Hundreds of Jewish students at <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/columbia-university" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Columbia University</a> signed onto an open letter to the school community vowing not to back down in the face of protests in response to the Israel-Hamas war that caused a major disruption on the New York City campus.
Shai Davidai, a Columbia professor who last month said he was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pro-israel-professor-denied-entry-at-columbia-university" target="_blank" rel="noopener">barred</a> from campus as he tried to stage a sit-in at the site where the anti-Israel demonstrators had set up an encampment, and others <a href="https://twitter.com/ShaiDavidai/status/1788189807983677690" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shared</a> the letter in a post to X on Wednesday.
According to the letter, the signees are &#8220;average students,&#8221; who say that those &#8220;who demonize us under the cloak of anti-Zionism forced us into our activism and forced us to publicly defend our Jewish identities.&#8221;
The letter expressed the view that the Jewish people have a &#8220;right to self-determination in our historic homeland as a fundamental tenet of our Jewish identity&#8221; and pushed back on claims that Judaism can be &#8220;separated&#8221; from Israel.
Citing reports of harassment, the letter said the &#8220;evil irony of today’s antisemitism is a twisted reversal of our Holocaust legacy; protestors on campus have dehumanized us, imposing upon us the characterization of the &#8216;white colonizer.'&#8221;
The Jewish students said they are being &#8220;targeted for our belief that Israel, our ancestral and religious homeland, has a right to exist.&#8221; They also said the word &#8220;Zionist&#8221; is being misused as a slur that is &#8220;synonymous with racist, oppressive, or genocidal.&#8221;
Love of Israel &#8220;does not necessitate blind political conformity,&#8221; the letter said, adding that such affection pushes many of the Jewish students to object when the Israeli government acts in ways they find &#8220;problematic&#8221; — such as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu&#8217;s judicial reform push.
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The latest conflict in the Gaza Strip began more than six months ago after the deadly Hamas attack on Israel in October. Anti-Israel protests at colleges nationwide have taken root since that time. Columbia <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/speaker-johnson-calls-on-columbia-board-to-remove-president-after-main-graduation-gets-cancelled" target="_blank" rel="noopener">canceled</a> its main graduation ceremony after a crackdown on protesters who sought divestment from Israel.
Jewish students wrote in the letter that the last half year showed them a &#8220;large and vocal population of the Columbia community does not understand the meaning of Zionism, and subsequently does not understand the essence of the Jewish People.&#8221;
The letter said concerns about anti-Semitism &#8220;have been brushed off and invalided,&#8221; and so the Jewish students listed several examples in order to &#8220;remind&#8221; the community of their strife, including when a protest leader — who has since been <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/26/nyregion/columbia-student-protest-zionism.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">kicked</a> from campus — <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/zionists-dont-deserve-to-live-meet-the-leader-of-columbia-universitys-anti-israel-encampment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>, &#8220;Zionists don&#8217;t deserve to live.&#8221;
In concluding the letter, the Jewish students said, &#8220;One thing is for sure. We will not stop standing up for ourselves. We are proud to be Jews, and we are proud to be Zionists.&#8221; The Jewish students added that they hope the community will join them in an effort to &#8220;repair our campus.&#8221;

Columbia University Students Hold Rally In Support of Israel

Hundreds Of Jewish Students At Columbia Sign Letter Saying ‘We Will Not Stop Standing Up For Ourselves’

Hundreds Of Jewish Students At Columbia Sign Letter Saying 'We Will Not Stop Standing Up For Ourselves'

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College

Columbia University

Education

Jewish

New York City

U.S.

A House hearing that was set to feature D.C. Democratic Mayor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/muriel-bowser" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Muriel Bowser</a> testifying about the response to an anti-Israel protest encampment at George Washington University has been canceled after police made dozens of arrests at the site on Wednesday.
&#8220;Following the Metropolitan Police Department finally clearing out the unlawful encampment on GW’s campus, I am very pleased to announce that the hearing with Mayor Bowser has been canceled,&#8221; House Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-KY) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepJamesComer/status/1788193279416160690" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> just hours before the event had been scheduled to take place on Capitol Hill.
&#8220;I had a good conversation with Mayor Bowser. I thanked her for finally clearing the trespassers off the GW Campus. It was unfortunate the situation at GW forced the Oversight Committee to act; however it was apparent that the DC police force was not going to do their job,&#8221; Comer added.
Comer and other House Republicans visited George Washington University last week and <a href="https://oversight.house.gov/release/oversight-committee-republicans-dc-officials-must-take-action-against-pro-hamas-camp-and-restore-the-rule-of-law%EF%BF%BC/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">called</a> on Bowser and the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) to clear out the encampment of protesters after D.C. police <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/04/26/dc-police-george-washington-university-protests/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">rejected a request</a> from university officials to crack down on the demonstration.
The hearing on Wednesday was <a href="https://oversight.house.gov/hearing/oversight-of-d-c-s-response-to-unlawful-activity-and-antisemitism/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">meant to conduct oversight</a> on the city&#8217;s response to &#8220;unlawful activity and anti-Semitism,&#8221; but plans changed when police<a href="https://twitter.com/Joy7News/status/1788142267615613300" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> moved in</a> on the encampment in the early morning and made at least 33 arrests — with authorities <a href="https://apnews.com/article/campus-protests-george-washington-encampment-eac5c1cc396551bee1b110b48a94aefd">citing</a> a &#8220;gradual escalation in the volatility of the protest&#8221; on campus.
&#8220;After meeting with GW leadership and touring the encampment, we decided to hold a public hearing to get answers as to why the Mayor would not uphold the law,&#8221; Comer said. &#8220;I am pleased that the potential Oversight hearing led to swift action by Mayor Bowser and MPD Chief [Pamela] Smith. We will continue to hold D.C. officials accountable to ensure our nation’s capital is safe for all.&#8221;
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The GOP-led House has engaged in a multi-committee effort to combat anti-Semitism on university campuses after protests in response to the Israel-Hamas war sprung up at colleges across the country. Last week, the chamber passed an anti-Semitism definition bill meant to guide enforcement of federal anti-discrimination laws for educational programs.
In response to the hearing on the GW protest encampment being cancelled, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA) <a href="https://twitter.com/SteveScalise/status/1788199257524072933" target="_blank" rel="noopener">declared</a> on X, &#8220;It shouldn’t have taken the threat of a Congressional hearing for DC Mayor Bowser to finally allow DC Police to respond to George Washington University’s call for them to clear the anti-Semitic and unlawful encampments. It should’ve been done on Day 1.&#8221;

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser

House Oversight Cancels Hearing With D.C. Mayor After GW Protest Arrests

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George Washington University

House Oversight Committee

Muriel Bowser

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Protests

Washington D.C.

