DePaul University, the largest Catholic college in the United States, apparently &#8220;jumped at the opportunity&#8221; to provide students with at least eight different genders to choose from on official college documents and other student life forms, despite the fact that it likely goes against official Catholic Church teaching on God&#8217;s creation of &#8220;man&#8221; and &#8220;woman.&#8221; The change comes as DePaul&#8217;s Student Government Association (SGA) recently stated that &#8220;misgendering&#8221; somebody is an &#8220;act of violence.&#8221;
The College Fix <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/catholic-depaul-university-now-offers-students-nine-different-gender-identity-options/">recently</a> flagged that DePaul&#8217;s student portal known as &#8220;Campus Connect,&#8221; a website used for keeping &#8220;information on and for students, faculty and staff for communication and other purposes,&#8221; now allows students to &#8220;choose either: male, female, intersex, non-binary, transgender male, transgender female, cisgender, unspecified and &#8216;I do not wish to self-identify.'&#8221;
The announcement was made on January 4 and Michael Wright, assistant vice president at DePaul’s Registrar Office, said the college wanted to &#8220;promote ways for students to express their identity if they choose to do so.&#8221;
The school&#8217;s <a href="https://depauliaonline.com/56239/news/new-campus-connect-update-includes-more-options-for-student-gender-ethnic-identity/">student newspaper</a> reported that the information &#8220;is only viewable by specific staff within DePaul’s Registrar’s Office, but can be granted to faculty and staff for academic needs.&#8221;
&#8220;For example, if SGA wanted to share information or opportunities specifically with students who select a certain gender identity, the Office of Student Involvement would coordinate with Information Services to send that information to those students,” Wright explained. &#8220;This information is [otherwise] protected under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act.&#8221;
The Fix also reported that in June 2021, the Catholic university’s LGBTQIA+ Resource Center coordinator in the Office of Multicultural Student Success, Mycall Riley, stated that calling somebody by the gender or pronoun they were born with when they have demanded others not do so is &#8220;incredibly harmful.&#8221;
&#8220;Simply put, misgendering folks is harmful because it allows for trans and gender-expansive folks to be seen as jokes or as less of a person. It can make the person feel like ‘they are not important enough to remember,’ which is incredibly harmful,&#8221; Riley stated.
&#8220;Furthermore, incorrectly assuming someone’s pronouns also assumes someone’s gender, which can lead to other marginalizing and harmful behavior,&#8221; Riley added.
Riley Reed, a student senator representing LGBTQ+ students, also said that misgendering a person is dangerous. Reed told the school paper that it is the SGA&#8217;s hope the new gender identity options will limit that from happening.
&#8220;Hopefully [this will limit] misgendering, since someone’s identity is represented,” Reed said. &#8220;I would hope [students] can feel comfortable being addressed properly and have the choice to disclose this information. It also protects students who would not feel comfortable [publicly] expressing [their identity quite yet].&#8221;
DePaul is located in Chicago, Illinois, and considers its mission to be Christ-centered and rooted in the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church.
&#8220;Our mission proceeds from the heart of the Church and remains grounded in the values and life example of Jesus of Nazareth,&#8221; the <a href="https://offices.depaul.edu/mission-ministry/about/Pages/mission.aspx">school&#8217;s website reads</a>. &#8220;Our Catholic identity inspires us to offer an education that supports the communal context of integral human development, while also advocating for an integral ecology aware of the interconnectedness of all people and nature.&#8221;
It is unclear how DePaul&#8217;s promotion of multiple genders falls in line with church teaching that states there are both biological and divine differences between &#8220;man&#8221; and &#8220;woman&#8221; that are necessary for God&#8217;s plan and the proper order of family and soul. In a 2019 Vatican document titled &#8220;<a href="http://www.educatio.va/content/dam/cec/Documenti/19_0997_INGLESE.pdf">Male and Female He Created Them</a>,&#8221; the Church sought to provide guidance for educators and members of the Church alike in dealing with &#8220;gender theory.&#8221;
While calling for love and patience, the Church noted that transgenderism moves individuals away from nature and order and that there is a &#8220;need to reaffirm the metaphysical roots of sexual difference, as an anthropological refutation of attempts to negate the male-female duality of human nature, from which the family is generated.&#8221;

Transgender Fist

America’s Largest Catholic College Now Promoting At Least Eight Different Genders

