#2278: Ivy League Intifada

Trumpet Daily

[00:30] Ivy League Intifada (30 minutes)

Students at Columbia and Yale ignited mini-intifada’s on their local campuses over the weekend. Students cheered as a U.S. flag was dragged down. Others threatened Jewish students as the next targets of Hamas. Some even said, “We are Hamas.” They prohibited Jewish students from entering buildings. A rabbi at Columbia warned Jewish students to avoid campus because the violence is getting so out of hand. How have things gotten so bad at America’s top universities?

[31:00] This Is NPR (15 minutes)

The new CEO of NPR, Katherine Maher, said back in 2021 that “reverence for the truth” is a distraction when it comes to “finding common ground and getting things done.” She said, “We acknowledge there are many different truths” and, “I’m certain that the truth exists for you, and probably for the person sitting next to you. But this may not be the same truth.” This is the sort of thinking that leads to tyranny, and it’s become commonplace in the American university and newsroom.

[45:30] Biden Retreats Again (10 minutes)

Since 2013, the United States has spent hundreds of millions of dollars building a military base in the North African country of Niger. Just this weekend, the U.S. announced it would be abandoning the base and withdrawing its nearly 1,000 troops stationed there after a Russia-backed coup deposed the American-friendly government there last year. Prepare for more chaos as America retreats from the world stage.