‘You Didn’t Let Me Finish My Point!’ CNN Panel Heats Up Over Campus Protests, Antisemitism

A CNN This Morning panel got heated during a discussion on escalating pro-Palestinian protests on college campuses.

More than 100 students, including the daughter of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), were detained by police during a Columbia University protest that includes an encampment the school warned students multiple times to dismantle . The Anti-Defamation League said they’ve seen a surge in antisemitism reports amid the ongoing protests.

The White House previously condemned antisemitism displayed at the campus protests.

On Tuesday, commentator Jonah Goldberg found himself cut off as he singled out activists who have been spreading messages of support to Hamas, the terror group that attacked Israel on Oct. 7, killing more than 1,000 and kidnapping hundreds more. Israel’s strikes against Gaza in an effort to eliminate Hamas have in turn led to thousands of civilian deaths.

“I think the antisemitism stuff, particularly Passover, is a big issue, legitimate issue to talk about. It’s a serious issue, and I think there’s a lot of antisemitic stuff going on out there. But when you’re saying you’re Hamas, when you’re praising Hamas, when you’re praising Hezbollah, when you’re saying you’re gonna globalize the intifada —” Goldberg said before fellow commentator Lulu Garcia-Navarro jumped in.

“Excuse me, I’m so sorry. I’m, no, I’m sorry,” Garcia-Navarro said to a surprised Goldberg, who insisted who wrap up his point.

“I’m going to finish my point, it means you’re pro-terrorist,” he said.

Garcia-Navarro claimed some quotes out of protests are not from the demonstrators themselves.

“They are selective quotes that are being taken off and not from students themselves in the encampments in Columbia that they have said this. There are Jewish students who are actually part of this, and they are being used to —” she said before Goldberg tried to jump back in.

Garcia-Navarro did not let him.

“You didn’t let me finish my point, but go ahead,” he said.

Garcia-Navarro went on to criticize calls for police involvement on college campuses.

“Hold on,” CNN This Morning anchor Kasie Hunt said. “If there are, if the people in those encampments — whether they’re the Columbia students or not — if the university can clear them from that encampment, then that is something the university can do.”

Goldberg finally jumped back in to note he’s faced plenty of backlash for calling out antisemitism on the right, and he argued he sees far less of it from the left.

“I question the wisdom of having a double standard that says it’s okay to shout hateful terror, pro-terrorist things at Jews, but you can’t, you have to have —” he said as Garcia-Navarro jumped in.

“No one is endorsing that,” she said.

“A lot of people are endorsing that,” a shocked Goldberg said.

“No one here,” Garcia-Navarro said.

Goldberg called for more condemnations from “Squad-adjacent” Democrats.

“I’ve spent, I got a lot of scars from calling out horrible standbys on the right over the last ten years. I call out antisemitism and bigotry all the time on the right,” he said. “I don’t hear a lot of that from sort of Squad-adjacent type people calling out this stuff on the left.”

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