A United Nations official was duped by an invitation and honorarium offer from the satirical “Chief Rabbi of Gaza” to speak to anti-Israel protesters at Columbia University about the &#8220;Morality of Intifada.&#8221;
The parody X account “Rabbi Linda Goldstein,” known for using progressive anti-Israel talking points to mock them, emailed an invitation to Francesca Albanese, the UN’s Special Rapporteur on the Palestinian territories. 
“On behalf of the Gaza solidarity encampment at Columbia University, we wish to invite Special Rapporteur Albanese to deliver a keynote address at her convenience to the thousands of students gathered at the camp,” Goldstein wrote. “Many anti-Zionist Jews like myself have taken a leading role, and we would be honored to have you. I look forward to hearing from you.”
Email correspondences shared with The Daily Wire indicate that Albanese was willing to participate. Albanese’s research assistant, Eleonora De Martin, responded to the inquiry, asking for more details on the topic and the length. “In full solidarity with what you are doing, Ms Albanese would like to know some more details on her intervention,” De Martin replied.
<div id="attachment_734007" style="width: 1034px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-734007" decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="size-large wp-image-734007" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/05/Cover-images-24-1024x576.png" alt="" width="1024" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/05/Cover-images-24-1024x576.png 1024w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/05/Cover-images-24-300x169.png 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/05/Cover-images-24-768x432.png 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/05/Cover-images-24.png 1280w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" />Francesca Albanese, the embattled UN’s Special Rapporteur on the Palestinian territories was duped by a satirical X account.</div>
Albanese is an outspoken critic of Israel who was barred from Israel in February after she contended that French President Emanuel Macron was wrong for <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/macron-hosts-memorial-for-oct-7-the-biggest-antisemitic-massacre-of-our-century/">labeling</a> the October 7 terrorist attack the “biggest anti-Semitic massacre of our century.” She instead said the attack was “launched as a way to break the occupation against apartheid.” 
In February, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/embattled-un-official-doubles-down-at-harvard-says-israel-has-no-right-to-self-defense">Albanese spoke to</a> Harvard University students that Israel did not have a right to defend itself from Hamas terrorists who were raping, murdering, and burning homes and people.
“It didn’t have the right to act in self-defense, meaning waging a war because it couldn’t wage a war against the people it maintains under occupation,” she said. “What Israel had to do was to repel the attack on its own territory, arrest and detain and treat humanely the people who had been arrested and ensure justice.”
Her assistant maintained interest, even after being told it was a speech defending &#8220;intifada.&#8221;
“[W]e want to hear about the ‘Morality of the Intifada,’ which Zionists have co-opted and turned into a dirty word,” Goldstein wrote. “There is also a small honorarium available.”
De Martin responded days later, asking if Albanese could speak on May 7. “If I understood correctly, you would like Ms Albanese to deliver a keynote speech of around 15/20 minutes to the students,” De Martin said. Regarding the honorarium, De Martin said Albanese could not accept only officially but asked for it to be transferred to the “fellowship of her volunteer.”
“Moreover, concerning the honorarium, she cannot take honorarium for anything she does in her official capacity,” De Martin wrote. “However, she kindly asks for this honorarium to be transferred to the Fellowship of her volunteer which supports her mandate work. Could you please provide some detail on the sum of the honorarium? The research institute will then send you the invoice for payment.”
Sara Troian, another research assistant for Albanese, told the Daily Wire that the special rapporteur &#8220;never agreed to Linda Goldstein&#8217;s request,&#8221; even though emails show her team asked for a Zoom link. She added that she wanted the honorarium to be sent to her university to fund her work.
&#8220;Regarding the honorarium, there seems to be some confusion: it was me proposing that it would be sent to my University for the purpose to fund my fellowship,&#8221; Troian wrote. &#8220;The Erasmus University of Rotterdam, which hosts me as a Research Fellow, collects funds from individual donors with the only purpose of accompanying the Special Rapporteur in her country-missions. My work of support to the Special Rapporteur&#8217;s mandate is fully voluntary and I do not get paid for it.&#8221;
<div id="attachment_734001" style="width: 765px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-734001" decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="size-large wp-image-734001" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/05/Screenshot-2024-05-07-at-12.29.15%E2%80%AFPM-755x576.png" alt="" width="755" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/05/Screenshot-2024-05-07-at-12.29.15%E2%80%AFPM-755x576.png 755w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/05/Screenshot-2024-05-07-at-12.29.15%E2%80%AFPM-300x229.png 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/05/Screenshot-2024-05-07-at-12.29.15%E2%80%AFPM-768x586.png 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/05/Screenshot-2024-05-07-at-12.29.15%E2%80%AFPM.png 1196w" sizes="(max-width: 755px) 100vw, 755px" />Rabbi Linda Goldstein is a satirical account that uses anti-Israel talking points to mock progressives.</div>
De Martin stopped replying after Goldstein asked if the honorarium could be donated to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) instead.
“Is it okay if it’s donated to UNRWA in her honor instead?” Goldstein wrote. “Since I was displaced from Gaza as Chief Rabbi after October 7 it’s near and dear to us.” 
Troin said Albanese&#8217;s team did not respond to the last message because they realized Goldstein &#8220;was not a reliable account.&#8221;
&#8220;We simply did not respond because of the nature of the request and because we had expressly been told by the Special Rapporteur, when we had the chance to fully brief her, that a) she would not receive any donation for any cause; and b) she would not speak at student rallies unless requested by Special Rapporteurs who are engaging with students,&#8221; Troin wrote. &#8220;The reason why there has been no further correspondence is because we blocked Linda Goldstein&#8217;s account following the discovery that it was not a reliable account.&#8221;
<div id="attachment_734009" style="width: 333px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-734009" decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="size-large wp-image-734009" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/05/5mipwjTS.jpg-large-323x576.jpeg" alt="" width="323" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/05/5mipwjTS.jpg-large-323x576.jpeg 323w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/05/5mipwjTS.jpg-large-168x300.jpeg 168w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/05/5mipwjTS.jpg-large-768x1369.jpeg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/05/5mipwjTS.jpg-large-862x1536.jpeg 862w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/05/5mipwjTS.jpg-large.jpeg 936w" sizes="(max-width: 323px) 100vw, 323px" />Francesca Albanese&#8217;s staff asked to speak to the Columbia University encampment on the seven-month anniversary of the Hamas massacre of Israeli civilians.</div>
Goldstein, a fictional rabbi, makes jokes about the anti-Israel movement and progressives several times a day on X including mocking fundraising campaigns by encampments, boycotts of Israel, and LGBT support for Gaza.
The character told The Daily Wire that she was disappointed that Albanese backed out of the speaking engagement.
“Francesca Albanese claims to care about the plight of Palestinians, but it’s clear she was just chasing an honorarium that was no longer available once Columbia’s Gaza Encampment was broken up,” Goldstein said. “As the most prominent supporter of Palestine in the world, I thought she would care to amplify the voices of students protesting for a Free Palestine.”
“I want her to teach the world that Intifadas can at times be peaceful,” Goldstein said. “Globalizing the intifada will make Zionists uncomfortable everywhere, not just in occupied Palestine.”
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Has anyone figured out how to boycott Israel but still get to use a cell phone?
&mdash; Rabbi Linda Goldstein (🇵🇸🍉I/P Commentary) (@realrabbilinda) <a href="https://twitter.com/realrabbilinda/status/1787431377832452534?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 6, 2024</a></blockquote>
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I’m tired of seeing Zionists tell the <a href="https://twitter.com/UCLA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@UCLA</a> Queers for Palestine protesters they’d be thrown off a roof in Gaza. 
Israel isn’t the most LGBT friendly country in the Middle East. Don’t forget there was a country called “Transjordan”.
&mdash; Rabbi Linda Goldstein (🇵🇸🍉I/P Commentary) (@realrabbilinda) <a href="https://twitter.com/realrabbilinda/status/1785887664001970325?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 2, 2024</a></blockquote>
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UN Official Duped By Fake Rabbi’s Invite To Speak On ‘Morality Of Intifada’ At Anti-Israel Protest

