The most important point of what Ted Cruz says in this video is not that antisemitism is running rampant on college campuses. It is not that Columbia is specifically the worst place for a Jew to be safe in the land of Ivy League colleges. His main point is that the leadership of the Democrat Party did nothing in the face of what was transpiring all across America. The Democrat Party did not see it fitting for it to take a strong stand on this matter.
🚨"The Democratic party has decided that the pro-Hamas wing of the party is more important than protecting Jewish students in America"@SenTedcruz rips into the Democratic Party and Columbia over inaction over campus antisemitism.
— Jewish News Syndicate (@JNS_org) March 9, 2025
(Video Source: Forbes, edited for length) pic.twitter.com/mvTBHfblBc
One of the most welcome developments of the 2nd term of Donald Trump has been his pro-active willingness to engage Colleges and Universities who are harboring terrorist-supporting students who are abusing what they wrongly see as the legitimate use of freedom of speech. These students, many of whom are on tourist visas, don’t just have enormous chutzpah. They are breaking the law and should be sent packing.
The point of a nice garden lawn on a college campus is not to create safe spaces for demonstrations that threaten other students. Freedom of speech has limits too. But the leadership of the colleges felt that they must kowtow to the pressure of the students for several reasons. First off, the last thing a University wants to be known for is for clamping down on demonstrators as was done in Kent State during the Vietnam War. More than 50 years later, Kent State still is known for the tragedy that took place there.
But Columbia, more than other Ivy League University, will probably be remembered for the havoc that they allowed to occur on their campus. They have already lost many top and middle tier donors. But when federal funding starts to be cut off too, then they realized that they have to start changing their tune.
But in fairness, the leadership of the colleges are stuck between a rock and a hard place. The vast majority of the professors in most of these colleges are very progressive and anti-Israel. This has been the case for decades. It will not change in a matter of a year or two due to cuts in federal funding. But what will happen is a rethinking of the limits of free speech and allowing of riots and havoc on the campuses.