Marc Lamont Hill
Defends Columbia U. Protesters …
Antisemitism ‘Not Norm’
TMZ.com
Professor and activist Marc Lamont Hill is weighing in on the pro-Palestine protests on the Columbia campus, saying latest antisemitic acts are the work of some dangerous apples, and never nearly all of college students.
We obtained the previous CNN commentator and present CUNY professor Tuesday on “TMZ Reside,” the place he shared his observations from the demonstrations … which have led to a whole lot of scholar arrests, but in addition numerous others feeling unsafe.
In accordance with Marc — who’s a former Columbia professor — a lot of the protests he is noticed have been peaceable, with college students merely talking out towards Israel’s actions in its battle with Hamas.
Nonetheless, many Jewish college students and school have been threatened — some have even been barred from campus for his or her security — and Marc was fast to slam any hateful rhetoric from protestors as “deplorable.”
Whereas he staunchly helps the scholars’ proper to protest, he factors out free speech doesn’t suggest they will create a campus local weather the place others really feel scared.
He does emphasize this is not the norm on campus, not in his expertise — however, nonetheless, Columbia has moved to digital studying as a result of rising security issues amid the anti-Israel protests.
That being mentioned, Marc insists a lot of the college students are there in hopes of ending the battle, and usually are not calling for extra Hamas terrorist acts like Oct. seventh — as some protesters have shockingly executed.
