Constitutional law expert Alan Dershowitz told Newsmax on Friday that the new clash between the Trump administration and Harvard will eventually be won by President Trump, calling the atmosphere at the Ivy League and other universities an "ethnic bonfire."
Dershowitz told "American Agenda" that Harvard's Divinity School and Public Health School are "sewers of antisemitism."
“It has actually encouraged, fomented, and incited antisemitism by some of the courses," he said. "If they dared ever to allow courses of the kind they allow against Jews to be taught against Blacks or gay people, there would be hell to pay.”
"We have too many foreign students today who are unvetted and who are creating real problems on campus," he said, referencing the murder of two Israeli Embassy staffers in Washington. “Look, the two people who were killed in Washington, D.C., there is blood on the hands of universities for those two deaths, because universities not only tolerated antisemitism, not only tolerated shouts of 'Globalize the intifada,' which is an incitement to kill.”
He said the concerns go even further. “But also we're encouraging antisemitism by teaching courses on intersectionality and DEI and critical race theory and you name it.”
Dershowitz said there should be no debate that “the government has the right to restrict foreign students" as the United States is "long past the point in time where people should be allowed to light a fire and get away with it."
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