Students Heckle Mike Johnson During Speech at Columbia
‘Get the F**K Off Our Campus’
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Students at Columbia University heckled Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) during his speech on Wednesday, addressing the rise of antisemitism on college and university campuses in the past week.
As Johnson began his speech at Columbia University, the crowd could be heard booing.
“We are standing here right now on the steps of the Low Library. In this very building right behind us, Columbia University once awarded Winston Churchill an honorary degree,” Johnson said. “And, it was Churchill who said, ‘It is manifestly right that Jews should have a national home where they may be reunited.’ We believe in that principle. And, today, I’m here to proclaim, to all those who gnash their teeth and demand to wipe the state of Israel off the map and attack our innocent Jewish students, this simple truth: neither Israel nor these Jewish students on this campus will ever stand alone.”
Video footage posted to X showed Columbia University students in the crowd shouting, “Get the f**k off our campus!” as Johnson was speaking.
Columbia students heckle Speaker of the House Mike Johnson at his press conference: “Get the fu*k off our campus!”@FrontlinesTPUSA@TPUSA pic.twitter.com/SRrZHgEiko
— Julio Rosas (@Julio_Rosas11) April 24, 2024
The Speaker of the House’s visit to Columbia University comes as, a week ago, anti-Israel protesters took over the lawn of the university and established an encampment. On Thursday, more than 100 protesters involved in the anti-Israel encampment, including Rep. Ilhan Omar’s (D-MN) daughter, Isra Hirsi, were arrested, and a handful of students were suspended from Barnard College, including Hirsi, for their involvement in the encampment.
Since then, anti-Israel encampments, protests, and rallies have sprouted up at universities and colleges across the nation such as Yale University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Rochester in New York, and the University of North Carolina, in support of the initial encampment at Columbia University.
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Mike Johnson? Didn’t he used to stand for something? I think we should be securing our border and rebuilding our country from the damage that’s been done by idiots in Washington. My grandpa used to say, “I’ll clean up my own doorstep before I worry about everyone else’s.” He was a wise man. We don’t have too many wise men around these days, and we’re broke in so many ways.