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>
&mdash; Stu (@thestustustudio) <a href="https://twitter.com/thestustustudio/status/1785926212029739449?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 2, 2024</a></blockquote>
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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:
<ul>
<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>
</ul>
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:
<ul>
<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:
<ul>
<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>
</ul>
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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>
&mdash; StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) <a href="https://twitter.com/StopAntisemites/status/1786165109624074729?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 2, 2024</a></blockquote>
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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>
&mdash; Andy Ngô 🏳️‍🌈 (@MrAndyNgo) <a href="https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1785828338294194363?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 2, 2024</a></blockquote>
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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:
<ul>
<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:
<ul>
<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:
<ul>
<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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There is a cadre of students at Columbia University who decided to occupy the center of the campus and harass Jewish students.
They yelled “Stop killing children” and “Go back to Poland” as the Jewish students were simply trying to get from campus back to their dorm rooms. They chanted for Hamas to hit Tel Aviv. They tried to form a human chain to keep Jewish students out. One anti-Semitic student decided to stand right in front of several pro-Israel protesters suggesting they be killed with rockets.
The Columbia University Orthodox rabbi <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/2974295/at-columbia-jews-must-not-hide-apologize/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">issued a message</a> to all the Jewish students strongly recommending they return home as soon as possible and remain home “until the reality in and around the campus is dramatically improved. It is not our job as Jews to ensure our own safety on campus. No one should have to endure this level of hatred, let alone at school.”
These protests are designed to harass and intimidate students in violation of all codes of ethics and conduct at the private university.
Over at Yale, similar levels of anti-Semitic activity occurred. Additionally, Yale students were cheering as the American flag came down.
At Northwestern University, the dean of students attended an anti-Israel protest targeting Hillel, the nonpartisan Jewish Student Community Center. Protest organizers were demanding the university end its relationship with Hillel, which is just a Jewish community organization existing on campus.
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The revolutionary class is generally not a bunch of impoverished people who simply are trying to work a job and feed their families. Typically, it&#8217;s upper crust elites who have nothing better to do with their time and no sense of purpose so they decide to join in.
Now, the White House has put out a statement on anti-Semitism at Columbia. Andrew Bates commented on the situation, <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/4610110-white-house-condemns-blatantly-antisemitic-protests-amid-ongoing-unrest-at-columbia/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">saying</a>, “While every American has the right to peaceful protest, calls for violence and physical intimidation, targeting Jewish students and the Jewish community are blatantly AntiSemitic, unconscionable, and dangerous — they have absolutely no place on any college campus, or anywhere in the United States of America. And echoing the rhetoric of terrorist organizations, especially in the wake of the worst massacre committed against the Jewish people since the Holocaust, is despicable. We condemn these statements in the strongest terms.”
Perhaps Biden’s administration should stop trying to please Hamas spokespeople in the United States.
The most amusing tweet came courtesy of Marc Caputo, who&#8217;s a national political reporter for The Bulwark. He <a href="https://twitter.com/MarcACaputo/status/1782083324208611611" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>, “With its top journalism school and journalism review, Columbia holds an esteemed place in media. So how did @CJR, Columbia profs &amp; the reporters it produces miss the formation of so much anti-Israel or ant-Semitic bias fostered at &amp; around the school? How did NY media miss it?”
How did the New York media miss it? The answer: They didn&#8217;t miss it. They fostered it. For years, the New York Times has refused to cover attacks on Jews in New York City so long as those attacks were being committed by minority criminals. Intersectionality is a hell of a drug, and this entire world view has promoted anti-Semitism, particularly at elite institutions.
Open anti-Semitism has been on the rise for legitimately decades on campus. It was rife on campus when I was there 20 years ago. It&#8217;s particularly rife from the radical Muslim community, and it&#8217;s been fostered by a Left-wing college administration across campuses for two generations that believes in the intersectional hierarchy of victimhood, in which Muslims outrank Jews.
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Leftists have a cheap and easy way of signaling their anti-Westernism and anti-Americanism without actually having to say they&#8217;re anti-Western and anti-American. They just put it all on Israel. All the reasons they use to hate Israel are reasons that also apply to the United States. They understand there might be consequences if they talk about how America is an evil colonial power and how American soldiers are human rights violators. So instead, they say it about Israel because it’s a cheap and easy way to virtue signal.
This then transmutes into anti-Semitism because the conspiracy theory by the far-Left has always been that there is a cadre of powerful people who have all the systems to their benefit. Jews are a minority group that is disproportionately successful in American society, and since the leftists believe the system must be rigged by those who are successful, anti-Semitism rises.
What&#8217;s even worse is that on college campuses, this went from a generalized worldview to an article of faith.
A lot of people were puzzled why after October 7, the worst atrocity against Jews since the Holocaust, all of this anti-Semitism sprang up. Normally, you would expect to see the reverse after a giant atrocity by an open, evil terrorist group against Jews of all sorts, including predominantly Left-wing Jews living in the Gaza envelope. Why did you see this massive outpouring of support for Hamas? 
The answer is that it&#8217;s an article of faith for members of the Left, proverbial skin in the game, to show fealty to the intersectional ideal by suggesting that even the worst human beings on planet Earth, like Hamas, are actually just victims of some sort of intersectional hierarchy. The more you pay fealty to the worst people in the world, the more you have shown your fealty to the cause.
And that&#8217;s how you end up with people who are doing the vicious work at Columbia University.
The most highly-educated people on planet Earth often have the least amount of wisdom.
And there&#8217;s nothing new about that because smart people can talk themselves into — and out of — virtually anything.