Catholicism

DePaul University

Education

Gender

Gender Pronouns

On college campuses today, the right to express our opinions, no matter how inflammatory, is being selectively applied to promote certain ideas and exclude others. The notion of free speech for all has been replaced by the Orwellian notion of free speech for me but not for thee.
DePaul University&#8217;s faculty just passed a resolution <a href="https://legalinsurrection.com/2019/05/depaul-university-condemns-professor-who-expressed-support-for-israel/">reprimanding</a> a colleague, philosophy professor Jason Hill, for writing an <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2019/04/16/moral-case-israel-annexing-west-bank-beyond/">article</a> strongly supporting Israel&#8217;s right to exist and condemning terrorism and the inveterate corruption of the Palestinian leadership. They claimed that these ideas were insensitive to members of the community and ran counter to the popular opinions of peers.
At Emory, the administration <a href="https://www.jpost.com/Opinion/College-administrators-aiding-and-abetting-antisemites-588558">justified</a> the dorm room posting of eviction flyers demonizing Israel by the hate group Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) as protected by &#8220;free speech.&#8221;
Williams College&#8217;s student government refused to recognize the pro-Israel student club Williams Initiative for Israel (WIFI) despite its compliance with all relevant student organization bylaws. WIFI is the first club in over a decade at Williams to be denied funding and other club privileges. This is a violation of Williams&#8217;s own Code of Conduct, which <a href="https://www.thefire.org/fire_speech-codes/williams-free-expression/">supports</a> the expression of &#8220;all ranges of opinion and belief.&#8221; At the same time, SJP has long been a recognized Williams student club and promotes the boycott of Israel with the goal of eliminating it in its entirety.
Middlebury College last month cancelled a speech on totalitarianism by a renowned scholar of classical political philosophy, former Polish Secretary of State Ryszard Legutko, because he was <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/alexander-kahn-fear-and-cowardice-at-middlebury-college">deemed</a> a &#8220;credible threat to the community.&#8221;
The student government at Trinity College recently denied recognition to the Churchill Club, formed to support discussions on themes underpinning Western civilization. This followed complaints from students of color that the club supports white supremacy and ethnocentricity. Trinity President Joanne Berger-Sweeney reversed this ruling &#8212; not as a freedom of speech matter, but on procedural grounds. Paradoxically, Berger-Sweeney used free speech to defend Trinity Professor Johnny Williams&#8217;s <a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/05/01/trinity-college-sociologist-who-studies-whiteness-again-trouble-his-comments-about">tweet</a> that &#8220;whiteness is terrorism,&#8221; which had received national notoriety.
These are just a few examples of a shamefully blatant double standard that exists on campuses across our nation. This weaponization of free speech serves specific political, social, and cultural ends, harshly ostracizing conflicting perspectives.
We live in a time of trigger warnings, microagressions, speech codes, and safe spaces where oftentimes only &#8220;acceptable&#8221; ideas are permitted. &#8220;Diversity&#8221; and &#8220;inclusiveness&#8221; are campus buzzwords referencing the embrace of people differing in race, ethnicity, socio-economic status, sexual orientation, and culture, but limiting differing perspectives. Opinions straying from social justice dogma and anti-Western orthodoxy are considered unreasonable, malevolent hate speech that will not be tolerated.
Recent surveys <a href="https://www.campussafetymagazine.com/university/annual-fire-report-college-free-speech/">found</a> that students, faculty and administrators demand censorship of and punishment for what they deem controversial or offensive speech. Fifty-three percent of college students surveyed <a href="https://knightfoundation.org/press/releases/college-students-show-strong-support-for-first-amendment-but-some-say-diversity-and-inclusion-is-more-important-to-a-democracy-than-free-speech-gallup-knight-survey-shows">believed</a> that diversity and inclusion were more important than free speech rights, 64% felt the U.S. Constitution should not protect &#8220;hate speech,&#8221; and 73% supported policies that legally restrict offensive slurs.
American campuses, while professing opposition to all types of hatred in the name of inclusiveness and tolerance, simultaneously embrace &#8220;anti-Zionism,&#8221; with its rejection of the Jewish right to self-determination, and the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement (BDS), which opposes Israel&#8217;s right to exist.
How many academics such as Professor Hill will risk character assassination and damage to their reputations to express views that counter the accepted campus orthodoxy on any issue and, most particularly, the Jewish state of Israel?
Voltaire&#8217;s allegedly famous commitment to free speech &#8212; &#8220;I wholly disapprove of what you say but will defend to the death your right to say it&#8221; &#8212; has been replaced by the freedom to express only particular views, reminiscent of George Orwell&#8217;s &#8220;Animal Farm&#8221;: &#8220;Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness.&#8221;
Historically, universities have been the source of intellectual inquiry by insisting on the free and unfettered exchange of ideas. Today, the decaying of our universities, where free speech protection is dispensed on a selective basis, is the cautionary tale of our generation.

Ziva Dahl is a senior fellow with the news and public policy group <a href="https://salomoncenter.org">Haym Salomon Center</a>.

DAHL: Freedom Of Speech Is Being Weaponized On Campus

Anti-Semitism

Israel

Palestinians

On Wednesday, Fox News host Tucker Carlson <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/depaul-professor-condemned-for-writing-a-pro-israel-op-ed-defends-himself-will-not-be-silenced">interviewed </a>DePaul University Professor Jason Hill after the faculty of the university had cravenly capitulated to thousands of students demanding that Hill be censured for an article he had written for The Federalist titled, &#8220;The Moral Case For Israel Annexing The West Bank &#8212; And Beyond.&#8221; The faculty condemned the article as &#8220;an abuse of academic freedom.&#8221; Hill fired back, &#8220;I&#8217;m a conservative independent who speaks his mind very clearly and will not be silenced.&#8221;
According to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/depaul-professor-condemned-for-writing-a-pro-israel-op-ed-defends-himself-will-not-be-silenced">Fox News</a>, &#8220;Hill has faced death threats since the article&#8217;s publication and said he needs security to get around campus.&#8221;
Carlson started by pointing out, &#8220;You can agree or disagree, but at the college where he works, the faculty were so offended by it that they launched a campaign to destroy him. Thousands of students signed a letter calling on the school to censure him and tonight the faculty voted to condemn his article as &#8216;an abuse of academic freedom.&#8217;&#8221;
Carlson turned to Hill: &#8220;So, you took a position that not everybody agrees with but it does have a fairy large constituency; it&#8217;s not an unheard-of position, and it&#8217;s certainly no crazier than what most of your colleagues are saying on a day-to-day basis. Why are you being censured for that?&#8221;
Hill answered:
<blockquote>
Well, I&#8217;m being censured because I&#8217;ve taken a very positive, pro-Israeli stance in a very anti-Semitic culture, and on college campuses that are pushing for BDS movements and divestment against Israel. And I&#8217;m a conservative independent who speaks his mind very clearly and will not be silenced. In that article, aside from defending Israel, I made the point that Israel was the only democracy amidst a bunch of illiberal and primitive regimes that do not respect the inalienability of human rights and individual rights, and I think students took offense and individuals, faculty and people at large took offense at me defending Israel and defending my right to defend Israel&#8217;s rights to defend itself against a war that was launched against it in 1967 by Jordan.
The students have claimed that I am racist, that I am xenophobic, have called for my removal, that I am an Islamophobe, and that I am guilty of advocating ethnic cleansing and genocide, which I am not.
</blockquote>
Carlson responded, &#8220;Well, it&#8217;s ludicrous. &#8220; He then showed a video of the protest against Hill on DePaul&#8217;s campus and asked, &#8220;Tell us what we&#8217;re looking at.&#8221;
Hill answered, &#8220;Well, I was not there, but I think you&#8217;re looking at the Arts and Letters building in the DePaul campus in which students are calling for my removal, are calling for the president to fire me; calling for my downfall; calling for Professor Hill to be dumped; all sorts of nefarious accusations against me. I was made aware of that video only yesterday and then saw it.&#8221;
Carlson said, &#8220;We&#8217;re watching them throw paper; we&#8217;re watching them litter, which they&#8217;re good at, I noticed. Any idea what they&#8217;re throwing down from the balconies?&#8221;
Hill: They&#8217;re throwing down quotes from the article, tweets that I have made, quotes that I&#8217;ve discussed on your show. They&#8217;ve taken sections from my book, &#8220;We Have Overcome,&#8221; in which I defend Israel and defend American exceptionalism. We&#8217;ve discussed this on your show before, and they have taken some of these quotes out of context from my book and from the article and pasted them, and they&#8217;re throwing them around campus accusing me of genocide and siding with an apartheid state, which they claim Israel to be, which I most vehemently have defended Israel as not being an apartheid state.
Carlson: Hysterical, hysterical children have taken control. I guess we can only hope this moment passes soon, this revolution burns itself out soon. And we are definitely rooting for you, professor, one of the brave voices, I would say. So Godspeed and I hope you&#8217;ll come back and tell us how it goes. Good luck.

