Fox News host and commentator Jesse Watters launched into a rant that stunned many on ‘The Five’ Wednesday, saying ‘we’ve had it with them’ in addressing Arab Americans who have ripped down posters of Israeli hostages.
There have been numerous stories of people who support Palestine ripping down the posters of people who were taken by Hamas after the shock terror attack that killed 1,400.
Watters stopped the show cold as they discussed another instance of tearing down posters Wednesday: ‘I want to say something about Arab Americans and about the Muslim world.’
He said that ‘we – and when I say we, I mean, the West and Western technology’ have ‘made them rich’ in the Middle East by harvesting oil and funding their militaries, going as far as to say ‘we kill their terrorists.’
‘But we’ve had it. We’ve had it with them,’ Watters declared, calling the Middle East ‘that stupid desert’ that presidents dating back to Biden have tried to get out of.
Fox News host and commentator Jesse Watters launched into a rant that stunned many on ‘The Five’ Wednesday, saying ‘we’ve had it with them’ in addressing Arab Americans who have ripped down posters of Israeli hostages
‘Just as we’re about to get out, because we have this great balance of power we’re arranging, these crazy Muslim fanatics come in and massacre over a thousand of our allies and hold Jewish people hostage, hold Americans hostage,’ he said.
‘And so, if you are an Arab American in this country and you ripped down posters of Jewish hostages, American hostages, no! No, no, no.’
He finished his rant by saying that ‘someone is gonna get punched in the face. When you rip down posters of the hostages like that.’
Watters was ripped on social media by many liberals, including those supportive of Israel’s response to the attacks.
‘How can Jesse Watters’ mother continue to stick by this monster?’ asked Norman Ornstein, referencing Watters’ banter with his Democrat mother on his primetime Fox News show.
CNN’s Wajahat Ali, himself a Muslim-American, wrote: ‘1.7 billion of us. Sorry. Hard to kill us all. Also why would you? We make your life delicious.’
Some complained that Watters had been taken out of context, with one user on X saying: ‘Nice job posting out of context quotes and calling people racist. This is why no one trusts you.’
‘The “…” is doing a lot of lifting there. They are talking about people taking down flyers of kidnapping victims,’ added another, responding to a headline that appeared to make it look like Watters was addressing all Arab Americans.
There have been numerous stories of people who support Palestine ripping down the posters of people who were taken by Hamas after the shock terror attack that killed 1,400
A George Mason student was caught on camera taking down a poster appealing for the release of a Thai man kidnapped by Hamas. She said the poster was ‘propaganda’
The confrontations are being played out on campuses nationwide, with the eight Ivy League universities in particular roiled by unrest.
Antisemitic incidents in the U.S. increased nearly 400 percent in the days after the October 7 attacks by Hamas, according to the Anti-Defamation League.
At Yale, a student journalist who wrote an op-ed about the October 7 attacks was shocked to find that the editors had removed sections of her text.
‘Editor’s note, correction, Oct. 25: This column has been edited to remove unsubstantiated claims that Hamas raped women and beheaded men,’ they wrote.
Body camera footage filmed by the Hamas terrorists themselves, and retrieved from their bodies, shows them beheading a man.
NBC News, which was shown the footage, reported on October 27 that a group of Hamas terrorists argue over who gets to cut off the head of a Thai man who was killed while working in Israel. One of the attackers then struggles to chop off his head with a hoe.
On Sunday night, threats to shoot Jewish students at the 104 West building, which houses their kosher dining hall, were posted online.
Other messages encouraged others to harm Jews, according to the school’s student newspaper, The Cornell Daily Sun.
Callen Zimmerman, a graduate student at Stony Brook University and previously was listed as an adjunct professor at York College
New York State police have increased their security on Cornell’s campus following the threats.
On Monday, Kathy Hochul, the governor of New York, called those who made threats against Jewish students at Cornell ‘terrorists’, and warned that anyone making threats ‘will get no refuge.’
Cornell student Patrick Dai was brought into federal court Wednesday morning in shackles after he confessed to making heinous threats against Jews after FBI agents traced his IP address to campus and his hometown.