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Stewart on Columbia: Trump Doesn't 'Give a F*** About Free Speech'

March 25th, 2025 9:55 AM

Columbia University’s own task force investigating anti-Semitism issued a 90-page report chronicling how threats and harassment towards Jewish students have increased since October 7 and how the school failed to respond appropriately. However, Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart alleged on Monday’s edition of The Daily Show that the Trump Administration’s demands to Columbia proved they “don…

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Burnett Plays Dumb On Latest Anti-Semitic Student To Face Deportation

March 22nd, 2025 2:00 PM

Cornell grad student Momodou Taal is the latest example of the Trump Administration revoking student visas in light of the holder’s anti-Semitism and anti-Americanism. CNN OutFront host Erin Burnett played dumb on Friday as she claimed that for the administration, anti-Semitism is merely a justification to go after pro-Palestinian protestors.

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AGAIN: Critics Avoid Antisemitism Documentary ‘October 8’

March 22nd, 2025 1:30 PM

It’s charitable to call the chilly reaction to “Screams Before Silence” a fluke.

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NBC: Trump Demanding Columbia Fix Anti-Semitism Might Be 'Extortion'

March 22nd, 2025 11:50 AM

Columbia University accepted the Trump Administration’s list of demands meant to clean up its anti-Semitism problem on Friday, but NBC correspondent Antonia Hylton warned on Nightly News that Trump’s eminently reasonable demands could be viewed as “extortion.”

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'Democracy Is Teetering': Brooks, Capehart Decry 'Extortionist' Trump

March 22nd, 2025 9:53 AM

The weekly gathering of Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart and New York Times columnist David Brooks on PBS News Hour was extra animated this Friday as the duo decried DOGE’s “cruelty,” claimed “democracy is teetering,” and labeled President Trump an “extortionist.”

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Oliver Claims If Hamas Supporter Says He Isn't Anti-Semitic, He Isn't

March 18th, 2025 12:02 PM

HBO’s John Oliver thinks Republicans are racists, and the fact that Republicans would vehemently reject the label doesn’t matter to him. However, on Sunday’s Last Week Tonight, Oliver tried to claim that former Columbia University student and pro-Hamas protest leader Mahmoud Khalil isn’t anti-Semitic because Khalil claims he’s not and therefore the efforts to deport him are an attempt…

Yes, Non-Citizen Terror Supporters Should Leave

March 16th, 2025 10:47 PM

It should go without saying, but America does not need more Hamas sympathizers. Yet this simple truth seems to confound a wide variety of commentators across the political spectrum. This week, the White House announced that Immigration and Customs Enforcement would be deporting an apparently green card-holding Columbia University graduate student named Mahmoud Khalil. Khalil came to the United…

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Stein Tries To Claim Conservatives Are Hypocrites On College Speech

March 15th, 2025 2:00 PM

MSNBC’s Sam Stein traveled over to HBO and Real Time with Bill Maher on Friday to express his disappointment in conservatives for not defending Mahmoud Khalil as he faces deportation for his role in pro-Hamas demonstrations at Columbia University. As Stein tells it, people who made such a big deal about cancel culture on campus need to stand up and claim, “This is chilling.”

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NBC: Visa Overstayer Arrest a 'Pro-Palestinian Protests' 'Crackdown'

March 15th, 2025 11:50 AM

The three broadcast networks of ABC, NBC, and CBS took different approaches to the news that more Columbia University students have been arrested, but none of them were good. NBC portrayed visa enforcement as a “crackdown on pro-Palestinian protests,” while CBS ignored the reason for the arrest, and ABC ignored her previous protest-related arrest and, like the others, that this is not the…

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Barron-Lopez: If Trump Deports Hamas Supporter, He Can Deport Anyone

March 14th, 2025 1:47 PM

PBS News Hour White House correspondent Laura Barron-Lopez tried to claim on Thursday that if the Trump Administration is able to successfully deport pro-Hamas Columbia University student protest leader Mahmoud Khalil, it can deport any legal immigrant simply for disagreeing with them.

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Meyers, Colbert: 'Naked Authoritarianism' To Deport Pro-Hamas Student

March 13th, 2025 9:53 AM

NBC’s Late Night and CBS’s The Late Show hosts Seth Meyers and Stephen Colbert were greatly displeased on their Wednesday shows that the Trump Administration is seeking to deport pro-Hamas Columbia University protest leader Mahmoud Khalil. As they tell it, Khalil is not the leader of an illegal protest movement that occupied school property and distributed pro-terrorist…

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PBS Falsely Says There's No Evidence Arrested Student Is Pro-Hamas

March 11th, 2025 12:18 PM

As Columbia student Mahmoud Khalil faces deportation for his part in pro-Hamas, anti-Semitic protests, PBS News Hour would have its viewers believe that he is just a victim of a presidential administration that doesn’t like having its opinions challenged. On Monday’s episode, William Brangham falsely claimed there’s no proof to support the allegations against him.

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PBS Plays Dumb on Why Power-Mad Trump Is Punishing Columbia University

March 9th, 2025 4:12 PM

Bias by omission on the PBS weekly news roundtable Washington Week with The Atlantic, as the panel of journalists played dumb about why Trump would cancel federal grant money from Columbia University, describing it as a typical Trumpian power grab. Never mind months of anti-Semitic campouts last year and the harassment of Jewish students and the chanting of homicidal slogans in the…

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Colbert, Buttigieg Fear For 'Soul of our Nation' After Trump Speech

March 5th, 2025 10:10 AM

CBS’s Stephen Colbert stayed up for a live show on what turned out to be Wednesday morning after President Donald Trump’s address to Congress. Colbert spent his monologue praising Rep. Al Green for getting kicked out of the House chamber and attacking Trump on everything from transgender issues to shipbuilding. Later, he would welcome former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg to wonder, “…