Pro-Israel Professor Condemned By Other Faculty Tells Tucker: I Will Not Be Silenced

Last month, the Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary (G-ETS) <a href="https://www.garrett.edu/news/taurean-j-webb-named-director-center-church-and-black-experience-and-instructor-religion-and">appointed</a> Taurean J. Webb as its Director of the Center for the Church and the Black Experience. The prominent Methodist seminary also announced that Webb would be joining its faculty as an assistant professor of religion and race upon completion of his dissertation.
&#8220;We are delighted that Mr. Webb has accepted our invitation to join the Garrett-Evangelical faculty,&#8221; <a href="https://www.garrett.edu/news/taurean-j-webb-named-director-center-church-and-black-experience-and-instructor-religion-and">said</a> G-ETS President Lallene J. Rector. &#8220;His work in black theology, commitment to interfaith dialogue and activism, and expertise in critical race theory are gifts that will enhance and strengthen the seminary&#8217;s commitment to preparing spiritual leaders for today&#8217;s church and world.&#8221;
If G-ETS considers what Webb has to offer as &#8220;gifts,&#8221; then hopefully they kept the receipts. Using his <a href="https://offices.depaul.edu/university-registrar/schedule-of-classes/Documents/2018-2019_Spring_UGRD_SNL.pdf">position</a> as Adjunct Professor of Black History at DePaul University, Webb was a featured <a href="https://palestineconvention.org/amp2018/speaker/taurean-j-webb/">speaker</a> at the 2018 convention of American Muslims for Palestine (AMP).
While AMP <a href="https://www.ampalestine.org/about-amp/anti-bigotry-statement">claims</a> to stand &#8220;against all forms of bigotry and racism,&#8221; the annual event boasted a star-studded <a href="https://palestineconvention.org/amp2018/speakers/">cast</a> of anti-Jewish bigots and terrorist sympathizers. Sharing the platform with Webb were Imam Omar Suleiman, who has <a href="https://www.meforum.org/islamist-watch/51455/the-worst-of-omar-suleiman">called</a> homosexuality a &#8220;repugnant shameless sin&#8221; and justified sex slavery, and Nihad Awad, Executive Director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), who is on record as lending <a href="https://www.meforum.org/7075/harvard-students-honor-islamist">support</a> to genocidal terrorist groups such as Hamas and Hezbollah.
But this is simply the norm for AMP, given that its founder, Hatem Bazian, has a long <a href="https://www.meforum.org/7126/bigoted-bedfellows-us-islamist-groups-amp-cair">history</a> of propagating anti-Semitic tropes such as retweeting images accusing Ashkenazi Jews of rape, murder, and organ trafficking.
Webb should feel right at home among these reprehensible individuals. In 2016, Webb <a href="http://sdpconference.info/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Journey-Toward-Justice-Curriculum-FACILITATOR-GUIDE-FINAL-w-images-5.pdf">authored</a> his &#8220;Journey Toward Justice&#8221; training program based on the Kairos Palestine Document that has been <a href="https://www.adl.org/resources/profiles/friends-of-sabeel-north-america">denounced</a> by both the Anti-Defamation League and the Reform movement&#8217;s Central Conference of American Rabbis as theological anti-Semitism.
Taking a page from the Kairos Palestine Document, Webb&#8217;s training program distorts religious texts to promote hatred of Judaism and the Jewish people. In furtherance of its commitment to provide a legitimate framework for interfaith dialogue and understanding, the curriculum <a href="http://sdpconference.info/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Journey-Toward-Justice-Curriculum-FACILITATOR-GUIDE-FINAL-w-images-5.pdf">teaches</a> that the effects of the Holocaust are an exaggeration by American Jews as a way to harm African-Americans. Furthermore, it also teaches that American Jews should be punished because they &#8220;whitened&#8221; themselves after the Second World War, and that the creation of the State of Israel was both &#8220;evil&#8221; and a &#8220;structural sin.&#8221;
In a now-removed Facebook post from November 2018, Webb <a href="https://twitter.com/SloanRachmuth/status/1109156915140067330">praised</a> as heroes the Holy Land Foundation, the terror group <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/25/us/25charity.html">convicted</a> in 2008 on all 108 criminal counts against them &#8212; including its funneling millions of dollars to Hamas. In February of this year, Webb used his position to stage a <a href="https://dailynorthwestern.com/2019/02/10/city/community-members-discuss-racism-at-play-stage-reading/">play</a> called &#8220;The Whipping Man,&#8221; which blames Jews for American slavery.
DePaul University should be ashamed to have such a person on its faculty. But given that anti-Jewish bigotry has <a href="https://www.detroitnews.com/story/opinion/columnists/nicholas-g-hahn-iii/2016/08/09/anti-semitic-face-political-correctness/88503830/">pervaded</a> campus life for years, it is unlikely that Webb will ever be subjected to disciplinary action. In 2014, Jewish students at DePaul told the Haym Salomon Center that they no longer <a href="https://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/jewish-depaul-student-i-no-longer-felt-safe-on-this-campus/2014/05/23/">felt safe</a> on campus due to campaigns conducted by the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement.
There is a direct correlation between anti-Israel and anti-Semitic activity on college campuses. According to a 2018 <a href="https://amchainitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Campus-Antisemitism-2017.pdf">report</a> by the campus watchdog group AMCHA Initiative, &#8220;Israel-related incidents are actually more likely to contribute to a hostile environment for Jewish students.&#8221; It is no coincidence that Webb is also on the <a href="https://www.fosna.org/sites/default/files/Final_HighRes_FOSNA Newsletter_Sept 2016.compressed.pdf#page=3">board</a> of Friends of Sabeel North America, the leading BDS group in America.
Webb cannot possibly be considered a genuine spiritual leader, and he is clearly unfit to be a professor. Rather than condemn Webb&#8217;s hate speech, both G-ETS and DePaul are complicit in according his flagrant bigotry a veneer of respectability. If these institutions were truly interested in eradicating bigotry and racism, firing Webb would be a good start.

