White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt ripped into New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, the self-described &#8220;Democratic Socialist&#8221; who bested disgraced former Governor Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) in the Democratic primary.
Leavitt addressed the controversy surrounding Mamdani — which has even some Democrats worried about the optics of endorsing him — and made it clear that, in the White House&#8217;s opinion, Mamdani was just another manifestation of the Democratic Party&#8217;s efforts to undermine &#8220;the very fabric of our country.&#8221;
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🚨<a href="https://twitter.com/PressSec?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@PressSec</a> BASHES Mayoral Candidate Zohran Mamdani:
&#8220;The Democrats are DOUBLING DOWN on craziness and radical policies that are undermining the very fabric of our country&#8230;Zohran Mamdani&#8230;a communist who proudly calls to defund the police, pedals anti-Semitism, praises… <a href="https://t.co/HUVT9JFlNi">pic.twitter.com/HUVT9JFlNi</a>
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&#8220;The Democrats are doubling down on craziness and radical policies that are undermining the very fabric of our country,&#8221; she began. &#8220;Just look at the Democrat nominee for New York City Mayor, Zohran Mamdani He&#8217;s a Democrat Socialist — really a communist — who proudly calls to defund the police, peddles antisemitism, praises pro-Hamas groups, wants Israel abolished, and believes wealthy Americans should not exist.&#8221;
&#8220;Those are his words, just as recent as this weekend,&#8221; Leavitt continued, referencing Mamdani&#8217;s appearance on NBC&#8217;s &#8220;Meet the Press.&#8221; During that interview, in spite of the fact that host Kristen Welker gave him three opportunities to do so, Mamdani could not being himself to condemn the phrase &#8220;globalize the intifada&#8221; — a phrase that Welker correctly explained was a call to violence against Jewish people. Mamdani shrugged off the question, claiming that he did not think it was his place to &#8220;police&#8221; the language others might choose.
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Mamdani&#8217;s history of backing anti-Israel protests and the &#8220;Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions&#8221; (BDS) against Israel may be what has even some New York Democrats feeling squeamish about offering their endorsement.
Rep. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/spin-cycle-how-do-you-solve-a-problem-like-mamdani">Hakeem Jeffries</a> (D-NY), whose district is 11% Jewish, told ABC News host Jonathan Karl on &#8220;This Week&#8221; that he didn&#8217;t know Mamdani well enough to endorse him right away.
&#8220;Globalizing the Intifada, by way of example, is not an acceptable phrasing,&#8221; Jeffries explained. &#8220;He’s going to have to clarify his position on that as he moves forward. With respect to the Jewish communities that I represent, I think our nominee is going to have to convince folks that he is prepared to aggressively address the rise in antisemitism in the city of New York, which has been an unacceptable development.&#8221;

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'The Democrats Are Doubling Down On Craziness': Leavitt Smokes Zohran Mamdani In Daily Presser

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Mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani (D-NYC) would not condemn the expressly anti-Israel call to &#8220;globalize the intifada,&#8221; despite being asked three times whether he would do so.
Host Kristen Welker posed the question, several times over, during Mamdani&#8217;s Sunday morning interview on NBC News&#8217; &#8220;Meet the Press,&#8221; where she correctly pointed out that the phrase is a call for violence against the Jewish people — and the self-described Democratic Socialist could not bring himself to condemn the phrase.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/kwelkernbc?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@kwelkernbc</a> to Mamdani:
Do you condemn that phrase, Globalize the Intifada?
But do you actually condemn it..which a lot of people hear as a call to violence against Jews?
For the people who .. feel really concerned by that phrase, why not just condemn it?
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&#8220;You were recently asked about the term ‘globalize the intifada,’ if it makes you uncomfortable. In that moment you did not condemn the phrase. Now, just so folks understand, it’s a phrase that many people hear as a call to violence against Jews. There’s been a lot of attention on this issue, so I want to give you an opportunity to respond here and now,&#8221; Welker said, setting up the question. &#8220;Do you condemn that phrase ‘globalize the intifada?'&#8221;
Mamdani gave a long reply, and while he claimed that was not the &#8220;language&#8221; that he personally would choose, he also did not condemn the phrase. Instead, he said that he believed &#8220;freedom and justice and safety are things that, to have meaning, have to be applied to all people, and that includes Israelis and Palestinians as well.&#8221;
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&#8220;But do you actually condemn it?&#8221; Welker repeated. &#8220;I think that’s the question and the outstanding issue that a number of people, both of the Jewish faith and beyond, have. Do you condemn that phrase, ‘globalize the intifada,’ which a lot of people hear as a call to violence against Jews?&#8221;
Mamdani pivoted to attack Trump, and claimed he didn&#8217;t believe it was a mayor&#8217;s job to &#8220;police&#8221; the speech of the people.
&#8220;But very quickly, for the people who care about the language and who feel really concerned by that phrase, why not just condemn it?&#8221; Welker asked a third time.
Jabbing at Trump once again, Mamdani dodged the question entirely and said, &#8220;My concern is to start to walk down the line of language and making clear what language I believe is permissible or impermissible takes me into a place similar to that of the president, who is looking to do those very kinds of things. Ultimately, it’s not language that I use. It’s language I understand there are concerns about.&#8221;

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Given Three Chances, Zohran Mamdani Won’t Condemn Calls To ‘Globalize The Intifada’