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United Nations

On Tuesday, a House Republican unveiled a censure resolution against <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ilhan-omar" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN)</a> after the member of the leftist &#8220;Squad&#8221; suggested that some Jewish students are &#8220;pro-genocide.&#8221;
The <a href="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/05/BACON_121_xml.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">measure</a>, introduced by Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE), seeks to formally rebuke Omar for her &#8220;recent hateful comments and history of anti-Semitism.&#8221;
A leading provision cites what Omar said about anti-Semitism while visiting Columbia University last month amid anti-Israel protests in response to the Israel-Hamas war. In speaking with <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGcl3KREFF0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a Fox 5 New York reporter</a>, Omar noted she had just met some Jewish students in an encampment.
&#8220;I think it is really unfortunate,&#8221; Omar continued, &#8220;that people don’t care about the fact that all Jewish kids should be kept safe, and that we should not have to tolerate anti-Semitism or bigotry for all Jewish students, whether they’re pro-genocide or anti-genocide.&#8221;
Bacon&#8217;s resolution says Omar &#8220;has a long and demonstrated history of hateful rhetoric that plays into the worst anti-Semitic tropes. Her &#8220;slanderous comments against Jewish students could inflame violence against the Jewish community,&#8221; the measure adds.
Other provisions in the resolution note different statistics, including a finding from the Anti-Defamation League that anti-Semitic incidents across the United States <a href="https://www.adl.org/resources/press-release/us-antisemitic-incidents-soared-140-percent-2023-breaking-all-previous" target="_blank" rel="noopener">spiked</a> last year, as well as past comments from Omar about Israel that led to her getting <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/republicans-boot-ilhan-omar-off-foreign-affairs-committee-over-anti-semitism" target="_blank" rel="noopener">kicked off</a> the Foreign Affairs Committee.
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&#8220;The recent remarks by Rep. Omar about Jewish American students being pro-genocide shows her increasing disregard for the Jewish people and she is perpetuating and increasing antisemitism in our country,&#8221; Bacon said in a <a href="https://twitter.com/rachel_schilke/status/1787876331927011563" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> on Tuesday.
&#8220;The House of Representatives needs to take a strong stand and condemn these divisive and racist remarks that she has made and those who continue to excuse her egregious behavior must stop,&#8221; he added.
Throughout history, <a href="https://history.house.gov/Institution/Discipline/Expulsion-Censure-Reprimand/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">27 members</a> have been successfully censured, which is a formal rebuke and a less severe form of punishment than expulsion, though there has been an uptick of late. Reps. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-votes-to-censure-adam-schiff" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Adam Schiff (D-CA)</a>, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/u-s-house-votes-to-censure-democrat-rashida-tlaib-for-supporting-genocide-of-israel" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rashida Tlaib</a> (D-MI), and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-votes-to-censure-bowman-over-fire-alarm-incident?%3Futm_source=twitter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jamaal Bowman</a> (D-NY) are among them.
A spokesperson for Omar <a href="https://www.axios.com/2024/04/30/ilhan-omar-censure-columbia-israel-genocide" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told Axios</a> last week the congresswoman &#8220;clearly condemned antisemitism and bigotry for all Jewish students,&#8221; adding, &#8220;Attempts to misconstrue her words by drafting this baseless resolution are meant to distract&#8221; from the Gaza conflict and anti-war protests.

