In response to the protests at universities and growing anti-Semitism today, the Prime Minister called a roundtable meeting in Downing Street.
He wants to stamp out anti-Semitism. He wants our universities to be bastions of tolerance. We were a bit late old son on that one.
I've been saying for some years that I felt that our universities in this country had become madrassas of Marxism. Well, I think we can throw racism into the pot now as well.
I am pretty unimpressed by all of them last night. This is hard to believe, actually. The National Union of Students voted to expel the Union of Jewish Students.
Nigel Farage shares his thoughts on protests at the Cambridge Union
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Quite unbelievable that it happened. Even more unbelievable how little coverage that story has had today across the breadth of mainstream media.
And then last night at the Cambridge Union, a good friend of mine, Peter Thiel. He's an American billionaire entrepreneur. He and Elon Musk together launched PayPal just over 20 years ago. Peter Thiel was speaking at a Cambridge Union debate.
When Peter Thiel tried to leave, he was literally stopped from leaving the university in his car.
People blocking the road, waving their Palestinian flags, and a distinguished foreign guest who'd accepted an invitation unpaid, of course, to go and speak at the Cambridge Union.
Well, I've no doubt he'll never, ever go there again. You know, for the last five years, Cambridge University have asked me to go and speak at the union every single year.
I've said no every time, having seen what happened there last night, I'm right not to go.
Who in their right minds would ever now go to have a free speech open debate at the Cambridge Union?
Which brings into question what the point of universities actually is.
In America, many of these protests have been stopped, and it's fine for people to protest, but not to put up permanent camps, not to start using language that is, frankly, openly, easily visible as anti-Semitism.
I do believe in free speech. I do believe in the right to protest. But I think these protests should be stopped, as they have been at many American universities.