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Syrian-born anti-Israel activist Mahmoud Khalil, released from detention despite alleged Hamas <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/anti-israel-activist-detained-by-ice-led-activities-aligned-to-hamas-trumps-dhs-says">ties</a>, vowed on Saturday to continue anti-Israel protests while appearing alongside Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) at a New Jersey airport.
Khalil, 30, spent 104 days in a Lousina detention center after his March 8 arrest, as the Trump administration sought to deport the Columbia student for allegedly engaging in activities &#8220;aligned to Hamas,&#8221; the Palestinian terrorist group responsible for the October 7, 2023, attacks on Israel.
Immediately upon his Friday release following a court order from U.S. District Judge Michael Farbiarz, Khalil <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/06/21/us-news/anti-israel-protestor-mahmoud-khalil-makes-emotional-return-home-embraces-wife-and-holds-telling-press-conference-with-aoc/?utm_campaign=nypost&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter">bashed</a> the U.S.-funded “genocide” in Gaza, and even vowed to fight for the rights of the “incredible men” he was imprisoned with in Louisiana, per the New York Post.
&#8220;The U.S. government is funding this genocide, and Columbia University is investing in this genocide,&#8221; Khalil declared at the airport. &#8220;This is what I was protesting. This is what I will continue to protest with every one of you. Not only if they threaten me with detention, even if they would kill me, I would still speak up for Palestine.&#8221;
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who joined Khalil at Newark Liberty International Airport alongside his wife and their newborn son, claimed the allegations against Khalil were politically motivated.
&#8220;Because Mahmoud Khalil is an advocate for Palestinian human rights, he has been accused, baselessly, of horrific allegations, simply because the Trump administration and our overall establishment disagrees with his political speech,&#8221; the congresswoman claimed to reporters. “We will continue to resist the politicization and the continued political persecution that ICE is engaged in.”
The conditions of Khalil&#8217;s bail included surrendering his passport and travel restrictions limiting him to New York, New Jersey, Michigan, to visit his family, Washington, D.C., and Louisiana, where his immigration trial will be held.
Khalil graduated from Columbia in December, where Secretary of State Marco Rubio accused him of leading “antisemitic protests and disruptive activities, which fosters a hostile environment for Jewish students in the United States,” as The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/judge-rules-columbias-pro-hamas-agitator-mahmoud-khalil-can-be-deported">reported</a>.
“Condoning antisemitic conduct and disruptive protests in the United States would severely undermine that significant foreign policy objective,” Rubio added, citing the 1952 Immigration and Naturalization Act, which authorizes the U.S. Secretary of State to deport anyone whose continued residence in the country “would have serious adverse foreign policy consequences.&#8221;
Defense attorneys for Khalil celebrated the Syrian’s release as a “significant and important victory,&#8221; per the Post.
The Trump administration is <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/anti-israel-activist-mahmoud-khalil-released-following-judges-order">appealing</a> Judge Farbiarz’s preliminary injunction and Khalil&#8217;s release on bail to the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals.

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The U.S. Capitol Police said on Friday that authorities arrested the 36-year-old Ohio man accused of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jewish-congressman-run-off-the-road-by-deranged-man-who-waved-palestinian-flag">threatening</a> Rep. Max Miller (R-OH), who is Jewish, by running him &#8220;off the road&#8221; while waving a Palestinian flag.
Feras S. Hamdan was arrested on charges of aggravated menacing after Rep. Miller revealed on Thursday that &#8220;the life of me and my family was threatened&#8221; in a brush with &#8220;blatant antisemitic violence.&#8221; The suspected antisemitic threat against Miller took place while the congressman was driving with his family in Rocky River, Ohio.
“In less than 24 hours, the USCP received notification of a threat against a Member of Congress, had boots on the ground, collaborated with the local police department, and the suspect in the case was arrested that same evening,&#8221; said Capitol Police Acting Chief Sean Gallagher. “This case is a prime example of the USCP’s stance towards threats against our elected officials. We will continue to have a zero-tolerance policy.”
Miller reported the incident to the Capitol Police and the Rocky River Police Department. He later posted a video on social media, describing what happened, as The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jewish-congressman-run-off-the-road-by-deranged-man-who-waved-palestinian-flag">reported</a>.
“Some unhinged, deranged man decided to lay on his horn and run me off the road when he couldn’t get my attention to show me the Palestinian flag, not to mention ‘Death to Israel,’ death to me — that he wanted to kill me — and my family,” he said.
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The deranged hatred in this country has gotten out of control. Today I was run off the road in Rocky River, and the life of me and my family was threatened by a person who proceeded to show a Palestinian flag before taking off. I have filed a police report with Capitol Police and… <a href="https://t.co/H6JnupcRIA">pic.twitter.com/H6JnupcRIA</a>
— Max Miller (@MaxMillerOH) <a href="https://twitter.com/MaxMillerOH/status/1935778720855241020?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 19, 2025</a></blockquote>
According to the criminal complaint, Hamdan — driving a black Tesla — pulled up next to Miller&#8217;s vehicle while they were on the road and showed him a picture of a Palestinian flag on his phone, Fox 8 <a href="https://fox8.com/news/i-team/i-team-westlake-man-charged-with-threatening-u-s-rep-max-miller-and-his-family-in-rocky-river/">reported</a>. He also yelled &#8220;death to Israel,&#8221; along with other antisemitic slurs, per the criminal complaint.
The Rocky River Police Department said in a <a href="https://www.facebook.com/100064703557583/posts/1158636719636436/?mibextid=wwXIfr&amp;rdid=rZAse8aDk6K0KCUK#">statement</a> on Friday that Hamden had driven away by the time officers responded to Miller&#8217;s 911 call. The police department added that Hamden later &#8220;voluntarily turned himself in &#8230; and is awaiting a court appearance.&#8221;
Miller added in his video: “I will continue to fight against antisemitism, Islamophobia, and all other forms of hate. You have an issue? Take it to our office. You want to run me off the road? That’s a different story. We know who you are, young man, and the police are going to be paying you a visit.”
Daniel Chaitin contributed to this report.