Rep. Ilhan Omar

House Republican Unveils Censure Resolution Against Ilhan Omar After Remark About Some Jewish Students Being ‘Pro-Genocide’

House Republican Unveils Censure Resolution Against Ilhan Omar After Remark About Some Jewish Students Being 'Pro-Genocide'

Ilhan Omar

U.S. House of Representatives

Harvard University has threatened students squatting in the anti-Israel encampment in Harvard Yard with eviction from their dorms, prevention from taking their exams, and being barred from campus if they do not leave.
After allowing the encampment to thrive for nearly two weeks, Harvard interim president Alan Garber called it a “significant risk to the educational environment of the University.”
“Those who participate in or perpetuate its continuation will be referred for involuntary leave from their Schools,” Garber <a href="https://www.harvard.edu/president/news/2024/encampment-in-harvard-yard/">wrote</a>. &#8220;Among other implications, students placed on involuntary leave may not be able to sit for exams, may not continue to reside in Harvard housing, and must cease to be present on campus until reinstated.”
Garber said the encampment has forced exams, important activities, and events to be moved elsewhere and has affected students’ ability to “sleep, study, and move freely about the campus.”
“The encampment favors the voices of a few over the rights of many who have experienced disruption in how they learn and work at a critical time of the semester,” Garber wrote. “I call on those participating in the encampment to end the occupation of Harvard Yard.”
Garber said that while he supports free speech, it is not &#8220;unlimited&#8221; at the private school.
Garber added that there have been reports of some of the protesters harassing other community members. 
“When Harvard staff have requested to see IDs in order to enforce our policies, supporters of the encampment have at times yelled at them, tried to encircle them, and otherwise interfered with their work,” Gaber wrote. “We have also received reports that passers-by have been confronted, surveilled, and followed. Such actions are indefensible and unacceptable.”
According to Garber, the protesters have been “informed repeatedly” that their actions violate policies and will be “subject to disciplinary consequences,” and some students have been given disciplinary notices. 
With commencement approaching, Garber called the ongoing violation of Harvard’s policies by having the encampment “more consequential.”
“Thousands of family members, friends, and loved ones will soon join us to celebrate the achievements of graduate and undergraduate students who have earned the right to walk in Commencement,” he wrote. “This celebration is the culmination of years of hard work and accomplishment. The members of the Class of 2024 deserve to enjoy this milestone uninterrupted and unimpeded. It would be especially painful if students who graduated from high school or college during the pandemic were denied a full graduation ceremony for a second time.”
Several universities around the country have canceled their main commencement ceremony because of anti-Israel protests including <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/columbia-university-nixes-main-commencement-event-after-protest-chaos">Columbia University</a> and the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/usc-cancels-main-commencement-ceremony-after-far-left-extremists-disrupt-campus#">University of Southern California</a>.
Harvard Divinity School student Shabbos Kestenbaum, who along with other Jewish students <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jewish-students-sue-harvard-for-failing-to-stop-anti-semitism-while-threatening-discipline-for-fatphobia">filed a lawsuit</a> against Harvard for enabling anti-Semitism told The Daily Wire that Garber should’ve acted sooner.
“It took Alan “Do-Nothing” Garber close to two weeks to denounce what students had been experiencing every day: lawlessness, anti-Semitism, and intimidation,” Kestenbaum said. “Yet, while he acknowledges the threat these protestors pose, he still refuses to immediately and forcibly remove them.”
Kestenbaum added that some of the flags he and other pro-Israel students placed on campus were vandalized over the weekend. 
“Last Friday, we planted 1,200 Israeli and American flags in honor of the 1,200 Jewish, Muslim, and Christian victims of the October 7th Hamas invasion of Israel,” he said. “Within 24 hours, at least three different people had vandalized or removed the flags and our hostage posters. It is telling that at Harvard University you can chant slogans calling for ethnic genocide against Jews with no consequences, while planting an American flag will be denounced.”
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We placed 1,200 American and Israeli flags on Harvard’s campus to honor the 1,200 victims of the October 7th invasion. Within 24 hours, it was vandalized three separate times. Harvard’s response? Nothing. <a href="https://twitter.com/yaf?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@yaf</a> <a href="https://t.co/z0wxPFZb68">pic.twitter.com/z0wxPFZb68</a>
&mdash; Shabbos Kestenbaum (@ShabbosK) <a href="https://twitter.com/ShabbosK/status/1787567912787562742?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 6, 2024</a></blockquote>
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‘End the Occupation of Harvard Yard:’ President Threatens Anti-Israel Students Squatting In Encampment