Bradley Martin is a Senior Fellow with the news and public policy group <a href="https://salomoncenter.org">Haym Salomon Center</a>.

MARTIN: DePaul University Adjunct Professor Glorifies Terrorism And Promotes Anti-Semitism

Judaism

Jewish students are finding themselves unwelcome as they return to New York University, where over 50 student groups have signed a <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&amp;q=https://www.algemeiner.com/2018/04/11/50-new-york-university-groups-pledge-to-boycott-zionist-student-clubs-all-israeli-goods/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1535597803994000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEn-K693VG3F8UoB-PhSTdQR_qU0w" href="https://www.algemeiner.com/2018/04/11/50-new-york-university-groups-pledge-to-boycott-zionist-student-clubs-all-israeli-goods/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">pledge</a> to boycott Zionist clubs and all goods produced by Israelis. Don&#8217;t be fooled by their language: By &#8220;Zionists,&#8221; they mean Jews.
&#8220;Our point is to make being Zionists uncomfortable on the NYU campus,&#8221; explained the president of Students for Justice in Palestine. Whereas Zionism &#8211; the belief that Jews have a right to nationhood in their historic homeland &#8211; is central to every Jewish organization, it&#8217;s obvious whom the organizers were targeting.
Gone is the free exchange of ideas on the college campus, where &#8220;Israel&#8221; is now a four-letter word. In 2014, Jewish <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&amp;q=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v%3DmZWi_Sd38pc&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1535597803995000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHLhb6LaoVt70FjlcOeHHRKQPfrWg" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZWi_Sd38pc" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">students</a> at DePaul University, unable to leave their dorm rooms or walk through the <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&amp;q=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v%3Ddpzn2mmunt0%26feature%3Dyoutu.be&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1535597803995000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEJ8me-yMKOpdGYGdjVUO0DXFBOEQ" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpzn2mmunt0&amp;feature=youtu.be" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">student center</a> without fearing for their safety, have been targeted for intimidation and harassment by progressive student groups in a boycott-Israel campaign that morphed into blatant anti-Semitism.
At a University of Illinois rally against white supremacy last year, organizers equated Jewish students and supporters of Israel with neo-Nazis, <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&amp;q=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v%3DWbJlR0pzm2c&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1535597803995000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFrKaosM-DVEewNQ3z4oimIASvtHg" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbJlR0pzm2c" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">chanting</a> &#8220;No Zionists, no KKK, resisting fascism all the way!&#8221;
University of California San Diego Professor Yen Le Espiritu&#8217;s office is decorated with posters glorifying Hamas, whose stated goal is not just the destruction of Israel, but the subjugation of Jews and Christians.
The one constant targeting Jews is the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign against Israel. Founded in 2005, BDS has been marketed as a nonviolent &#8220;Palestinian-led movement for freedom, justice and equality.&#8221; BDS actually has nothing to do with bettering Palestinian lives. Its only goal is to delegitimize Israel.
At the University of California Irvine, in May 2016, when sophomore Eliana Kopley arrived at the screening of a documentary about the Israel Defense Forces, she was met by an angry crowd pounding on the doors and windows, chanting vitriol against Israel.
&#8220;I was terrified. There is no other word to describe how I felt,&#8221; Kopley told the Haym Salomon Center. She turned and ran, but a group of students followed her as she sought safety in a room nearby. In hiding, she called 911 and remained on the line until the police found her.
Unfortunately, these incidents are not isolated.
Studies conducted in <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&amp;q=https://www.amchainitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Report-on-Antisemitic-Activity-During-the-First-Half-of-2016.pdf&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1535597803995000&amp;usg=AFQjCNH-KUz_XOW0p3KULjfyfLvMy5NDng" href="https://www.amchainitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Report-on-Antisemitic-Activity-During-the-First-Half-of-2016.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">2016</a> and <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&amp;q=https://www.amchainitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Antisemitism_At-the-Epicenter-of-Campus-Intolerance_Report-2016.pdf&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1535597803995000&amp;usg=AFQjCNF8h7Cg-uv1ZLlm1PXBsmuuFZu9GQ" href="https://www.amchainitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Antisemitism_At-the-Epicenter-of-Campus-Intolerance_Report-2016.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">2017</a> by the anti-Semitism watchdog group AMCHA Initiative found that campuses with active anti-Israel groups are overwhelmingly more likely to experience anti-Semitic incidents than schools that don&#8217;t harbor such groups.
Earlier this month, AMCHA <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&amp;q=https://amchainitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Campus-Antisemitism-2017.pdf&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1535597803995000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGOUqbRrgVNBptKsHlAjR5dqneBrg" href="https://amchainitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Campus-Antisemitism-2017.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">reported</a> that Israel-related anti-Semitic incidents were considerably more likely to contribute to a hostile environment for Jewish students than incidents involving classic anti-Semitism. AMCHA has <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&amp;q=https://amchainitiative.org/antisemitism-tracker&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1535597803995000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFzUfOneQW48raJmLjU3ftqFRhFkw" href="https://amchainitiative.org/antisemitism-tracker" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">tracked</a> over 2,100 anti-Semitic incidents since 2015.
Despite school policies forbidding discrimination based on religion and ethnicity, Jewish students targeted by anti-Israel groups are rarely protected by administrators who are either incapable of distinguishing between political and hate speech, or whose personal views may be affecting their objectivity.
David Brog, executive director of the anti-Semitism education group Maccabee Task Force, echoed AMCHA&#8217;s findings in a recent interview with the Haym Salomon Center.
<blockquote>
The haters are erasing the line between legitimate criticism of Israel and blatant anti-Semitism. As they grow ever more extreme in their rhetoric and actions, they rarely pay the price that other types of bigots must pay. And the more that anti-Semitism is excused, the bolder the anti-Semites grow. They&#8217;re increasingly skipping BDS and jumping straight to hate and harassment, making anti-Semitic social media posts, disrupting pro-Israel events, and trying to intimidate students from going to the Middle East to learn the facts for themselves.
</blockquote>
To prepare students for what they may encounter, the Israel education group StandWithUs recently created &#8220;Campus Crash Course.&#8221; As a father, the idea that my children should attend a boot camp to prepare them for hatred in college is beyond disturbing.
College life is supposed to be about the freedom to learn, experience and discover. But what Jewish and pro-Israel students learn about are double standards; what they experience is fear; and what they discover is that there are people who hate you for who you are and what you believe.
This is what passes for social justice on campus.
Paul Miller is president and executive director of the news and public policy group Haym Salomon Center. Follow him on twitter @pauliespoint.