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Hundreds of activists attempting to march into Gaza this week in an attention-seeking, anti-Israel stunt were arrested and deported by Egpytian authorities before they made it to Gaza.
Around 200 activists from 80 countries were detained by Egyptian authorities on Thursday, according to one of the activists organizing the march, the Associated Press <a href="https://apnews.com/article/egypt-gaza-activists-march-blocked-rafah-sinai-917954d224c95b12f2550f5bde7f92af">reported</a>. Most of those arrested and deported were Algerians and Moroccans, while some were from the United States, Australia, Netherlands, France, and Spain. On Friday, dozens more anti-Israel activists were detained or deported as authorities stopped vehicles along the Sinai Peninsula, which leads to Rafah, according to <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/egypt-deports-dozens-more-foreign-nationals-heading-march-gaza-2025-06-13/">Reuters</a>.
Israel warned on Wednesday that the march posed a threat to regional security and instructed its military to prevent any demonstrators from entering Gaza, The Times of Israel <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/egyptian-authorities-detain-hundreds-of-activists-planning-march-to-gaza/">reported</a>. The Israeli government urged Egypt &#8220;to prevent the arrival of jihadist protesters at the Egypt-Israel border,&#8221; arguing that they “would endanger the safety of [Israeli] soldiers and will not be allowed.”
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A spokesman for the anti-Israel demonstrators said the marchers would wait for more clarity from the Egyptian government before attempting to march into Gaza. Libyan authorities stopped more demonstrators traveling with an aid convoy on Thursday before they reached the Egyptian border. Libya urged demonstrators to “engage in proper coordination with the official Libyan authorities through legal and diplomatic channels to ensure the safety of all participants and uphold the principles of solidarity with the Palestinian people.”
The arrests and deportations of the anti-Israel activists attempting to enter Gaza came days after Israeli forces <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/greta-thunbergs-flotilla-circled-by-israeli-forces-en-route-to-gaza?author=Kassy+Akiva&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=IDF+Intercepts+Greta+Thunberg%E2%80%99s+Freedom+Flotilla%3A+%E2%80%98The+Show+Is+Over%E2%80%99">detained</a> leftist activist Greta Thunberg and 11 of her pals, who were trying to reach Gaza on a &#8220;Freedom Flotilla.&#8221; Israel <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/israel-to-show-greta-thunberg-graphic-footage-of-hamas-october-7-massacre?author=Kassy+Akiva&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Israel+To+Show+Greta+Thunberg+Graphic+Footage+Of+Hamas%E2%80%99+October+7+Massacre">showed</a> Thunberg some of the footage from Hamas&#8217; brutal attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, before <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/greta-thunberg-deported-from-israel-after-selfie-yacht-intercepted?author=Nathan+Gay&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Greta+Thunberg+Deported+From+Israel+After+%E2%80%98Selfie+Yacht%E2%80%99+Intercepted">deporting</a> her and her fellow anti-Israel activists.
After Israel wiped out much of Hamas&#8217; leadership and took control of Gaza, the U.S.-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) began handing out food and aid to people who remain in the Gaza Strip. Earlier this week, Hamas killed eight people working for the GHF in an attack on a bus that was en route to one of the aid distribution centers, The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hamas-kills-5-workers-for-u-s-backed-gaza-aid-program-in-bus-attack-others-feared-kidnapped">reported</a>.
“We condemn this heinous and deliberate attack in the strongest possible terms,” GHF said in a statement to The Daily Wire. “These were aid workers. Humanitarians. Fathers, brothers, sons, and friends, who were risking their lives every day to help others.&#8221;

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The attorney representing Mohamed Sabry Soliman — the terrorist charged with firebombing a peaceful pro-Israel demonstration in Boulder, Colorado — was reportedly barred from practicing law just six years earlier over what was described as “misconduct concerning an immigration matter.”
The Federalist’s Sean Davis shared the story in a post on X, explaining that attorney Susanna Dvortsin had been reprimanded by the South Dakota Supreme Court and barred from practicing law in that state in 2019.
“Guess who was banned from practicing law in 2019 for immigration misconduct? The attorney for the illegal immigrant family of the Egyptian terrorist who set a bunch of Jews on fire in Colorado.&#8221;
In 2019, the South Dakota Supreme Court prohibited Susanna Dvortsin from practicing law in the state due to ‘misconduct concerning an immigration matter,’” Davis began.
&#8220;The U.S. Department of Justice went even further in 2019 and banned Dvortsin from practicing law before the Department of Homeland Security,” he added.
The statement from the Justice Department read, “[Dvortsin] is immediately suspended from the practice of law before the Board [of Immigration Appeals], the Immigration Courts, or the DHS.”
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Guess who was banned from practicing law in 2019 for immigration misconduct? The attorney for the illegal immigrant family of the Egyptian terrorist who set a bunch of Jews on fire in Colorado. 
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Davis included a screenshot of a news story revealing that Dvortsin was the attorney representing Soliman and his family as President Donald Trump’s administration attempts to prosecute Soliman and facilitate the deportation of the rest of his family.
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He also included a screenshot of  the decision rendered by the Board of Immigration Appeals, which did not detail the nature of the “misconduct,” but affirmed the South Dakota Supreme Court&#8217;s ruling to bar her from practicing for 115 days and stated that she should also be barred from practicing law before the Board, DHS, or Immigration Courts. The order also stated that Dvortsin was to notify all parties in any pending cases set to go before those designated bodies of her suspension.