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology students residing in the anti-Israel encampment were offered two options today: leave the encampment, or stay and face suspension.
In <a href="http://links.mit.edu/nl3/uIOqQjeSSSDJdTVzaf72yQ?m=AUUAAEAirOkAAcrtIx4AAAA8rC0AAAAAGqoAJds3AAiQzwBmORQIkJS2ESWMQxezQjNZUZc0ZwAIIWc&amp;b=0417d8f6&amp;e=b5b76cf7&amp;x=Emty2kPoijDLUwsR3im7oQ">a letter</a> from Chancellor Melissa Nobles, students were told to leave the encampment by 2:30 P.M. or face suspension. As the deadline passed, most students had cleared the encampment, though a handful of individuals remained, according to Daily Wire sources on the ground at the university. 
Students who agree to swipe their ID card for a time stamp and voluntarily leave will be given a written warning to not further violate any policies. If students who have already been sanctioned by the school leave by the deadline, it will be seen as a “significant mitigating factor” when the school reviews their case.
For those who do not leave and have not yet faced sanctions, they will be placed on “academic suspension” and be barred from classes, exams, or research activities until the end of the semester but will be allowed to live in their dorms and use dining halls. Those who are sanctioned will be required to leave campus entirely. 
“You will also be prohibited from participating in commencement activities or any cocurricular activities,” Nobles wrote. “You will also not be permitted to reside in your assigned residence hall or use MIT dining halls. You must leave campus immediately, but you will continue to have access to services at MIT Health.”
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Here are the four student squatters refusing to leave MIT’s anti-Israel encampment by the 2:30 deadline. 
According to the school’s email giving ultimatums, they will be suspended. <a href="https://t.co/gIKZfvF2mX">pic.twitter.com/gIKZfvF2mX</a>
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MIT president Sally Kornbluth shared the letter, writing that she decided the university must “take action to bring closure to a situation that has disrupted our campus for more than two weeks.”
“I know many of you feel strongly that the encampment should be allowed to continue indefinitely – that the protest is simply a peaceful exercise of the right to free expression, and that normal rules around campus conduct shouldn’t apply in the face of such tragic loss of life in Gaza,” she wrote.
She explained that the encampment situation is disruptive and “highly unstable.”
“And no matter how peaceful the students’ behavior may be, unilaterally taking over a central portion of our campus for one side of a hotly disputed issue and precluding use by other members of our community is not right,” Kornbluth wrote. 
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RIGHT NOW: MIT president Sally Kornbluth gave a 2:30PM deadline for students to leave the anti-Israel encampment or face suspension. 
As of now, four students are linking arms and refusing to leave. The rest are congregating at the entrance of the encampment. <a href="https://t.co/sIuF34wvGC">pic.twitter.com/sIuF34wvGC</a>
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She added that people unaffiliated with the college are getting involved and planning protests and that MIT staff and police have had to work to “defuse several tense confrontations.”
On Friday after the Israeli American Council held a pro-Israel rally across the street from the encampment, some pro-Israel demonstrators tried to enter the encampment. In one interaction, Harvard Divinity Student, Shabbos Kestenbaum, wea denied entry until police escorted him in.
“I want to let all of you know that you’re not going to intimidate Jewish people,” he told the campers. “You can hide behind your masks as long as you want, we will not be scared.”
In a video inside the encampment that went viral over the weekend, anti-Israel protesters chanted “from water to water, Palestine is Arab” and “from water to water death to Zionism.”
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Translated and subtitled at <a href="https://twitter.com/MIT?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MIT</a> — calls to murder Zionists and martyr oneself for the cause of destroying Israel. 
I’m so heartbroken that there exists such unbridled hate on my campus. I’m so out of energy 💔 <a href="https://t.co/ujWAKe5h2v">pic.twitter.com/ujWAKe5h2v</a>
&mdash; Talia Khan (@TaliaKhan_MIT) <a href="https://twitter.com/TaliaKhan_MIT/status/1787337147441107301?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 6, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Jewish MIT student Talia Khan who has been at the forefront of raising awareness about the anti-Israel sentiment taking over her campus welcomed MIT cracking down on the encampment.
“I am grateful to see that MIT is finally stepping up and enforcing its rules for the first time in 6 months,” she told The Daily Wire. “I truly hope that it follows through. Only time will tell if Sally really has a spine.”

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MIT Threatens To Suspend Any Anti-Israel Protesters Who Fail To Leave Encampment

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Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) said the recent anti-Israel protests on college campuses are comparable to what America experienced at universities during the 1960s with demonstrations against the Vietnam War.
Scott made the remarks during a Sunday interview on NBC News&#8217;s &#8220;Meet The Press&#8221; with Kristen Welker when asked if he supported the right to protest.
&#8220;Well, we certainly respect the right to peaceful protest,&#8221; he said. &#8220;What we&#8217;re seeing on college campuses, however, is too often not peaceful protest. There&#8217;s a reason why there&#8217;s been more than 2,000 arrests and detainments on college campuses. It&#8217;s because people are being hit. They&#8217;re vandalizing and they&#8217;re breaking into buildings.&#8221;
&#8220;What we have to understand is the anti-Semitism that we&#8217;re seeing on college campuses today is akin to what we saw in the 1960s,&#8221; he continued.
He said that Americans should be able to unite to condemn the anti-Semitism on college campuses.
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&#8220;What&#8217;s not clear is why it took so long for President Biden to come to a microphone and condemn antisemitism,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The reason, in part, is because his base refuses to let him do so. He&#8217;s pandering to politics as opposed to standing up for fairness and standing against antisemitism. I would simply say this to every college president and university in America: Your federal funding is a privilege. It is not a right. A right is for every Jewish kid on campus to walk to class safely. What is a right is for every Jewish kid to study in a library peacefully. We need to make sure that every student feels that kind of security on every campus in America.&#8221;
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Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC)

Tim Scott: What ‘We’re Seeing On College Campuses Today Is Akin To What We Saw In The 1960s’

