is the notion title vi of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits certain forms of race, color, national origin, discrimination the Public Schools and colleges and universities but that does not mention religion nevertheless protects jews and certain other groups and ethnic backgrounds as well as religious ones based on the notion a grief group which has ethnic or ancestral characteristics should not lose the protections they would have if they did not p have a shared common faith. The provided admission to its credit has expanded the use of the markets doctrine to include on the education of harmony Civil Rights Agency i o headed n the department of justice but also the other agencies there are now 10 cabinet level agencies. I am pleased with this, this is something they can took 20 some years to establish but once we have this notion theyre going to deal antisemitism are they going to deal antisemitism the signs are not briefly really are great. T. So now they know they have to do something, lets see them do it. Looked at that we would all like to see them do it. Charles, im going to come to you but go back to hamas if i may. Could you break down for us a little bit about the ideology that is inspiring this war on jews in israel . We hear a lot that its about land and despite the fact israel unilaterally withdrew from gaza back in b 2005. First of all im honored to be here so thank you for inviting me. I want to first start by saying professor is the founding president of the Research Center that i head always taught antisemitism begins with jews but never ends with juices is not a parochial problem for the jewish people of the state of israel this is a problem for all good and decent people around the world. Especially in this country. Once this form of antisemitism or hatred is unleashed itun knos no boundaries. It starts with the jews it did not end with the jews it attacks everything thats good and decent in our society including institutions and values. What we are beginning to witness in this country, in this country in 2023 is an adult antisemitism. The fact that students that are best universities and professors at her best universities are turning out universities in the most Important Institution in our societies were young people go to learn how to become citizens. That our journalists our industrial leaders, power professors, our learning, that killing innocent people is a form of decolonization and resistance. Not just on the campus led by students with justice of palestine which is an offshoot of the Muslim Student association which is a Muslim Brotherhood organization. Those are the sharp truths on hundreds of campuses in this country but this is happening in the classroom not distant middle east studies about philosophy and theology and social sciences and humanities. And now spreading into the schools that are professional schools. This ideal during University Comes about after decades, decades of billions upon billions of dollars being pumped into our finest insertions. This is the research we are doing billions of. Dollars. Some of it coming illegally and some of itf coming legally. Oxford university where i studied start islamic studies it was the head of the Muslim Brotherhood who preached that the true believers need to complete the work of hitler. This is the gentleman that became the first director of islamic studies at Oxford University the head of the Muslim Brotherhood. The infiltration of the ideology of her finest universities comes with the president s of the universities the heads of development offices, knowingly taking money from people who preach the killing of jews, the destruction of israel. They forget to look deeper the ideology is opposed to democracy into waking democratic including the United States of c america. So very briefly hamas has an ideology that comes out of the Muslim Brotherhood. The brotherhood start about 100 yearsth ago as a reaction to british colonialism and is the root of political islam. Hamas, hezbollah, the revolutionary regime, isis, they all come from this root. They fuse a very narrow understanding of islam im not speaking about muslims the vast majority of muslims are good and decent people around the world. Political islam fuses european antisemitism, genocidal hatred of a jew with this narrow form of islam and the fuse this and are influenced by the nazi party in the n european fascism is semitism. They want to rid the region of all foreigners. They call for not only the destruction of the state of israel, the call for the murder of jewish people around the world. This is in their charter this is not the extreme wing of hamas or the military wing this is in their constitution comes out ofs out of the brotherhood. The uranium hezbollah is the paymasters of hamas. Qatar has one of the most important military bases of our country in their country. Why is this country not demanding from qatar thehe extradition of people who ordered the massacre ofcr innoct people . When will washington stand up and make demands from our allies who are harboring people . Qatar celebrated, celebrated on october the seventh with iran and hamas. We have very important domestic questions and international questions and the rot is in our country the rock is in our media and our best academic institutions free. Thank you for that. Congressman roy, you have work to counter that rot. You have introduced legislation the united relations relief unif under accountability and transparency act. So, if you could tell us a bit about that and what inspired you to bring that legislation forward . Who else you would like to see held accountable as we do face this tied this overwhelming tide of jew hatred . Look has a lot gaza has a long history of supporting palestinians and anti israeli policies and that funding going through un needs to stop. If i had to say one thing im happy to pressor for. We have introduced other bills to defend the United NationsHuman Rights Council which is an absurd entity on its face but we keep doing it. You can walk out of this room with the one thing with the participation is why do we fund the very things that