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After two horrific attacks in under two weeks — both perpetrated by anti-Israel terrorists who either claimed they&#8217;d acted on behalf of Gaza or shouted &#8220;free Palestine&#8221; as they carried out their violent acts — conservative pundits are drawing a hard line directly through the &#8220;Free Palestine&#8221; movement to the increasingly violent attacks on American Jews.
Fox News contributor Guy Benson made the case during a Monday appearance on Fox News&#8217; &#8220;Special Report,&#8221; where he explained that the disturbingly violent acts — such as Mohamed Sabry Soliman fire-bombing adults and children at a pro-Israel demonstration or Elias Rodriguez gunning down two young Israeli Embassy staffers without provocation — were not outliers. Instead, he said they were the manifestation of loud calls across American college campuses to &#8220;globalize the intifada&#8221; and to stop Israel &#8220;by any means necessary.&#8221;
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🔥 <a href="https://twitter.com/guypbenson?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@guypbenson</a> speaks the PLAIN, HONEST TRUTH:
&#8220;Hamas supporters aren&#8217;t just burning American flags in our streets. They&#8217;re now burning Americans in our streets!&#8221;
&#8220;The pro-Palestine movement is a VIOLENT movement!&#8221;
&#8220;Two students at Harvard in 2023 physically assaulted a Jewish… <a href="https://t.co/16hjxyvnrG">pic.twitter.com/16hjxyvnrG</a>
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&#8220;I saw an observer yesterday note, &#8216;Hamas supporters aren&#8217;t just burning American flags in our streets. They&#8217;re now burning Americans in our streets!'&#8221; Benson began. &#8220;When we hear these chants of &#8216;Globalize the Intifada,&#8217; &#8216;by any means necessary,&#8217; ringing out in our cities, on our campuses at these hate rallies, this is what it actually looks like in practice.&#8221;
&#8220;It looks like a governor&#8217;s mansion, torched in the middle of the night with a Jewish leader sleeping upstairs with his family,&#8221; Benson continued, referencing the arson attack against Governor Josh Shapiro during Passover. &#8220;It looks like two employees of the Israeli Embassy in this city, our capital city, murdered in cold blood at a Jewish museum. And it looks like these elderly Jewish Americans fire-bombed at a peaceful rally on behalf of releasing hostages in Colorado.&#8221;
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&#8220;The pro-Palestine movement is a VIOLENT movement!&#8221; he concluded. &#8220;Their rhetoric is violent, they justify violence, they celebrate violence, and increasingly, they are engaging in violence not just over there, here in the United States. It&#8217;s a disgrace, and it has to stop.&#8221;
Benson also called out the media coverage of the attacks, adding, &#8220;If a right-wing movement had burned down a governor’s mansion, murdered two foreign diplomats &amp; firebombed kids and elderly people at a peaceful protest — in the span of a few weeks — what would the coverage look like? What sort of &#8216;national conversation&#8217; would we be having?&#8221;
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If a right-wing movement had burned down a governor’s mansion, murdered two foreign diplomats &amp; firebombed kids and elderly people at a peaceful protest — in the span of a few weeks — what would the coverage look like? What sort of “national conversation” would we be having?
— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) <a href="https://twitter.com/guypbenson/status/1929386771168538786?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 2, 2025</a></blockquote>
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CNN Republican pundit Scott Jennings took things a step further, saying during an appearance on &#8220;The Lead&#8221; with Jake Tapper that the pro-Palestinian movement in the United States was effectively a domestic terror organization.
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What more do we need to see before we acknowledge this &#8220;free Palestine&#8221; movement is nothing more than a domestic terror organization?
We are in a FIGHT for the future of Western civilization and we need to come to grips with it — and fast. <a href="https://t.co/cHgHTL2lM4">pic.twitter.com/cHgHTL2lM4</a>
— Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) <a href="https://twitter.com/ScottJenningsKY/status/1929671777229459851?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 2, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;This is horrific,&#8221; he said of the fire-bombing attack in Boulder. &#8220;What more do we need to see, Jake, before we realize this &#8216;free Palestine&#8217; movement is nothing more than a domestic terror organization?&#8221;
&#8220;The rise of antisemitism in America, the rise of the number of people who have come to America who hold anti-American views, anti-Western views, and antisemitic views — and are now willing to act on it – it is absolutely outrageous,&#8221; Jennings continued. &#8220;And I think as a society, we need to understand. We are dealing with domestic terrorism, it&#8217;s growing more violent by the day, and if we don&#8217;t deal with it, these kinds of things are going to keep happening in cities all over the place. It&#8217;s awful, and we need to come to grips with the fight that we&#8217;re in right now in America, a fight for the future of our country and the future of western civilization.&#8221;

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Conservative Pundits Blast Violent ‘Free Palestine’ Movement For What It Is: ‘A Domestic Terror Org’