Pro-Palestinian Protests Continue At Columbia University

Anti-Semitic Left Strikes At Columbia University

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Two Harvard Law students resigned from their student government positions after a resolution to divest from Israel was approved through an unconventional secret ballot vote, hiding the record of who supported the extreme measure.
The resolution, which calls on the Harvard Management Company to divest from Israel over the “genocide of Palestinians” and the “ongoing illegal occupation of Palestine,&#8221; violated the student government’s constitution, according to the two students, Cameron Adkins and Regina De Nigris, who resigned from the government shortly after it passed.
“We voiced our disagreement to the Student Government at every opportunity,” they wrote in their resignation letter. “Our concerns, however, were pushed aside. In light of this disagreement, we believe that our continued membership in the Harvard Law School Student Government would compromise our principles and values.”
The two students cite procedural issues with how the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/harvard-law-students-amend-bylaws-to-enact-secret-ballot-ahead-of-vote-to-boycott-israel">resolution vote</a> was undertaken through an anonymous Google form and accuse their former fellow representatives of pushing the change through during an emergency meeting without letting students express their opinions. 
“The resolution has been pushed through at the last possible minute to avoid running up against the end of this Student Government’s term, and, perhaps, to insulate Student Government from receiving contrary input,” they wrote. “Given the importance of the issue, rushing this process is particularly inappropriate and unacceptable.”
According to the <a href="https://orgs.law.harvard.edu/studentgovernment/">student government website</a>, its goal is to “make sure that HLS is more fun and inclusive than we found it.”
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The student government members will be replaced by incoming recently-elected representatives next week.
Student body co-president Swap Agrawal said the secret vote was to “address concerns regarding doxxing and harassment.” 
The resolution passed with 12 in favor, 3 opposed, and 3 abstaining. The only two known votes are from De Nigris and Adkins, who were two of the three votes against the resolution. 
Student government <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240327020058/https://orgs.law.harvard.edu/studentgovernment/members/">members</a> Robert Kim, Marissa Thomas, Tony Maquiling, Pat Healy, Aliye Korucu, Mackenzie Saunders, Tori Borlase, Connor Morgan, Felicia Caten-Raines, Dee Um, Hannah Chi, Katelyn Turner, Amanda Harrison, Kayla Hollingsworth, Vincent Okonkwo, Ojadamola Takuro, and Deyaa Alrwishdi did not respond to inquiries on their votes.
The Harvard Jewish Law Students Association said the resolution will “divide and alienate” in a statement <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/C5GiP2XuRvQ/">posted to their Instagram account</a>.
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“In total darkness, they set out to target the state of Israel without even notifying the leadership of Jewish or Israeli communities on campus,” the group wrote. “Demonizing Israel displays a callous disregard for the identities of so many Jewish and Israeli students at Harvard- by passing this resolution, student government asks the campus and the world to assume that those who have any connection to Israel are villainous.&#8221;
&#8220;This resolution is beyond just procedurally and substantively offensive: it is antisemitic,” the Jewish student group said.
The resolution accuses Israel of maiming, killing, and starving Palestinians in a “genocidal campaign” and calls upon the Harvard Management Company to “divest completely from weapons manufacturers, firms, academic programs, corporations, and all other institutions that aid the ongoing illegal occupation of Palestine and the genocide of Palestinians.”
Following the announcement of its passage, anti-Israel student groups held a last-minute victory celebration with cake and speeches in the student lounge on campus, a violation of Harvard policy.
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“We can’t expect Harvard to step away from its bloodlust on its own accord because war is profitable,” a student said during one of the speeches posted to Instagram. “These so-called leaders of this institution would be best served to listen to what we have to say because one day, when we win, and Palestine is free, they will come crawling back. They will be begging us to rewrite history.”
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Anti-Israel Harvard Law students celebrated with cake after the student gov voted to divest from Israel with a secret ballot.
“We can’t expect Harvard to step away from its bloodlust on its own accord…one day when we win and Palestine is free, they will come crawling back.” <a href="https://t.co/bLoOlRZNOc">pic.twitter.com/bLoOlRZNOc</a>
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In the middle of the celebration, another emergency meeting was called over the procedural concerns, and another vote was taken to determine if procedure was followed after intense debate. Student Maya Husseini said, &#8220;Brats are upset they didn&#8217;t get their way&#8221; after Jewish students raised concerns, according to Stop Antisemitism. Another anonymous vote was taken, and the students upheld the resolution.
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“I do not believe that it is the role of a student government to make blanket or unilateral statements on contentious issues that impact every student differently,” Adkins, who was able to resume his position for the second vote before his resignation went into effect, said. “Because the student government is not fully representative of our diverse student body, it is our job to remain neutral, offer support to all students, and avoid alienating or endorsing any particular viewpoints on campus.”
Harvard did not respond to a request for comment.

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Harvard Law Students Resign From Student Govt Over Secret Ballot Anti-Israel Vote

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Harvard Law School’s student government is actively voting on a resolution to boycott Israel through a secretive online ballot, a departure from bylaws that required an in-person recorded vote. 
The resolution, which can only be voted on through an anonymous Google survey by members by Friday at 8:00 a.m., calls on all Harvard institutions to divest from entities that have a hand in the “occupation of Palestine,” without defining if “Palestine” includes only the West Bank and Gaza or Israel proper as well. 
“Harvard Law School Government calls upon all institutions and organizations within the Harvard community to divest from institutions, weapons manufacturers, firms, academic programs, corporations, and all other institutions that aid the ongoing illegal occupation of Palestine and the genocide of Palestinians,” the resolution states.
In an emergency meeting, the bylaws for the student government were amended earlier this week to permit the secretive vote rather than complying with the usual requirement of voting by roll call or acclamation. 
“Our body decided to proceed via voting by Google form to address concerns regarding doxxing and harassment,” the student government&#8217;s co-president Swap Agrawal wrote in an email to the assistant dean of students obtained by The Daily Wire. “The Student Council voted at the outset of Tuesday’s meeting to amend the bylaws to allow the Student Council to consider and vote on this resolution via a closed and anonymous Google form rather than a public list and in-person roll call.”
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The amendment met the two-thirds threshold for approval by a 12 out of 14 vote. 
The Executive Board of Harvard Law School&#8217;s Alliance for Israel (AFI) slammed the student government for holding the unannounced emergency meeting, and failing to give them notice so they could voice opposition.
“We are deeply disappointed that Alliance for Israel, as an important stakeholder in the community, was not informed about this meeting, nor invited to speak,” the group wrote in a letter, adding that the student government failed to pass any resolution condemning antisemitic attacks on campus or Hamas’s October 7 massacre and rape of Israeli civilians.
“Even if the student government had done all of these things, this resolution would still be wildly inappropriate,” the letter added. “The fact that it has done none of these things makes matters all the worse.”
Shabbos Kestenbaum, a Harvard Divinity School student who is <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jewish-students-sue-harvard-for-failing-to-stop-anti-semitism-while-threatening-discipline-for-fatphobia">suing Harvard</a> over claims of enabling anti-Semitism, took issue with the representatives seeing anonymity to avoid accountability.
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“It is simply unacceptable to be an elected student representative on a hotly contentious issue whilst expecting zero accountability for how you vote,” he told The Daily Wire. “If these students, who believe that Israel is an apartheid regime conducting ethnic cleansing, are our future policymakers, Supreme Court justices, and lawyers, then our country is in serious danger.”
The resolution accuses Israel of conducting a “genocidal campaign in Gaza,” ethnically cleansing Palestinians, and occupying “Palestine.”
“Furthermore, claims of an ‘ongoing illegal occupation of Palestine’ implies Israel has no right to exist and threatens its legitimacy,” the AFI letter states. “This resolution, compounded by the student government’s failure to address antisemitism on campus and the violence and suffering Hamas caused Israelis, sends a message to Jews and Israelis that they are not welcome at HLS.”
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The resolution relies upon reporting from the student newspaper, the Harvard Crimson, which found that <a href="https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2020/3/19/harvard-israel-palestine-investments/">Harvard invested</a> $200 million in companies tied to the Israeli Defense Forces and Israeli settlements in Judea and Samaria. 
To build its case, the resolution cites Harvard’s history of divesting in other situations including from some South African companies and tobacco stocks.
Harvard did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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Harvard Law Students Amend Bylaws To Enact Secret Ballot Ahead Of Vote To Boycott Israel