are destroying our country and undermining ourst freedom in International Security . We fund all day long every day but if you want to know whats at the center of this fight over the speaker of the house . Yes we need a speaker of the house i hope he gets on this week. But not the expense of changing this town. This town has got to change. For my entire life im 51 years old my entire life weve been funding the very things we campaign against. We campaign against them but we fund them but we fund the United Nations we fund the Human Rights Council we fund all of these entities direct funding to the palestinians goes directly to hamas. We have been doing that. Why on earth would we do that . That is at the center of our debate right now about what were doing in this town and whether or not we should continue doing the same thing we have been doing and expect a different result. I would tell its is directly connected to the funding of higher education. Everything we talked about with respect to whats going on with our universities is one 100 correct. But i go back to my point you are finding it. With your tax dollars and are borrowed dollars you are funding it. Hundreds and hundreds of billions of dollars over the years going to the socalled elite institutions of higher ed poisoning the minds of our kids to hate america. Two hate westerns values and principles. Two frankly learn skills do not meet participants in society sit around on twitter and social media and their parent basement harassing americans who are adding value. You are funding them. Youve got to ask yourselves why . Its a fundamental question i went to the university of virginia and the jeffersonian tradition, blah, blah. It is an embarrassment of an institution going to say that right now. The university of virginia is an embarrassment of an institution. Students for justice in palestine released a statement at uva. In support of the palestinian the brutal attack on israel quote a step towards a free palestine. A professor offered extra credit for students who attended a discussion about how to quote stand in solidarity with palestinians resisting occupation. A professor at a taxpayerfunded university in virginia founded by Thomas Jefferson getting extra credit from a professor to the students. I could go on and on about some of the stuff but uva just read article in social media that they focus on the crisis in israel gaza particular ensuringu University Personnel are not in immediate danger that is it. They did not issue a statement of moral clarity compare that though to something closer to leadership from ben sasse at the university of florida. In which ben said quote i will not tiptoe around the simple fact what hamas did was evil there is no defense for terrorism. M. This should not be hard. Sadly, to me people in elite academia have been so weakened by the moral confusion that when they see videos of raped women, here of a beheaded baby or of a grammar mother in her home the first reaction of some is to provide context quote unquote and blame the raped women, beheaded baby or the murdered grandmother. And other grotesque cases that simple support for terrorists. This thinking is not just wrong it is sickening it is dehumanizing it is people need to educate our next generation of americans. It could go further let me be clear. But that is the kind of think we need to see from leaders at universities breed that is what we need to see from universities around the country we should be demanding it particularly for taxpayerfundedve universities t also donors to the massive endowments in places like harvard youve got kids trolling around the university up and down theng stairs acting like ty are somehow better than the rest of us telling us how to live our lives i need to give a shout out here to Governor Desantis in florida are taking this head on. For absolute turning education establishment in florida upside down. Every republican governor, every government going to be partisan here but every republican governor in the nation to be ashamed and not in the same thing. Texas they should be doing that in texas. [applause] everyta single state. Enough, enough. Thank you sir. I cannot agree with you more. And congressman roy just mentioned s jp i know the Brandeis Center was leading an effort just recently on s jp campus a program they had on october 12 the national day of resistance. Could you tell us ae little bit about what happened there . How do we turn this tide was going on on the campuses . Risk of a few example of whats happening on the campus and why it is. I agree president ben sasse was maybe the best. Insult low bar im not sure is good enough for the university of florida certainly not for the university seeing much worse. We are seeing campuses theres a handful of gotten reports of physical attacks on jewish students in the wakes up with a call for resistance that is what resistance is the use the term resistance they arere used in te hamas term there calling for people to join in a Worldwide Movement that has reach its culmination so far in a Program Involving torture, rape, murder there calling for people around the world to join the atrocities that have happened in the wake of that of course we are seeing physical attacks on jewish students. Of course we are seeing vandalism institutions. Of course piercing students being followed, being taunted and harassed inverse source of wave. Way. This is happening all over the place its often supported by faculty members with really doing very much of anything. Now keep this in mind. If you are thinking about a campus in the same way after he did before october 7 you are not thinking about it right. Prior to that you are seeing environments make toxic but antisemitic insight american ideology. We are seeing jewish students who were being harassed, marginalized and excluded zionism was a part of their identity. But what we are seeing now is university funded and in some cases taxpayerfunded efforts to advance in a conscious and intentional manner the program and communication agenda of the omstate department designated terrorist organization to be clear what i am