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NBC News took a wave of backlash over a Monday headline addressing the most recent terror attack — driven by anti-Israel sentiment — that took place over the weekend in Boulder, Colorado.
The <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/lone-wolf-attacks-boulder-dc-highlight-difficulties-securing-public-sp-rcna210369?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma&amp;taid=683eef431dc732000173e815&amp;utm_campaign=trueanthem&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">headline</a> read, &#8220;Lone wolf attacks on Jewish Americans in Boulder and D.C. highlight the difficulties in securing public spaces&#8221; — and appeared to attribute the dramatic uptick in violent attacks on Jewish Americans to the complexities of managing public safety.
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Lone wolf attacks on Jewish Americans in Boulder and D.C. highlight the difficulties in securing public spaces. <a href="https://t.co/IyAYfjqHv1">https://t.co/IyAYfjqHv1</a>
— NBC News (@NBCNews) <a href="https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1929883043663138930?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 3, 2025</a></blockquote>
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But as critics quickly pointed out, a string of &#8220;lone wolf&#8221; attacks all apparently driven by the same hatred, the same ideological views — and, in some cases, the same religion — quickly becomes less of a lone wolf and more of a predictable pattern of behavior.
&#8220;Just a string of &#8216;lone wolf&#8217; attacks aimed at the same group using the same rhetoric based on the same ideology,&#8221; David Harsanyi posted.
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Just a string of &#8220;lone wolf&#8221; attacks aimed at the same group using the same rhetoric based on the same ideology. <a href="https://t.co/fqSJuXz5zD">https://t.co/fqSJuXz5zD</a>
— David Harsanyi (@davidharsanyi) <a href="https://twitter.com/davidharsanyi/status/1929885792660267337?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 3, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;&#8216;Lone wolf attacks.&#8217; Pluralizing lone wolf is perfection,&#8221; John Ekdahl added.
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“Lone wolf attacks” 
Pluralizing lone wolf is perfection. <a href="https://t.co/pBBFEjk5Gu">https://t.co/pBBFEjk5Gu</a>
— John Ekdahl (@JohnEkdahl) <a href="https://twitter.com/JohnEkdahl/status/1929896994719273324?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 3, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;There was a time when the OK hand gesture was used to link everyone, from West Point cadets to firemen to high school students, to a single, insidious white supremacy conspiracy,&#8221; T. Becket Adams said. &#8220;But we&#8217;re at &#8216;lone wolves&#8217; now for back-to-back targeted attacks on Jews. That&#8217;s &#8230; telling.&#8221;
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There was a time when the OK hand gesture was used to link everyone, from West Point cadets to firemen to high school students, to a single, insidious white supremacy conspiracy.
But we&#8217;re at &#8220;lone wolves&#8221; now for back-to-back targeted attacks on Jews. That&#8217;s &#8230; telling. <a href="https://t.co/alLZl957QZ">https://t.co/alLZl957QZ</a>
— T. Becket Adams (@BecketAdams) <a href="https://twitter.com/BecketAdams/status/1929906990127382960?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 3, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;More than one and it’s not &#8216;lone wolf.&#8217; It never was,&#8221; radio host Dana Loesch declared.
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More than one and it’s not “lone wolf,” 
It never was. <a href="https://t.co/Akf3YxMNyu">https://t.co/Akf3YxMNyu</a>
— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) <a href="https://twitter.com/DLoesch/status/1929913699323568623?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 3, 2025</a></blockquote>
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In the horrific <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/terror-in-colorado-pro-israel-demonstrators-attacked-in-firebombing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">attack in Boulder</a>, Mohamed Sabry Soliman attacked a pro-Israel group protesting the terror group Hamas and calling for the immediate return of all remaining hostages. Using a homemade flamethrower, he injured several of the demonstrators — one critically. That attack came just 11 days after Elias Rodriguez <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/white-house-issues-statement-of-outrage-after-terror-attack-on-israeli-embassy-staffers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">gunned down</a> two young Israeli Embassy staffers in Washington, D.C. Both, according to reports, used the phrase &#8220;Free Palestine&#8221; either during or after the attacks.

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NBC Dragged Over Ridiculous 'Lone Wolf' Headline On Spate Of Anti-Israel Terror Attacks