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House Republican Conference Chairwoman <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/elise-stefanik" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Elise Stefanik</a> (R-NY) on Sunday linked the &#8220;anarchy&#8221; of protests that have sprung up on university campuses across the country in response to the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza to the Democratic Party, pinning the chaos on a leadership vacuum that she contended goes all the way to President Joe Biden.
During an <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/video/6352366554112" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview</a> on Fox News, Stefanik— who is considered to be <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-surrounds-himself-with-potential-vps-at-mar-a-lago" target="_blank" rel="noopener">in the mix</a> to become former President Donald Trump&#8217;s running mate — dismissed Biden taking a stand last week and saying <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/02/politics/biden-says-his-support-for-israel-remains-unwavering-amid-college-protests/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;order must prevail&#8221;</a> as coming too little, too late amid rising concerns about the safety of Jewish students and police crackdowns on some of the anti-Israel protests.
&#8220;These pro-Hamas riots, this is Joe Biden&#8217;s Democrat Party,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Joe Biden not only waited ten days to condemn. He has been silent since last December with that historic hearing, where you had three Ivy League university presidents fail to condemn the genocide of Jews. Joe Biden waited months to speak out, saying that testimony was unacceptable.&#8221;
Stefanik, who was speaking with &#8220;Sunday Morning Futures&#8221; host Maria Bartiromo, was referring to Ivy League presidents <a href="https://stefanik.house.gov/2023/12/icymi-during-questions-from-stefanik-presidents-of-harvard-upenn-mit-refuse-to-condemn-calls-for-genocide-of-jews" target="_blank" rel="noopener">dodging</a> in a congressional hearing back in December her question of whether calling for the genocide of Jews on campuses violated their schools’ policies on bullying and harassment.
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This morning, I joined <a href="https://twitter.com/MariaBartiromo?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MariaBartiromo</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/SundayFutures?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SundayFutures</a> to discuss the antisemitism crisis on America’s college campuses and the deafening silence of Joe Biden and Democrats who have failed to speak out and condemn the pro-Hamas rioters who are now a part of the radical Democrat… <a href="https://t.co/NEfb2Xhdg0">pic.twitter.com/NEfb2Xhdg0</a>
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&#8220;He didn&#8217;t even say that, actually, in his statement,&#8221; Stefanik added. &#8220;But he gave it lip service. But this is the radicalized, far-Left Democrat Party that Joe Biden owns today. It is about lawlessness. It is about anarchy. It is attacking our most precious ally, Israel. And it is hurling anti-Semitic slurs against Jewish students, as well as physical harassment, physical assault against Jewish students.&#8221;
House Republicans <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-gop-unveils-chamber-wide-crackdown-on-campus-anti-semitism" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> last week a chamber-wide effort to combat anti-Semitism with scrutiny of federal funding and tax benefits universities receive, as well as cracking down on foreign student visa recipients perpetuating sympathy to terrorist groups at U.S. schools. The GOP-led House then <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-passes-bill-to-codify-definition-of-anti-semitism" target="_blank" rel="noopener">passed</a> an anti-Semitism definition bill meant to guide enforcement of federal anti-discrimination laws for educational programs.
&#8220;There is a great deal that we are doing in Congress and our oversight,&#8221; Stefanik said. &#8220;And our legislative solutions will consist of pulling back federal funding, addressing the foreign dollars that are flowing into these institutions, and holding these schools accountable.&#8221;
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Stefanik also argued that leaders in the Democratic Party, including Biden and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), have been hamstrung by political infighting.
&#8220;This is Joe Biden&#8217;s Democrat Party today, the pro-Hamas rioters on college campuses, the anarchists. And that&#8217;s why you&#8217;re seeing trepidation among Democrats from speaking out, because this is their base. And the reality is, this is why Republicans continue to poll stronger and stronger, because we represent peace and security. We represent standing up for the Constitution,&#8221; Stefanik said.
&#8220;We represent supporting our ally of Israel, and we strongly condemn anti-Semitism. There is a reason that House Republicans have led on this, and it&#8217;s because there has been a void at our universities,&#8221; she added. &#8220;There is a void at the White House, starting with the top of Joe Biden, and there&#8217;s been a void in Democrat leadership, including Chuck Schumer, which is why we have expanded the investigation and will continue to be good stewards of taxpayer dollars to yank federal funding that is propping up these institutions that are indoctrinating our next generation.&#8221;

Representative Elise Stefanik

Stefanik Pins ‘Pro-Hamas Riots’ On ‘Biden’s Democrat Party’

Stefanik Pins 'Pro-Hamas Riots' On 'Biden's Democrat Party'

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Comedian <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/bill-maher" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bill Maher</a> took a shot at President Joe Biden this week for effectively supporting the anti-Semitic protesters on college campuses with his latest student loan bailout.
Maher made the remarks Friday evening on his HBO show &#8220;Real Time&#8221; while discussing the recent demonstrations that have roiled numerous top universities.
&#8220;When I read about the college loans … &#8216;Biden administration&#8217;s student debt cancelation will cost a combined $870 billion to $1.4 trillion.&#8217; That&#8217;s a lot of debt forgiveness,&#8221; Maher said. &#8220;Colleges constantly raise tuition, then the kids take out more loans, then the government comes by and pays those loans. Okay, so my tax dollars are supporting this Jew hating? I don&#8217;t think so.&#8221;
Maher discussed the issue with former Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway and Bloomberg Businessweek correspondent Joshua Green.
&#8220;Yeah, I mean, Trump is winning the youth vote by, I think, 11 points, that&#8217;s pretty astounding to me,&#8221; Maher said, referring to a recent CNN poll. &#8220;What do you make of that?&#8221;
&#8220;What I make of that a lot of it is if you turn on your TV today, you see young people protesting, angry, fighting with cops,&#8221; Green said. &#8220;What you don&#8217;t see is Donald Trump in a criminal trial. What you don&#8217;t see is, you know, one of his blue chip vice presidential candidates murdered dog a week ago and is two weeks into talking about that story. All of these stories that could potentially be damaging for Republicans to help Joe Biden have fallen by the wayside because all of the attention is on these protesters and on these fights, on their behavior, and on the fact that a lot of people don&#8217;t like what they see on the television.&#8221;
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&#8220;Biden was elected to push aside the chaos and the havoc of the Trump years,&#8221; Greene continued. &#8220;I think everybody can agree on that. … You turn on your TV and see what&#8217;s going on on these campuses, it hasn&#8217;t happened. And that&#8217;s one big reason why he&#8217;s losing the vote, one big reason why he&#8217;s losing the youth vote.&#8221;
Conway fired back: &#8220;Yes, chaos and crisis in the Trump administration in a tweet, in a comment here and there, now it&#8217;s chaos and crisis everywhere we look. At the border, on our college campuses, by the way, in our halls of Congress, 31 Democrats voted against the resolution last October 18 to condemn Hezbollah and Hamas.&#8221;
&#8220;And the resolution clearly said, Bill, that they were concerned about institutions of higher education allowing sympathies for Hezbollah and Hamas, which our own government, Biden&#8217;s government, Trump&#8217;s government have declared terrorist groups, and they specifically said in there it was going to hurt, make uncomfortable, if not worse, Jewish students with all this anti-Semitism,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;That was October 18! 31 Democrats, including the most well-known young ones, the Squad that doesn&#8217;t do squat, for example, all voted against that resolution.&#8221;
Maher said that he completely agreed with Conway.
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NEW: Bill Maher says he is “incensed” that his tax dollars are going towards paying off the student loans of “Jew hating” students.
All this criticism of Biden and he will still vote for him.
“I’m so incensed about some of this stuff, because, when I read about the college… <a href="https://t.co/XCKR6bU6RC">pic.twitter.com/XCKR6bU6RC</a>
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Bill Maher Torches Biden Over Student Loan Bailout: ‘My Tax Dollars’ Are Funding ‘Jew Hating’

