Daniel Haqiqatjou
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So it's always I'm on the, you know, I have the disadvantage.
They have the home field advantage.
Yeah.
You might have to start rolling with security, man.
Oh, there was one because there was an event that I did last year.
It was a talk at Queens College in Brooklyn, New York.
And it was a lecture that the student group, the Muslim student group wanted me to give on Judaism and Israel.
And there was a huge backlash trying to prevent me from having a platform to speak.
And even the president of Queens College by name called me out and denounced me and condemned me.
Holy crap.
we're going to have, there's going to be this speaker who's going to come, Daniel Hayratu on our campus.
And he is like the worst of the worst.
We completely disapprove, but because of freedom of speech, we can't, we can't cancel it.
So there was security at that event from the university, like the university, because there were Jewish groups who were protesting and even like picketing outside, like with a huge Israeli flag and like handing out flyers, like Daniel's a menace, like Daniel is this, whatever.
So there was like four security guards surrounding me because I was sitting like at the front to give the lecture.
And there was like a huge police officer standing right next to me.
That's nuts.
Yeah, they have a lot of donors.
They have a lot of wealthy donors that can pull the plug.
Their board of trustees, often it's like at the highest level, such that even the president has to answer to someone above him or the deans.