A video captured by the New Guard, the online publication of the Young America&#8217;s Foundation (YAF), showed an anti-Israel demonstrator at Columbia University stomping on multiple American flags after the flags were taken from a YAF display set up on the New York college campus.
Anti-Israel protesters have occupied part of Columbia&#8217;s campus for over a week now, disrupting in-person learning and alarming Jewish students and faculty, as the university has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/columbia-university-caves-will-not-use-police-to-clear-out-anti-israel-encampment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">backed down</a> on threats to call in the NYPD to remove the student activists. The video captured by the <a href="https://yaf.org/news/pro-hamas-radical-stomps-on-american-flags-at-columbia-university/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New Guard</a> and posted to social media on Friday begins by showing a conservative student confronting the masked protester as he was walking away with the small American flags in his hands.
&#8220;Do you mind getting out of my way, bud?&#8221; the anti-Israel demonstrator asked the conservative student.
&#8220;Do you mind giving us those flags back?&#8221; the student shot back.
&#8220;Do you wanna f*** off with that?&#8221; the protester added as he continued to walk toward the encampment set up by anti-Israel protesters on Columbia&#8217;s campus.
After reaching the student encampment, the protester threw the American flags on the ground near a tent and stomped on them.
“Way to show America what you think about the American flag,” the conservative student said as he continued to film. “That’s a bad look for you guys.”
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It was unclear if the flag-stomping protester was a Columbia student or someone who had joined the leftist student demonstrators.
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The anti-Israel student activists at Columbia are led by Khymani James, who stated on a live-stream earlier this year that “Zionists don’t deserve to live,” The Daily Wire <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">reported</a>. James also warned Zionists who may want to “meet up and fight” and that he “fights to kill.” The anti-Israel activist then released a statement <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/columbia-student-claims-he-misspoke-after-repeatedly-calling-for-zionists-to-die-in-hour-long-livestream" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claiming</a> he &#8220;misspoke&#8221; when he repeatedly said Zionists deserve to die.
“I am frustrated that the words I said in an Instagram Live video have become a distraction from the movement for Palestinian liberation,” Khymani James said in a statement posted to X. “I misspoke in the heat of the movement, for which I apologize.”

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A pro-<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/palestinians" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Palestinian</a> protest at Emory University descended into chaos on Thursday, with multiple students arrested after Atlanta police and Georgia state troopers responded to the scene.
Police wrestled multiple students to the ground, and at least one student was tased, video of the protests posted to social media shows. Other students were seen being led away in handcuffs.
Some witnesses <a href="https://www.ajc.com/news/crime/breaking-pro-palestinian-training-center-protesters-set-up-camp-at-emory/KI3KCD5TANAIVGHFF5OTLXY5BA/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> police used pepper spray to control the crowd.
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Atlanta cops tased and restrained one protester. <a href="https://t.co/8zd4rIbFdi">pic.twitter.com/8zd4rIbFdi</a>
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JUST IN: Chaos erupts as Georgia police officers reportedly fire rubber bullets into a crowd at Emory University.
The incident happened after students set up a Gaza solidarity encampment at the quad.
The protestors are &quot;demanding total institutional divestment from Israeli… <a href="https://t.co/vukOzrpMEz">pic.twitter.com/vukOzrpMEz</a>
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The Emory protesters were protesting the Israel-Hamas war, but also the construction of a police training facility at an abandoned Atlanta prison, dubbed &#8220;Cop City&#8221; by opponents.
In an article the Emory protesters <a href="https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/protest-underway-at-emory-university-in-support-of-palestine-stop-cop-city" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published</a> online, the protesters wrote they were &#8220;demanding total institutional divestment from Israeli apartheid and Cop City at all Atlanta colleges and universities.&#8221;
On Thursday morning, several dozen people set up camp on the university&#8217;s lawn with tents and signs.
President Gregory Fenves said many of those initial protesters were outsiders.
“Early this morning, several dozen protesters entered our Atlanta campus and set up an encampment on the Quad,” Fenves said in an email to the school community.
“These individuals are largely not affiliated with Emory and were disrupting the university as our students finish classes and prepare for finals. This is completely unacceptable. In response to this encampment, the Emory Police Department notified these individuals that they were trespassing. When they refused to leave, law enforcement cleared the Quad,” Fenves said.
Emory police Commander Thomas Mann agreed, saying some of the protesters were not affiliated with the university.
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“The ones that were arrested, there wasn’t anything peaceful about what was going on,” the police commander <a href="https://www.ajc.com/news/crime/breaking-pro-palestinian-training-center-protesters-set-up-camp-at-emory/KI3KCD5TANAIVGHFF5OTLXY5BA/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Some of those arrested will be charged with criminal trespass and assaulting police officers, he said.
Rowdy protests have also broken out over the last week at other universities across the country.
In New York City, demonstrations erupted at Columbia, Harvard, and New York University, <a href="https://www.ajc.com/news/crime/breaking-pro-palestinian-training-center-protesters-set-up-camp-at-emory/KI3KCD5TANAIVGHFF5OTLXY5BA/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">where</a> 133 protesters were arrested. In the Boston area, students protested at both Harvard and Northeastern University. Another Ivy League school, Brown University in Rhode Island, saw protests as well. Yale University in Connecticut saw more than 40 protesters arrested.
In Texas, the University of Texas at Austin saw students demonstrate as police struggled to control the crowd, at one point knocking over a man holding a large camera.
In California, students protested at University of Southern California where 93 people were <a href="https://ktla.com/news/california/usc-imposes-campus-restrictions-after-nearly-100-arrested-during-pro-palestinian-protest/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">arrested</a>.