Harvard University is set to host a United Nations official today who was just banned by Israel for her comments justifying Hamas’ October 7 slaughter of more than 1,000 civilians as a “response to Israel’s oppression.&#8221;
Francesca Albanese, the UN&#8217;s Special Rapporteur on the Palestinian territories, was officially banned from Israel on Monday for stating days earlier that the Hamas attack had nothing to do with anti-Semitism, <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/un-special-rapporteur-for-palestinians-banned-from-israel-after-appearing-to-justify-oct-7-massacre/">according</a> to The Times of Israel. She is still scheduled, however, to be a featured speaker for Harvard&#8217;s Carr Center for Human Rights Policy on Monday afternoon to discuss Israel&#8217;s war in Gaza.
“Join us for a virtual conversation with UN Special Rapporteur, Francesca Albanese, as she discusses her perspective on the current situation in the Gaza area as well as her experiences working on the protection of Palestinian refugees and migrants,” the <a href="https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/harvard-events/events-calendar/?trumbaEmbed=view%3devent%26eventid%3d172028913">event’s website states</a>. 
Albanese on Saturday has made her position on Israel&#8217;s offensive against Hamas quite clear, most recently pushing back against French President Emmanuel Macron for calling the October 7 attack an &#8220;anti-Semitic massacre.&#8221;
“The &#8216;greatest anti-Semitic massacre of our century&#8217;? No, Mr.<a href="https://twitter.com/EmmanuelMacron"> @EmmanuelMacron</a>,” UN Special Rapporteur on the Palestinian territories Francesca Albanese <a href="https://twitter.com/FranceskAlbs/status/1756351236909965591">tweeted</a> in response to France’s president honoring the victims on Saturday. “The victims of 10/7 were not killed because of their Judaism, but in response to Israel&#8217;s oppression.”
Harvard&#8217;s decision to host her on the same day she was banned by Israel comes as the Ivy League institution grapples with rampant anti-Semitism on campus. The Cambridge-based Ivy League is currently <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jewish-students-sue-harvard-for-failing-to-stop-anti-semitism-while-threatening-discipline-for-fatphobia">facing a lawsuit</a> filed by Jewish students that accuses the school of avoiding protecting Jewish students from harassment and enabling antisemitism. 
Harvard University did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The event, entitled, &#8220;A Conversation with Francesca Albanese,&#8221; will be hosted at 4:00 p.m., and will include the center’s Faculty Director Mathias Risse.
Israeli officials said Albanese should be fired permanently by the United Nations, The Times of Israel <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/un-special-rapporteur-for-palestinians-banned-from-israel-after-appearing-to-justify-oct-7-massacre/">reported on Monday</a>. 
“The era of Jews being silent is over,” Foreign Minister Israel Katz and Interior Minister Moshe Arbel said in a joint statement. “If the UN wants to return to being a relevant body, its leaders must publicly disavow the anti-Semitic words of the ‘Special Envoy’ – and fire her permanently. Preventing her from entering Israel might remind her of the real reason why Hamas slaughtered babies, women and adults.”
Last year, a bipartisan group of members of Congress called on the United Nations to remove Albanese for her bias against Israel.
&#8220;Ms. Albanese has repeatedly refused to condemn terrorist attacks against Israelis while continuing her condemnations of Israel,&#8221; <a href="https://schneider.house.gov/media/press-releases/schneider-wagner-lead-representatives-call-un-disband-commission-inquiry-and">the group wrote</a>. &#8220;For an official tasked with serving as an independent, neutral, and expert voice on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, her inexcusable silence against terrorism targeting Israelis and her outrageous and prejudicial remarks clearly reflect the irredeemable bias of her mandate.&#8221;
READ MORE: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/harvard-to-host-summer-program-at-palestinian-university-dominated-by-hamas">Harvard To Host Summer Program At Palestinian University Dominated By Hamas</a>
Earlier this month The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/harvard-kennedy-school-to-host-radical-palestinian-professor-who-blamed-israel-for-hamas-terrorist-attack">first reported</a> on the Harvard Kennedy School’s Middle East Initiative’s plan to host a Palestinian professor who called Hamas’ massacre of Israeli civilians a “normal struggle for freedom,” and said she would never forgive Israel’s government for “making us take their children and elderly as hostages.”
READ MORE: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/harvard-employee-harasses-jewish-student-suing-school-for-anti-semitism-asks-to-debate-9-11-conspiracies">Harvard Employee Harasses Jewish Student Suing School For Anti-Semitism, Asks To Debate 9/11 Conspiracies</a>
The school distanced itself from the event, putting the blame on the Middle East Initiative&#8217;s director, Professor Tarek E. Masoud. “Dean Douglas Elmendorf personally finds abhorrent the comments by Dalal Saeb Iriqat quoted in the press that justify and normalize the horrific terrorist attack by Hamas,” it said in a statement. “An invitation to speak at the Kennedy School never implies an endorsement of a speaker’s views by the Kennedy School or members of the Kennedy School community.&#8221;

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Harvard To Host UN Official Who Was Just Banned From Israel For Justifying Oct 7 Terrorist Attack

