Harvard graduate Shabbos Kestenbaum says antisemitism isn’t protected by free speech, citing personal experiences on and off campus.
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00:00What I do characterize as anti-Semitic is when a staff member at Harvard University challenged me to debate him in a secluded underpass as to whether Jews orchestrated 9-11,
00:09then posted a video of him waving a machete with a picture of my face saying he's coming after me and is coming after more than blood.
00:15You know what's anti-Semitic? Drawing swastikas on the posters of Jewish hostages like Kfir Bibas, who's a nine-month-old baby, and writing,
00:22his head is still on, where is the evidence? You know what's anti-Semitic? Following Jews like myself on my way to class during the encampments and recording us.
00:30All of those things are anti-Semitic, and it has literally nothing to do with speech.
00:34I never once made the point that free speech and exercising your First Amendment rights is anti-Semitic.
00:39This has nothing to do with speech, and it has everything to do with criminality and discrimination.
00:44And in the same way, the federal government withheld funds from racist schools that refused to integrate in the 1950s.
00:49In the same way the Obama administration tried rescinding and withholding funds from schools that he deemed transphobic or sexist,
00:57so too we should rescind funds and withhold federal funding from any institution that does not follow the law
01:03and its federal mandates under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act.
01:05It has nothing to do with speech, and all your listeners can Google exactly what the Intifada was.
01:09It was the murder of Jews indiscriminately.