describing is potentially a felony. If you are a University President who is not sure whether he should or shouldnt make a statement let me say that on many campuses its too late anyhow. Statements are okay in response tore statements. If people are simply saying false things you can say things that are true. If people saying things are immoral you can give them moral examples. If people are committing assault and vandalism you cant just make a statement. If you are University Facilities and resources are being used in a way that intentionally advances the agenda of a terrorist organization, if you are not sure whether you are committing a felony forget about the statement. You need to take much greater actions in the best of the diversity president s are making. We need to very strong messages from University President s for r attorneys general, from f governors this cant continue. Of political disagreement. Its a question of bigotry or harassment. Whether the institutions to advance student terrorism thats criminal. Its really unbelievable. As we talk it through its hard for all of us across the square we are at right now. Part of where we are at, charles, want to bring this one to you is not only the pro rallies we saw on the College Campuses but also rallies in cities all around the world. If you could help us understand, what do we make of those of the nthousands of people pouring out of the streets not only in europe but right here in new york im sorry right here in washington d. C. But also new york, brooklyn yesterday we saw. We contrast that with the fact that not that long ago we were talking about a potential piece israel. Something from mr. Netanyahu the countries that really how do we understand whats happening now . It is complex. But also the students on policy. They make faculty and students uncomfortable. Texas a and your home state we discovered 1. 5 billion with texas a and. They have a contract which i believe. They uncovered 502 Research Projects including connecting to the Nuclear Research laboratory. According to the contract qatar owns all the intellectual property these 502 Research Projects are developing. So ill be happy to show reports with you. Thats just the tip of iceberg prewhats happening texas a and is pervasive across the United States and other western countries. So how it is hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood get so much traction . About 35 years ago Columbia University professor a brilliant scholar and propagandist proclaimed the 1982 he was the last jewish intellectual. All of the jews, although jewish professors were fat squires in the suburbs of america he was the inheritor of the fight for civil thought he was last jewish intellectual. The palestinians and the jews and the jews were the nazis. He said this in 1982 people dismissed him as being crazy and disconnected from reality. Fast forward 40 years of hundreds of billions of dollars they pushed into our universities in the western world. And that the last has to take a step back from the world order from different administrations and to become weaker. And in a weird sense there is a Red Green Alliance the is radical islam us, hamas, the revolutionary regime the Muslim Brotherhood also believe in colonization and reducing the powerr of the west. The radical postmodernists and this intellectual moment have this agenda 40 years of miseducation combined with the emergence of political islam in theam countries or states are weakening and fill the vacuums. They have been known to push this alliance with intellectuals in the west and the islamists in the arab and muslim countries. This Red Green Alliance is bearing fruit were seeing it being reported on the streets of london also in the bbc. The guardian. The rot i referred to is sweptpt into north america and canada. I was just on montreal on the weekend. I was with a group of friends at a funeral unfortunately. Id say about 75 of my friends there homes were surveilled people are taking pictures of jewish homes as a form of intimidation. But also as a call to isis and by the uranianlu revolutionary regime to potentially activate sleeper cells and terrorists in europe and north america. The strip threats are gaining prominence we in the west have been asleep as the congressman said, what are Democratic Values . What are western values what are American Values in the face of the few americans antidemocratic, anti western anti jewish anti christian insight moderate . Thank you charles. I think part of what i heard you say right now is the question i want to propose to congressman roy. American jews right now are frightened beyond words. Our institutions are having almost daily security briefings. We found out this weekend the president of a synagogue in detroit was found stabbed outside of her home. Everyone thanks its a hate crime but we are awaiting the authorities. Meanwhile you have the squad continuing to spread lies about israel. Congressman, what would you like to see from your fellow members of congress . We think the u. S. Government responsibility is to the jewish minority population of the unitedgr states . That this is question in of itself. But in short you need to have very clear solidarity with israel and the jewish population. Need to be un applicable. Zero tolerance not just at universities but around the country. With respect to the kind of things this unfortunate terrible murder of the woman i believe in detroit. In hatred towards israel lives they have to believe in maintaining unfettered free speech none of us would suggest otherwise the idea you can allow i was watching minnesota mobs to cover the street and corner men in his car two hours ago or whatever it was in minneapolis in minnesota. The idea we are going to allow mobs to rule in this country we need as leadership to be very clear about how we stand. Moral clarity actually matters. Needs to be missing from our leadership for a long time. Particularly from this administration. Generally speaking even with the republicans to beat frank. Its simple to go down to one of these resolutions. I stand with israel, okay . I stand with israel. Great. What are you