A pro-Palestinian group that previously downplayed <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/hamas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hamas</a>’ October 7 terrorist attacks against Israel will be training teachers in Oakland, California, on Saturday to incorporate “Palestinian history, narratives, and culture into K-12 classrooms,” according to a parental rights group. 
According to a flyer <a href="https://defendinged.org/incidents/pro-palestinian-organization-offers-an-intensive-in-person-conference-focused-on-training-k-12-teachers-to-bring-palestinian-history-narratives-and-culture-into-classrooms/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shared</a> with The Daily Wire by Parents Defending Education, the Middle East Children&#8217;s Alliance (MECA) will be holding a Saturday training called “Palestine in Our Classrooms: Teaching to the Moment — 75 Years of Resistance, Resilience, and Sumood.” MECA has come under scrutiny for its response to the October 7 terrorist attacks and ties to the Democratic Socialists of America.
The training will take place from 9:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. at an undisclosed location in Oakland at a cost of $25. Highlights of the training will reportedly include hearing “Palestinian and Arab Youth speak” on “the effects of invisibility and silencing,” “teaching Palestine through the arts — hip-hop to murals,” “multiple perspectives framework for teaching Palestine — focus on Gaza,” and “teaching about Palestine through stories — designed for k-5 educators.”
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Parents Defending Education director for outreach Erika Sanzi told The Daily Wire that the training was just an attempt to politicize the classroom.
“There is no reason for K-5 teachers to be talking about any of this with their students. The Teach Palestine organization is providing this training because it sees teachers as a vehicle for indoctrinating young children into their geopolitical worldview during the hours they are away from their parents. It is a definite red flag,” she said.
On October 8, the day after Hamas terrorists killed over 1,200 Israelis, MECA organized a pro-Palestinian rally in San Francisco. “We are witnessing the people of Gaza rising up to respond to decades of Israeli settler colonial violence. The US govt bears responsibility for its political, economic &amp; military support of this brutal apartheid regime. Join us to stand in solidarity with Palestine,” the organization posted on X.
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TODAY! We are witnessing the people of Gaza rising up to respond to decades of Israeli settler colonial violence. The US govt bears responsibility for its political, economic &amp; military support of this brutal apartheid regime. Join us to stand in solidarity with Palestine <a href="https://t.co/MIYlToiqvE">pic.twitter.com/MIYlToiqvE</a>
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MECA was also <a href="https://defendinged.org/investigations/dsa-in-schools/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">associated</a> with the Democratic Socialists of America summer training on “Educators for Palestine.” One of the sessions was facilitated by Jody Sokolower, a co-coordinator of the Teach Palestine Project at the Middle East Children’s Alliance (MECA) and a co-founder of the Coalition for Liberated Ethnic Studies (CLES). Sokolower <a href="https://rethinkingschools.org/books/rethinking-sexism-gender-and-sexuality/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">previously</a> worked on a book about how to &#8220;integrate feminist and LGBTQ content into curriculum.&#8221;
In the weeks following the October 7 attacks, pro-Palestinian organizations <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ethnic-studies-groups-bringing-pro-palestinian-anti-western-curriculum-to-schools-parents-group-warns" target="_blank" rel="noopener">have pushed</a> for anti-Western materials to be integrated into the classroom, often through ethnic studies classes and curriculum.
The Daily Wire reached out to MECA for comment.

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Far-Left Organization To Train Teachers How To Incorporate Palestinian ‘Narratives’ Into The Classroom