MILLER: Back To School: Jewish Students, Be Prepared For Harassment And Hate On Campus

New York University

DePaul University, which <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/10874/what-i-learned-depaul-and-uw-madison-week-ben-shapiro">threatened to arrest</a> Daily Wire editor-in-chief Ben Shapiro for stepping foot on campus in November 2016, is at its anti-free speech antics again. This time they&#8217;ve preemptively banned conservative comedian and commentator Steven Crowder because, as the administration put it, his style does not &#8220;align&#8221; with DePaul&#8217;s &#8220;educational mission.&#8221; In a statement provided to The Daily Wire, Crowder has officially responded &#8212; and it&#8217;s classic Crowder.
DePaul&#8217;s preemptive denial of Crowder&#8217;s possible appearance on the campus came in response to a request by the Young America&#8217;s Foundation to possibly host Crowder at an event on campus. The university turned down the request before Crowder was even aware that he might be invited. In a letter sent to YAF chair Jorin Burkhart, DePaul&#8217;s Associate Vice President of Student Development Peggy Burke said the review board determined that Crowder was not allowed to appear on campus because he sometimes makes fun of his opponents.
&#8220;The Speaker Review Board denied this speaker request due to their research on Mr. Crowder and came to the conclusion that he creates videos to purposely to rouse and provoke people by making fun of the opposing side,&#8221; <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=10526">wrote</a> Burke. &#8220;They didn&#8217;t see how this aligns with DePaul&#8217;s educational mission.&#8221;
In response, Crowder issued his own statement in which he said the university&#8217;s decision has now given him no choice but to, in &#8220;one way or another,&#8221; make his way to DePaul.
&#8220;I had no idea I was even being considered as a speaker on campus,&#8221; Crowder said in a statement sent to The Daily Wire. &#8220;Thanks, guys (and girls, and zis). But now that I know they&#8217;ve banned me, it seems that one way or another, I HAVE to visit DePaul, right? I mean, what choice do I have?&#8221;
The comedian and podcast host also defended the content of his videos which the review board found so &#8220;provoking.&#8221;
&#8220;As far as my &#8216;videos,&#8217; listen, I&#8217;m a late-night comic,&#8221; said Crowder. &#8220;I host a late-night show. We do PLENTY of bits that will offend people of all different stripes. I make no apologies. That&#8217;s not our primary intent, however. On the flip-side, you can go watch several HOURS of my &#8216;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIveFvW-ARp_B_RckhweNJw">Change My Mind</a>&#8216; segments on YouTube, in which I engage strangers and/or students in civil disagreements, unedited, sometimes for hours at a time. Nobody else in the history of news commentary has done that. I will respectfully engage with ANYONE willing to have a productive, reasonable dialogue.
&#8220;If the faculty and students of DePaul are too weak-minded to do the same, then I feel sorry for them and hope to see full refunds issued to parents who were under the false impression they were paying for a proper education,&#8221; he concluded.
As <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=10526">Campus Reform</a> reports, Burkhart also responded to DePaul&#8217;s latest violation of free speech protections. &#8220;It&#8217;s ridiculous and pathetic that DePaul, a place which boasts in its so-called open-mindedness, is afraid of someone as mainstream and harmless as Steven Crowder,&#8221; Burkhart told Campus Reform. &#8220;However, based on the administration&#8217;s pattern of making it difficult to impossible for conservative groups to hold successful events, I can&#8217;t say I&#8217;m surprised.&#8221;
The Daily Wire&#8217;s Ben Shapiro experienced that &#8220;pattern&#8221; firsthand back in November 2016. Below is an excerpt of his account of what took place on campus when he showed up (formatting adjusted):
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This week, I showed up at DePaul at the invitation of the YAF group on campus. The administration made clear that they&#8217;d shut down the event if I was a speaker, so the group attempted to register me as a guest. The administration blocked that. So we attempted to register me as a member of fellow speaker Christina Hoff Sommers&#8217; team. The administration wouldn&#8217;t allow that either. In an unprecedented move, expecting my arrival, they mandated that everyone wear special wristbands and be screened by metal detectors.
When I showed up, I was confronted by 30 security guards from the university. There were also five or six local cops present, as well as a sheriff from Cook County to facilitate an arrest if security decided to move on me. And they did openly threaten me with arrest if I attempted to attend Sommers&#8217; lecture.
I walked up to security; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/10830/breaking-video-depaul-university-threatens-arrest-amanda-prestigiacomo">click here to see what transpired</a>.
Here&#8217;s the thing: there were no protesters. None. Not a single one.
But the administration was so intent on placating protesters who didn&#8217;t even show up that they banned me personally from entering a campus to give a speech on free speech.
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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/10874/what-i-learned-depaul-and-uw-madison-week-ben-shapiro">Read Shapiro&#8217;s full response to DePaul&#8217;s actions here</a>.

DePaul Bans Steven Crowder From Speaking On Campus. Here’s Crowder’s Perfect Response.

