Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu released a video Wednesday blasting antisemitism on American college campuses, saying the atmosphere had become like Germany in the 1930s, and calling on leaders to do more to fight it.
Netanyahu was responding to a wave of radical anti-Israel and antisemitic protests at Columbia University and other college campuses. Columbia moved to “hybrid” online learning due to the threat to the security of Jewish students.
In a two-minute address in English, Netanyahu — who graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, one of the campuses engulfed by radical protests today — warned about the historic precedents for today’s protests.
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“Antisemitic mobs have taken over leading universities,” Netanyahu said. “They call for the annihilation of Israel. They
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