UNC-Charlotte Marxists demand archaeologists stop digging in Jerusalem (04-02-2024--Hour3)

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[00:00:27] your support. Alright, let's continue down the path here of the free speech topic. Although

[00:00:35] now let's loop it into the Middle East because you know why not? We got transgenderism, we

[00:00:46] got the Israeli, Hamas war, yeah just put it all together but it's all under this banner

[00:00:50] of free speech because what can you talk about right? How can you talk about it where

[00:00:56] can you talk about it, that sort of thing? So first off let's start at UNC Charlotte. Alright,

[00:01:03] UNC Charlotte has like many colleges they've got their student government association, the SGA.

[00:01:14] The Student Government Association is basically where the kids who want to be politicians at some

[00:01:20] point in their lives, they kind of cut their teeth, learning Roberts rules and you know

[00:01:29] learning how to sit through long meetings, watch PowerPoint presentations, that kind of thing.

[00:01:35] Knowing that I mean they're there ostensibly to be the voice for the student body in discussing

[00:01:42] things at the board of directors level, that kind of stuff. Student Government Association and of

[00:01:48] course to you know lobby for chocolate milk and all the water fountains. But when they're not

[00:01:53] doing that, they're passing really really important resolutions much like the UNC Charlotte SGA did

[00:02:02] on March 28th. UNC Charlotte and the SGA have remained silent for too long on the genocide of

[00:02:14] Palestinians, despite participating in projects that harm Palestinians within Palestine. Their lack of

[00:02:23] transparency with their partnerships, especially partnerships with colonial entities. Is it completely

[00:02:31] unacceptable as the bodies of more and more men, women and children pile up in Gaza? This is

[00:02:37] according to the UNCC RSF. UNCC, that's University of North Carolina Charlotte, UNCC RSF. The RSF is

[00:02:51] the revolutionary student front, revolutionary student front, which let me interpret that for you.

[00:03:07] Marxist. Okay, they're Marxist. Anytime you've got the word front in your name but more importantly

[00:03:15] revolutionary, you're Marxists. Okay, which again remember you got to keep in mind the James Lindsay

[00:03:22] Axiom where when it comes to Marxists and Marxism, the issue is never the issue. The issue is always

[00:03:29] revolution. That you know, Marxism is a constant state of revolution, constant. It never ends because

[00:03:41] it comes out of this haggaly in thought, this philosophy that you're constantly deconstructing,

[00:03:48] you're tearing down, pulling out the perfected pieces in order to create this utopia. And in

[00:03:56] that line of thinking the utopia can only maybe be achieved by the state. That's like this perfect

[00:04:05] the perfect system. Everything else is chaos, disorder, imperfection. Now people like me we would

[00:04:14] say well you will never achieve perfection because these are all man-made constructs. Any form of

[00:04:21] government is a man-made construct of men administered by men and women. I'm not trying. I'm just

[00:04:28] saying of humans, of people. And so it's going to be flawed, it's going to be corrupted because

[00:04:36] it's us doing it. So the idea that you would constantly be burning everything down in order to

[00:04:45] keep the quote unquote perfected pieces is a recipe for chaos, murder, violence, destruction,

[00:04:54] poverty, and authoritarianism and tyranny which will rise up in order to give people the relief

[00:05:01] from all of those other chaotic things. That's why these revolutions always follow the same patterns

[00:05:10] right? Okay so that's the RSF, the revolutionary student front, the Marxists. Then you've also got

[00:05:17] the social justice for North Africa and Southwest Asia or the SJSWANA or as I call it the Sijuana.

[00:05:31] The Sijuana and the RSF. They were really the tip of the spear here, getting this thing passed

[00:05:39] as of March 28th, the petition had been endorsed by 14 different student organizations and signed

[00:05:47] by more than 500 people. And they had a goal of 500 and they got 514 and they were like, check us out

[00:05:58] where the majority. 514 signatures they got. How big is the student population at UNC Charlotte?

[00:06:06] I should have looked this up. I think it's pretty large though. I want to say it's pretty large.