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An Israeli student pursuing a masters degree at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) filed a lawsuit after claiming she faced severe anti-Semitic harassment by peers and a faculty member who targeted her for several weeks.
The plaintiff, Shiran, accuses assistant professor Chun-Shan (Sandie) Yi of issuing a new final assignment in a “Materials and Media In Art Therapy” course just 10 days before it was due, an apparent retaliation for her for filing an anti-Semitic harassment complaint.
“The new assignment required Shiran and her classmates to respond to a collection of images allegedly drawn by Palestinian children that depicted Israeli soldiers engaged in brutal violence,” a press release by Much, the law firm representing Shiran stated.
The prompt for the assignment questioned if students could deal with their own “complicated feelings, internalized racism/ableism/homophobia/supremacy and countertransference” and remain professional while working with clients.
Lawyers for Shiran, who The Daily Wire is referring to only by her first name due to concerns for her safety, say the mother of two is the only student in the course from either Israel or territories controlled by the Palestinian Authority, indicating that the prompt was clearly aimed at her.
“In other words, she is the only student for whom the images could be described as &#8216;too close to home,&#8217; the statement reads. “The other students did not receive a corresponding assignment asking them to respond to images that might ‘upset’ or ‘trigger’ them.”
<div id="attachment_676339" style="width: 310px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-676339" decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="size-medium wp-image-676339" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/01/Screenshot-2024-01-05-at-1.30.06%E2%80%AFPM-300x213.png" alt="" width="300" height="213" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/01/Screenshot-2024-01-05-at-1.30.06%E2%80%AFPM-300x213.png 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/01/Screenshot-2024-01-05-at-1.30.06%E2%80%AFPM-810x576.png 810w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/01/Screenshot-2024-01-05-at-1.30.06%E2%80%AFPM-768x546.png 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/01/Screenshot-2024-01-05-at-1.30.06%E2%80%AFPM.png 1238w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" />A image shared in the lawsuit that Shiran was asked to reflect on during her final assignment. It is from the A Child&#8217;s View from Gaza exhibit.ld&#8217;</div>
After Shiran reported the assignment, Yi allegedly continued her targeted harassment of Shiran through class-wide emails and changing grading standards, according to the lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois on December 22.
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The lawsuit accuses the school of violating Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and is seeking injunctive relief to prevent further discriminating against Jews and Israelis and money for damages and lawyers fees.
A spokesperson for SAIC declined to comment on the specifics of the complaint, citing employee privacy interests and pending litigation. 
“The School strongly condemns antisemitism and any discrimination based on religion, nationality, or any other aspect of a person’s identity,” the spokesperson told The Daily Wire. “We have policies in place that prohibit discrimination, harassment, and retaliation, and the School is unequivocally committed to providing a safe and welcoming learning environment for all of our students, faculty, and staff.”
<h3>History of Anti-Semitism On Campus</h3>
The suit claims SAIC cultivated an atmosphere of hostility towards Jews and Israelis, citing an incident in 2018 when a student asked if kosher food would be available in the cafeteria, only to receive a response from the school “that there wouldn’t be and indicated that advertising kosher food may make some students uncomfortable.”
It also describes a time when an anti-Israel teacher of “Philosophies of Sex” cited examples of problematic forms of BDSM including if someone wanted to “‘act out a nazi/Jew scene’ where the nazi says ‘Lick my book you dirty Jew.”
“The professor explained this would be problematic if the submissive was actually Jewish,” the lawsuit states.
More recently, the suit describes anti-Semitic incidents that have taken place following Hamas’s brutal massacre against Israeli civilians on October 7, including <a href="https://www.change.org/p/saic-faculty-statement-of-solidarity-with-palestine">a letter written</a> a week after the attack and signed by faculty members who affirmed their “uncompromising solidarity with the Palestinian people in their righteous struggle for self-determination.”
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Mika Tosca, an associate professor who was previously employed by the school, was also named in the lawsuit for posting an anti-Semitic message to social media shortly after Hamas’s massacre.
“Israelis are pigs. Savages. Very very bad people. Irredeemable excrement . . . May they all rot in hell,” Tosca wrote.
Tosca has since <a href="https://archive.ph/Z4TUk">apologized</a>.
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<h3>Facing Anti-Semitism Before Day One</h3>
Shiran was initially rejected from the school’s Art Therapy and Counseling program before an independent investigation into discrimination found the admission process did not follow the school’s “policy or expectations,” according to the lawsuit.
“In her admissions interview, she was denied the typical, mandatory panel of interviewers, and was instead subjected to the harassing inquisition of a single faculty interviewer who showed no interest in her academic qualifications and questioned her ability to work collaboratively alongside Arab and Palestinian classmates,” the suit states.
After seeing Tosca’s hateful social media posts, Shiran sent several emails seeking reassurance about her safety on campus that were ignored by SAIC’s Provost Martin Berger, acting provost Dean Felice Dublon, her department chair, Professor Adelheid Mers, and her program chair and advisor Katherine Marie Kunkel Kamholz. 
The lawyers say the administrators and faculty members have not responded to her emails, more than two months later.
The lawsuit claims that in various classes, including Yi’s, professors facilitated “one-sided student-led conversations expressing vitriol toward Israelis.”
“Shiran’s professors repeatedly demonstrated sympathy toward her classmates’ hostile antisemitic musings, and they continued to demand tha Shiran learn to hold space for her peers’ feelings,” the lawsuit states.
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Yi also accepted a classmate Jannah Sellars’ request to present a project she worked together with Shiran on separately because she was “simply unable to work closely with any individual who denies the genocide so clearly taking place before us,” according to the suit.
“There were no attempts at discussion or resolution,” the lawsuit states. “The school and professor Yi simply catered to the discriminatory request, without a second thought.”
Shiran received a failing mark for “Professionalism: Collegial + Interpersonal Skills” for the joint presentation. She also received a failing grade on ‘Final Peer Evaluation” with her classmates accusing her of plagiarizing Jannah’s work.
“I noticed that you mostly interacted with non-BIPOC-presenting students during skillshare,” Professor Yi wrote in her feedback according to the suit. “Overall, it seems that there was some discomfort during your presentation.”
The day after Sellars’ refusal, Shiran filed a complaint, causing SAIC’s Title IX office to engage outside counsel to review her claims. 
<h3>The Final Assignment</h3>
On December 5th, Shiran told SAIC’s lawyers that she wanted to initiate a formal process to investigate her claims against Yi. Just two days later, Yi created the new final assignment that the lawsuit claims targetted Shiran.
The assignment showed two groups of pictures. In the first group, were images of “depictions of genital, physical, verbal or sexual abuse, violence and trauma incited [sic] on children and youth.” It includes a drawing of an Israeli father telling his son he is a “bad boy” in Hebrew.  
The second set of images show Israeli soldiers being violent to Gazan families, including one of a soldier smiling while pointing a gun at someone and smiling. 
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The lawsuit alleges that the “sudden creation” of the assignment and selection of several images about Israelis “was a transparently deliberate effort to further harass and isolate Shiran, who had just days before requested a formal investigation into Professor Yi’s discriminatory behavior.”
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Although the second set of images were withdrawn from the final assignment after Shiran told SAIC’s attorneys she would seek emergency legal relief, Shiran claims she continued to face harassment and retaliation from Yi.
On December 18, Yi wrote to the class to apologize to students who felt their “learning was compromised” after the second part of the assignment was withdrawn. She added that she would “very much appreciate” if students wrote to the department chair about their perspectives, according to the lawsuit.
The suit also accuses Yi of adjusting the courses grading standards to “increase the weight given to peer evaluations and feedback, class participation, and collegiality among classmates.” It added that the change harmed Shiran’s grades.
<div id="attachment_676347" style="width: 310px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-676347" decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="size-medium wp-image-676347" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/01/Screenshot-2024-01-05-at-1.30.15%E2%80%AFPM-300x204.png" alt="" width="300" height="204" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/01/Screenshot-2024-01-05-at-1.30.15%E2%80%AFPM-300x204.png 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/01/Screenshot-2024-01-05-at-1.30.15%E2%80%AFPM-848x576.png 848w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/01/Screenshot-2024-01-05-at-1.30.15%E2%80%AFPM-768x522.png 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/01/Screenshot-2024-01-05-at-1.30.15%E2%80%AFPM.png 1234w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" />Another image Shiran was asked to respond to for her final assignment, according to the lawsuit.</div>
“I am determined to shed light on this issue, not just for me but for everyone who faces discrimination,” Shiran said in the press release. “I believe publicizing my story is crucial to raising awareness about the recent upsurge of antisemitic discrimination in higher education institutions and more broadly.”
Shiran plans to continue studying at the school, which offers a world-class education in art therapy, <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/01/03/news/school-of-art-institute-of-chicago-of-accused-of-antisemitism/">according to the New York Post</a>.
Shiran’s lawyers declined to comment further than their press release.
When requesting Yi to comment, The Daily Wire received an auto response claiming she is not available to respond during winter break and that the response is an effort “for an anti-capitalism &amp; anti-ableism practice Inbox.”
Berger, Dublon, Mers and Kamholz did not respond to a request for comment.
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A Child’s View from Gaza

Israeli Student Sues Prestigious Art School For Severe Anti-Semitic Harassment

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At least one police officer was injured and several people were arrested during pro-Palestinian protests in New York City on Christmas Day, according to the NYPD.
Six people <a href="https://abc7ny.com/protest-pro-palestinian-christmas-day-midtown-manhattan/14224316/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">were</a> arrested during protests in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/manhattan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Manhattan</a> on Monday as protesters chanted “Christmas is canceled here,” and held up signs taking aim at Israel amid its war with Hamas. According to the New York Post, <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/12/25/metro/pro-palestinian-protesters-out-to-cancel-christmas-as-they-storm-nyc-again/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">four people</a> were arrested for disorderly conduct, one over graffiti, and another for menacing conduct. 
The NYPD <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/multiple-arrests-officer-injured-pro-044500049.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> that an officer injured his knee while assisting another officer but was in stable condition. 
The crowd also chanted “long live the intifada” and held up signs like “While Ur Shopping Bombs are Dropping” and a “No Joy in Genocide.” The protesters gathered around iconic NYC locations like the Rockefeller Center, St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Grand Central Station, and Union Square. 
Other slogans used by the crowd included: “From NY to Gaza, Globalize the Intifada;” “Netanyahu is a warmonger,” and “Israel kills babies.” 
The NYPD <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12900161/Pro-Palestine-protests-Sullivan-Austin.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> the Daily Mail that police moved to a level three police mobilization to respond to the Christmas day protests. During a level three response all special police units are activated and police activate an increased presence throughout the city. 
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Also on Christmas, protesters targeted the homes of Biden administration officials in response to their handling of the war between Israel and Hamas. Demonstrators showed up outside the homes of National Security advisor Jake Sullivan and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Monday. 
“Austin, Austin, rise and shine, no sleep during genocide,” protestors chanted outside the home of Austin. 
NYC has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/grand-central-station-targeted-by-pro-palestinian-mob-during-unruly-nyc-demonstration" target="_blank" rel="noopener">had frequen</a>t pro-Palestinian protests in the wake of Hamas October 7 terrorist attacks that left over 1,200 Israelis dead and thousands more injured. Last month, a mob of pro–Palestinian protesters attempted to kick in a door at Grand Central Station in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/new-york-city">New York City</a> as demonstrators throughout the city tore down American flags and vandalized buildings.
The demonstrations were part of a “flood Manhattan for Gaza” protest organized by the pro-Palestinian groups Within Our Lifetime and the City University of New York for Palestine.