Ben Shapiro

Conservatism

Free Speech

Political Correctness

Steven Crowder

DePaul University&#8217;s <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/16578/exclusive-depaul-university-approves-speech-gavin-elliott-hamilton">decision to ban Gavin McInnes</a> yesterday is only the tip of the iceberg in its commitment to appease leftist causes. Last Friday, DePaul&#8217;s Student Government Association (SGA) announced the results of the board election for the 2017-2018 year. In addition, it <a href="https://www.facebook.com/depaulsga/photos/a.164669559151.156861.103491174151/10156327284854152/?type=3&amp;theater">announced</a> the results of the following referendum:
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Each year, undocumented undergraduate students who do not have access to federal financial aid (FAFSA) undergo a financial gap often exceeding $17,000 (not including room and board).
Should we support our fellow students who, like we, dream of obtaining an education from DePaul by creating a scholarship initiated by a $2 quarterly addition to our Student Activity Fee?
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The referendum passed 1684 to 302. On Tuesday, DePaul&#8217;s SGA announced that university President Rev. Dennis H. Holtschneider approved the referendum in this <a href="https://www.facebook.com/depaulsga/posts/10156349445924152">statement</a>:
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Today, we are happy to announce that President Fr. Holtschneider has approved a $2 increase to the student activity fee that will fund a scholarship to support those who are ineligible to file for federal aid. The VP for student affairs will work on a working group to get the scholarship in order with the hopes of a distribution by September of 2017 with SGA&#8217;s new leadership. The students of DePaul University along with Undocumented Vincentians &amp; Allies are students who recognize the opportunity for higher education for undocumented students and the barrier associated with that, and I couldn&#8217;t be prouder to have served them this past year.
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Jorin Burkhart, an executive board member of DePaul College Republicans, told The Daily Wire that the university has previously issued statements saying that they&#8217;re unable to cooperate with ICE as far as disclosing info about illegal immigrant students. However, Burkhart points out that the new scholarship would require the university to know the status of these undocumented students, meaning that their assertion that they don&#8217;t know who&#8217;s legal and who isn&#8217;t is utter garbage.
Many other private universities provide tuition for undocumented students. Pitzer College, for example, has offered a <a href="http://claremontindependent.com/pitzer-college-offers-full-scholarship-for-undocumented-students/">full-tuition scholarship</a> for an undocumented student in California <a href="http://pitweb.pitzer.edu/communications/2012/09/28/pitzer-college-scholarship-honors-legacy-former-head-office-admission/">since 2012</a>.
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DePaul University Passes Referendum Allocating Student Fees To Pay Tuition For Illegal Immigrants

Illegal Immigration

Pitzer College

After DePaul University allowed College Republicans to invite Gavin McInnes to speak last fall, the administration decided to ban McInnes from campus today. This decision came after the university apparently allotted $10,000 for the event and allowed the group to go into the final stages. The event was scheduled for May 30.
The administration justified the disinvitation because McInnes supposedly &#8220;supports violence&#8221; and because he associates with the Proud Boys and the Fraternal Order of Alt-Nights.
Here is the letter DePaul&#8217;s President Rev. Dennis H. Holtschneider wrote to the student body:
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Dear Members of the DePaul Community,
Last fall, DePaul granted permission to a student organization to host Canadian entertainer and provocateur Gavin McInnes. Since that time, we have observed with alarm his statements encouraging violence &#8211; in particular, violence aimed at protesters who disagree with his positions.
In discussing his recently formed group, the Proud Boys, with a news organization, he said the last step of the initiation process involves &#8220;a major fight for the cause. You get beat up, kick the crap out of an antifa.&#8221;
After clashes outside his February event at New York University, McInnes told his followers: &#8220;We&#8217;re the only ones fighting these guys and I want you to fight them, too. It&#8217;s fun. When they go low, go lower. Mace them back, throw bricks at their head. Let&#8217;s destroy them. We&#8217;ve been doing it a while now and I gotta say, it&#8217;s really invigorating. Even when you lose, you feel great about yourself.&#8221;
We also took note when McInnes found common cause with the newly created Fraternal Order of Alt-Knights, or FOAK, a military wing of the Proud Boys. In announcing its existence, the group said it was &#8220;seeking able bodies and strong-minded men who can keep a cool head under pressure, comfortable in fisticuffs&#8221; and that it will serve as &#8220;a force to protect and serve when the police are told to stand down.&#8221;
The group, which has pledged to meet protests with violence, was directly endorsed by McInnes on Twitter: 
Happy to announce the military division of #Proudboys&#8221; headed by @BasedStickMan_#AltKnights
DePaul University works to ensure that student organizations can host speakers and events of their choosing. The encouragement of violence, however, has no place here. This is not about the content of McInnes&#8217; speech, but about his public endorsement of violence and the establishment of a military division of his own group, the Proud Boys.
Our students&#8217; well-being remains our highest priority, and therefore DePaul is rescinding McInnes&#8217;s invitation to speak on campus.
Sincerely,
Rev. Dennis H. Holtschneider, C.M. 
President
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According to Rev. Holtschneider, McInnes&#8217; stalwart belief in self-defense in the event that cops fail to do their job or when Antifa fascists attack those who disagree with their communist viewpoints advocates &#8220;violence.&#8221; Therefore, it would be corrupting and problematic for DePaul to invite McInnes to speak and explain his point of view on why self-defense is sometimes necessary. As for the Fraternal Order of Alt-Knights, the <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/14134/7-things-you-need-know-about-lefts-favorite-attack-aaron-bandler">far-left propaganda machine</a> known as the Southern Poverty Law Center <a href="https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2017/04/25/new-alt-right-%E2%80%9Cfight-club%E2%80%9D-ready-street-violence">compares</a> them to neo-Nazis.
What remains ironic about Rev. Holtschneider&#8217;s statement is the inclusion of a statement that &#8220;DePaul Uiversity works to ensure that student organizations can host speakers and events of their choosing&#8221; despite the University <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/7864/breaking-depaul-university-bans-shapiro-john-minster">banning</a> both Milo Yiannopoulos and Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief Ben Shapiro before the current school year began. When asked about his thoughts on DePaul banning McInnes, Shapiro said the following:
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They&#8217;re idiotic. How can they ban him for his support for self-defense and cite his supposed support for violence, while banning people because their own students are violent? They banned me because their students got violent with Milo &#8212; and I spoke out forcefully against rhetoric approving violence from both right and left. Total fig leaf.
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So much for ensuring free speech and the marketplace of ideas.
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EXCLUSIVE: DePaul University Approves Speech By Gavin McInnes, Then BANS HIM

