Columbia Professor: Protest Leader Saying ‘Zionists Don’t Deserve to Live’ Not Representative of the Things I’ve Heard in the Encampment

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ROBBINS: “For example, I do not think that genocidal discourse should be permissible on campus because that would genuinely be intimidating for anybody targeted by that -- that discourse. But when I say that when I feel it, and I do feel it as somebody who has been verbally and physically assaulted by anti-Semites, I just don't think there has been any genocidal talk at this encampment. I realized -- all right, the exception would be the one thing that everybody has heard about the young -- the young man who said he wanted to -- that Zionists didn't have the right to live. He said this three months before the encampment, he apologized for it afterwards. It was -- it was not representative of the things that I have heard in the encampment." [crosstalk]