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FBI Director Kash Patel called the Wednesday night <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/israeli-embassy-staff-murdered-by-unidentified-shooter-outside-capitol-jewish-museum?topStoryPosition=undefined&amp;author=Kassy+Akiva&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=1&amp;rowHeadline=Top+Stories&amp;rowType=Top+Stories&amp;title=Two+Israeli+Embassy+Staffers+Murdered+By+Keffiyeh-Wearing+Man+Shouting+%E2%80%98Free+Palestine%E2%80%99+In+DC" target="_blank" rel="noopener">killings</a> of Israeli Embassy staffers Yaron Lischinsky, 30, and Sarah Milgram, 26, an &#8220;act of terror&#8221; and vowed to pursue justice with &#8220;the full weight of federal law enforcement.&#8221;
Lischinsky and Milgram, who were about to be engaged to be married, were gunned down outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., which was hosting a Young Diplomats Reception for young Jewish professionals. The suspect detained following the killings was identified as 30-year-old Elias Rodriguez, a Chicago resident with far-Left views who reportedly put on a keffiyeh and shouted &#8220;free Palestine&#8221; after fatally shooting the couple.
&#8220;Last night’s act of terror has the full attention of the FBI,&#8221; Patel <a href="https://x.com/FBIDirectorKash/status/1925580650381238714" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> on X on Thursday. &#8220;Targeted anti-Semitic violence is an attack on our core values and will be met with the full weight of federal law enforcement. The individual responsible will be held accountable, and the Bureau will continue pursuing every lead until justice is served.&#8221;
The FBI raided Rodriguez&#8217;s Chicago apartment Thursday morning, but authorities have yet to release any information on what was recovered in the raid. Rodriguez worked for the American Osteopathic Information Association and was once associated with a branch of the far-Left Party for Socialism and Liberation, which pushes anti-Israel views.
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The Party for Socialism and Liberation distanced itself from Rodriguez, writing, “We reject any attempt to associate the PSL with the DC shooting. Elias Rodriguez is not a member of the PSL. He had a brief association with one branch of the PSL that ended in 2017. We know of no contact with him in over 7 years. We have nothing to do with this shooting and do not support it.”
Rodriguez received his bachelor&#8217;s degree in English from the University of Illinois at Chicago and wrote for the <a href="https://www.thehistorymakers.org/about-the-historymakers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">History Makers</a>, a non-profit organization &#8220;committed to preserving and making widely accessible the untold personal stories of both well-known and unsung African Americans.&#8221;
Authorities are also looking to determine the authenticity of a 900-page <a href="https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/the-israel-embassy-shooter-manifesto" target="_blank" rel="noopener">manifesto</a> that has been tied to the alleged shooter. In the manifesto, which was published by independent journalist Ken Klippenstein, the writer rages against Israel&#8217;s war against Hamas in Gaza, calling it a &#8220;genocide&#8221; and arguing that &#8220;the perpetrators and abettors have forfeited their humanity.&#8221;
Dan Bongino, the deputy director of the FBI, <a href="https://x.com/FBIDDBongino/status/1925580947463762139" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>, &#8220;The FBI is aware of certain writings allegedly authored by the suspect, and we hope to have updates as to the authenticity very soon.&#8221;
&#8220;The subject is in custody and interviewed last night at approximately 1am. As this is a pending investigation, we will share more with you when we are able,&#8221; Bongino added. &#8220;As our [Washington Field Office] said, the FBI believes there is no ongoing threat to the public at this time. At the same time, I want the public to be assured we are following up on any additional leads to ensure we do our complete and total due diligence on this.&#8221;

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FBI Director Calls Slaying Of Israeli Embassy Staffers An ‘Act Of Terror’

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A graphics reporter who was working for Bloomberg News and formerly worked at The New York Times was arrested when anti-Israel activists seized control of Columbia University’s Butler Library earlier this month.
Jason Kao, who graduated from Columbia in 2022, was charged with criminal trespass and given a desk appearance ticket as a result of his actions on May 7. Eighty-one activists were arrested.
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Bloomberg reporter arrested during anti-Israel protesters’ takeover of Columbia University library — and is no longer employed by outlet <a href="https://t.co/flQD0VqrwR">https://t.co/flQD0VqrwR</a> <a href="https://t.co/VaavsjR8qp">pic.twitter.com/VaavsjR8qp</a>
— New York Post (@nypost) <a href="https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1924659428155892000?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 20, 2025</a></blockquote>
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“During the unrest, rioters injured two, passed out pamphlets endorsing Hamas&#8217;s violence, vandalized and damaged the library, and renamed the building after Basel al-Araj, a Palestinian terrorist killed in a 2017 shootout with the Israel Defense Forces,” the Washington Free Beacon, which <a href="https://freebeacon.com/campus/bloomberg-journalist-among-anti-israel-radicals-arrested-for-storming-columbia-library/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">broke the news</a> of Kao’s arrest, noted, adding, “Kao&#8217;s personal <a href="https://jasonkao.net/">website</a> is exclusively devoted to negative coverage of Israel&#8217;s war in Gaza.
Bloomberg News told the Free Beacon that Kao is no longer employed at the outlet.
Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD), the campus coalition of leftists, released a <a href="https://x.com/ColumbiaBDS/status/1920199061950329089">video</a> in which they stated, “BREAKING: THE BASEL AL-ARAJ POPULAR UNIVERSITY HAS JUST LAUNCHED, RECLAIMING BUTLER LIBRARY FOR THE PEOPLE &#8230; Over 100 people have just flooded Columbia University for Palestine.”
The group issued a <a href="https://x.com/ColumbiaBDS/status/1920211153214476471">list of demands</a>, including: “Full financial divestment from zionist occupation, apartheid and genocide. Academic boycott of all complicit institutions, including the cancellation of the Tel Aviv Global Center. Cops and ICE off our campus. &#8230; Amnesty for all students, staff, faculty and workers targeted by Columbia University’s discipline.”
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We reject an imperialist economy of knowledge. We evoke the legacy of liberation and the philosophy of direct action of Basel al-Araj. 
OUR DEMANDS: <a href="https://t.co/gwKVnowrXu">pic.twitter.com/gwKVnowrXu</a>
&mdash; CU Apartheid Divest (CUAD) (@ColumbiaBDS) <a href="https://twitter.com/ColumbiaBDS/status/1920211153214476471?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 7, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Last year, the Columbia University Apartheid Divest coalition publicly acknowledged a deeper truth: they are fighting to “eradicate” Western civilization. They joined with the university’s Bengali Student Association to post a statement on Instagram, as Campus Reform <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article/columbia-university-anti-israel-group-says-fighting-total-eradication-western-civilization/26077" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
“We are Westerners fighting for the total eradication of Western civilization,” they stated. “We stand in full solidarity with every movement for liberation in the Global South. Our Intifada is an internationalist one—we are fighting for nothing less than the liberation of all people. We reject every genocidal, eugenicist regime that seeks to undermine the personhood of the colonized.”
”As the fascism ingrained in the American consciousness becomes ever more explicit and irrefutable, we seek community and instruction from militants in the Global South, who have been on the frontlines in the fight against tyranny and domination which undergird the imperialist world order,” they continued.