New York Police arrest several people during Pro-Palestinian demonstration

‘Christmas Is Canceled’: Six Arrested, Officer Injured During Pro-Palestinian Protests In NYC On Christmas

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Spyglass Media Group has dropped actress <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/celebrities" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Melissa Barrera</a> from the cast of “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/movies" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Scream 7</a>” due to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/anti-semitism" target="_blank" rel="noopener">anti-Semitic</a> content she posted on Instagram.
“Spyglass’ stance is unequivocally clear: We have zero tolerance for antisemitism or the incitement of hate in any form, including false references to genocide, ethnic cleansing, Holocaust distortion or anything that flagrantly crosses the line into hate speech,” a Spyglass spokesperson told <a href="https://variety.com/2023/film/news/scream-producers-explain-melissa-barrera-fired-antisemitism-1235804914/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Variety</a> in a statement.
Barrera has been posting on her Instagram about the ongoing conflict in Gaza following the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/hamas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hamas</a> terrorist attack on October 7 and resulting response by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/israel" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Israel</a>. The 33-year-old actress re-shared a post that accused Israel of “genocide and ethnic cleansing.” She also posted something from Jewish Currents magazine that mentioned distorting “the Holocaust to boost the Israeli arms industry.”
Spyglass quietly cut ties with Barrera after she shared these post but did not clarify the reasoning immediately. Their new statement confirms that it was the anti-Semitic content that led to her termination.  
The “In the Heights” star was supposed to star in the newest “Scream” after heading up the fifth and sixth installments in 2022 and 2023, per the outlet. 
Berrera&#8217;s &#8220;Scream&#8221; co-star, Jenna Ortega, has also made pro-Palestinian posts on social media.
“We must never give up on the people of Ukraine, Yemen, Palestine, Kashmir, Iraq, Syria… the list goes on unfortunately. For anyone who is willing &amp; wanting to contribute any way they can, I want to form a thread with information. Does anyone have resources/ linked they could add?&#8221; she tweeted in 2022, sharing links for fundraisers for Iraq, Syria, and Palestine.
“Decolonize Palestine,” the “Wednesday” actress wrote in another post. 
These posts have since been deleted as Ortega got rid of her X account earlier this year due to unrelated drama. She has not addressed the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on Instagram, but her <a href="https://www.instagram.com/jennaortega/">profile</a> does have a link to Save the Children, an organization which provides aid to children in Gaza and the West Bank.
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Imagine a street lined with a chain of houses, each one as the setting of an unimaginable nightmare.
In one, your family was burned to death. A house over, a grenade exploded in your living room. In another, your sister&#8217;s bloodied legs left an impression below the window as she attempted to escape. Down the street, bullets peppered the door of the room you were hiding in. No rescue force came to save you from any of these nightmares and, in each of them, you died.
This is the reality of Kfar Aza, a kibbutz about three miles from the Gaza border where Hamas terrorists entered on October 7 and slaughtered more than 50 people. Twenty people are still missing.
AFTERMATH OF HAMAS MASSACRE ON KFAR AZA, ISRAEL
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The Israeli government opened up one of the village’s streets to journalists to view the evidence. Bloodied remnants of terrorists, such as Hamas vests, still litter the ground of the kibbutz, and Israeli mortar fire booms in the background.
Every person on this street died, according to an Israeli Defense Forces official leading the tour. Identifying information such as credit cards, family pictures, laptops, and documents still sit on counters and tables.
<div id="attachment_655759" style="width: 1034px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-655759" decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-655759 size-large" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/11/4-1024x576.png" alt="Kfar Aza massacre sight in southern Israel." width="1024" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/11/4-1024x576.png 1024w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/11/4-300x169.png 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/11/4-768x432.png 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/11/4-1536x864.png 1536w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/11/4-2048x1152.png 2048w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" />Houses in Kfar Aza / The Daily Wire</div>
It doesn’t matter how many videos you’ve watched or photos you’ve seen of the attack. Walls are collapsed, furniture and debris are spilling from homes, bullet and shrapnel holes are everywhere. But worst of all is the pungent smell.
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If you’ve never smelled this before, you may associate it with sewage, as I did. But as you walk through the homes and speak to the survivors and first responders, you quickly learn that it’s the smell of death lingering from the many removed bodies.
<div id="attachment_655761" style="width: 1034px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-655761" decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-655761 size-large" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/11/5-1024x576.png" alt="Destruction in Kfar Aza" width="1024" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/11/5-1024x576.png 1024w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/11/5-300x169.png 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/11/5-768x432.png 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/11/5-1536x864.png 1536w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/11/5-2048x1152.png 2048w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" />The IDF told The Daily Wire that there were no survivors on the street pictured above / The Daily Wire</div>
The site has been slowly transforming over the weeks as members of Zaka, the civilian volunteer organization tasked with cleaning up bodies, look for blood and body parts to bury in accordance with Jewish law.
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One Zaka volunteer says he transported over 70 bodies in his truck on the first day of the attack. More recently, Zaka has been searching for bloodied items to remove and bury, including cutting out pieces of fabric from furniture that is soaked with blood.
Every home looks like the set of a different horror movie. The first house I walked into looked ransacked. Furniture was everywhere and broken, and debris littered the floor. When I looked at the ceiling, it was covered in bullet holes and grenade shrapnel.
The next home I went into is the one that keeps me up at night.
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It is a one bedroom home where you enter through a tiny kitchen into a living room that has bullet holes in the walls, and was the site of a fire. At the back of the room, there is a door leading into a bedroom that doubles as a bomb shelter —  once you enter through the doorway, the first thing that catches the eye is splattered blood on the wall and what looks like the stamp of a bloodied knee of someone trying to climb out the window.
