“The View” co-hosts got into a heated discussion over the topic of anti-Semitism on college campuses — and Sunny Hostin argued repeatedly that students should be allowed to engage in protests calling for the genocide of Jews.
The conversation on Wednesday’s broadcast was a reaction to the Capitol Hill testimony from several university presidents that took place a day earlier — during which Harvard University President Claudine Gay argued that calls for Jewish genocide only violated the school’s code of conduct in certain “contexts.”
Co-hosts Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar weighed in first, disgusted by what they had heard from the leaders of such prestigious institutions. “There is no justification,” Goldberg said.
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Sara Haines calls out the international women's groups that are refusing to condemn Hamas raping Israeli women on October 7:
"We had a believe all women and recently discovered the violent rape in Israel and women's groups around the globe were quiet…" pic.twitter.com/dov8Et7BYy— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) December 6, 2023
Co-host Sara Haines argued that colleges had a responsibility to make sure that Jewish students felt safe on campus — and that especially following years of people being told that words were violence, there should be some consistency when the words were being directed at Jewish students.
Haines went on to criticize women’s groups worldwide for failing to speak up amid reports of Hamas terrorists using rape and sexual violence as weapons against Israeli women during the October 7 massacre.
“We had to ‘believe all women’ and recently discovered the violent rape and mutilation in Israel and women’s groups around the globe were quiet or late to speak up,” she said.
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Hostin jumped in then, saying that colleges were the “perfect place” to have discussions that were “uncomfortable” and argued that free speech should be absolute on college campuses, even if students were calling for genocide.
She went on to argue that “context” did matter, saying that if large groups were calling for genocide it was protected speech, but if one student issued the same statement directly to a Jewish student one-on-one, that was when it would constitute harassment.
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Hostin doubles down on defending the calls for genocide and claims she knows how it feels because she's "been the subject of hateful comments."
She claims that private universities can't have strict policies against the calls for genocide and scoffs at the idea of "moral clarity" pic.twitter.com/u2fOYdzRt6— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) December 6, 2023
Hostin continued to argue that the law protected such speech, even when co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin pointed out the fact that universities were allowed to implement stricter polices — and had done so when it came to speech attacking other minority groups.