Pro-Palestine Protesters Take Over Columbia University’s Butler Library

Bloomberg Reporter Arrested With Anti-Israel Group That Seized Columbia Library

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Fiercely pro-Israel Australian commenter Erin Molan ripped Francesca Albanese, the viciously anti-Israel UN Special Rapporteur for the United Nations on the Palestinian territories, after Albanese complained about her reputation having suffered for her despicable behavior, including denying that Hamas raped Israeli women on October 7, 2023.
Albanese has accused Israel of genocide, comparing Israel to Nazi Germany, and campaigned to have the Jewish state expelled from the UN.
&#8220;Our favorite fraud: Francesca Albanese. She’s upset,&#8221; Molan noted. &#8220;No, not about denying the rape of Israeli women; don’t be silly. Nor about the atrocities of October 7. Don’t be daft. Or the impact of her atrocious lies on millions of innocents around the world. You’re kidding.&#8221;
&#8220;You want to know what she’s actually upset about, what she’s losing sleep about?&#8221; she asked. &#8220;Brace yourself: What some people might think of her.&#8221;
Molan played a clip of Albanese moaning, &#8220;I despise and resent the reputational damage that they’ve caused me.&#8221;
&#8220;Where do you even start with that? Do you even bother?&#8221; Molan reacted. &#8220;Maybe just a tiny bit.&#8221;
She then addressed Albanese directly: &#8220;Francesca. One’s own reputation is often a direct result of one’s own actions. Your behavior has been appalling, derelict, dangerous, and unforgivable. You’ve only increased and further encouraged the suffering of the very people you purport to care about and stand for with your denial, your hate, and your hollow rhetoric. Anyone thinking ill of you is all your own doing. Take credit. Some of us just might have helped point it out a little bit. In fact, I’m somewhat encouraged by this revelation that people are starting to cotton on; clearly, if you’re noticing, then other people must be.&#8221;
Molan gave a shout-out to Hillel Neuer from UN Watch &#8220;for doing so much of the heavy lifting here.&#8221; She then showed a clip of Albanese refusing to answer whether she was an anti-Semite and another clip where Albanese said of the Hamas rape of women on October 7, “Let’s assume that rape occurred. So?”
Molan quoted a <a href="https://x.com/FranceskAlbs/status/1921183811158597668">post</a> on X Albanese made within the past week in which she attacked Israel, writing:
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How did we get here? How do we let an army announce to the world the destruction of a people and then level every home, seize every field , shatter every possession they had — even with laughter.  How did we let them kidnap, torture, and rape, even with dogs. And now, starve them — even the children. And what unshakable belief blinds us to what we —  collectively — have done. May they have mercy.
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&#8220;There is no way that she can be unaware that she is essentially describing October 7,&#8221; Molan charged. &#8220;Not even she can be that stupid. But on the off chance her idiocy is less evil and more ignorance, I’ll explain briefly, for the millionth time, Francesca, exactly how we got here. Are you listening?&#8221;
Molan then stated:
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On October 7, the terrorists that you champion slaughtered over 1200 innocent people and took hostages completely unprovoked, many of whom still remain in Gaza. The terrorists you champion continue to try and kill Israelis and Jews — and their own people. It’s all on video. Their own people, while simultaneously promising to never stop. The terrorists you champion are further emboldened and empowered by your voice and others like it to continue their evil rather than face a deserved mass condemnation of the free world which they should have received.
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&#8220;So Francesca, you ask how did we get here, still with innocents dying?&#8221; Molan questioned. &#8220;The answer is: In many ways, because of you and people like you. You never fought for innocent Palestinians, as is your mandate; you instead further inflicted devastating suffering upon them by perpetuating the myth that their enemy is Israel, instead of the very terrorists legitimately responsible for all of their suffering. If you genuinely cared about them, you would fight for the safe and prosperous future of all in the Middle East. It’s all or none. In full awareness that that will only ever be achieved without terrorism.&#8221;
&#8220;So hopefully, I’ve killed two birds with one stone here, and you have a little further clarity as to how we got here; you asked. And also why your reputation is increasingly in tatters,&#8221; she concluded.
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Masked anti-Israel activists, some of them possibly students, occupied Columbia University’s Butler Library, where students were trying to prepare for finals, leaving the frustrated students outside.
No one expelled them.
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RIGHT NOW AT COLUMBIA: Masked anti-Israel students just broke into the library during finals week. 
Columbia Public Safety unsuccessfully attempted to stop them. <a href="https://t.co/vBfkQFlwUW">pic.twitter.com/vBfkQFlwUW</a>
&mdash; Eden Yadegar (@edenyadegar) <a href="https://twitter.com/edenyadegar/status/1920196848523833405?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 7, 2025</a></blockquote>
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WATCH: Anti-Israeli protesters have stormed the Butler Library at Columbia University and are now occupying it. 
Make an example of these people. <a href="https://t.co/asiA8YMm3U">pic.twitter.com/asiA8YMm3U</a>