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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — A Jewish university student needed a police escort to enter the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s anti-Israel encampment on Friday.
Shabbos Kestenbaum, a student at Harvard Divinity School, spoke at a pro-Israel rally across the street from the encampment hosted by the Israeli American Council before deciding to cross the street and enter the encampment.
Kestenbaum walked up to the encampment and was denied entry by a keffiyeh-wearing man blocking the perimeter of the protest. Police eventually agreed to escort him into the encampment, according to video taken by The Daily Wire. 
“I want to let all of you know that you’re not going to intimidate Jewish people,” he told the campers. “You can hide behind your masks as long as you want, we will not be scared.”
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Anti-Israel protester at MIT: &quot;Respectfully, we do not trust your intentions.&quot;
Jewish student: &quot;Respectfully, f*** off!&quot;
Watch a Jewish student fight to enter MIT&#39;s anti-Israel encampment. Police eventually agree to give him an escort. <a href="https://t.co/lKeXr829TW">pic.twitter.com/lKeXr829TW</a>
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“All of you should be ashamed of yourselves,” he added. “This is the state of being Jewish in America, I need police to exercise my First Amendment right.”
Kestenbaum is a student at Harvard University, but spoke at the MIT counter-demonstration in support of Jewish students there.
“After delivering a speech imploring Jewish students not to be afraid of their antisemitic classmates, I crossed the road to exercise my First Amendment rights and enter the pro-Hamas encampments,” Kestenbaum told The Daily Wire. 
“Protestors formed a human chain to keep me out, and initially refused to allow me in even after police asked them to,” he added. “Eventually, I required a personal police escort to walk through the encampment, all the while being followed by pro-Hamas terrorist students.”
Kestenbaum, along with other Harvard University students <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jewish-students-sue-harvard-for-failing-to-stop-anti-semitism-while-threatening-discipline-for-fatphobia">filed a lawsuit</a> against the Ivy League in January, accusing it of selectively enforcing its policies to avoid protecting Jewish students from harassment and enabling anti-Semitism.
“Whether it’s Harvard, MIT, Columbia, or anywhere else, antisemitic thugs have taken over college campuses,” Kestenbaum said. “They have no respect for the First Amendment or religious freedom and should be immediately thrown out of any university they currently illegally occupy.”<a href="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/05/IMG_7389.heic"><img decoding="async" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-732743" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/05/IMG_7389.heic" alt="" /></a>
MIT erected fences around the encampment ahead of the pro-Israel rally across the street and had a heavy police presence on Friday afternoon near the encampment. Outside of the encampment, Jewish demonstrators sang songs, and waved American and Israeli flags.
Many pro-Israel and pro-America flags were hung on the new fences around the encampment, as well as signs mocking the encampment. One such sign read, “In this camp they believe: Propaganda is truth, resistance is justified, rape is resistance, harassment is free speech, Israelis are not human, martydom is glorious.”
Inside the encampment, students had many of their own signs, including labels on tents with locations in Israel including Tzfat, Jaffa, and Haifa.

