Undelivered Address Prepared for Jefferson Day – April 13, 1945

The extreme tactics of those creating these encampments and related protests are unacceptable at every level.

You have the opportunity to show your kids, show your family, that when the time came, you stood up for what’s right. 

The Columbia administrators have clearly lost control. Their cowardice and inability to act has ceded the campus to the antisemitic mobs, who delight in making Jewish students feel unwelcome and unsafe.

What we are seeing at Yale and other so-called “elite” or Ivy League universities has brought shame to American society.