Radicalization of Students Is ‘Threat to the United States’ and Other Democracies

On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends,” Columbia Business School Professor Ran Kivetz said that college students have been radicalized on faculty campuses “for decades now” and “it’s a real long-term threat to the United States and to democracies all over the world.”

Kivetz mentioned he’s “not surprised” to see some members of the college siding with pro-Hamas demonstrators, and “some of my colleagues at Columbia have been doing this for decades now. And so, I’m not surprised at all.”

He added that folks on campus “were celebrating what Hamas did…on October 12, just a few days after October 7. Israel was not anywhere close to Gaza at that point. Israel was, unfortunately, picking up body parts in southern Israel, and they were doing a rally…literally celebrating Hamas and what they call the achievements, the victory of the ‘resistance.’ But, no, I’m not surprised at all, I’ve seen at Columbia and other campuses for decades now the radicalization of our youth. These will be the future leaders in America. I think it’s a real long-term threat to the United States and to democracies all over the world.”