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On Monday morning, in the wake of the chaos at Columbia University, where Jewish students were threatened and weeks of anti-Israel demonstrations by activists have blocked major roads, former President Trump issued a social media post denouncing the ineffectual response by authorities around the nation to leftists.
Left-wing demonstrators and &#8220;even rioters,&#8221; Trump said, are given free rein in &#8220;a two-tiered system of justice,&#8221; comparing the treatment by authorities of leftist agitators to the treatment of conservatives.
“Why are Palestinian protesters, and even rioters, allowed to roam the Cities, scream, shout, sit, block traffic, enter buildings, not get permits, and basically do whatever they want including threatening Supreme Court Justices right in front of their homes, and yet people who truly LOVE our Country, and want to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, are not allowed to ‘Peacefully Protest’ and are rudely and systematically shut down and ushered off to far away &#8216;holding areas,&#8217; essentially denying them their Constitutional Rights,” Trump wrote on <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/112314542953753353">Truth Social</a>.
“America Loving Protesters should be allowed to protest at the front steps of Courthouses, all over the Country, just like it is allowed for those who are destroying our Country on the Radical Left, a two tiered system of justice. Free Speech and Assembly has been ‘CHILLED’ for USA SUPPORTERS. GO OUT AND PEACEFULLY PROTEST. RALLY BEHIND MAGA. SAVE OUR COUNTRY! ‘THE ONLY THING YOU HAVE TO FEAR IS FEAR ITSELF,’” he concluded.
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At Columbia University, a rabbi for Columbia and its partner school Barnard College <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/columbia-rabbi-warns-of-extreme-antisemitism-advises-jewish-students-to-return-home-asap">urged</a> Jewish students to go home due to the “extreme antisemitism and anarchy” at the university.
Last week, anti-Israel activists <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/second-protest-blocks-all-lanes-of-golden-gate-bridge-san-francisco/">blocked</a> the Golden Gate Bridge and parts of Interstate 880 in Oakland, California. All southbound lanes of Highway 101 were blocked at 7:30 a.m. The California Highway Patrol closed off the northbound lanes and stopped pedestrian and bicycle traffic across the bridge. The lanes didn’t open for almost five hours.
In lower Manhattan, anti-Israel activists <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/04/15/us-news/hundreds-of-anti-israeli-protesters-wreak-havoc-in-downtown-nyc-disrupt-bridge-traffic-as-cops-make-arrests/">stormed</a> the Brooklyn Bridge, bringing traffic to a halt. Activists also blocked a road to arrivals and departures at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in Washington.

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On Tuesday, the GOP-led <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/u-s-house-of-representatives" target="_blank" rel="noopener">House</a> passed a resolution declaring the slogan &#8220;From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free&#8221; is anti-Semitic and must be condemned, the latest in a series of measures designed to express support for Israel.
Lawmakers approved the <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-resolution/883/text?s=1&amp;r=87" target="_blank" rel="noopener">resolution</a>, which also says the slogan is &#8220;divisive and does a disservice to Israelis, Palestinians, and all those in the region who seek peace,&#8221; by a <a href="https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2024/roll134.xml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">377-44 vote</a> with bipartisan support.
Forty-three Democrats and one Republican — Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) — opposed the resolution. Nine members did not vote, while one — Rep. Dean Phillips (D-MN) — voted &#8220;present.&#8221;
Rep. Anthony D&#8217;Esposito (R-NY), a <a href="https://twitter.com/RepDesposito/status/1779993750552318142" target="_blank" rel="noopener">staunch</a> Israel ally who <a href="https://desposito.house.gov/media/press-releases/congressman-anthony-desposito-introduces-resolution-formally-condemning-river" target="_blank" rel="noopener">introduced</a> the resolution, said in floor remarks that activists who recite the slogan are anti-Semitic and only &#8220;masquerading&#8221; as pro-Palestinian advocates.
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🚨BREAKING: My legislation CONDEMNING the slogan, “from the river to the sea, ‘Palestine’ will be free” has passed the House.
These antisemitic activists want nothing more than the destruction of Israel &amp; the Jewish people inside it.
America will always <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/StandWithIsrael?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#StandWithIsrael</a>.🇮🇱🇺🇸 <a href="https://t.co/OfIgUI3QII">pic.twitter.com/OfIgUI3QII</a>
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&#8220;This slogan communicates one thing and one thing only,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It is not human rights. It is certainly not peace. It is the violent destruction of the state of Israel and the Jewish people that live within it.&#8221;
The vote took place a little more than six months into Israel&#8217;s fight against Hamas in the Gaza Strip following the group&#8217;s deadly terrorist attack on Israeli soil.
Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), who is the sole Palestinian American member of Congress and is part of the leftist &#8220;Squad,&#8221; was among the 43 Democrats who opposed the resolution.
&#8220;We are seeing the same &#8216;messaging&#8217; bills on the floor every single week,&#8221; Tlaib said in a post to X on Tuesday. &#8220;These bills are just an attempt to distract from the genocide in Gaza. I am not voting for any of these bills while the genocide of Palestinians continues.&#8221;
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We are seeing the same &quot;messaging&quot; bills on the floor every single week. These bills are just an attempt to distract from the genocide in Gaza. I am not voting for any of these bills while the genocide of Palestinians continues.
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The House voted to censure Tlaib last year over her <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">comments</a> regarding the Israel-Hamas conflict. One part of the measure rebuked Tlaib for &#8220;falsely describing &#8216;from the river to the sea&#8217; as &#8216;an aspirational call for freedom, human rights, and peaceful coexistence&#8217; despite it clearly entailing Israel’s destruction and denial of its fundamental right to exist.&#8221;
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House lawmakers have done more than just pass resolutions tied to the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/johnson-led-house-passes-resolution-in-support-of-israel" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Israel-Hamas conflict</a>. They also passed a bill that would have provided Israel $14.3 billion in emergency aid with an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) offset. However, the legislation was <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/news/senate-blocks-14-3-billion-in-aid-for-israel/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">blocked</a> in the Democrat-controlled Senate last year.
Now, after Iran launched a drone and missile attack on Israel over the weekend, the House is <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/speaker-johnson-proposes-separate-bills-on-israel-and-ukraine-aid" target="_blank" rel="noopener">poised to consider new legislation</a> meant to provide assistance to Israel and other foreign causes. The chamber also <a href="https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/04/16/congress/house-iran-pushback-bills-israel-attack-00152601" target="_blank" rel="noopener">passed</a> a raft of Iran sanctions measures.

