A trojan horse, perhaps, ill Michael Smerconish in philadelphia this week, the university of southern california, where nearly 100 arrests have been made him, its protests since the university canceled its muslim valedictorian speaker announced it was now canceling its main stage Commencement Ceremony next month they cited insufficient time to carry out, quote, new Safety Measures its the latest most highprofile ramification of the surge of propalestinian protests disrupting campuses all across america students saying they have a right to free speech. Jewish students saying that speeches often antisemitic so what is the current reaction or protesters, the modern day greeks who use the deceptive tactic to enter the campus and defeat the trojans. May, im sympathetic to the University President s and administrators who now have to engage in a difficult balancing act. Campuses have become the Staging Ground for americas growing divide over supporting israel as It Retaliates for hamass october 7 attacks hundreds were arrested at propalestinian protests and encampments at several major us universities around the country. Friday Columbia University announced that it had banned the student leading the universitys propalestinian protests a Student Spokesperson for columbia as Apartheid Divest Coalition acknowledged that in a past, instagram video, he had said, quote, zionists, dont deserve to live. Meanwhile, the movement is also proliferating two campuses around the globe from paris to rome, to england, to australia several american schools suspended classes or move them online and some campuses shut down completely but i say campuses shouldnt close, nor should they permit tense. Tense arent speech tensor trespassing they need to balance those interests, the interests of those who want a protest without hate speech or otherwise citing violence. And within the rules established by these private universities, balanced those interests while ensuring that the University Community at large can carry on its functioning for example, here in philadelphia at the university of pennsylvania, the interim president issued a letter to the Pen Community on friday night demanding the propalestinian protesters on campus disband. Theyre gaza solidarity encampment immediately because of alleged legal and University Policy violations, adding that antisemitic graffiti on the statue in front of college hall. Will be investigated as a hate crime this morning, 6 00 a. M. I went to the penn campus. I wanted to see for myself, its my alma mater for law school. Nobody seemed awake as i walked around the encampment, had they been i wanted to ask somebody how many of you our students im most sympathetic to the students, especially the seniors, who right now should be enjoying the last month of class and camaraderie. But are instead fearful, forced to study remotely and now denied the pomp and circumstance that theyve earned and keep this in mind. Any member of the College Class of 2024 was likely a High School Graduate in the spring of 2020. Back then, there were no traditional Commencement Exercises on account of covid. So first an act of god and now an act of cowardice is robbing them of graduation at usc the Administration First capitulated to complaints about the controversial views of its valedictorian, and then compounded its error by canceling other main stage commencement speakers, including director jon chu, and tennis legend Billie Jean King before canceling the main commencement altogether im also suspect as to whether this is completely organic. This week on cnn, i saw an interview with a selfdescribed 66 yearold gentleman who was drawn to the campus this is a good data, go to jail as Martin Luther king said, i cant believe theyre going to start locking up senior citizens. Im 66 its somebody id had to come and support these young people theyre not alone thats what im here. How many more of the protesters are not active students consider this in its spring 2024 survey of voters aged 18 to 29, the Harvard KennedySchool Institute of politics found that the israelhamas conflict rank way down on the list of issues of primary concern to young voters. The top five most important to this age group, inflation health care, housing, gun violence, and jobs israel, palestine rank 15 out of 16, by the way, it beat out just student debt i dont underestimate this of the situation in gaza, especially where famine is a real risk. Netanyahu seems intent on moving into rafah an nbc is now reporting that an investigation into seven deadly airstrikes is found that palestinians were killed in areas of southern gaza, that the Israeli Military had explicitly designated as safe zones. Still, its curious that there was no similar Campus Activism on abortion rights. The russian invasion of ukraine, or threats to democracy. Even if the Current Situation is the result of Astro Turfing those protesting have a right to be heard but not a right to interrupt an overtake. The ability of their classmates to complete their term and don their cap and gown. My next Guest Teachers at one of the campuses affected by the tunnel at New York University where protests, including intimidating chants and several antisemitic incidents, nyu called in the nypd for help. Scott galloway joins me now hes a professor of marketing at Nyu Stern School of business, host of the professor g and pivot podcasts and author of multiple bestselling books, his newest already a bestseller, its terrific. Ive read it. The algebra of wealth, a simple formula for financial security. Scott, ill ask you about the book moment but first, should usc have canceled its main graduation i get to be with you, michael. Yeah. Logistically, i think they they have to ensure the safety and it felt like things were getting kind of spinning Out Of Control. So i empathize with university leadership. Its trying to thread the needle between free speech while at the same time maintaining a safe environment for its students. I would argue though, that the balance is a bit skewed. I think universities have slowly but surely decided that theyre more from centers of excellence to institutions that create a political orthodoxy or are charged with Social Engineering and what you have here in my opinion is a bit of a double standard, michael, i think the vast majority of the protests are peaceful protests. Their 19 they i cut a wide berth for young people in their rights to say things but the analogy i use michaels if i went down to the plaza at nyu in a white hood and started saying dylan roof, did gentlemen the young man who killed seven people at a Black Church In Charleston and i started saying globalize. Dylan and held up a sign that said lynch, the blacks, for example, or some sort of hate speech like that. I dont think therell be a lot of nuance or context needed. I think i would never work in academia again. And if i started inciting the type of behavior where there was harassment of any special Interest