Kelly: Why are pro-Palestine protesters `homely?'
Megyn Kelly did not hold back when she addressed the pro-Palestinian protesters at Columbia University.
A student protest movement has rippled across North America in response to the ongoing Israel-Hamas war. This week, New York City police burst into an administration building protesters had taken over and made dozens of arrests.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said it “was a beautiful thing to watch” police raid a Columbia University building occupied by pro-Palestinian students referring to the protesters as “raging lunatics and Hamas sympathizers.”
Kelly took an altogether different tone as she wondered why all of the “little snowflakes” occupying Hamilton Hall on the campus were so “unattractive.”
“The student group behind the encampment posted on social media that the Hamilton Hall had been taken over by a quote `an autonomous group of Columbia community members.' What does that mean?” Kelly said.
“Yesterday, a deadline set by Columbia's president for the encampment to be disbanded came and went. And now Columbia is vowing to suspend the students inside the encampment, but it seems they want to hand out the punishments in private. So as not to embarrass the little snowflakes who are acting so tough.”
Kelly added: “I'm telling you, they're dumb and or unattractive, take it to the bank ... I really legitimately want to know. Why are all the protesters so homely?”
Students protesting the conflict are demanding for an immediate ceasefire in the war and want to see their universities cutting ties with companies that provide military aid to Israel.
Kelly then showed a clip in which a Jewish American student was blocked by a masked group from going to class and another that showed a scholar being threatened with a taser.
“So to recap, students get to ram into universities, ransack them, claim academic halls for themselves, rename them, restrict the movements of others on campus, prevent them from attending class, all without any swift repercussions whatsoever,” she said.
As she spoke with attorneys Julian Epstein and Lexie Rigden about the disrupters receiving food and “tins of cupcakes” from sympathizers, the conservative pundit suggested that the agitators need “some coverup and some Ozempic.”
Kelly the said “attractive” and “smart” peers of the “unattractive” protesters because they're too busy “being successful.”
“It's the unattractive and or dumb people who feel the need to do this to feel like they matter. Sorry, hard truth,” she said.
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Kelly's comments sparked a myriad of comments. “Do these kids have parents??? I'd be out of my mind if my child was doing this on her campus,” one person commented, while another encouraged Kelly to “stick to the facts and principles, not mean girl attacks on people's appearances.”
Since April 18, more than 1,000 people have been arrested at more than 25 campuses in the U.S., according to CNN. Pro-Palestinian protests have also disrupted Canadian universities.