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The first target in any protracted military campaign is pretty much always infrastructure.
When the U.S. invaded Iraq with a &#8220;shock and awe&#8221; strategy, we hit the bridges right away. We did the same thing in Yugoslavia, Vietnam, and Korea. The reason for that is pretty simple: If you shut down transportation, you shut down the country.
The purpose of taking out bridges and airports isn&#8217;t to convince anyone that you&#8217;re right. It&#8217;s not a moral argument. The point is to disable your enemy as quickly as possible and to make them vulnerable to further attack.
After what happened yesterday, it&#8217;s clear that the domestic enemies of the United States — the ones we&#8217;ve imported and those our universities have indoctrinated — understand the importance of infrastructure very well. In a series of coordinated attacks, Hamas sympathizers stormed bridges and airports all over the country. I&#8217;m going to go through several of these attacks, and I&#8217;ll start with by far the most significant and longest-lasting interruption. It took place on both the Golden Gate Bridge and Interstate 880 in Oakland. Watch:
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So just a month ago, activists shut down the Bay Bridge. As you just heard, they delayed several organ donations. The San Francisco Chronicle <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/motorist-stuck-bay-bridge-protest-describes-19085430.php">reported</a> that at least one person had a medical emergency while he was stuck in traffic. But nothing happened to any of the people responsible for that, they received something like five hours of community service. So yesterday, it happened again, this time on the Golden Gate Bridge and on the interstate.
News reports like this always say &#8220;protesters&#8221; are shutting down traffic. That&#8217;s accurate, but it only tells part of the story. The other part is that the political leaders in these cities are also choosing to shut down traffic by allowing the protesters to do it. It would be exceedingly easy to not only clear these blockades but also dissuade anyone from ever pulling a stunt like this again. All you would have to do is pull them off the road by force and then hit them with every criminal charge even vaguely applicable, including terrorism charges. Throw the whole book at just one of these people, one time, and it will never happen again. Give one of them prison time — real prison time, 15 years of prison time — and the problem is solved. 
Forever. Just like that. 
Instead, the authorities in California are doing the opposite. The last time this took place, they gave these criminals a few hours of community service.. This time they let them shut down one of the longest bridges in the country for five hours before making a single arrest. All told, 38 people were ultimately <a href="https://abc7news.com/pro-palestinian-protesters-shut-down-golden-gate-bridge-and-i-880-in-oakland/14668534/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">arrested</a> between the Golden Gate Bridge and the Oakland interstate. They were hit with a variety of charges from false imprisonment to unlawful assembly.
<h4><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-1348-activists-who-shut-down-highways-aren-t-protesters-they-re-terrorists-member-exclusive" target="_blank" rel="noopener">WATCH: The Matt Walsh Show</a></h4>
None of those charges, it&#8217;s important to point out, carry a potential sentence of over a decade in prison. That kind of penalty is reserved for pro-life demonstrators who pray outside of abortion clinics and allegedly block access to the facility. If you do that, you get the predawn SWAT team raid from the DOJ and a very good chance you spend the next 10 years in prison. But if you sit on the highway for five hours and prevent thousands of people from getting where they need to go, then that&#8217;s not as big a deal. In fact, false imprisonment is the most serious charge that any of these demonstrators face, and the max you can get for that in California is something like four years. 
Of course, it&#8217;s virtually certain they&#8217;re not going to serve that time or even go to trial for any of this. They&#8217;ll all get community service and do the same thing again a month from now.
And that&#8217;s odd, even by the Biden administration&#8217;s own logic — because for all we know, there might have been people on these roads who were headed to get abortions. And they were delayed or even blocked from doing so. Will the DOJ look into the number of Californians who had to reschedule their abortions yesterday because their bridge was illegally shut down? Think of how many children might still be alive because of those protesters. Think about how many opportunities to murder babies were squandered. That&#8217;s the kind of thing that normally keeps Merrick Garland up at night.
If pro-lifers deserve a decade in prison for mildly inconveniencing people who are trying to access one abortion clinic in Nashville, these people deserve a century. But of course, they&#8217;re on the Left, so they can literally do whatever they want, all the time. Logic doesn&#8217;t really apply. There will be no DOJ probe into the organizers of this protest. There will be no RICO case against them.
But increasingly, it&#8217;s clear that there should be. <a href="https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/heres-why-the-golden-gate-bridge-i-880-shut-down/#:~:text=Protester%20organizer%20Ellen%20Caminiti%20sent,in%20Palestine%2C" target="_blank" rel="noopener">According </a>to San Francisco&#8217;s local news station KRON, a woman named Ellen Caminiti was one of the &#8220;organizers&#8221; of the Golden Gate protest yesterday. She was apparently off-site, serving as a representative. I looked her up, and it turns out she&#8217;s the <a href="https://www.nclrights.org/about-us/who-we-are/ellen-caminiti/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">communications director</a> at a nonprofit called the National Center for Lesbian Rights, or NCLR. So this is an organization that gets tax breaks to advance &#8220;lesbian rights,&#8221; and at 9:00 a.m. on a Monday, their communications director was organizing a criminal blockade of one of the most important bridges in the country. One of my producers reached out to Ellen Caminiti about this. She said, quote, &#8220;NCLR had no role in it, that is just my day-job, which is completely separate from this.&#8221; 