<div id="attachment_655763" style="width: 1034px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-655763" decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-655763 size-large" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/11/6-1024x576.png" alt="Kfar Aza houses, one with shrapnel holes and another with blood." width="1024" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/11/6-1024x576.png 1024w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/11/6-300x169.png 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/11/6-768x432.png 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/11/6-1536x864.png 1536w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/11/6-2048x1152.png 2048w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" />Two Kfar Aza homes, one with shrapnel holes in the ceiling and another with blood on the walls / The Daily Wire</div>
It appears to be a room of a young woman, who had plants and weaved art as decorations on the wall. On her bed, there is a laptop lying on red sheets, both splattered with blood. Only then, when looking down, did I realize I was standing in this woman’s blood.
Maor Moravia, a survivor from the massacre, told us that he hid in his bomb shelter with his wife and children while hearing explosions and gunfire and receiving text messages about the terrorist infiltration. He said they hid for hours in his home, which is one of the last in the kibbutz, until they finally heard terrorists in his neighbors house. After many hours, the army arrived.
Moravia expressed that every person who was murdered was one of his friends, as his village is a tight-knit kibbutz of only about 750 people.
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Simcha Greenaman, of Zaka, has been working in Kfar Aza to share the atrocities he witnessed to visitors. In one instance, in Kibbutz Be&#8217;eri, just miles away, he said he saw a toddler’s body with a knife through its skull.
Another Zaka member, Mendy Chaviv, who has been cleaning the massacre sites since the first day of the war, said he personally found the body of a young female soldier in a home, with her limbs severed and her blood covering the walls.
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While ducking into partially collapsed homes and letting your imagination unfold, possible scenarios of what collapsed that wall, or charred that room, or caused the wound that led to that splattered area of blood, you realize that these are close-range crimes.
The terrorists who butchered a body or kidnapped your neighbor had to look them in the eye while doing it. This wasn’t soldier versus soldier on a battlefield, or unfortunate collateral damage, this was Hamas bringing nightmares to life and being proud of doing so.
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Top investigators in the House of Representatives are demanding answers for how a Hamas-supporting former PLO spokeswoman was hired by the U.S. government to vet immigrants.
&#8220;Antisemites and those who glorify and celebrate terrorism and the slaughter of innocents have no business interacting with the public on behalf of the American government, and certainly should not be given authority to adjudicate immigration benefits,&#8221; wrote James Comer, chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Accountability, and Glenn Grothman, chairman of the Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs. &#8220;We request documents and information to conduct oversight of USCIS’s apparent failure to vet this individual’s suitability for employment and what USCIS is doing to ensure this employee is removed and her cases reviewed.&#8221;
The letter to Ur M. Jaddou, the director of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), is based on a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-u-s-govt-hired-a-pro-hamas-plo-spokeswoman-to-handle-asylum-claims" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Daily Wire investigation</a> that found that Nejwa Ali worked for the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) until September 2017, when then-President Donald Trump expelled the designated foreign terrorist organization from Washington.
The Department of Homeland Security, which is supposed to protect U.S. citizens from terrorists, then hired her and put her in charge of evaluating whether immigrants and people who claimed to be refugees should be allowed in the country.
Throughout all of that time, she posted openly to social media with a continuous stream of anti-Semitic and violence-supporting statements, with her social media bio making clear that she was &#8220;Palestinian @ heart,&#8221; not American.
Following The Daily Wire&#8217;s story, DHS said it had put Ali on &#8220;administrative leave,&#8221; meaning she is being <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dhs-puts-pro-hamas-immigrant-screener-on-leave-as-she-reaffirms-that-she-celebrates-terrorism" target="_blank" rel="noopener">paid not to work</a>. DHS would not say whether it called the PLO for a job reference when she was hired as part of checking with recent employers.
If it did, it collaborated with terrorists; if it did not, it did not vet even the employee tasked with vetting immigrants.
The same goes for her social media statements, which were more easily found than the red flags likely to be associated with asylum-seekers. Moreover, Ali was so outspoken that it seems hard to believe she suppressed her views in the workplace.
Asked in a phone call why she repeatedly posted pictures of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hamas-harboring-qatar-set-to-buy-dc-sports-franchises-parents-of-hostage-plead-with-leagues-for-help" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hamas</a> terrorists parachuting in with guns, she said &#8220;I abso-f***ing-lutely celebrate them, a**hole, f*** you!&#8221;
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UPDATE: DHS/USCIS says the former PLO spox has been placed on administrative leave from her job vetting immigrants.
PLUS NEW AUDIO: She reaffirmed her allegiance to Hamas THIS AFTERNOON, saying of hang-gliders: &quot;I abso-fucking-lutely celebrate them, asshole, fuck you!&quot; <a href="https://t.co/BJry1EisZe">https://t.co/BJry1EisZe</a> <a href="https://t.co/FPrQbjAPak">pic.twitter.com/FPrQbjAPak</a>
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The congressmen&#8217;s letter said &#8220;asylum officers &#8216;[a]djudicate asylum applications, conduct credible and reasonable fear screenings, and adjudicate other benefit applications managed by the asylum program&#8230;&#8217; It is unfortunate that foreign nationals who made claims for protection in the United States due to alleged persecution in their home countries&#8230; may have had their cases reviewed by an employee who harbors such repugnant views.&#8221;
&#8220;The stakes are high for those who seek to reside in this country or become a U.S. citizen and for the American people. Our country has learned, through painful loss, that bad actors and terrorists will exploit any vulnerability in our lawful immigration system to gain a foothold in the United States. There is no justification for permitting an open terrorist sympathizer and antisemite to have authority to determine immigration benefits. We are also concerned that this employee may have acted out her bias in adjudications. Accurate adjudications that protect against ineligible applicants, deliver a fair process for qualified applicants, and guard against national security threats must be the priority for the agency,&#8221; they wrote.
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&#8220;To assist our oversight into how an antisemitic terrorist sympathizer gained employment with USCIS and authority over immigration benefits, please provide the following documents,&#8221; the congressmen wrote.
They requested documents about her hiring and background check, any prior discipline or complaints, and what actions DHS took in response to the expose.
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House Republicans Demand To Know How DHS Hired A Hamas-Supporting Former PLO Aide

