Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani visited Columbia University and criticized protesters who called for President Minoush Shafiq to resign over his handling of the crisis.
“I think they’re terribly misguided people,” Giuliani, 79, said. on his WABC show in 1977..
He also shared footage online of himself sitting in the passenger seat of a car that crawled down a busy street near Columbia University’s Morningside Heights campus.
Mr. Giuliani, wearing a shirt with an American flag printed on it and a Yankees cap, was seen walking past protesters holding placards and attempting to speak with members of the media as they approached an open window. Ta.
The reporters were shoved by NYPD area officers, with Mr. Giuliani mockingly saying the reporters must be “dishonest people.” [Mayor Eric] Adams. ”
The former “America’s Mayor” summed up the visit on Tuesday night’s broadcast, asking listeners, “Who hates Jews more, Harvard or Columbia?”
“[Columbia has] “I guess they thought, in order to beat Harvard at something, they had to beat Harvard at Jewish hatred,” Giuliani said of Gaza Solidarity, which effectively shut down the Morningside Heights campus. He scoffed, referring to the encampment.
Follow The Post’s coverage of anti-Israel protests at Columbia University.
Mr. Giuliani also called Mr. Shafiq a “hateful person” and even played what appeared to be decades-old footage of the economist discussing terrorism in the Middle East.
“She ended up being fired by Major League Baseball,” he said of Shafik’s controversial testimony before Congress last Wednesday about campus anti-Semitism.
Shafiq has faced criticism and calls for her resignation from both sides of the issue, particularly following her decision Thursday to allow the NYPD to enter the campus where 108 protesters were arrested for encampment. ing.
Giuliani noted on Tuesday’s radio show that he has historically supported Americans’ right to protest, and even more bizarrely, the Ku Klux Klan once protested their First Amendment rights in New York City. He even boasted that he had given permission to use it.
Still, he said of the campus protests, “I’ve never seen anything this bad during my time as mayor.”