Shabbos Kestenbaum

Jewish Student Needs Police Escort To Enter MIT Anti-Israel Encampment

Universities that selected presidents with academic track records that consist largely of political screeds about oppression are now melting down because of students who say they&#8217;re oppressed, a review of academic papers shows.
At UCLA, Provost Darnell Hunt donned a mask and sat on the ground with protesters, who told him that police are on the side of “Zionists,” and that police are going to commit “brutality” against them. After he said he had &#8220;to go,” they screamed “shame” at him.
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MUST WATCH FOOTAGE: This is UCLA&#39;s Provost, Darnell Hunt, trying to negotiate with the UCLA Encampment Activists. 
They effectively lecture him and when he tries to briefly clarify something, they get mad at him, so he decides to leave. The Encampment Occupiers laugh at this… <a href="https://t.co/fKJRcXHykQ">pic.twitter.com/fKJRcXHykQ</a>
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Hunt made his career opining on police brutality and racism in the aftermath of riots triggered by purported brutality against Rodney King, writing a book called &#8220;Screening the Los Angeles &#8216;Riots&#8217;: Race, Seeing, and Resistance.&#8221; The titles of his academic papers, below, give an idea of his area of expertise:
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<li>Reclaiming UCLA (lamenting that &#8220;a county that is 9.8% African American — now has a lower percentage of black freshman than either crosstown rival USC or UC Berkeley&#8221;)</li>
<li>Channeling Blackness: Studies on Television and Race in America</li>
<li>Birth of a Nation&#8217;hood: Gaze, Script, and Spectacle in the O.J. Simpson Case</li>
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And at Sacramento State, President Luke Wood went back on a threat to remove an anti-Israel encampment, instead allowing them to remain <a href="https://statehornet.com/2024/04/president-luke-wood-extends-encampment-approval-on-second-day-of-pro-palestine-protests/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“indefinitely</a>.&#8221; Wood has made his career writing about student activism and the oppression of blacks, authoring the book “The Sources of American Student Activism” and papers such as:
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<li>Political Consciousness and Student Activism</li>
<li>Racelighting Black, Indigenous, and People of Color in Education</li>
<li>Treat Them Like Human Beings: Black Children’s Experiences With Racial Microaggressions in Early Childhood Education During COVID-19</li>
<li>I Love My Hair: The Weaponizing of Black Girls Hair by Educators in Early Childhood Education</li>
<li>Black Men in Higher Education</li>
</ul>
The review suggests that the unrest on college campuses is not the result of a small subversive faction, but rather one in line with the ideology of those at the highest ranks of the institutions. The papers, focused heavily on social sciences, also raise questions about the real-world utility of the work of those at even the highest levels of academia.
At Rutgers University, an anti-Semitic protester told a Jewish student that “Hitler would have loved you.” Rutgers leadership went on to give in to many of the protesters’ demands, such as <a href="https://twitter.com/sfmcguire79/status/1786417078058004840/photo/3" target="_blank" rel="noopener">agreeing</a> “to develop a plan for the creation of an Arab Cultural Center with designated physical space and a hiring plan for administrators and staff,” and to “develop training sessions on anti-Palestinian, anti-Arab, and anti-Muslim racism for all RU administrators and staff.”
Rutgers president Jonathan Holloway — a former professor of African American Studies at Yale — has contributed to the academic world through papers such as:
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<li>Race, slavery, and Ideology in Colonial North America</li>
<li>Resistance and African American identity before the Civil War</li>
<li>The Black Body As Archive of Memory (which “considers the film Shaft and how it was, from beginning to end, one extended middle finger to white America”)</li>
<li>How to Read The Souls of Black Folk in a Post-Racial Age</li>
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Rutgers &#8211; Watch as a campus protestor tells a Jewish student “Free Palestine, Hitler would have loved you.”
Just another example of what this is all about &#8211; Jew hatred. 
Plain and simple Jewish hatred. <a href="https://t.co/syUOz7tY4z">pic.twitter.com/syUOz7tY4z</a>
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At Portland State University, occupiers seized the campus’ main library, fighting with janitors and police, destroying rare books and smashing a historic sculpture based on the Torah.
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Today: Portland news station KGW captured the moment the Antifa &quot;guards&quot; for the <a href="https://twitter.com/Portland_State?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Portland_State</a> library occupation pushed someone down the stairs. Far-left extremists have seized the entire Millar Library &quot;for Gaza&quot; and are destroying it inside. <a href="https://t.co/PoeeNyhYJJ">pic.twitter.com/PoeeNyhYJJ</a>
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The university&#8217;s president, Ann Cudd, made her career off of lamenting oppression, publishing papers such as one simply titled &#8220;Oppression,&#8221; which cites Karl Marx, and another titled “Sporting Metaphors: Competition and the Ethos of Capitalism,” which explains that “whole subcultures live among us that avoid sports or capitalism, such as academics.” Her other papers include:
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<li>Analyzing Oppression</li>
<li>How to Explain Oppression</li>
<li>Oppression: The Fundamental Injustice of Social Institutions</li>
<li>Psychological Harms of Oppression</li>
<li>Psychological Mechanisms of Oppression</li>
<li>“Merit” In University Admissions</li>
<li>Feminist Philosophy’s Dependence on the Facts</li>
<li>Strikes, Housework, and the Moral Obligation to ResistanceAgainst Capitalism As Theory And As Reality</li>
<li>Feminist Morality: Transforming Culture, Society, and Politics</li>
<li>Missionary Positions</li>
<li>Harassment, Bias, and the Evolving Politics of Free Speech on Campus</li>
</ul>
At Northwestern University, the President’s Advisory Committee on Preventing Antisemitism and Hate disbanded after members quit over President Michael Schill giving in to anti-Israel protesters’ demands without consulting them.
The concessions included full-ride scholarships to “<a href="https://twitter.com/America1stLegal/status/1786114841599410431" target="_blank" rel="noopener">five Palestinian undergraduates</a> to attend Northwestern” and that the school would “provide and renovate a house for MENA/Muslim students.”
President Schill is the author of papers like:
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<li>Black, Brown, Poor &amp; Poisoned: Minority Grassroots Environmentalism and the Quest for Eco-Justice</li>
<li>Race, the Underclass, and Public Policy</li>
<li>The Special Bias of Federal Housing Law and Policy: Concentrated Poverty in Urban America</li>
<li>Polarization, Public Housing and Racial Minorities in US Cities</li>
</ul>
At Columbia, radicals took over a campus building and covered it in communist symbols, with a female PhD student demanding the delivery of food as “humanitarian aid.”
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Reporter grills Columbia student after she demands the university help feed protestors occupying Hamilton Hall:
&quot;It seems like you&#39;re saying, &#39;we want to be revolutionaries, we want to take over this building, now would you please bring us some food&#39;.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/vNczSAM4T1">pic.twitter.com/vNczSAM4T1</a>
&mdash; The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) <a href="https://twitter.com/TPostMillennial/status/1785386376755900611?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 30, 2024</a></blockquote>
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At Barnard College, Columbia’s women’s college, president Laura Rosenbury is the author of papers like:
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<li>Marital Status and Privilege</li>
<li>Friends with Benefits</li>
<li>Postmodern Feminist Legal Theory: A Contingent, Contextual Accountability</li>
</ul>

UCLA Provost Darnell Hunt, Portland State president Ann Kudd, Rutgers president Jonathan Holloway (UCLA/PSU/Rutgers)

Universities Made Oppression ‘Scholars’ Their Presidents. Now Students Feel Oppressed.

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Billionaire entrepreneur and X owner Elon Musk had a simple suggestion for anyone who would replace an American flag with the flag of another country: a one-way ticket to visit the country in question.
Musk shared a poll via X on Thursday, asking how many would support such a policy going forward.
&#8220;Proposed law: if someone tears down the American flag and puts up another flag in its place, that person should get a free (but mandatory) one-way trip to that flag’s country,&#8221; he said, adding one small caveat: &#8220;I’m not saying they can’t come back, but they have to experience that country for some period of time before returning.&#8221;
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I’m not saying they can’t come back, but they have to experience that country for some period of time before returning
&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1786073478711353576?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 2, 2024</a></blockquote>
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By the time the final results of the poll posted on Friday morning, the overwhelming response to his proposition was positive. After 1.5 million X users voted in Musk&#8217;s poll, nearly 1.2 million of them (79.9%) said they would support such a policy. Just under 300,000 (20.1%) said they would not support his proposal.
Musk&#8217;s poll comes as students on multiple college campuses have either attempted to or succeeded in efforts to replace American flags with Palestinian flags during widespread anti-Israel protests.
On some campuses, those efforts have been <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/gofundme-set-up-to-fund-rager-for-frat-boys-who-defended-american-flag-on-unc-campus" target="_blank" rel="noopener">met with resistance</a> from other students. At University of North Carolina&#8217;s Chapel Hill campus, a small group of fraternity boys stood between the anti-Israel protesters and their objective, holding the American flag over their heads and keeping it from touching the ground — even as protesters shouted profanities and threw things at them.
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UNC student and Pi Kappa Phi brother Guillermo Estrada explained, &#8220;My fraternity brother and others ran over to hold it up, in order for it not to touch the ground. People began throwing water bottles at us, rocks, sticks, calling us profane names. We stood for an hour defending the flag so many fight to protect.&#8221;

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Elon Musk Has A Simple Solution For People Who Replace American Flags With Another Country’s

Elon Musk Has A Simple Solution For People Who Replace American Flags With Another Country's

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