doing to send a signal of full complete moral clarity . We are proud of our western values. We are proud americans. We are proud to stand with israel. We are proud of the judeochristian values we are proud of what we done as a country. Were not going to apologize for them we are going to stand for them, advance them, promote them around the world to do so unapologetically. We have that with rapid energy were going to lose this country mymy answer is an easily easilye it needs to be clear and it needs to stand on the moral footingf of our actual belief in her own values and not be apologetic. Next thank you for that. Ive been told by heritage staff heritage staffwe construct the o we will just take that. I had an audience question. My view spoke a bit about a few things abide administration is doing what kind of initiative may start . National strategy of semitism and should get a applauded and e amount of public attention they brought to the issue. But in terms of substantive work has lagged short i would also say that been a sense from those speaking with people in the Biden Administration the issue the National Strategy and now they sort of executed and do nothing more until after the election, i hope no one in the administration has been thinking that since october 7. While there are some good things the National Strategy it was not sufficient for october 6 and it sure is not sufficient for now. I will give you a few examples. The Biden Administration has continuously promised to issue a formal regulation that would implement the trump executive order on combating antisemitism. And continually throughout this administration has delayed doing so. The self imposed by the bite administration theyve been seeing very little bit about it. I have not even mentioned in many months. Leaving some to think theyre not going to do it. At a minimum they should be doing what they promised. The u. S. Education. Department office for civil rights has issued some materials but when it comes to the anti zionist forms of antisemitism is not even spoken with the same specified weve seen from the white house at a minimum they should be able to do that. Look at all the campuses at which there is so much antisemitism over the last two weeks that all you need to have is google you can see substantial amounts of harassment and hostile environments which the department of education is obligated to address. This case the permission of a waiting to get complaints and should be nationwide Compliance Initiative the secretary of education right now at a minimum to address those campuses were obviously there are problems because theyre all of the blogosphere in the papers. And could have a thirty second aside. I am not an enormous advocate of hate crimes. I doo not like getting the federal government into peoples head. Brodyy the billikens hate crimes i voted against a bunch i dont trust the government i never will be a part of it dont trust it. Just to be very clear. That having been said the thing we can best do is stop funding stupid. If people have to go they are not going to be spending their time on the streets doing stupid crab. Weve got to stop funding people to do all manners of ridiculous things. Finding universities to allow all manners of stupid things. I am telling you stop funding the beast is the best thing we could possibly do. Very briefly to your question its mindboggling that care was involved in the White House Position on antisemitism. I would urge everybody whether that fits into a proper White House Initiative for antisemitism, to me it does not concur. Hi, jennifer thank you for being here on such an important topic. Congressman you talked about the moral clarity standing up for our values. Western values, judeochristian principles a thing this country is founded on. Then i hear things about the race to dinner what women pay to have someone come in and tell them they are racist in this guilt. There is a guilt factor i just do not understand it motivated propel; all the sudden we feel guilty for other peoples misfortune. We feel guilty for the people in gaza it was somebody elses fault were always pointing the finger at somebody else instead of looking inside. How do we get rid of the people who feel guilty about being american . Guilty about being caucasian . They are playing on that, do you know what i mean . They play on this michael comes from a good place vertically and women. If d youve seen this thing a re to dinner they hire a facilitator who is the woman wrote the book and site how to be customer Robin Dangelo theye higher a type like her to come in. They get a group of their friends this woman starts picking them apart you are a racist this is what you do to do this this is what you do. We come out feeling small. So i think this weakens the moral clarity. I am just wondering if you have any suggestions. No policies going to fix that. My answer again theres a long answer and short answer short answer is our churches and synagogues have got to stop sucking, they do. Theyre obsolete not promoting moral clarity sitting around wishywashy lets name our Church Something nice that seems nonthreatening and wear purple vest and pointed glasses and smoke and. That is crazy for a church and to stand up to be churches or synagogues need to stand up and speak more clarity number one. Number two families and communities have to continue to be built on families and communitys and churches are not around the stupid painful devices that are killing our kids and killing your entire side of his own thing spending this. The third thing im going to go back to them sorry beating the drum. If you dont have the ability to spend your time doing that stupid stuff then you are not going too. Right . Might great, great grandfather was a texas ranger in the Central Texas area in this he had to figure how to get water, food, dodge comanche rates. He was out sitting around wondering when my going to my free check for the federal government to fund my therapy session . It really is im sorry. We keep borrowing money, printing money at finding findinguniversities paying peopt to work and we wonder why the running around