Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani visited Columbia University — and slammed protesters as he called for President Minouche Shafik to resign over her handling of the crisis.
“I think these are terribly misguided people,” Giuliani, 79, said on his 77 WABC show.
He also shared footage online of himself in the passenger seat of a car that slowly crawled down one of the crowded streets near Columbia’s Morningside Heights campus.
Giuliani was seen wearing an American flag-printed shirt and a Yankees cap as he passed by protesters holding signs and tried to speak with media outlets who approach the open window.
The reporters were shoved away by NYPD Community Affairs officers, which prompted Giuliani to scoff that they must be a creature of [Mayor Eric] Adams.”
The former “America’s Mayor” recapped the visit during his Tuesday night broadcast, during which he asked listeners “who hates Jews more, Harvard or Columbia?”
“[Columbia has] to beat Harvard at something, so I guess they figured they gotta beat them at Jewish hatred,” Giuliani scoffed, referring to the Gaza Solidarity Encampment that has effectively shut down the Morningside Heights campus.
Giuliani also called university president Minouche Shafik as “a hateful person,” and even played what appeared to be a decades-old clip of the economist discussing terrorism in the Middle East.
“She’s earned herself a major league firing,” he said of Shafik’s controversial testimony before Congress on campus antisemitism last Wednesday.
Shafik is currently facing criticism and calls to resign from both sides of issue, particularly in the wake of her decision to allow NYPD onto campus to arrest 108 protesters at the encampment on Thursday.
During his Tuesday radio show, Giuliani pointed out that he has historically supported Americans’ right to protest – and even bizarrely boasted that he once allowed the Ku Klux Klan to exercise their First Amendment rights in New York City.
Even so, he said, “I never had this kinda crap when I was mayor,” referring to the campus protests.