[00:06:11] The campus is very large, right? So I think it I'm pretty sure it's bigger than Winthrop. That was my

[00:06:17] alma mater and Winthrop. They had like a couple thousand at the time even now they're not as big as

[00:06:24] UNC. So UNCC I'm thinking it's got like 15,000 just a guess. It's been a while since I looked at

[00:06:32] the numbers but you got 514 signatures. Wow. That's a movement. The SGA will officially recognize

[00:06:42] the genocide being committed by the state of Israel with Western backing. Wait a minute. Okay, well

[00:06:51] that this okay. This includes this is from their list of demands that I'm reading from the

[00:06:57] Nine or Times. This is the school paper. I try not to be okay, I try not to be as critical of

[00:07:06] the school papers you know, because they're still learning. So I don't know what this means to say but

[00:07:11] it's there's a typo in here whatever. So fine. Okay, committed by the state of Israel with I guess

[00:07:17] Western backing in Gaza. Okay, I think that's what they're trying to say. So the SGA will officially

[00:07:23] recognize genocide. The SGA will call for the University of North Carolina at Charlottes

[00:07:30] total divestment so UNCC's total divestment of funds from the state of Israel until at least

[00:07:37] the time in which the state of Israel arranges a ceasefire in Gaza and there are proper measures

[00:07:42] in place to hold the state of Israel and other party actors accountable for their role in the

[00:07:46] Palestinian genocide. By the way, nothing in here about any of the hostages being released.

[00:07:52] Nothing like that. Next up, the SGA will condemn the University of North Carolina at Charlottes

[00:08:00] prior investments into the state of Israel such as those in the Mount Zion Archaeological Project.

[00:08:11] I've been longsing a museum. Yeah, apparently they're doing a dig. Did you know this?

[00:08:25] UNCC has been doing a dig in Jerusalem. Yeah, so like I got to thank the the commies

[00:08:35] at UNCC because I had no idea. This is so cool. I had no idea that they were doing this.

[00:08:40] UNCC they've yeah, they're like leading the Mount Zion Archaeological Project.

[00:08:46] And so I went looking it up and it's like here's a stone cup that they found and it's got 10 lines

[00:08:51] of ancient cryptic hebraic script known from the Dead Sea Scrolls. It's on the inside of the cup.

[00:09:01] The stone cup and they made engravings of the words. They've got coins and ceramics

[00:09:08] from every period of habitation for three thousand years. By the way, you may want to sit down for

[00:09:19] this. Jews lived there like three thousand years ago. I know guys like holy smokes.

[00:09:30] If the pro-Palestinian people hear this they may go well even crazier. They may go even crazier.

[00:09:38] To find out that the land actually was settled by Jews like three thousand years ago. They were

[00:09:44] there. In fact, the site that they're digging it was a mansion owned by apparently a Jew.

[00:09:54] And they had all the and then they filled it all in. You know why? Because I got conquered

[00:10:00] and I got filled in. They filled it with dirt and they build houses on top of it. Now they're

[00:10:04] excavating. It's crazy. Thank you, commies. I never would have known about this like now I want to

[00:10:10] go see this thing. This is fantastic because this stuff dates back to the birth of Christ. Like

[00:10:15] there's stuff in there from when Christ was alive. It's fascinating stuff. I have a couple messages

[00:10:23] here from Terry. Pete, I may be able to forgive the ignorant, misinformed little socialists but

[00:10:32] never the deans and the dons that allow such nonsense to flourish under their noses.

[00:10:41] Dennis says I looked up UNC Charlotte student population. It is right at 30,000.

[00:10:46] Right? So 30,000 students and they got 514 to sign on to the petition.

[00:10:54] I mean, yeah. It's a movement people.

[00:11:02] Hello Pete. This is from Chip. Hello Pete. Each generation born is in effect an invasion

[00:11:10] of civilization by little barbarians who must be civilized before it's too late.

[00:11:16] That is a quote from Thomas soul. By the way, are you at all concerned that one day Pam is going to

[00:11:23] slip out of the traffic closet and pepper spray you? No. She would have done it already.

