“The people who criticize the anti-Semitism on our campus are not wrong,” New York Governor Kathy Hochul, D., said in an interview with NY1’s “Inside City Hall” on Monday.
Host Errol Louis asked, [relevant exchange begins around 15:40] “What’s your reaction to an administration that threatens to withdraw federal funds from Columbia University? That appears to be expanding, but now includes other New York Ivys.
Hochul said, “It’s absolutely sleazy and threatening educational institutions because you don’t teach them how to want. Now those who criticize the anti-Semitism on our campus are not wrong, especially in a shocking way. Social media content that we should kill all the Jewish students. How are these kids expected to learn and just socialize and have a normal college life when they’re being threatened like that? So, we have to continue focusing on that, rights of speech, right to protest, yes. I was a protestor. … But it wasn’t Against other students. … But it was never hurtful to other students. And that’s what we’re seeing too much of. But that being said, — but to take away and threaten schools’ funding, which is used These institutions are also labs, particularly in the medical field.”
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