&mdash; RedWave Press (@RedWave_Press) <a href="https://twitter.com/RedWave_Press/status/1920208253494964262?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 7, 2025</a></blockquote>
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⚠️BREAKING: Pro-Hamas fanatics have taken over Columbia University, terrorizing everyone while masked with keffiyehs, as usual.
Public safety has cleared all other rooms because of these radicals.
Why is this allowed? Why aren&#39;t they being arrested?<a href="https://t.co/J4GILh5tdP">pic.twitter.com/J4GILh5tdP</a>
&mdash; Vivid.🇮🇱 (@VividProwess) <a href="https://twitter.com/VividProwess/status/1920202182093070371?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 7, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Students who could not enter the library gathered outside.
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BREAKING: Over 100 students have OCCUPIED Columbia University Butler Library, stating &quot;THE BASEL AL-ARAJ POPULAR UNIVERSITY has just launched, reclaiming BUTLER LIBRARY FOR THE PEOPLE&quot;.
Students are gathered outside of the library unable to go in.
Video by <a href="https://twitter.com/a_lkoakes?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@a_lkoakes</a>… <a href="https://t.co/pwQOeyGs34">pic.twitter.com/pwQOeyGs34</a>
&mdash; Oliya Scootercaster 🛴 (@ScooterCasterNY) <a href="https://twitter.com/ScooterCasterNY/status/1920204903215227246?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 7, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD), the campus coalition of leftists, issued a <a href="https://x.com/ColumbiaBDS/status/1920199061950329089">video</a> in which they stated, “BREAKING: THE BASEL AL-ARAJ POPULAR UNIVERSITY HAS JUST LAUNCHED, RECLAIMING BUTLER LIBRARY FOR THE PEOPLE &#8230; Over 100 people have just flooded Columia University for Palestine.”
The group issued a <a href="https://x.com/ColumbiaBDS/status/1920211153214476471">list of demands</a>, including, “Full financial divestment from zionist occupation, apartheid and genocide. Academic boycott of all complicit institutions, including the cancellation of the Tel Aviv Global center. Cops and ICE off our campus. &#8230; Amnesty for all students, staff, faculty and workers targeted by Columbia University’s discipline.”
Last year the Columbia University Apartheid Divest coalition publicly acknowledged a deeper truth: they are fighting to “eradicate” Western civilization. They joined with the university’s Bengali Student Association to post a statement on Instagram, as Campus Reform <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article/columbia-university-anti-israel-group-says-fighting-total-eradication-western-civilization/26077">reported</a>.
“We are Westerners fighting for the total eradication of Western civilization,” they stated. “We stand in full solidarity with every movement for liberation in the Global South. Our Intifada is an internationalist one—we are fighting for nothing less than the liberation of all people. We reject every genocidal, eugenicist regime that seeks to undermine the personhood of the colonized.”
”As the fascism ingrained in the American consciousness becomes ever more explicit and irrefutable, we seek community and instruction from militants in the Global South, who have been on the frontlines in the fight against tyranny and domination which undergird the imperialist world order,” they continued.
Columbia University also administers the Pulitzer prizes, awards that recognize excellence in American journalism, arts, and letters, named after newspaper Joseph Pulitzer, who was Jewish.
This year, the Pulitzer committee awarded a Pulitzer to Palestinian Mosab Abu Toha, who denied that Israelis taken and kept by Hamas in the October 7, 2023 massacre of over 1200 Israelis were hostages. Toha claimed that an Israeli civilian who was shot twice and abducted from her home was not a hostage; referred to another young woman abducted by Hamas as a “hostage,”: with quote marks around the word, and declared Israeli soldiers celebrating Hanukkah was “what true antisemitism looks like,”
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Meet Pulitzer Prize winner Mosab Abu Toha. He justifies the kidnapping of Israelis on Oct. 7. 
We aren&#39;t going to congratulate him for his prize. Instead, we&#39;re going to ask <a href="https://twitter.com/PulitzerPrizes?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@PulitzerPrizes</a> whether they bothered to check his social media.
Because we did, and it&#39;s not pretty. 🧵 <a href="https://t.co/qQAMQGi0IK">pic.twitter.com/qQAMQGi0IK</a>
&mdash; HonestReporting (@HonestReporting) <a href="https://twitter.com/HonestReporting/status/1919972603545973171?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 7, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Hamas held Agam Berger hostage with none of the rights due to a prisoner who has gone through a legal process.
But that doesn&#39;t matter to Mosab Abu Toha. Because no Israeli could be a hostage in his eyes. <a href="https://t.co/w2tSLNrfO9">pic.twitter.com/w2tSLNrfO9</a>
&mdash; HonestReporting (@HonestReporting) <a href="https://twitter.com/HonestReporting/status/1919972606704308686?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 7, 2025</a></blockquote>
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According to Mosab Abu Toha, Israeli &quot;terror soldiers&quot; celebrating the Jewish festival of Hanukkah is &quot;what true antisemitism looks like.&quot; 🤨
Maybe he should ask Hamas what true antisemitism is. <a href="https://t.co/r5d3oOeD3Z">pic.twitter.com/r5d3oOeD3Z</a>
&mdash; HonestReporting (@HonestReporting) <a href="https://twitter.com/HonestReporting/status/1919972609401249891?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 7, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Pro-Palestine Protesters Takeover Columbia University’s Butler Library

Masked Anti-Israel Activists Take Over Columbia U Library During Finals. No One Expels Them.

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