[00:11:30] She has already invaded the studio multiple times over the water cooler when we got the water

[00:11:37] cooler installed. And she started leading all of her people to the promised land here,

[00:11:46] bringing various tour groups into the studio during commercial breaks to give them hydration.

[00:11:53] So I think at that point she would have pepper sprayed me.

[00:12:00] But yes, the barbarians at the gate is yeah, those are like, right. That's the point is to raise

[00:12:05] kids that other people will want to be around when they get older. Otherwise what are you doing?

[00:12:13] Seriously, like what's the point of that? If you don't want like if you want to raise your

[00:12:18] kid to be a jerk that has no friends, who would want to do that? What kind of a monster does that?

[00:12:27] The student government. Oh, hang on a second. Let me get back to this.

[00:12:32] The website is called dig mount Zion dot charlotte dot edu. They have a whole overview.

[00:12:39] They got pictures and stuff. At the heart of the program is a summer study abroad course in

[00:12:45] Jerusalem for UNC Charlotte students. The purpose is to expose, examine and preserve all levels of

[00:12:54] habitation over the course of Jerusalem's 3000 year history. This site shows evidence of habitation

[00:13:02] from the modern period back all the way through Ottoman, Islamic, Crusader, Byzantine,

[00:13:11] and Roman and ancient israelite levels. The project is a unique opportunity for the city of

[00:13:18] Charlotte to have a historic presence in the old city. The mount Zion project advances research

[00:13:24] and teaching in the humanities by bringing together students, scholars and a diverse range of

[00:13:29] professionals in the study and practice of cultural transformation using the 2000 year window opened by

[00:13:36] our mount Zion archaeological excavation. As a reference point, we examine the global significance of

[00:13:42] questions raised by the past present future of this contested sacred city. Okay? Now there's another

[00:13:48] publication from biblical archaeology dot org. Two years after discovering the lower levels of

[00:13:57] a first century mansion in the old city, the Mount Zion archaeological team led by Shimon Gibson and

[00:14:04] James Taber of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. They have continued to excavate the site

[00:14:09] uncovering more of the mansion in the process during this summer's dig. This was by the way

[00:14:14] back in 2015, the team resumed their excavation. They found another vaulted room. They said not

[00:14:22] many buildings from first century Jerusalem have remained intact. Why? Because of the Romans.

[00:14:29] The Romans destroyed the city at the end of the first Jewish revolt in 70 CE and Roman emperor

[00:14:36] Hadrian's subsequent rebuilding, atop the ruins 65 years later. Then in the Byzantine period,

[00:14:45] the buildings were filled in so the area could be flattened so they could build houses and structures

[00:14:52] on top of it. That's why it was so well preserved. They literally filled in this mansion so they could

[00:14:59] build so it flatten the whole surrounding area because it's kind of on like a side of a hill kind

[00:15:04] of deal, so they flattened it all out and that's why they're finding all this stuff there now.

[00:15:10] So apparently the Marxists at UNC are like we shouldn't even be doing that. So just the Jews or

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[00:16:15] what's it called? Nine or time. Sorry, the nine or times. Nine or this is the school paper for

[00:16:23] UNCC and like I said, I'm not going to drag these student journalists here because they are

[00:16:31] students. They are learning and that's good. They did a decent job on the articles very

[00:16:37] lengthy. In depth has lots and lots of quotes and stuff. They did a good job.

[00:16:43] They've got a quote here from the SJSWA NA which is the social justice for North Africa and

[00:16:54] Southwest Asia group organization club. Did a club? I don't know. The SJSWA NA or the Sijus

[00:17:04] and they say UNCC refers to it as a park at the Mount Zion Gate which makes it about a 12-minute walk

[00:17:13] from the city of David archaeological park that has been displacing Palestinians in the area of

[00:17:21] Sylvain. Now when I first read this, I thought Holy cow. Wait a minute. So they're doing this dig

[00:17:29] and they've kicked out a bunch of Palestinians that were living in this Jewish mansion.

[00:17:35] But the Jewish mansion was covered with dirt so they didn't know it was there. They just like

[00:17:40] what evicted everybody and tore down their houses and all this stuff.

