Morning Joe Crew Call Out Pro-Palestine Columbia Protests: ‘Anti-Israel Is a Misnomer Because It’s Really Anti-Jew’
After pro-Palestine protests at Columbia University hit a fever pitch, classes switched to being held virtually out of safety concerns for Jewish students. On MSNBC’s Morning Joe, the panelists decried some of the protestors for being blatantly “anti-Jew.”
Contributors Donny Deutsch and Rev. Al Sharpton both called out extreme factions who had infiltrated the more peaceful protestors. But Deutsch wanted to “say the quiet part out loud,” referring to the voices who were openly calling for violence against Jews:
It’s sad. We’re in 2024, and on the Upper West Side of New York City, Jews are told by their rabbi, or suggested, that they should leave because it’s unsafe. And these are not protesters. These are violent hatemongers. The things that are coming out of their mouth, “Burn down Tel Aviv,” “Tel Aviv genocide,” “October 7th — we did it once, we’ll do it ten times, we’ll do it 100 times, we’ll do it a thousand times, we’ll do it 10,000 times.” This is an atrocity.
And I’m going to say the quiet part out loud. If there was any group spewing hate and violence against any other group — Asians, Blacks, Hispanics, gays — it would be shut down. And this needs to be shut down immediately because, and once again, those groups are back, those tents are back up. And this cannot go unanswered. It’s very simple. And, you know, there’s a continuum of protesters. There’s heinous, anti-violent ones that [are] spewing hatred, spewing death if you will. And then there’s the less malignant that say “ceasefire.” But even “ceasefire” doesn’t have the word “peace” in it. Never do you hear the word “peace” because this site doesn’t want peace. It wants a jihad. And this is not pro-Palestinian, this is anti-Israel, and anti-Israel is a misnomer because it’s really anti-Jew. And it makes me sick and it’s terrifying.
Sharpton agreed with Deutsch:
You know, I think that, and I have people that are members of National Action Network that go to Columbia… the problem that we’ve seen in a lot of movements where people infiltrate come from outside, where there’s a legitimate concern about humanitarian aid to Gaza and a legitimate stand for a two-state solution that others come in with “kill Israel, kill Jews,” … And we’ve had that in various movements that we’ve been connected. And I’ve learned, which is why I had to sever some ties and start National Action Network. You got to denounce that. The people there that are legitimately protesting or start protesting nonviolently, concerned about Gaza, should say “We’re not part of that.” Because they’re being used by people that don’t want to see something happen for the people in Gaza. They use them as props for their own ways and to come with hate, anti-Semitism, to denounce people because of their Jewish faith, to denounce students because on campus is Jewish, is just as bad as if you did it if they were Black or if they were Palestinian. You cannot have a convenient moral code. You either have to stand for morality for everybody or nobody.
Watch the video above via MSNBC.