What&#8217;s confusing about that, again, is that this blockade took place first thing Monday morning. That counts as &#8220;during the day.&#8221; So it sounds like Ellen Caminiti&#8217;s &#8220;day job&#8221; is shutting down infrastructure in San Francisco in the name of &#8220;Palestinian solidarity.&#8221; We followed up with NCLR to ask them about this. We wanted to know if they had any reaction whatsoever to their employee assisting in a criminal blockade during the workday. They didn&#8217;t respond to that question. All they said is that they had nothing to do with the blockade.
You&#8217;d think that, if NCLR disagreed with what their employee did during work hours, they&#8217;d fire her immediately. At the very least they&#8217;d condemn what she did. Especially given that she did it on behalf of Hamas, a group that would happily toss everyone in the organization off of a rooftop. But no such luck. 
That&#8217;s because NCLR, like many so-called Left-wing &#8220;public interest nonprofits,&#8221; isn&#8217;t really working in the public interest at all. It&#8217;s a tax shelter that employs unhinged activists who want to destroy this country. They should lose their tax-exempt nonprofit status immediately. Nonprofits aren&#8217;t supposed to have anything remotely to do with criminal activity, and it definitely sounds like, at a minimum, they&#8217;re tacitly endorsing exactly that. But, of course, there will be no DOJ investigation, at least not under the Biden administration, because the Biden administration wants these kinds of blockades to occur. That&#8217;s why they took place all day yesterday, all over the country.
In Seattle, demonstrators blocked access to the airport, forcing travelers to walk to the terminal. 
In New York, thugs stormed the Brooklyn Bridge. 
In Chicago, they blocked the highway leading to O&#8217;Hare airport. 
In Dearborn Michigan, a caravan of Hamas sympathizers backed up traffic. 
In Fremont California, they attacked a Tesla production facility, apparently because of Elon Musk&#8217;s tweets, forcing the plant to declare an emergency and close. 
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In all of these cases, except for the situation in Fremont, there wasn&#8217;t much of a police response, at least not initially. In Seattle, officers eventually arrested the people blockading the roadway. Julio Rosas reports that on the Brooklyn Bridge, the NYPD made an effort to stop the demonstrators, and succeeded in stopping about half of them. But traffic was still disrupted. 
As far as I can tell, the only decisive reaction to these riots took place in Miami, where police hauled away the demonstrators the moment they broke the law. Watch:
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Well, look at that. The police just drag them away. It&#8217;s not hard. It takes a few minutes, and the whole city is no longer held hostage by a handful of terrorists. Just throw them in jail and make an example of them. 
Governor Ron DeSantis&#8217; communications director uploaded the footage you just saw, along with this <a href="https://x.com/BryanDGriffin/status/1779972576422322354">message:</a> &#8220;In Florida, we drag these people out of the road and arrest them.&#8221;
That&#8217;s obviously the right response, as rare as it may be. And when police don&#8217;t do this, immediately, then citizens have every right to do it themselves. Senator Tom Cotton put it <a href="https://x.com/TomCottonAR/status/1780039918737121502">this way</a>, &#8220;I encourage people who get stuck behind the pro-Hamas mobs blocking traffic: take matters into your own hands to get them out of the way. It&#8217;s time to put an end to this nonsense.&#8221;
Of course, the problem with what Tom Cotton said is that, if someone does take matters into their own hands, there&#8217;s a very good chance they&#8217;ll spend the rest of their life in prison. The Biden DOJ will destroy them. They will do nothing to protect innocent people from these terrorists. But the moment someone tries to take action — even if it&#8217;s justified — then the feds will hunt them down. It&#8217;s almost like that&#8217;s what the Biden administration wants to happen at this point.
It appears to be what the NYPD wants. Yesterday, police officers didn&#8217;t have much of a reaction when a Hamas sympathizer lit an American flag on fire and shouted &#8220;Death to America,&#8221; right in front of about five cops. He just walked away. Watch:
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Now, if you call yourself &#8220;America first&#8221; — and a lot of people do now — it goes without saying that you should be stridently opposed to people who shout &#8220;death to America,&#8221; burn American flags, and go out of their way to cause problems for American citizens. If your &#8220;America first&#8221; principles somehow find common cause with people who wish death on America and its people, that&#8217;s a good indication that you are, at best, very confused. But that confusion needs to end at this point. This is well past the realm of online trolling. There are now coordinated attacks occurring all over the country targeting its infrastructure.
You hear a lot of people say, &#8220;Why would these people do this? They&#8217;re not going to convince anyone to support their cause by blocking traffic or shutting down the airport!&#8221; Well, yeah. That&#8217;s because the objective of Hamas sympathizers living in this country isn&#8217;t to convince you of anything. 
Disrupting infrastructure — as always — is just the first phase in a much larger campaign they have planned. And unless more states follow Florida&#8217;s lead and shut this down immediately, then very soon, we&#8217;ll find out what the next phase is.