doing stupidon crab . Until we stop doing that we are going to keep getting more of it. [applause] hi. My name is eric im happy to be here today. I am a conservative and. Arrived to tell the tale for booksurvived to tell thel tale. I have a twopronged question. I could not agree with this basic to let you know ive served in it myself. The first is how can we trust this administration or further u. S. Governments to make the right decisions on this issue with israel and our alliances when we have individuals who is at dhs embedding refugees. The support of the American People for israel when they are wondering if this is going to be a third world war and thats the talk online that the memes are whats coming out and i dont think anybody would want to see american boots on the ground and yet, you know, mediterranean, heightens and people are seeing that and they are wondering how do we support israel without escalating to be some sort of antirussian conflict where theres not a lot there to support it. Thank you, so i think congressman this one is for you but i do have an extension of that question for our other panelists. On this question theres a olot in there. In reverse order, that last question will be the most important. We have got to separate those issues, okay. We can have a debate about ukraine and ukraine funding and we need to separate those. The administration wants to jam us. Its not an accident. They want that to be one big pot of money. They want to throw 14 million allegedly for Border Security which will process more people. Oh, we have to deal make sure refugees can come to the United States, hold your horses. Hold your horses for a second. I do not trust this administration to vet the people coming in here as refugees from this conflict. I dont, i dont trust them. With all due respect ambassador haley. We need an actual policy that stands on american sovereignty. We are standing alongside israel without complicating into the myer that it is, ukraine. 300 million thats all that was. 46we need to have a put the debe on the floor about why ukraine is International Security interest and importantly how are we going the pay for it. My position, anybody what wants to be speaker of the house, you will play for the supplementals. You go find money for it or i will oppose it. Dont come to my door. We will maybe just take another question from the audience. Hi, wendy singleton, in the attacks of wokism, im curious what you all think companies should be saying about this, is this different than them coming out and talking about the other issues. What would a good response of Corporate America look lake . To begin i would say that those in the corporate world, especially Human Resources world can look too chirm, i have shared my thoughts with them and there are a number of things that they should do to again. There are things that they should have been doing. A lot of corporations have months to recognize africanamerican women, asian and other workers but dont have them for jewish workers. May is Jewish American history month, let them recognize that. Some of them have employee Resource Groups for africanamerican and hispanic and other identity groups but have refused to allow their jewish workers to create them based on the notion that jewishness is a religion only. They should be educated on that and are side the same erg opportunities employees as for others. They should monitor their dei programs to begin to see whether they are making things worse because sometimes that is the case and certainly it should make them better to the extent that they have Education Programs and various forms of discrimination, they should include antisemitism including the ones we are seeing today, left wing as well as right wing to the extent that they made statements about the ukraine invasion or other world affairs, they should be making them about the hamas as well. To the extent that they make accommodations for other workers with all sorts of needs, they should consider israeli American Employees who might be called to duty in israel and might need some sort of accommodations. They should certainly be making the sorts of statement that is they make for others and they should be considering both antisemitism and jewish ethnicity. If i may respond to the two questions together. Your question about world war iii. I think from an islamist political political islamist perspective, it is here. And they are not only to destroy israel but kill jewish people all over the world. The big satan is the United States of america and other western democracies and they are dedicated to the weakening and destruction of democratic countries. Thats the state of goal. The war is here. Whether we wake up and recognize it and deal with the reality, thats another story. You know, as the chinese proverb that says, you cant wake up a dog thats pretending to the sleep, interesting. In terms of corporations, i think, you know, corporations have a responsibility to the safety and security of this nscountry. If they are doing business with qatar which is lucrative, if they are doing business with entities in the region they have to rethink the strategy. We have kicked the can down the road and its get to go the point where they can kick it down anymore. There has to be political will and leadership from Corporate America as well to confront the dangers situation. 