Name: Adam CLASHES With Ritchie Torres On College Antisemitism Debate
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Adam CLASHES With Ritchie Torres On College Antisemitism Debate' from TAFS Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-08-28. Transcript available.

a big topic nowadays is campus act anti-semitism yeah you've spoken out
against it I just want to know what you identify as the examples of this type
of
anti-semitism and elite academic institution yeah so there were students
at a cuny hello yeah where you had a violent what I thought was an aggressive
mob following them to a kosher restaurant in the heart of New York City
and what were they doing the mob what was the mob doing just following them and
then barricaded the restaurant and you're like chanting holding hurled insults
at
the patrons and slamming the windows you know much of it is captured in video
footage yeah you know harassing people simply for being pro-israel Jews to me
is wrong is there any other examples like there's a restaurant I mean it's just
like
all we're hearing about it it's campus anti-semitism radical radical
like is there a link between Hamas and the protests like has is that
established
there are students who have faced harassment and intimidation because of
their beliefs there are students who feel inhibited from expressing their
Jewish or Zionist identity because of the atmosphere of intimidation or
harassment on college campuses you should speak to this how have they but how
are
they inhibited I just explained it to me because I I hear about campus anti-semitism
but it it's not really explained ever and I just like I mean I explained it I
just
explained that I think that's an aggressive mob I think aggressive mob
following
students and harassing them and hurling insults and barricading this is on the
news
every day it's not on the news it's on the news not on they asked the mayor of
New York
city because the Democratic primary that this was like front and center like Zoran
was like are you denying that there's any campus anti-semitism or I well I'll
give you an example
um I I know a younger person that is went to UCLA and was attacked it is Jewish
it was with a group of
Jewish people on at the at a protest and they were attacked by the proud boys
okay that's anti-semitic that's an anti-semitic incident no but the proud boys
were there for
Israel and those are the guys that did Charlottesville are there for Israel
yeah
I mean I think of the proud boys is like white nationalists and white supremacists
I'm telling you right now
who are anti-Israel but okay listen I'm a I'm like a comedian right like I hate
when comedians
especially on the internet like speak with from a position of authority with
like about um crap that
they don't know about you know this is one topic I feel like I can speak on and
uh it
on college campus anti-semitism no on on uh on anti-semitism and in general
because you haven't
been in college hello probably two decades right I'm telling you on my
experience of anti-semitism
the last two years but uh the last two years have felt different in America and
um I don't know if
you've been on Twitter recently now a ton of people are questioning the
validity of the holocaust
having happened yes can you tell me with a straight face that that's those are
the 18 year old
kids at Columbia that are doing that the 8 year old kids at Columbia are they
doing those posts about
about the holocaust never having existed you know who's doing it no we disagree
here you think that
it's the so I didn't you don't put words in my mouth it's it's it's people on
the right I let me
tell you you're suggesting that there's you're suggesting there's no you're
suggesting there's
no one on the far left that denies the holocaust or downplays the holocaust
that's an upset what are
you you're doing moot court right now I'm telling you what it's like to be my
experience being
Jewish but there are others who have a different I'm trying to see you're uh
why why is one better
than the other why is one more important than the other I'm trying to share
with you you're the
government I don't get a chance to talk of course okay um I think hatred of
Jewish people has exploded
in this country and I don't think it's I think it's because it's of our support
of what looks to
be an absolute brutality and I think that if you think that's a justification
for anti-semitism
here's the thing is like Israeli government policies are justification for anti-semitism
my
view is there's no justification for anti-semitism I think that there's zero
justification for anti-semitism
okay you're deflecting again I'm not deflecting that's my position what does it
look like to have
a flag with a Jewish star and I'm Jewish and for kids to be starving right now
and why is my government
I don't want to do this fight let's not do like a yelling at each other thing I
really just for me
it's for me I had the the experience of it just sounds like you're justifying
anti-semitism which
making me feel like are you crazy right now okay why would I do that you're
telling you're doing the
I'm Hamas thing I'm not saying you're not a winner but it's I'm not I think
there should be
different we'll do a different attack Israeli government policy should have no
bearing on
if if you have disagreements with the Israeli government you should voice your
criticism of the Israeli government but there is no justification for intimidation
or harassment
against American Jews I'm telling you as a Jew right now that it that we are
receiving a lot
more hate because of what the people with the flag that has a Jewish star on
are doing to other people
right now that might and I'm telling you as a Jewish person what how painful it
is for us to say
and it hurts my stomach to say this so you're gonna say I disagree I disagree
that this is a genocide
and that hurts to say that a Jew could do that it hurts because we grew up with
it with learning
about what hatred is we we grew up learning about this and the same year the
state of Israel was
established in 1948 the the world saw the Holocaust and they established
standards for what a genocide is
it was the same year and the world said that this shouldn't be a thing that
happens you know and
and I just wonder like like it doesn't make sense to me like like what like I
don't know it it doesn't
track to me why there's this fixation with kids at a school that and two
examples of people at a restaurant
that that but there was banging two examples I mean there are there are surveys
on it give me the
read the EDL surveys on it because it's hard it's hard for me to talk about
this in public
clearly I mean you're it's you're being a dick that's me