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Activists Who Shut Down Highways Aren’t ‘Protesters.’ They’re Terrorists.

Activists Who Shut Down Highways Aren't 'Protesters.' They're Terrorists.

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A Palestinian man who helped kidnap and murder a 19-year-old Israeli man has died in an Israeli prison, and Amnesty International mourned his death.
The global organization, which claims its mission is to “help fight abuses of human rights worldwide,” “bring torturers to justice,” “[c]hange oppressive laws,” and “free people jailed just for voicing their opinion,” referred to Walid Daqqah, a man who helped brutally torture and murder a young Israeli, simply as a “writer.”
“The death in custody of Walid Daqqa, a 62-year-old Palestinian writer who was the longest-serving Palestinian prisoner in Israeli jails after 38 years of imprisonment, is a cruel reminder of Israel’s disregard for Palestinians’ right to life,” the organization posted on X.
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The death in custody of Walid Daqqa, a 62-year-old Palestinian writer who was the longest-serving Palestinian prisoner in Israeli jails after 38 years of imprisonment, is a cruel reminder of Israel’s disregard for Palestinians’ right to life ⬇️<a href="https://t.co/hSz0gdZgVj">https://t.co/hSz0gdZgVj</a>
— Amnesty International (@amnesty) <a href="https://twitter.com/amnesty/status/1777390873518489613?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 8, 2024</a></blockquote>
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In its <a href="https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2024/04/israel-opt-death-in-custody-of-walid-daqqah-is-cruel-reminder-of-israels-disregard-for-palestinians-right-to-life/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">press release</a> on the death, the organization downplayed Daqqah’s crimes, ignoring what happened to 19-year-old Israeli soldier Moshe Tamam in 1984.
Daqqah and three other men kidnapped Tamam to bring him to the Syrian Arab Republic, Israel National News <a href="https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/372150" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. They kept Tamam for two days before deciding to kill him. When his body was found, authorities discovered that Tamam’s eyes had been gouged out and some of his body parts had been cut off, including castration, The Jewish Chronicle <a href="https://www.thejc.com/news/world/amnesty-describes-death-of-terrorist-who-ordered-teens-murder-as-heart-wrenching-g7xhem7u" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. This torture was done before Tamam was killed. A gunshot to the head is what killed him.
None of this is mentioned in Amnesty International’s press release.
Instead, the organization accused Israel of human rights violations because Israel didn’t release Daqqah early due to his bone marrow cancer. Daqqah was originally sentenced to life in prison but that sentence was reduced to 37 years, Reuters <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/amnesty-international-urges-israel-return-body-ailing-palestinian-who-died-2024-04-08/">reported</a>. Daqqah was then discovered to be distributing cell phones to prisoners (Amnesty International claimed it was so they could call their families), and he was sentenced to two more years.
“It is heart-wrenching that Walid Daqqah has died in Israeli custody despite the many calls for his urgent release on humanitarian grounds following his 2022 diagnosis with bone marrow cancer and the fact that he had already completed his original sentence,” said Erika Guevara-Rosas, the organization’s senior director for research, advocacy, policy, and campaigns.
“Walid Daqqah’s death is a cruel reminder of Israel’s systematic medical neglect and disregard for Palestinian prisoners’ rights,&#8221; Guevara-Rosas <a href="https://www.thejc.com/news/world/amnesty-describes-death-of-terrorist-who-ordered-teens-murder-as-heart-wrenching-g7xhem7u">added</a>. &#8220;For Daqqah and his family, the last six months in particular were an endless nightmare, during which he was subjected to torture or other ill-treatment, including beatings and humiliation by the Israeli Prison Service, according to his lawyer. He was not permitted a phone call with his wife since 7 October. His final appeal for parole on humanitarian grounds was rejected by the Israeli Supreme Court, effectively sentencing him to die behind bars.”
The organization also claimed that Daqqah wasn’t provided adequate medical treatment or “suitable food” and wasn’t allowed to say goodbye to his wife or his four-year-old daughter, whom he fathered while in prison. Amnesty provides no evidence for its claims outside of Daqqah’s lawyer.
Amnesty previously had <a href="https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/08/israel-opt-israeli-authorities-should-release-walid-daqqah-immediately/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">campaigned</a> for Daqqah’s release on the grounds that he only had one or two years to live due to his cancer diagnosis. Levi Meir Clancy, founder of the Jewish organization Foundation of Ours, <a href="https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/behind-amnestys-walid-daqqah-advocacy-i-found-stomach-churning-misinformation/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> on The Times of Israel’s blog that Israel’s compassionate release program is typically reserved for those with weeks or months to live.
Amnesty in that press release, published in August 2023, at least condemned the killing of Moshe Tamam, but only on the grounds that it violated the “Geneva Conventions’ absolute prohibition on violence to the life and person of armed forces members who have laid down their arms, including those in captivity.”
But as Clancy wrote, Tamam was not a soldier who surrendered during battle, but was, at the time of his kidnapping, simply on vacation and traveling after visiting his girlfriend.
Daqqah only became a writer and novelist after he was in prison, prompting Amnesty to describe him as “a mentor and educator for generations of young Palestinian prisoners, including children.”
“His writings, which included letters, essays, a celebrated play and a novel for young adults, were an act of resistance against the dehumanization of Palestinian prisoners. ‘Love is my modest and only victory against my jailer,’ he once wrote,” Amnesty said. “Walid Daqqah’s writings behind bars are a testament to a spirit never broken by decades of incarceration and oppression.”
The Jerusalem Post <a href="https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-795884" target="_blank" rel="noopener">quoted</a> Tamam’s niece, who, along with other members of Tamam’s family, consistently opposed Daqqah’s parole.
&#8220;My uncle&#8217;s murderer chose his life after inflicting severe torture, and after the murder, he continued to torment my family, engage in terrorism, and torment the entire nation of Israel. We fought hard to prevent his early release, and the fruits of our struggle have ripened,” Dr. Ortal Tamam said in an interview. “My uncle&#8217;s murderer died while still in prison, sick and poor. Just like the subhuman he is. This is a victory for my family and for all of Israel.”

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Amnesty International Mourns Death Of Palestinian Terrorist, Claims It Is Israel That Has No Regard For Human Life