30 seconds onto tag onto that. Agree, agreed with respect to war that we face in iran and everything that you just said. What i want to be clear about is for us to confront it, congress in generally, we need to be clear about what we are doing and not allow it to become the continued funding with in actual strategy. So for me i want separate consideration of how we deal with israel and ukraine. All of this is related and how we are doing with china and everything else. Im not saying we dont need a strategy in ukraine. What imtr saying throwing money at it its not a strategy that we confront in our National Security interest. Thats why i want those separated. Thats why i want revisited of use of military authorize. I dont want to remove our ability to go act under use of militaries force, i dont want to operate 20yearold for when i can weak. Thats insane. I want to have a Clear Mission in what we want to accomplish. Bud light should make a beer and shut up. I dont need too hear your politics. Nd corporations are too big and too powerful in this country. I have a problem with corporate cronyism and how much we have government funding and support of corporate entities. Im a big deliver that we need to be building Small Businesses so corporations dont have as much power as theyve got. Im certainly glad target and bud light have gotten their rears kicked in the last 3 months. I do believe our time is running out. We have time for one last question. Hi, so i am a Jewish College student and me and my friends have personally experienced antisemitism specifically at by the organization that you mentioned, students forti justie in palestine, for example, in my university, George Washington university. The president of jewish for palestine has personally harassing jewish students myself included, how can we ensure that jewish students feel safe in College Campuses expressing both their jewish identity and zionist believes . Ken, i think this one is for you. Happy to talk to you about it, happy to talk to you afterwards about it. I will be teaching at George Washington university, thats right, so i will be teaching there next semester to the extent that your fellow sisters feel that you have been harassed. Certainly talk today the lou brandie center. There are a lot of resource that is can make you feel safe. We talk to students every day about that. Of course, there are other institutions on campus that can support you ranging from habad and jewish studies, but depending on what the issue is, i think the most important thing is that you not feel alone. If you facing a problem, we are here to support you. So for those who are not in this room its brandeicenter. Com. For those who are in the room, happy to talk about how we can be helpful later. Very quickly also in our website, gap. Org. Theres a report about the students for justice in palestine that we published about two years ago and in a sense, this is very important, we have to know the mind of our enemy. It should not be a surprised that the students for justice in palestine are harrising jewish students and faculty on universities across the country. They are directly affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood who wants to not only destroy israel but they want to destroy jewish people and these are the organizationsot that are operatg on our campus in the hundreds. Could you imagine if there was another organization calling for the murder of another group of students on campus harassing by gender. Youre not alone and just remember that. Let us know. And, you know, ive been taking a lot of solace in how much ive seen a lot of the jewish students around the universities, you know, let their voice be heard and stand up in the face of whats happening with the universities and the groups targeting. God bless you, god be with you and we are here in this blip of time and we are here for this continuum and to serve god and god bless you for being here today. We need to wrap up now. I just want to say that it seems that we are at a real cross roads for our country and we all have decisions to make right now. Again, immaterial to the express my gratitude to the Heritage Foundation, to dr. Kevin roberts, dr. Victoria coats for hosting this really important conversation to my panelists it was really wonderful to hear from each of you. Thank you so much. [applause] welcome to all of you. Im kevin roberts, president of the Heritage Foundation. It is a pleasure to do two things. First of all, to once again welcome you to the Heritage Foundation. This is always a timely topic but especially now and secondly it is a distinct pleasure to introduce our next speaker. I know that we are all interested in hearing his comments and his wisdom. Ronald hasom served as president of the World Jewish Congress since 2007, an international pill droppist, investor, art collector andts public servant, lauder demonstrates deep commitment through judaism through other philanthropic endeavors that reach around the world. As president wgjc meets, he advocates for the importance of supporting israel especially in times when states and citizens are under attack. He served with distinction in the Reagan Administration and i would say leading i, leading the Heritage Foundation count on ambassador waters wisdom and knows hes most powerful voices on the planet not just for jews but for all of us on whom our nature is imprinted selfgovernance and flourishing. It is an honor, an absolute honor to welcome here to the Heritage Foundation. Thank you, sir. [applause] thank you, kevin. My great friend victoria. Its my great honor to be here at the Heritage Foundation which is directly connected to my hero Ronald Reagan. I first met governor reagan in mid 1960s in my parents living room. That evening had a profound impact on me. I was inspired by his vision of america and his optimism. When governor reagan became president in 1980, i worked in his administration in the Defense Department and was regan regular Ronald Reagan that set chain of events that changed my life completely. Let me explain. In 1986 president reagan appointed me as u. S. Ambassador to u. S. Ray. That was at the same time the volatile. Secretary general of the un and he just left the United Nations in disgrace for lying about his nazi past. But instead of going away quietly, went home and ran for president telling austrians he didnt do anything they didnt do which is, of course, true and they elected him. As ambassador, i made a decision not to attend inauguration because of his nazi past. Frome that moment on, i was no longer the american ambassador, i was referred to the in certain quarters as a Jewish American ambassador. It was the first time in my life i came up against real antisemitism and it changed me the world assimilated jew to someone who has devoted his life protecting the jewish people. Before i say anything more, i would like to say i thank for