Mark Levin Decimates 'Stupid' CNN Host for Defending Harvard's Fostering of Antisemitism, 'Racist DEI'

There's a reason Fox News host Sean Hannity refers to fellow-conservative and good friend Mark Levin as "The Great One." When Levin, host of Sunday's "Life, Liberty & Levin" on Fox, goes after someone, he goes after someone.

On Sunday's episode of his popular show, Levin ripped into both CNN and Harvard University over the Ivy League school's tolerance -- if not outright promotion -- of antisemitic activities against Jewish students on its campuses.

At issue for Levin was when Dr. Mark Goldfeder, CEO of the National Jewish Advocacy Center and the attorney litigating against green card holder and Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil, was invited on CNN in mid-April, and the panel — composed of TDD-riddled Jake Tapper, former Fox News contributor Margaret Hoover, and her husband, John Avlon, a former CNN senior political analyst and anchor — had every intention of humiliating him.

Just one problem.

Goldfeder was having none of it, easily turning the tables on the left-wing hacks. And on Sunday, Levin took a look back at CNN's disgrace — and piled on the segment even harder.

First, here's part of what Goldfeder told the CNN panel:

The sense of entitlement here is just disgusting. First of all, it's absolutely clear that the U.S. Supreme Court has already held that a charitable organization, including specifically a university, can lose its tax-exempt status if they are violating fundamental policy
The reality here is that elite universities are undermining confidence in the entire sector. Jewish students are being harassed and assaulted, and elite university administrators have done nothing to stop it, including at Harvard. Financial incentives seem to be the only lever that we can pull to stop the racist and anti-Semitic conduct on their campuses.

Goldfeder was referencing a 1983 case in which the Supreme Court ruled 8-1 that the IRS had authority to deny tax-exempt status to Bob Jones University, Goldsboro Christian School, and other private and religious schools with racially discriminatory educational policies.

Welp, as one might imagine, that reference sent the CNN panel into histrionic meltdown in a nanosecond.

Avlon spat venom as he fired back:

You're comparing Harvard University to Bob Jones University, which lost its tax-exempt status because it forbid interracial dating? I just want to be clear that's your official position, right?

When Goldfeder said "Yes," Avlon smirked and lost it even more: “Super, that’s gonna go down real well. Sounds really equivalent.”

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Goldfeder kept his cool as he brilliantly responded, tossing in a dagger at Harvard for good measure:

Harvard has $53 billion in its endowment. ... Dip into your endowment or stop discriminating. If you want to keep discriminating, you have plenty of money that you raised over the years, and anything that the U.S. cuts off, I'm sure Qatar will fill right in.

Ouch. And likely truer than not.

Levin weighed in on the exchange:

Goldfeder’s point, Levin explained, is that “if you're so worried about hospitals and research, why don't you use some of your 53 friggin’ billion dollars and do something about it? Why are Mr. and Mrs. America — almost none of whom go to Harvard … subsidizing the highest of the Ivy League colleges,” especially when it promotes dangerous anti-Semitism and racist DEI policies on its campus?
“All they have to do is stop with this DEI, which is racist ... and stop the anti-Semitism! Is this really so hard?” Levin asked.
He also pointed out that Avlon “wouldn't have that stupid smirk on his face” if, instead of Jewish students, it was black students being harassed on campus.

There it is.

If black students were harassed on university campuses anywhere in America, the left would totally lose their minds in angry response. While Democrats would be right in doing so, presuming such harassment was actually happening, the rub is the left's blatant hypocrisy in its embrace of antisemitism and threats against Jewish people in general.

Levin continued:

You have Jewish kids on campus who are being violently threatened, who are being harmed, in some cases running for their safety. That is very serious. If we had black kids on campus running for their safety, locking themselves in libraries, locking themselves in dorm rooms ... you'd be hearing very different stories than you hear from this guy with a smirk on his face.
That guy Avlon is a disgrace. His wife's sitting there like a bobblehead, and Jake Tapper — he's a disgrace too. No group, minority or majority, should be treated the way the Jews are being treated on these college campuses. Period.

Period, indeed.

The ugliness of antisemitism has increasingly reared its vile head as Israel continues its war against the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas on one front, and the Lebanese Shia Islamist paramilitary group Hezbollah on another. Yet all that indoctrinated groupthink college students, programmed by left-wing professors, can do is sport pro-Hamas gear and chant "Death to the Jews."

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As Spanish-American philosopher and essayist George Santayana famously said, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

While often true in general, antisemitism and "Jew hatred" have never gone away. Perhaps even more disturbing, it now flourishes on the American left -- the same left that scaremongers about the intolerance of President Donald Trump. Go figure.

Levin played a longer clip of the exchange on his Sunday show.