Group . I believe that if it got Out Of Control that the way it has in some of these campuses, i think theyd column the national guard. And i think what a lot of jews are concerned with is that it seems like free speech has never freire when its hate speech directed at jews so i would argue that Campus Leadership has aired on the side id have quite frankly being a little too lenient. To individuals who, for whatever reason correctly or incorrectly, it devolves into emotion that makes people feel unsafe at the bottom line is michael a lot of us just dont understand that. A young jewish girl leaving the library to go get a manicure is somehow their mortal enemy. I think, i think young people, quite frankly, our pick the wrong enemy here. And its just gotten a little bit Out Of Control. So. You heard or perhaps you watch the film footage that we showed the map of the country where the growth of these protests has now exploded across the us and perhaps worldwide. What accounts for it . And do you believe it to be completely organic . Well theres some strange things i want to the nyu protests 40, 40 of the tents for the same tense at columbia. So theres something very coordinated going going on. I think its a variety of few things. One i think that a lot of students incorrectly in my view, conflate whats going on in gaza with the civil rights movement. Two, we have not done a great job are we in colleges have created the oppressor and oppressed orthodoxy. And the easiest way to identify and oppressor in the minds of many of these young people is how white and how rich you are in ground zero correctly or incorrectly for whiteness. And richness, israel and jews also just to be fair, israel has not draped itself and glory netanyahu, it struck some deals with the farright, including very bigoted members of the knesset over settlements. Weve gone weve seen israel go from the david to the goliath. So the atmospherics are not good here. And then finally, i think theres Something Bigger going on, michael, i think that you have young people who are enraged by the lack of opportunity that theyre presented with. I think that protesting is the new, if you will, sex young people arent having as much sex and how ridiculous sounds. But for the species to survive, you have to have young people connecting in terms of romantic opportunities and also for the species to survive. You gotta dopa hit from gathering together in fighting off or perceived enemy. And i think theyre erring on the ladder if you will. I think theyre on the hunt for what id call a fake mortal enemy. The reality is if you type in to google antisemitism and pick any century in the last 3,000 years, youre going to find multiple instances where the world decides the jews are the mortal enemy. And then finally, and i know this sounds paranoid, but it does mean im wrong. The frame through which they view the world is oftentimes are predominantly tiktok and on tiktok michael, there are 52 pro hamas videos for every one pro israel video. So the frame through which they see the world is, in my opinion, being influenced a so division and chaos within america and divide young from old, 80 of people all right, support israel its 20 of people under the age of 25. Somethings going on here in the new book, you have a lot of advice for americans of all ages, but particularly the youth and among the things that you advise, you turn on its head the time honored advice of follow your passion. Give me the short version of that anyone who follows tells you to follow your passion is already rich and made their billions and iron ore smelting your job is to find your talent, something you could become a ninja like master of mastery will give you economic no security, camaraderie, relevance a larger Selection Set of mason you deserve and whatever enables you to do these things, you will become passionate about that thing. No tax slur, dreams, no child dreams of becoming a tax lawyer. But the best tax larrys fly private and i really nice lives. So your job is defined, your talent and ideally in an industry that has a 90 plus percent employment rate, a lot of young people mistake hobbies for their passion. And if youve, we want to be an actor, an athlete, a model just recognize open a restaurant, a nightclub. Just recognize if you dont get strong green signals, a urine, the 0. 1 then find something else. There are 180,000 actors and sag after union at of them last year didnt qualify for Health Insurance because they didnt make 23,000. Your job is to find your talent in an industry with a 90 plus percent employment rate, which by the way is about 98 of industries. And what i can promise you is that you will become very passionate about the ability to take care of your kids with an absence of stretched. Its stressed to take care of your parents to do Wonderful Fund things that a capitalist society provides. Be passionate about Economic Security the book is titled the algebra of wealth, hey scott, stay there. Im going to put on the screen Social Media Reaction to our conversation. And ill lean on you to respond. Smerconish, no, arrest them, and let the rest of the student body continue like normal. I dont know what theyre disagreeing. I said clear the tents. I dont think they have a right to set up encampments, by the way. I think i saw a couple of orvis and ll bean tents on the penn campus this morning at six . Not that theres anything wrong with it. Ive got one myself. What do you think they should be doing specifically, scott relative to those sleeping out overnight on College Campuses . I mean, i got you gotta empathize with them. I think other than the mega Trump Defense attorney, the worst job in the worldwide now has to be a campus administrator. President lyndon mills, i think an animal you got it right . You have a right to protest. But if you put up a camp, youre trespassing anything resembling hate speech will break up. The mean, the protest, but also, weve got to drop sharp relief between 19 yearold who has the right michael. Thank god, we didnt have cameras following mess around when were 19, i think weve cut a wide berth. Are 19 old students who were not focused enough on and quite frankly, i think deserve different treatment are the faculty demonstrating and and quite frankly, if you join an organization that is paying you and you dont have the Critical Thinking not to support the Islamic Republic and a murderous autocracy that would summarily kill most of our students, whether they were gay or christian. Then we screwed up. Is your colleagues and you should not be working at a university. You should go exercise your rights to freeze beach somewhere else and you should be quite frankly, i think these Faculty Members should be summarily fired ill see you on radio monday. Thank you, scott thank you, michael. Good to be with you. You do. I want to know what you think go to my website. Its were cottage. 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