her to step down. gillian: cb i know you ve been interviewing students and administrators and faculty over the next couple of days while you ve been there on site, i am curious if you have asked any students, jewish or otherwise, who feel offended. who feel their security is threatened who feel they are no longer welcome on campus, have they thought about leaving the school either temporarily or permanently? have they talk to you about that at all? yes, they have. i spoke with one jewish student whose name is katie, she did not want to share her last name out of fear of retaliation for her own safety and she told me and i thought this was pretty telling she said if she were not a senior here at columbia university she would try to transfer because she no longer feel safe on this. says her and her peers don t
because we cannot continue as a nation to go forward like this. gillian: nicole, this is gillian, the president of the university may have a message today by calling in the nypd but is there more she could have done and is there more the university administrators could have done to prevent us from getting or to prevent their school from getting to the point where we are today where you have dozens of protesters getting rounded up by police? you have this protester presents shutting down part of manhattan and you have thousands of jewish students now talking about how they feel not only unwelcome to but physically threatened on their own campus. i mean these students are living in fear. how could they not be in fear? look what is happening. this is 2024. what happened to the we are supposed to love one another and accept shutter as they are and we are all going to embrace one another, that is not with these demonstrators are showing.
president calls in those cops. now they are trying to get her ousted, but for the opposite reason may be you think. they are thinking she wants to crack down on anti-semitism you get a of the campus. this wild concept of going to class the last two days and not focusing on the palestinian cause which is suddenly being financed and organized by groups that need to be investigated. but now this school going to be known forever as the pro-palestinian pro-hamas school. have to ask you it may look good on your resume to have an ivy league education but does anyone reach in and say i think i ll put that columbia kid first front and center on my organization? when they don t even have the discipline show up in class and protest against our number one ally in the world which is israel? showing intelligence, intolerance to their religion the jewish religion? they are showing up and number
one have they been radicalized? who are they? number trico is are they here on a student visa? if they are that upset with our country like ilhan omar s daughter evidently is that they want to protest because they seem to think we are on the wrong side of a nation we have been best friends with for 70 years. by the way, as you know, her name ursa hersy she was suspended from barnard university from her tweets and she seems to be very proud of it. her mom yesterday and her testimony tried to get the columbia school president to say is it true there is intolerance towards muslims and the answer is no, it is not true and that has not been demonstrated. can you imagine if this protest was against islam or muslims? or anybody else right now? but we are supposed do these students feel totally comfortable protesting against jews in america and against israel. okay, he is coming.