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The U.S. immigration enforcement agency hired a former spokeswoman for the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) and put her in a position to determine who gets to come into the country as an immigrant or “asylum seeker.” Now the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officer is repeatedly posting pictures of Hamas terrorists parachuting in with guns and writing, “F*** Israel and any Jew who supports Israel,&#8221; a Daily Wire investigation found.
Nejwa Ali worked in 2016 and 2017 as a public affairs officer for the Palestinian Delegation to the U.S., which according to its own website, served as the &#8220;<a href="http://plodelegation.us/2017/09/ambassador-dr-husam-zomlot-responds-to-israels-demand-to-shut-down-the-delegation-of-the-plo-to-the-u-s-office/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">PLO office in D.C</a>.&#8221; That office was expelled from the country by the Trump administration, but Ali landed on her feet, according to a <a href="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/10/linkedin2.png">screenshot of her LinkedIn profile</a>, securing a job at DHS as an &#8220;Asylum Officer,&#8221; where she was tasked with &#8220;applying immigration laws and regulations to asylum applications.&#8221;
This January, she moved over to being an Adjudication Officer for the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (CIS). People with that job, <a href="https://www.uscis.gov/about-us/careers/career-opportunities" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to the agency</a>, &#8220;analyze new or amended legislation and policy, prepare written reports of findings, and review and make determinations on cases for immigration benefits.&#8221;
Though Ali’s job at DHS included vetting people to make sure they were not a threat to the country before letting them in, it’s not clear that anyone from the agency vetted her. That her primary allegiance was to the Palestinians, not the United States, was evident from her social media profiles, where she posts as “Falastine Mi Amor.”
She has posted extremist rhetoric continuously to Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter for years — rhetoric that intensified this month as Palestinian terrorists murdered over 1,000 Jews on October 7 and Ali cheered. &#8220;F*** Israel, the government, and its military. Are you ready for your downfall?&#8221; she wrote on Instagram after the attacks.
According to her social media profiles — which say she is &#8220;American born, Palestinian @ heart&#8221; — Ali is from Dearborn, Michigan, a hotbed of unassimilated immigrants where thousands <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/detroit/news/thousands-rally-in-dearborn-to-support-palestine/">reportedly</a> took to the streets in support of the Hamas terrorist attacks on Israel.
Ali has made several posts glorifying the terrorist attacks on Israel, including one depicting armed terrorists paragliding into the Jewish state with the caption, &#8220;Free PALESTINE.&#8221;
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Several of Ali&#8217;s posts glorifying the terrorist attacks include the statement, &#8220;Respect our existence, or expect resistance. Simple. No Apologies,&#8221; a suggestion that as long as Israel exists on what she considers occupied land, attacks on civilians are acceptable.
Jews seeking to come to America might have a hard time if Ali were their immigration officer. &#8220;Israeli, American privilege is disgusting. When Israelis acknowledge the government and military are solely responsible for the attack. Period,&#8221; she wrote. &#8220;I hold every Israeli accountable for their governments [sic] actions, IF they do not speak against Israel.&#8221;
On October 9, she posted to Facebook: &#8220;How Nejwa wakes up,&#8221; accompanied by a video captioned &#8220;F*** Israel and any Jew that supports Israel&#8221; and a photo that says &#8220;A nation that has nothing but Allah has everything it will ever need.&#8221; She also added an anti-Semitic cartoon of a Jewish nose.
She has also claimed that the media is pushing Israeli propaganda, mimicking a common <a href="https://www.ajc.org/translatehate/control">anti-Semitic</a> refrain that Jewish people control the press.
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“Palestine will be free one day. F*** APARTHEID Israel and any Israeli that supports that bulls***. F*** you, may Allah forgive you. and spare us the crocodile tears, I sure as hell give zero f***s,&#8221; she wrote on Instagram.
USCIS spokesman Matthew Bourke told The Daily Wire that &#8220;USCIS strongly condemns antisemitism and the use of violent rhetoric in any form.&#8221;
&#8220;USCIS employees are held to high ethical standards both on and off duty, including their presence on social media,&#8221; Bourke said. &#8220;Any violation of these standards is taken seriously by the agency.&#8221;
But a day after The Daily Wire asked the agency about Ali, she told The Daily Wire in a phone call that she still works for DHS, and was decidedly unchastened.
Asked if she disclosed her employment with the PLO to DHS, she said &#8220;That&#8217;s none of your f***ing business. Mind your business before I call the police. If I were you I&#8217;d respectfully hang up the phone right now.&#8221;
Asked if her views on Israel impacted her ability to work as an American government official, she said, &#8220;That does not affect the ability to do my job at all. You can mind your own business.&#8221;
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USCIS declined to say why it would hire someone who previously worked for a foreign quasi-government that was expelled from the United States and put them in position to determine who was allowed to come into the country.
It said, &#8220;applicants seeking employment with USCIS are thoroughly vetted and subject to extensive security and background checks before they can receive a permanent position with the agency.&#8221;
But it declined to shed light on the two apparent possibilities: that USCIS either knowingly hired a PLO employee who had demonstrated extremist views, or it was completely in the dark about its own employees&#8217; recent employment and public records.
USCIS would not say whether it called PLO officials for a job reference — calling past employers is a standard part of the government vetting process. Ali has recently scrubbed her LinkedIn profile of her work with the PLO, as well as an internship with UNRWA, the United Nations agency tasked with helping Palestinians.
Ali&#8217;s extreme foreign policy views were evident long before she was hired by the government in 2019, during the Trump administration. Her clear animating force in life appears to be pushing the Islamic socialist message of the PLO.
During the Obama administration, on social media she lobbied for it to <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190808164804/https://twitter.com/falastinemiamor/status/653739558731915265" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;BOYCOTT ISRAEL&#8221;</a> and &#8220;End AID 2 ISRAEL,&#8221; and during the 2016 election, she complained that <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190808164703/https://twitter.com/falastinemiamor/status/703071478225489920" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;Republicans OBSESS over Israel&#8221;</a> and called for &#8220;decolonization.&#8221;
&#8220;F*** APARTHEID Israel and any Israeli that supports that bulls***. F*** you, may allah forgive you,&#8221; she wrote, alongside pictures of violent leftist Americans Assata Shakur and Malcolm X. In 2017, she posted a picture of herself grinning in front of a statute of Che Guevara, the murderous Communist militant.
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The United States is <a href="https://komonews.com/news/nation-world/squad-member-rep-jamaal-bowman-says-us-should-welcome-palestinian-refugees-israel-gaza-palestine-hamas-terrorism-terrorist-invasion-middle-east-conflict">facing pressure from the political Left</a> to welcome Palestinian refugees into the country amid Israel&#8217;s war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip. It is officers like Ali who would be tasked with advising the government whether or not it would be safe to grant entry to an applicant.
Ali&#8217;s position on Israel goes squarely against the policy of the United States. President Joe Biden has said that his administration stands firmly with Israel, and has pledged to support it in its war against terrorists.

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