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Harvard University is employing around-the-clock security to protect an anti-Israel “apartheid wall” created by students that features a quote from the leader of a U.S.-designated terrorist organization. 
The wall includes various anti-Israel art and a quote from Ghassan Kanafani, the former spokesperson for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a communist Palestinian terrorist organization known for hijacking aircraft and mass murder. Kanafani was assassinated in Beirut in June of 1972 by the Mossad after being linked to the massacre of 26 people—including American tourists—at Ben Gurion airport two months earlier, <a href="https://www.jns.org/jns/united-kingdom/23/7/9/301202/">according to Jewish News Syndicate</a>. 
&#8220;The Palestinian cause is not a cause for Palestinians only, but a cause for every revolutionary wherever he is, as a cause of the exploited and oppressed masses in our era,&#8221; the Kanafani quote reads.
The guards have been giving the display 24-hour coverage while sporting jackets with a Securitas logo, a security firm that has a <a href="https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/1/30/securitas-retaliation-case-settled/">relationship with</a> Harvard. A Harvard alum who lives near campus told The Daily Wire that one of the security guards started yelling when asked who he was employed by. 
<div id="attachment_719221" style="width: 1034px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-719221" decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="size-large wp-image-719221" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/04/4-1024x576.png" alt="" width="1024" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/04/4-1024x576.png 1024w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/04/4-300x169.png 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/04/4-768x432.png 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/04/4.png 1280w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" />A Securitas guard protecting Harvard&#8217;s &#8220;apartheid wall.&#8221;</div>
“He thought that we were filming and started yelling at us that we are escalating the situation and that he is going to call his supervisor,” the alum who wishes to remain anonymous for fear of retribution said. “He started walking to the car and then turned around and started yelling that we are going to threaten him in his family, because this is what ‘you people do,’ threaten people and steal their lands.”
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When the alum notified the Harvard Police, they confirmed he worked for a security firm contracted by the school and said that the guard would not return to protect the wall.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/harvard-law-students-resign-from-student-govt-over-secret-ballot-anti-israel-vote">Harvard Law Students Resign From Student Govt Over Secret Ballot Anti-Israel Vote</a>
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<div id="attachment_719225" style="width: 1034px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-719225" decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="size-large wp-image-719225" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/04/5-1024x576.png" alt="" width="1024" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/04/5-1024x576.png 1024w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/04/5-300x169.png 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/04/5-768x432.png 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/04/5.png 1280w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" />A quote on Harvard University&#8217;s &#8220;apartheid wall&#8221; from former PFLP terrorist Ghassan Kanafani.</div>
“To pay to have a guard 24/7 protecting a wall that displays statements issued by U.S.-designated terror organizations, and propagates conspiracies against Israel and the Jewish people, and simultaneously not do so to protect posters of hostages whose photos have been hatefully and regularly defaced and vandalized, is bizarre and poor judgment in the extreme,” Harvard Chabad Rabbi Hirschy Zarchi told The Daily Wire. 
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/harvard-accused-of-promoting-eco-terrorism-for-plans-to-screen-how-to-blow-up-a-pipeline-film">Harvard Accused Of Promoting Eco-Terrorism For Plans To Screen ‘How To Blow Up A Pipeline’ Film</a>
Fliers of Jewish civilians taken hostage by Hamas have been repeatedly vandalized on campus, including last month when a groundskeeper employed by a company contracted by Harvard <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-harvard-employee-flips-out-after-he-was-caught-ripping-down-israeli-hostage-posters">acted aggressively</a> when being confronted for ripping down posters. He was asked to leave campus and will not be assigned to work on campus again, according to a Harvard spokesperson.
In another incident, hostage posters <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/israel-did-9-11-harvard-campus-littered-with-anti-semitic-graffiti-ahead-of-new-semester">were vandalized</a> with anti-Semitic and 9/11 conspiracy graffiti at the start of this spring semester.
In December, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/harvard-does-not-have-our-back-rabbi-slams-university-at-hanukkah-event-attended-by-claudine-gay">Zarchi revealed</a> for the first time that the university told him that he must put away the menorah he lights on campus during Hannukah to avoid vandalism. 
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/video-anti-israel-mob-at-harvard-chants-outside-israeli-popstar-ishay-ribos-concert">VIDEO: Anti-Israel Mob At Harvard Chants Outside Israeli Popstar Ishay Ribo’s Concert</a>
“The university, since the first Hanukkah, would not allow us to keep this menorah here overnight because there is fear that it will be vandalized,” he said at the time. “We in the Jewish community are instructed, &#8216;We’ll let you have the menorah. You made your point. Okay, pack it up. Don’t leave it out overnight because there will be criminal activity, we fear, and it won’t look good.&#8221;
“It pains me to have to say, sadly, that Jew-hate and anti-Semitism is thriving on this campus,” he added. “26 years I’ve given my life to this community. I’ve never felt so alone.”
Shabbos Kestenbaum, a graduate 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, said the quote is part of a bigger trend of anti-Jewish hate on the campus.
“It is hardly surprising that the same group of students who interrupt classes to yell about globalizing the intifada, publish and promote anti-Semitic cartoons, and intimidate Jewish students on campus would also be comfortable quoting and glorifying Palestinian terrorism,” he said. 
Harvard University did not respond to a request for comment.

Harvard Apartheid Wall

Harvard Hires 24/7 Security To Protect Anti-Israel ‘Apartheid Wall’ Featuring Quote From Famous Terrorist

