Michael Roth

Since the Second World War, at least, the government has recognized that by subsidizing research, the country as a whole benefits through the discovery of vaccines, through the discovery of new technologies that will be used in commerce, through the discovery of new drugs that can be used for the treatment of diabetes or cancer.

As one of the most out-Jewish presidents in a secular institution in the United States, I find it extremely distressing to see the legitimate efforts to stamp out antisemitism joined to these other efforts to actually make people align with the ideology or the whims of the leader. And I think it's really an abuse of anti-antisemitism.

If you have an opinion that the Secretary of State disagrees with, that's not a threat to national security. The threat to national security is becoming a country that people from other countries are afraid to visit. The idea that these students are serious threats to the foreign policy of the United States is absurd.

And what's really a threat to the foreign policy of the United States is when people see how inconsistent and how lawless the government's been acting.