Mike Johnson at Columbia: A New Hero Emerges

‘I am 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.’

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Speaker Johnson during a press conference at Columbia University on April 24, 2024, at New York City. Alex Kent/Getty Images

“In every generation there are those who rise to annihilate us”: This is one passage in the Haggadah that Jews have been reading this week as they celebrate Passover. If they live near New York’s Columbia University, or any similar campus, all they need as proof is the hum from outside. Pro-Hamas fans of Hezbollah and Osama bin Laden, and other haters, blame Jews, or in this case the Jewish state, for every ill under the sun. 

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