[00:17:45] According to an article published about the Mount Zion site, UNCC Charlotte is the only American

[00:17:51] University licensed to dig in Jerusalem. The Israel Antiquities Aparatai, the organization responsible

[00:17:59] for excavating and preserving all antiquities in Israel provided the license.

[00:18:08] Okay what about this site? Because when I first read it I was like well it sounds like they're

[00:18:14] getting evicted but then you read it again it says okay UNCC refers to it as a park at the Mount Zion

[00:18:20] Gate. That makes it about a 12-minute walk. Okay well a 12-minute walk is about a mile.

[00:18:27] Do you know that? Right? If you walk about three miles an hour. So 12 minutes at a slow pace,

[00:18:38] hilly terrain maybe it's like a mile, maybe half a mile, maybe three quarters of mile, whatever.

[00:18:43] It's not but it's not like it's right next door. It's a good distance away but whatever.

[00:18:48] But it's a 12-minute walk from the city of David archaeological park that has been displacing Palestinians.

[00:18:56] Oh wait a minute so the Mount Zion thing that UNCC is working on

[00:19:03] that's not displacing Palestinians, it's this other park that's like a mile away that's

[00:19:09] why exactly is UNCC supposed to now abandon this dig?

[00:19:14] Let me see here later on it says many in support of the petition feel that the Mount Zion project

[00:19:22] harms the Palestinian people. Okay many who oppose the petition feel the opposite. How about that?

[00:19:31] Is that okay? Like this is no. This is not the best way to say it and I would urge the authors

[00:19:41] to not use this kind of crutch in journalism going forward. The project has been described

[00:19:51] as colonial and something that displaces Palestinians by those who oppose it. Okay?

[00:19:59] But nobody actually was displaced, right? So here's the thing you can say that oh they're calling

[00:20:07] it colonial but what does that actually mean? Are you describing what that means and how they are

[00:20:12] using the term because I can make a really compelling case that the world's biggest colonists

[00:20:20] are Muslims. I am not aware actually of another religion or group of people united by a common bond

[00:20:32] that have spread their governance as rapidly and as far as Muslims have.

[00:20:40] I'm not saying that to insult them, right? I mean if anything you could say that that's pretty

[00:20:45] impressive, right? Spread Islam across all these continents just in a couple hundred years very fast.

[00:20:55] I mean if you want to get into some of the ways that they did that, okay fine.

[00:21:01] You know a couple of broken eggs here for the omelette null but yeah that's a colonialist mindset.

[00:21:09] That's a conquering mindset.

[00:21:13] Or is that a different kind of conquering? Oh wait a minute. Are you saying that only certain

[00:21:18] group of people can be colonialists and what would that be based on? Is it just skin color?

[00:21:25] Is that the idea here that only a certain race of people are able to be colonialists?

[00:21:32] Despite all of the evidence that all these other societies engaged in conquering colonialist activity too.

[00:21:41] The archaeological excavations by Israel in Palestine, well there you go. There's the

[00:21:47] there's the giveaway right there, the Sajjidawana or the club, the Air Force School Club.

[00:21:53] They call the excavations by Israel in Palestine. Like this is literally a Jewish aristocrats

[00:22:04] mansion that they're digging at Mount Zion, right? Dates back three thousand years before Islam,

[00:22:12] before Christ, right? And it was levelled by the Romans after the Jewish revolt.

[00:22:21] So because you have this belief that archaeological excavations by Israel in

[00:22:27] quote Palestine have been historically conducted illegally and through the confiscation of Palestinian

[00:22:33] property but not this site but some other sites so that's the connection here why UNCC should abandon

[00:22:40] its archaeological dig at Mount Zion. Kids, don't be stupid okay? I know you probably don't hear that

[00:22:47] often because you are of a certain generation where we protect your fragile psyches but you're being

[00:22:54] stupid okay? You're just this is stupid. Mount Zion says here according to Biteslem

[00:23:08] and Israeli human rights group 94 homes in the West Bank area where the Mount Zion project

[00:23:13] excavates have been demolished in 2024 leaving 87 people homeless but they don't say that it was

[00:23:21] directly due to this. Maybe it was maybe it was not I don't know but like 94 homes were torn down

[00:23:31] in order to excavate this project. Now I have heard an argument made that we are supposed to

[00:23:40] trace back to a certain period of time to know who owns the land right? I would submit that a

[00:23:49] three thousand year old mansion might be a pretty good indication of who owned that land first.