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Hundreds of anti-Israel protesters flooded the street on Thursday outside of a fundraiser for President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden</a> at Radio City Music Hall in New York City, eventually making it into the event that also featured former Democratic Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton.
The protest event, referred to as “Flood Manhattan for Gaza,” was replete with protesters waving signs and chanting slogans like, “Free, free Palestine!” and “Genocide Joe has got to go!”
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Huge crowd of Anti-Israel protesters surround Radio City Hall as Biden, Obama &amp; Clinton host a $25 million fundraiser.
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— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) <a href="https://twitter.com/OliLondonTV/status/1773508394223042976?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 29, 2024</a></blockquote>
Attendees paid anywhere from a few hundred dollars to half a million dollars to attend the high-profile fundraiser. Photos with the three presidents cost $100,000, according to the <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/03/28/us-news/anti-israel-protesters-swarm-radio-city-music-hall-for-bidens-25-million-fundraiser/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York Post</a>. Approximately $25 million was reportedly raised for Biden’s campaign.
Some of the protesters became verbally and physically aggressive, according to multiple videos shared on X.
In one video, a man is seen being harassed and shoved by the anti-Israel protesters.
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JUST IN—A man is assaulted by anti-Israel protesters gathered outside Joe Biden’s Radio City Music Hall $500,000 per ticket fundraiser. <a href="https://t.co/TQo1vl8xyz">pic.twitter.com/TQo1vl8xyz</a>
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) <a href="https://twitter.com/charliekirk11/status/1773488274214207961?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 28, 2024</a></blockquote>
In another video, a protester yells at a reporter: “F*** Fox News! Get a real job!”
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&#8220;Fk Fox News! Get a real job!&#8221; &#8211; Pro-palestine protesters shout at a reporter recording a stand up during the protest outside of Biden-Obama-Clinton Fundraiser in NYC <a href="https://t.co/fP1cav3JaF">pic.twitter.com/fP1cav3JaF</a>
— Oliya Scootercaster 🛴 (@ScooterCasterNY) <a href="https://twitter.com/ScooterCasterNY/status/1773518487693963550?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 29, 2024</a></blockquote>
Yet another video seemingly shows protesters heckling the president inside the venue.
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BREAKING: Anti-Israel demonstrators disrupt Presidential panel discussion with President Biden and former President’s Obama and Clinton at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. <a href="https://t.co/Uq2spcbR3p">pic.twitter.com/Uq2spcbR3p</a>
— Breaking 4 News (@Breaking_4_News) <a href="https://twitter.com/Breaking_4_News/status/1773527647353463051?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 29, 2024</a></blockquote>
The Biden administration has taken heat from anti-Israel groups for its initial support of the nation’s war against Hamas.
The administration has changed its stance on the war in recent months. During his State of the Union speech, Biden pushed back on Israel, <a href="https://time.com/6898685/biden-israel-pressure-gaza-aid-pier-in-state-of-the-union/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">saying</a> in part: “To the leadership of Israel I say this: Humanitarian assistance cannot be a secondary consideration or a bargaining chip. … Protecting and saving innocent lives has to be a priority.”
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/netanyahu-blasts-biden-for-criticizing-israels-military-strategy-hes-wrong-on-both-counts" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Netanyahu Blasts Biden For Criticizing Israel’s Military Strategy: ‘He’s Wrong On Both Counts’</a>

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Anti-Israel Protesters Disrupt Biden’s Mega-Fundraiser In New York City

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A <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/hamas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Palestinian terrorist</a> admitted to Israeli investigators that during his participation in the October 7 attack, he raped a girl inside a kibbutz.
The man identified himself as 28-year-old Manar Mahmoud Muhammad Kasem from Khan Yunis and admitted that he was a part of Palestinian Islamic Jihad, a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO). He said that he was involved in conducting training for the terrorist group&#8217;s sea units.
When asked what he did during Hamas&#8217; October 7 terrorist attack, he responded by saying that another terrorist alerted him to what was happening and encouraged him to come and join in carrying out the attack.
&#8220;I had a handgun and two grenades,&#8221; he said, adding that his friend was armed with an AK-47.
He said that after crossing the fence and entering into Israel, his friend was shot in the head, so he entered the nearest kibbutz to take cover.
&#8220;At first when I entered there was no one and then I entered a room and someone was there and was scared,&#8221; he told investigators. &#8220;Scared of me, she told me to help her, I took her and threw her on the couch. She had hair that wasn&#8217;t very long, like normal, and she was thin. She wore a blue skirt and a white shirt.&#8221;
&#8220;The devil took over me, I laid her down, started undressing her and did what I did,&#8221; he confessed. &#8220;I raped her.&#8221;
He said that the girl &#8220;pushed&#8221; him in an attempt to stop the rape, which he claimed only lasted a couple minutes because he &#8220;heard shouting outside.&#8221;
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&#8220;Two men came through the door forcefully and we heard screams. I don&#8217;t know if it was her mother or who it was,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And after we heard the screams, she and I both started to get dressed, and then these two men entered.&#8221;
He said that the men who entered the home were other terrorists from a different group.
&#8220;So they pulled the girl&#8217;s mother, brought her in, and put the two next to each other and the girl and her mother started comforting each other, from what I understood,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Anyway, I stayed in the room and then suddenly they took the girl and the woman.&#8221;
He added that after the two were taken as hostages, he opened fire at civilians and threw a grenade.
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“I laid her down, started undressing her…I raped her.” 
Listen to an Islamic Jihad terrorist admit he raped an Israeli woman during the Oct. 7 massacre. <a href="https://t.co/UV0AI2DA1k">pic.twitter.com/UV0AI2DA1k</a>
&mdash; Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) <a href="https://twitter.com/IDF/status/1773448212507959389?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 28, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Terrorist Admits To Raping Girl During October 7 Attack On Israel