Gavin McInnes

Milo Yiannopoulos

Another day, another instance of outrage from DePaul University&#8217;s band of leftists. Today&#8217;s outrage? The audacity for DePaul&#8217;s Turning Point USA chapter to invite James Kirchick for an event titled &#8220;Dictatorships and Radical Islam: Enemies of LGBTQ Rights.&#8221; An individual going by the name of &#8220;MK Okay&#8221; on Facebook wrote the following post regarding Kirchick&#8217;s appearance:
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DEPAUL QUEER AND TRANS FAMILY :: Milo2.0 (ok Milo .5 &#8211; he&#8217;s not alt-right, which makes this harder) is happening tomorrow at 5:30.
&#8220;Turning point DePaul&#8221; (check out that horror below, is bringing James [Kirchick], a white, Zionist, neoliberal journalist, to speak on shit he knows nothing about: &#8220;Dictatorships and Islam: Enemies of LGBTQ Rights.&#8221;
IF [YOU] FEEL SAFE DOING THIS: we will be turning up to counter, and I invite and ask you to join. We need to be visible and present. Not in our f**king name will you pretend to define our safety, where danger comes from. Not in our f**king name will you continue to demonize Islam and Muslims and ignore the radical Christian right. Because we all know &amp; see what the real danger here is &#8212; and we all know &amp; see how this is f**ked. I will be making signs in the atrium of the stu today during [Students for Jewish Persecution&#8217;s] event, so come chat if you want to&#8230;
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Interestingly, Kirchick himself noticed something peculiar about this anonymous student&#8217;s post:
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Here&#8217;s the call for protests of my talk tonight at <a href="https://twitter.com/DePaulU">@DePaulU</a> &#8220;Dictatorships and Radical Islam: Enemies of LGBTQ Rights.&#8221; Notice missing word? <a href="https://t.co/zgesx9zSuJ">pic.twitter.com/zgesx9zSuJ</a>
&#8212; Jamie Kirchick (@jkirchick) <a href="https://twitter.com/jkirchick/status/862316367583875072">May 10, 2017</a></blockquote>
Indeed, this student omitted the word &#8220;radical&#8221; before Islam in the event title. Of course, this makes sense because radical leftists like this individual are Islamophobic enough to blend fascistic and genocidal radical Islamists with every other practitioner of Islam who does not subscribe to the same regressive beliefs. This is a typical leftist tactic that attempts to paint anyone who criticizes radical Islam as a Muslim basher instead of being able to think critically on complicated issues.
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DePaul Leftists Plan To Protest ‘White, Zionist, Neoliberal Journalist’ James Kirchick

Leftism

Radical Islam

On Wednesday, as <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/10830/breaking-video-depaul-university-threatens-arrest-amanda-prestigiacomo">captured on video</a>, DePaul University threatened to arrest Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief Ben Shapiro if he were to step foot on campus and engage in free speech. The conservative author was met at the edge of campus with some 30 security guards barring him, specifically, from entry.
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<a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro">@benshapiro</a> talking to security guards in front of <a href="https://twitter.com/DePaulU">@DePaulU</a> . &#8220;30 members of security for a 5&#8217;9&#8243; jewish guy&#8221;. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/freedepaul?src=hash">#freedepaul</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/YAFonCampus?src=hash">#YAFonCampus</a> <a href="https://t.co/zcKNY70hic">pic.twitter.com/zcKNY70hic</a>
&#8212; Genco Pura (@yoxov) <a href="https://twitter.com/yoxov/status/798683463633215488">November 16, 2016</a></blockquote>
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Shapiro was invited on campus by conservative college group Young America&#8217;s Foundation to appear alongside renowned feminist <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/6959/famous-feminists-destroy-modern-feminism-its-open-amanda-prestigiacomo">Christina Hoff Sommers</a> and lecture, ironically, on free speech. And as the conservative speaker <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/10832/shapiro-tells-megyn-kelly-depaul-university-hank-berrien">pointed out</a> on The Kelly File, DePaul was &#8220;tolerant enough to ban it.&#8221;
The unapologetic conservative was targeted and banned from DePaul by administration back in July, essentially because Shapiro&#8217;s truth-telling is too much for fragile snowflakes to take, <a href="http://abc7.com/news/ben-shapiro-escorted-from-csula-due-to-angry-protesters/1219358/">becoming violent</a> at the sound of his name. Those opposing him include white nationalist groups and Black Lives Matter members who refer to the Orthodox Jew as a &#8220;Nazi.&#8221;
Figure that one out. 
Although the attack on free speech by campus snowflakes and their weak-willed administrators is a complete travesty, political comedian Steven Crowder found a way for us to laugh at the sheer absurdity of the situation.
In a series of &#8220;Ben Shapiro Gets Arrested&#8221; skits, Crowder mocks the inanity of the conservative being targeted and banned from participating in free speech on campus, while highlighting what the left hates about Shapiro and what the right can&#8217;t get enough of: his ability to intellectually run circles around his opponents all while keeping a cool, composed, no-bull, snarky tone. 
Watch the three skits, below.
One: Ben Shapiro gets arrested for &#8220;armed masked robbery.&#8221; 
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Two: Ben Shapiro gets arrested for &#8220;returning tapes to Family Video without rewinding.&#8221;
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Three: Ben Shapiro gets arrested for having an &#8220;arson device&#8221; and a &#8220;bomb.&#8221;
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Steven Crowder’s Hilarious ‘Ben Shapiro Gets Arrested’ Skits