[00:23:57] Kids, don't be stupid like the kids in Maryland where representative Jamie Raskin

[00:24:10] went to give a speech at the University of Maryland and he got shouted down by these Marxists

[00:24:17] and then the Marxists got celebrated by the school for defending free speech.

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[00:25:46] I did see this I forgot to to give you this this information Brett Jensen breaking Brett Jensen

[00:25:52] you can catch his program here at seven o'clock on WBT um he had a statement that he put that he

[00:25:59] forwarded out on his Twitter feed Brett underscore Jensen and this came from UNC Charlotte

[00:26:05] um says student government this is from the administration student government association

[00:26:11] leadership has been counseled several times on the university's commitment to maintain institutional

[00:26:17] neutrality and encouraged to consider that in their requests of administrators this student

[00:26:24] government resolution does not align with that commitment and we will and will not be acted upon

[00:26:31] by the administration sga plays an important role in the life of the university and the

[00:26:37] university supports the rights of its students individually and collectively to freely express

[00:26:42] themselves in doing so however they neither speak for nor represent the position of u nc

[00:26:49] Charlotte u nc c embraces different perspectives and promotes civil discourse including and especially

[00:26:56] around difficult issues the university is committed to fostering those conversations

[00:27:01] in a manner that affords respect fairness and dignity to every member of the campus community

[00:27:06] and will immediately address any actions that compromise its ability to provide a safe environment

[00:27:10] to learn live and work so good for them good for u nc c um good for them for standing up and saying

[00:27:19] no we're not going to take up your silly little resolution we're not doing it good for them

[00:27:24] I mean they didn't say like that they were a little bit more diplomatic and respectful than I

[00:27:28] would be towards stupid children but uh you know they're they're revenue depends on stupid children so

[00:27:33] what the way it does though no it does let of course it does right because if they weren't

[00:27:40] if they were well informed adults they would not need to be in school right okay um i kid

[00:27:50] i kid i kid Jimmy raskin congressman the guy who led you know like all of the impeachments against

[00:27:59] Donald Trump right guy was set to give a speech at the University of Maryland the speech was

[00:28:08] titled democracy autocracy and the threat to reason in the 21st century and so as Byron

[00:28:17] York notes at the Washington examiner you can probably guess what it was going to be about right

[00:28:22] okay now that speech was scheduled to be delivered Thursday at university in Maryland now what could go

[00:28:28] wrong you're going to a college campus you're gonna bash the orange man right what's the problem

[00:28:37] well in this case raskin uh got a few sentences into his remarks before he was interrupted by

[00:28:45] the pro-Palestinian protesters who yelled that raskin is complicit in genocide

[00:28:53] in that moment the Israel Hamas war trumped trump and raskins prepared remarks went unspoken

[00:29:01] according to the capital news service raskin abandoned his speech and said okay okay fine

[00:29:09] how about we take some questions from the audience right like that okay fine you got this whole

[00:29:14] speech about democracy and Donald Trump and you're like they're all right and Raven screaming

[00:29:19] carrying on like lunatics okay hey kids how about we just do some q and a then you want to ask me

[00:29:24] about Israel and Hamas we talk about that whatever now that didn't work either they they continued

[00:29:30] screaming and yelling and carrying on finally the president Darrell pines stepped in to stop the

[00:29:36] speech uh just another bad day for the freedom of speech on college campuses um here's the thing

[00:29:42] though according to bion York the uh president seemed somewhat pleased by what happened quote

[00:29:50] raskin came here to speak about where our democracy is going in our country and what you saw play

[00:29:55] out was actually democracy and free speech and academic freedom no actually that no it was not

[00:30:03] that it wasn't a conversation it wasn't a difficult conversation right it wasn't that wasn't

[00:30:08] academic freedom it was the opposite all right that'll do it for this episode thank you so much

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