making my a true jew. The topic was that listening ago, the u. S. Israel alliance at 75. Over the last two weeks our alain has never been more important. Theres also shining art spotlit on a growing threat right here in the United States and all around the world. A threat that no one can no longer ignore. Thats where i intend to talk about today but first i want to make one thing Crystal Clear at thehi start. October 7th, how much terrorists broke through the fence separating gaza from israel with two aims and two aims only, to kill as many jews as they could and to take hostages back to gaza. They raped, tortured, burned alive and decapitated jewish babies. They decapitated babies. Youve heard that october 7th was sort greatest loss of jewish of any day since the holocaust and theres one difference but one huge difference, the nazis tried to hide their crimes from the world. Hamas video taped and even live streamed their atrocities over background of cheers. They didnt hide the hatred of jews, they were proud of it. This awful image that we see right here in full color have expected the entire world to condemn it, instead on streets not just the middle east but in london, new york, los angeles, almost everywhere and shockingly on almost every college campus, we watched massive demonstrations, not in sympathy for the 1500 israeli men, women and children who were butchered, instead young people are now waiving hamas flags and supporting hamas. They denounced israel for being a colonial oppressor and they side with the barbaric terrorists. When 34 student groups say we hold the Israeli Regime entirely responsible for all the unfolding violence, something has gone very wrong in our Education System not listening ago the hatred of israel in academia was confined to a few far left social list professors, from the middle east. But this upside down logic and administrator, how did we get there, what can we do to turn this around . The radical change that brought us here was slow and steady. Few people noticed it was even happening and began in 1960s, began Teaching College classes around the country. They eventually had departments and cut off any different points of view in the pipeline, colleges with people who shared their visions and opinions. If you were working on a phd in history and held cop servetive reviews or opinions that differed from the crowd, there was no job for you, then these radical ideas spread down to secondary schools. A Political Science professors at spellman college, anarchist named howard zinn wrote a book called a peoples history of the United States which he told us it was america from columbus to robert barons to vietnam that brought evil on the world. Not serious scholarship but picked up by High School Teachers who were taught by those radical professors the reason it came down to this all opinions are equally valid, well, all opinions are not equally valid, some opinions are dead wrong. So now the next generation was learning this marxist history in high school. The book sold over 2 million copies and thats very m negatie impact on this generation. Remember the name bill ayers, he was a cofounded from the Weather Underground that bombed in the 1970s. He should have gone to prison for life but the fbi botched his case, instead he went back he went back to school, ph. D and became the professor of education. He had a huge impact on the books that Elementary Students have read over the past four decades, painting the usa as a racist and evil country. There are many other with less famous names in schools, in campuses, around the country, they brought us to this present day. Our wonderful colleges that were the envy of the world, created businesses and employed millions of people have now produced students who cheer for terrorists, terrorist who is slaughter women and children an see america as evil. Over the last 50 years, colleges have taken out the weapon civilization that all have learned. We now have classes in dei, diversity, equity and inclusion in every school. Africanamerican and former dei administrator lost her job when she questioned the severe antisemitism at the center of dei. Ms. Lea writes that. Dei believe the world is divided in two groups. Oppressors and the oppressed. Jews dei claims and israel branded as colonial state. That means israelis who built a country out of nothing who created the only democracy in the middle east, who defended the homeland and countless laws and who fight for their live at the very moment are now the oppressors and dont think its only the jews that are the oppressors, everyone here in this roomev probably falls into this category, in too many colleges israel is evil. The United States is evil but the true evil of hamas is the victim, up. Is down and east is west. I should point out that there are many positive dei programs in our corporations especially sd lauder, its not just colleges where the problems lie because they are Training Ground for the rest of society. Our great newspapers have always been an essential part of our democracy keeping citizens informed but today they have in too many places their political beliefs sometimes ahead of facts. This is evident last week when a hospital in gaza was hit by a rocket. If you read the New York Times the first banner headline was that they put up israel strike kills hundreds in hospital palestinians say. That was changed to at least 500 killed on strike in gaza hospital palestinian say. Those headlines spark riots start riots around the world. We now know the truth. The hospital was not hit by israel. It was hit by hamas. It wasnt even a hospital that was hit, it was the parking lot and wasnt 500, it was partly less than 50 but most of the world will know this because of that headline. Mark h twains famous quote wasi yet and more true than before, a lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. Over a hundred years ago must realize that they are not correct and it can cause the death of jewish people because of last weeks headline synagogues were burned in 3 countries. Members of Congress Omar still continue to ferment riots based on this lie. This is no