Even the Chicago Tribune, which had been a staunch conservative paper for roughly 160 years before it took a hard swing to the left in 2008, when it endorsed a Democratic candidate for president (Barack Obama) for the <a href="http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2008-10-19/news/chi-tribune-2008-presidential-endorsement_1_endorsement-obama-first-african-american-president">first time</a>, then reiterated that endorsement in <a href="http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-10-26/news/chi-obama-endorsement-chicago-tribune-20121026_1_president-obama-barack-obama-tax-cuts">2012</a>, somehow came down on the side of conservative Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief Ben Shapiro after DePaul University threatened his arrest if he set foot on campus.
On Thursday, the Tribune issued an <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/editorials/ct-depaul-speech-schapiro-edit-1118-md-20161117-story.html">editorial</a> decrying DePaul&#8217;s actions. The editorial started by reciting the events that occurred leading up to Wednesday night&#8217;s confrontation between Shapiro and security officers mandated with keeping him off campus. The Tribune then reported:
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Shapiro knew how to respond outside the event hall as a video camera rolled: &#8220;If I attempt to enter that hall, right there, just to hear somebody speak, or if I attempt to ask a question or engage in free speech, you will have me arrested?&#8221; he asked a security official. &#8220;I&#8217;m glad in a city that has some 4,000 shootings to this date, you have 30 members of security just for a 5-9,165 (pound) Jewish guy.&#8221;
Bystanders laughed at his self-deprecating remark. Shapiro certainly can play to a crowd and make a point. It&#8217;s a shame he wasn&#8217;t permitted to perform for a full audience. Why couldn&#8217;t he? Because DePaul remained tied up in knots over the question of how to manage speaker events that may offend some members of the school community.
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The Tribune noted that Shapiro is no fan of Stephen Bannon, executive chairman of Breitbart News, the new White House counselor, adding, &#8220;Hmm, maybe there is something serious to explore in the political clash between right and left. Shapiro, no fan of Bannon, would have been a very interesting lecturer for engaged students to hear a week after the election. But nope, too risky for DePaul.&#8221;
The Tribune acknowledged that DePaul, as a private university, &#8220;controls campus access and can approve or refuse guests as it sees fit. This isn&#8217;t a First Amendment right to assembly issue; it&#8217;s an issue of academic exploration &#8230; In this case, DePaul had a few days&#8217; notice and could have allowed Shapiro to appear with adequate security on hand. That would have served the interests of students and made a powerful statement about a university as a marketplace of ideas. Students would have heard Shapiro, engaged him and reached their own conclusions about the values and merits of the conservatism in the era of Trump.&#8221;
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&#8220;This isn&#8217;t a First Amendment right to assembly issue; it&#8217;s an issue of academic exploration.&#8221;
Chicago Tribune
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The Tribune concluded:
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True, there is a lot of confusion today about the country&#8217;s political direction. There is polarization, there are hard feelings. That&#8217;s part of life in a democracy. Learning how to confront political differences in a civilized manner is a tough lesson to embrace. Unfortunately, DePaul missed another chance to play the role of enlightened teacher.
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Chicago Tribune Slams DePaul University For Banning Shapiro

Chicago Tribune

On Tuesday night, after 30 security officers threatened Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief Ben Shapiro not to set foot on the DePaul University campus or risk being arrested, even if Shapiro were just a prospective audience member to hear Christina Hoff Sommers speak, Shapiro alerted Sommers and her audience, prompting all of them to leave the university campus and walk to a nearby theater, where Shapiro delivered the speech DePaul had banned him from giving on campus.
Later Tuesday night, Shapiro appeared on The Kelly File with Megyn Kelly to discuss the incident. Kelly explained the incident, using the video of Shapiro confronting the security officers, then segued to her interview with Shapiro. Their exchange follows:
<blockquote>
Kelly: Joining me now in a Kelly File exclusive, Ben Shapiro, editor-in-chief of The Daily Wire. Here we go again, Ben. Here we go again. It&#8217;s incredible how, I mean, time after time these college campuses won&#8217;t even let you speak because you get shouted down by intolerant people when you try to go and then they say it&#8217;s a security concern.
Shapiro: Yeah, it really is amazing; this one was actually particularly amazing because there wasn&#8217;t a protester anywhere in sight. So you had thirty security people and a sheriff from Cook County &#8212;
Kelly: But they could picture one in their heads!
Shapiro: Right. Exactly. So they&#8217;d actually internalized the rioters so well that now they could actually reflect them back out into the world. They&#8217;re tolerant of anything except somebody actually giving a speech on the topic of free speech. That is the actual topic of the speech of the speech that I was intending to give.
Kelly, incredulous: Say that again. Say that again.
Shapiro: The speech that I was giving was about free speech and they are tolerant enough to ban it. So that was exciting.
Kelly: It&#8217;s unbelievable. You were not allowed to speak about free speech at all. This is what modern-day university campuses have come to. Not in all cases; there&#8217;s the University of Chicago that denied people their safe spaces, but in this case. So you showed up there to make a point about free speech, and you were arrested. Now does this have any public dollars coming its way, this university?
Shapiro: It&#8217;s a private university, which is why I didn&#8217;t actually just attempt to walk right past security; if it was a public university, then I would have done so under my first amendment rights. It&#8217;s a private university, so once they made clear that I would be arrested if I took two steps forward, then what I did instead is, Christina Hoff Sommers, who joined me at this lecture, she actually Skyped me into the lecture hall, and then we told everybody in the lecture hall to get up and walk out, and we all walked over to a theater that was about three blocks away and then did the event anyway.
Kelly: What do the kids who, if there are kids who are protesting, young adults, your presence, say? Do you know?
Shapiro: I think they&#8217;re just offended by anybody who has a differing point of view. I&#8217;m speaking tomorrow at University of Wisconsin at Madison, and one of the key reasons that they&#8217;re protesting me, apparently big protests are planned, is because I&#8217;m pro-Trump, which is weird, since I wasn&#8217;t.
Kelly: You&#8217;ve been pretty critical of him.
Shapiro: They&#8217;re just making things up. Yeah, exactly.
Kelly: Yeah. Right. Exactly. They will let controversial figures from the left come and speak; it&#8217;s just not somebody who&#8217;s got strong views from the right. We&#8217;ve seen it so many times. Ben, good for you for trying. Thanks for being here.
Shapiro: Thanks a lot.
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