Former Obama adviser Robert Wolf warns free speech is becoming 'threatening speech'

Let’s bring in Karl Rove, former White House deputy chief of staff under President George W Bush, Paul Morrow, former NYPD inspector, and Robert Wolf, former Obama adviser, all are Fox News contributors. You know, this is the kind of scene that I think we are used to seeing at times, these outbursts in the Middle East. But now we’re seeing them here almost every day in the US And. And I’m thinking, Carl, as someone who advised a president, what, what role do you think President Biden should take in in all of this? Well, at some point he needs to speak out with moral clarity about the the, the statements like we are all Hamas, We are not for terrorism. We do not support the brutal killing of innocence as we’ve seen starting on October 7th. And he also ought to stand up, frankly, for the leadership of the university that is now going to get rid of some of these kids, some of these students, because they violated the speech code of Columbia University. And good for them for doing that, for for expelling these students and making the consequences. People have a right to free speech. Even if you want to defend a terrorist, and even if you want to, even if you want to call for the genocide of the Jewish people, you’re you’re entitled to to do that. But universities also have a right to have free speech codes that say if you want to come in and demonstrate and disrupt campus activities and shut down the university, that’s not acceptable. And hate speech, as we’re seeing played out in the streets of New York City, is not acceptable. And there’ll be consequences for violating that code. Yeah, I mean, you think about the low bar we’ve seen for hate speech, but this is maybe just beginning to register as such. And we didn’t get here overnight. Let’s look at some of the comments by professors at Columbia University who are teaching some of these students. No doubt this is Joseph Mossad after October 7th said it was a stunning victory for the Palestinian resistance. He called it awesome. He talked about the in flight of the para, the people in the gliders coming into the Supernova musical concert. Just put your mind back there for a moment to the scene at that concert and the carnage that played out on the ground. He called that stunning Hamid Dabashi, every dirty, treacherous, ugly and pernicious happening in the world. Just wait a few days and the ugly name Israel will pop up. And then Muhammad Abdu also teaches at Columbia. I’m with Hamas and Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad. Robert, what do you, what do you think about how we got here and what these professors have been obviously teaching a lot of these students? Well, these tenured professors should be fired for ’cause I’m not a lawyer, but my guess is that’s what these universities are looking at, because that’s the only reason they’re being not terminated at this point. I think to Carl’s point, we’ve moved from free speech to hate speech, and then hate speech to violent speech and violent speech to threatening speech, and we pass the line of what’s legal. And most of these universities are private universities. They can set a lot of their own rules. Listen, I’m not a supporter of BDS, but when they had boycott, divest and sanction, you know, Israel on kind of being an apartheid state by some people’s views, that’s fine. It’s free speech that’s moved past that after October 7th. And we we know right from wrong and we’re seeing it live with you and that’s wrong. Well, there’s a lot of questions about what students are taught, how much they actually know before they go out and and start saying these things. And. And it’s interesting to look back to Dwight Eisenhower, who was also the president at Columbia University in between World War 2 and when he became president. And one of the things that that he talked about, you know, he wanted to make sure that people remembered what had happened there. And he invited the media to come document the scene when he just when he was shown the concentration camps in in Europe. And he compelled Germans who were living in the surrounding towns and any soldier who was not fighting at the front to witness the atrocities for themselves. Because he wanted to make sure this is the Holocaust Museum. Noting this in a piece by Carrie Byrne in today’s New York. In today’s Fox News, Eisenhower foresaw a day when the horrors of the Holocaust might be denied. That day is here right now, Kerry Byrne writes on the campus of Columbia University. And there is Eisenhower and the others walking by burned bodies at the concentration camp, in order of Paul. Your thoughts on that, somewhat reminiscent of some of the footage and details that the Israeli government released recently, invited journalists to come see. Right. Just let people see what this stuff looks like up close. What’s going on here on the campuses and certainly here in New York City is that Palestinian cause has done a little bit of a deft maneuver. They’ve made common cause with a lot of the progressive groups that are very active here in New York City. And they have married their struggle to the struggle of, let’s say some of the more marginalized groups here in the city of those who see themselves as marginalized. It actually goes back to the 1960s, even the Black Panther movement, they became a common sort of entity. And So what that does is that invokes all of the groups are over 1000 quote, UN quote, civil rights groups that are active in New York City. You get all of that when you start protests like this. They don’t want to be on camera, they don’t want to go on social media. This is their social life. And so you’re going to continue to see this. The NYPD is very adept at it. They have a very good Intelligence Bureau to get out ahead of it. They were, I’m sure we’re aware of this. That’s why it was significantly not more riotous, let’s say. But it’s going to continue and as we get into the protest season, kids are coming out of school. It’s going to be summer, it’s going to be hot. We have the DNC coming up in Chicago. This is going to be a theme for the year. Expect to continue to see this kind of thing. The universities, I see a little push the back there, trying to finally sort of get their arms around it. That’s interesting, ’cause you got Google firing 28 people who protested inside their office building, saying that they were preventing them from going to work and doing their job. But but Carl, you know, and and that the irony of the banding with civil rights groups and Hamas is rich. Let’s listen a little bit of what’s going on here. Live for a second. Oh God, get out the way Paul. Your reaction is you watch these law enforcement officers being called NYPDKKK. Yeah, I’ve had that thrown at me. So, you know, look, this is the way they see it. It’s all some struggle against the oppressor. And as I said, they’ve, they’ve managed managed to put forth that narrative. And this was a result of getting a lot of people coming to them. What I think some of them don’t realize is that under American law, Hamas is a designated terrorist entity, all right, both by Treasury and the state. Legally, that’s the equivalent of saying we are supporters of Al Qaeda or ISIS. Wanted to think, well, we saw some of that online this year. Didn’t Hezbollah? Oh, I read the letter by bin Laden and I think it was a good, I mean it. And I just think it goes back, Carl, to the issue of education and understanding what’s going on here. And and I also wonder how, as I asked you before, how President Biden deals with this situation because it could have an impact on his vote in places like Michigan. Can you imagine what’s good the Democratic National Convention in Chicago is going to look like? In 1968, ten thousand demonstrators were in Grant Park protesting the war. Are we going to see 10,000 people from Minneapolis and Dearborn showing up to protest the Middle East? I bet you we will. And look, let’s step back for just a second. This is not new. We had the radicals of the 60s and they they infiltrated the academia became university professors and so forth. And now their sons and daughters are teaching at these universities. And we’re seeing people like the three that you put up there who are expressing hatred towards the Jewish people and the state of Israel and and cleat and complete antipathy to what it is to be an American. I mean this woman who said and it’s a lunacy. The woman saying the New York Police Department is the Klu Klux Klan of the of the South. I mean, please. One of the things that was yelled at the Jewish people with Jewish with Israel flags that went by his baby killer and they’re protesting basically Benjamin Netanyahu’s action in Gaza and they see that as the long arm of America. Look, Israel has a right to to self-defense. Israel has a right to exist. Israel has a right to protect itself. And if Hamas puts itself in the middle of civilian populations in in Gaza in order to use them as human Shields, the the person acting corruptly is Hamas. And and they did this deliberately. And the fact that these people are out there blaming Israel for what Hamas did is just a sign of the lunacy that has taken over the left in America.