different than the old blood liable that claimed jews killed children to use their blood. We see this throughout the media today at npr, cnn, ap and reuters but the worst is the bbc. They cant even call hamas terrorists. Terrorists. Militants. How can you not call these monsters terrorists . These are the same lies that caused Harvard Students to demonstrate for hamas. Its why voters elect representatives who i believe truly hate our country and thats why we are in big trouble. Here is something all of you must remember, throughout history whatever begins with the jews never ends with the jews. We are the canaries in the mind shaft. Remember, hitler went after the jews first but when it was all over more than 60 million human beings were dead and two continents destroyed. Yes, we are the canaries in the mind shaft and lack around you. These canaries are dying. Take notice. The fact is we are living through another mccarthyism. This one from the left and aggressively attack you if you dare to question it. The newleft mccarthyism or wokism has advanced dishonest views on gender, politics, race, history and especially the core values that make the United States the beacon for the world. You must not let this mccarthyism destroy us. Liberties that took generations of americans to achieve, drew millions and leave homes and families to come to these shores and grandparents from hungary, liberties that drew all of you and all of our ancestors here as well. America and freedom of expression are all too necessary to let them just disappear in this dangerous wave of radicalism. I will not let this promise for mankind be destroyed. This is how i am fighting back. First Jewish Congress that defends jewish all over the world. Ive been with prime ministers and president s. I make them aware that we are watching everything going on in their countries for one simple reason so their jewish citizens can practice their faith in dignity and safety. I also created a foundation and opened 30 jewish schools in central and Eastern Europe where jewish communities were almost destroyed. These schools have restarted vibrant new centers of jewish life and fighting the dangerous intolerance right here at home on all americans who care about our values, freedoms and childrens future. We must be doing this for our children and grandchildren. My family is deeply involved in the university of pennsylvania so my brother and i graduated 50 years ago, we created the lauder and have given millions of dollars over year because we believe in penn and everything it stood for. Last month several of penns department had a Conference CallPalestine Writes literature of festival. Claim to focus on palestinian writers and biggest antisemitic and antiisraeli pep rally ever held at penn. One of the mainn speakers was roger waters of the rock group pink friday. The same rogers who used inflatable pig that floats above his concerts. A pig with a jewish star on it. When i point it out the penns president that this conference would tarnish penns reputation she refuse today cancel it citing freedom of speech. Remember the reason that all opinions are equally valid, i have to wonder if penn would allow a conference that denounced asians or native americans or blacks, they should not but why is it okay to say these things about jews . Why is that acceptable . Remember, its because we are the oppressors and turned out to be the worst possible time for penn. The conference went on as scheduled and bad as we fared and then just two weeks later 1500 jews were slaughtered because they were jews. Here is the part of a longer letter i wrote to pen informs president this past week. I quote, i spent the past 40 years of my life fighting antisemitism all over the world and never my wildest imagination thought i would have to fight it at my university, my alma mater and my familys alma mater. Ive been joined by other owners who will stop gifts to penn including John Huntsman who is not jewish. Hes just an honorable man. Every single university, every newspaper, every cable channel has to understand there are consequences for their actions. We can no longer be silent. The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil but by those who watch them do nothing. The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil but by those who watch them without doing anything. This is time that we ought to stand up and say this insanity is over. We all have to stand up with israel because democracy and in the frontlines of a deadly war and terror, a war that did not go away after 911. We have to fight the left wing mccarthyism of our alma mater, of our childrens schools everywhere. We have all to get up involved, we have to create a new syllabus to deprogram young people who have been brainwashed in our universities to believe that americas evil, that theres any merit to socialism or capitalism. Im well aware that heritage has been fighting this fight for over 50 years but we have to be honest, we are losing. We have to fight harder. The good news the radical left does not have more people behind them. They are just louder. We live in washington, new york and california. You might think that we are a minority but we forget theres a great Big Wonderful country out there with hardworking people, honest people who are generous and good but they dont like to get shoved around and certainly dont like to be told what to thinkd especially when its nonsense. Lets always remember what Ronald Reagan said about the city on the hill, that shining city is still there. It never went away and its still worth fighting for. The battle is as important as any great nation has ever fought lets fight it for our children and grandchildren. Its also about america at 247. We all have to work very hard to make sure that both countries flowish for many more years to come. Together i know we will do this. May god bless the United States, may god bless israel and god bless all of you. God bless you. Thank you. [applause] thank you. One thing i can always say about the Heritage Community we are ready and able to get into the fight. 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