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This week, to mark Nowruz, which is celebrated as that first day of spring and the beginning of the new year by more than 300 million people all around the world, President Biden issued a new year’s greeting — and made sure to mention the Palestinians, reportedly becoming the only leader besides Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei to speak about them while commemorating the holiday.
“Today, Jill and I send our best wishes to the millions of people around the world celebrating Nowruz — a time of reflection, renewal, and rebirth,” Biden <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/03/19/statement-from-president-joe-biden-marking-nowruz-2/">wrote</a>, adding, “We feel it as communities gather to make this celebration such a joyous part of American culture—one that reflects the soul of who we are as a nation, and reminds us that hope lies ahead.:
“This year, Nowruz comes at a difficult time for many — when this hope is needed more than ever,” he continued. “The United States will continue to stand with the courageous women of Iran, who are fighting for their freedoms. And together with our partners, we will hold Iranian officials to account for denying fundamental human rights. The war in Gaza has also inflicted terrible suffering on the Palestinian people, and we will continue to lead international efforts to get more humanitarian assistance to them — including urgently needed food, water, medicine and shelter.&#8221;
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I cannot get over the fact that President Biden’s statement marking the Persian New Year (Nowruz) randomly mentions the war in Gaza. 
Nowruz is not an Arab holiday or a Muslim holiday. 
And no mention of Afghanistan where the Taliban has canceled Nowruz as a holiday. 
Who… <a href="https://t.co/01sJSbLPCQ">pic.twitter.com/01sJSbLPCQ</a>
&mdash; Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) <a href="https://twitter.com/yashar/status/1770985498724708729?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 22, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Arash Aalaei / <a href="https://twitter.com/IranIntl_En?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@IranIntl_En</a> notes that the only other world leader other than Biden that ever mentioned Palestinians in their Nowruz greetings to Iranians was Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei. <a href="https://t.co/8qtpCPQ5VC">pic.twitter.com/8qtpCPQ5VC</a>
&mdash; Sia Kordestani (@SiaKordestani) <a href="https://twitter.com/SiaKordestani/status/1770996637529465048?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 22, 2024</a></blockquote>
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At the same time, Biden claimed he stands with the “courageous women of Iran, who are fighting for their freedoms” and said, “We will hold Iranian officials to account for denying fundamental human rights,” his administration has been sending more money to the despotic Iranian regime that is denying women their freedoms and denying fundamental human rights.
Last November, the Biden administration granted Iraq a new 4-month waiver that made it possible to release billions of dollars to Iran that had been blocked by sanctions. Iraq owed Roughly $10 billion to Iran but could not transfer the funds until American sanctions were lifted. Although the Biden administration claimed the funds would be used exclusively for Iran’s humanitarian needs, critics pointed out that the money was fungible and could be used for Iran’s nuclear activities.
“We must deny these terror groups Iran&#8217;s resources by permanently freezing the $6B in Qatar, $10B in Iraq, and enforcing sanctions for China&#8217;s purchases of Iranian oil,” <a href="https://www.iranintl.com/en/202311150106">said</a> Idaho GOP Senator Jim Risch, Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
That waiver was renewed on March 13, six weeks after an Iran-backed drone killed three members of the American military in Jordan.
“The Biden administration is giving access to $10 billion to an Islamist regime that recently killed three American soldiers, wounded dozens more, shut down shipping in the Red Sea, is rapidly advancing its nuclear weapons program, and is attacking Israel,” Mark Dubowitz, the CEO of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, <a href="https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2024/03/14/u-s-grants-iran-sanctions-waiver-worth-10-billion/">stated</a>.

President Biden And First Lady Hosts Nowruz Celebration At White House Along With VP Harris And First Gentleman

Biden Sends Greeting For Iranian New Year, Reportedly Becomes Only Leader Besides Khamenei To Mention Palestinians — Who Don’t Celebrate It

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Following the October 7 massacre of Israeli civilians by Hamas, college campuses and streets of major US cities have been filled with rioters chanting anti-Israel slogans and often explicitly demonstrating their fealty to Hamas. As is clear from numerous photographs, most of these protestors conceal their faces.
This is true even of less violent protests. One example is the 100-plus congressional staffers who <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4300664-congressional-staffers-hold-vigil-ceasefire-capitol/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">staged a walkout</a> on Capitol Hill, calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. Photos show that nearly all the staffers were wearing medical face masks. Presumably, when defying the will of your boss, and the people who elected him or her, it’s best to remain anonymous. And the cowardice extends beyond Capitol Hill.
<a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/10/20/daily-signal-reporters-capture-stark-differences-between-pro-israel-pro-palestine-protests/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">According</a> to coverage from the Daily Signal, many participants at a George Washington University Vigil for the Martyrs of Palestine” covered their faces. Daily Signal Reporter Mary Margaret Olohan was given a <a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/tag/masks" target="_blank" rel="noopener">face mask</a> and told to wear one by the pro-Palestine participants so “they” wouldn’t identify her later in pictures.” It’s unclear who “they” is and even more unclear what the result would be of being identified, but the fact remains that pro-Palestine protesters hide behind masks.
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But when looking at the history of mask bans, crime, and even France’s so-called “burqa ban,” it begins to make sense.
In response to the COVID-19 virus, many cities <a href="https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/articles/these-are-the-states-with-mask-mandates">required</a> that individuals cover their faces when in a building or in close proximity to other people. People disagreed over the effectiveness of this strategy, but even if these measures were justified, most people are now delighted to go back to semi-normal, maskless life. That is, except, for those protesting in favor of Hamas, a US State Department <a href="https://www.state.gov/foreign-terrorist-organizations/">designated terror group</a>. To understand, it helps to look at the history of masking and its connection to crime.
In 2019 the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) published “America&#8217;s Mask Bans in the Age of Face Recognition Surveillance” denouncing mask bans. Mask bans in the United States <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/05/us/mask-mandate-kkk-coronavirus-pandemic.html">date</a> back to New York in 1845 when they were enacted to quell violence between renters and landlords. Later, mask bans were <a href="https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/1999/unmasking-klan">enacted</a> in states Florida, Alabama, West Virginia, and some other southern states in an attempt to stymie the Ku Klux Klan and make it easier for police and civilians to identify Klan members and their supporters.  Most of these mask mandates, <a href="https://firstamendment.mtsu.edu/article/anti-mask-laws/">according</a> to Middle Tennessee State University’s Free Speech Center, “…use neutral language, typically banning mask wearing that intimidates others.” The key is that these bans were enacted to deter criminal activity and stop giving criminals the legal right to hide their identity when terrorizing blacks and Catholics.
The ACLU report, however, asserts that the actual reason for mask bans was that political leaders “felt that violent racist terrorism was making them look bad.” The report goes on to say that mask bans are an invasion of privacy, especially in our modern era of facial-recognition software and smartphones. In other words, in 2019, before the COVID lockdowns and mask mandates, the ACLU had an ax to grind against mask bans because mask bans help police catch criminals.
But anti-mask-ban rhetoric goes beyond the complaints that people might get caught committing crimes. Some alleged that mask bans, much like <a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/modern-mathematics-confronts-its-white-patriarchal-past/">math</a> and <a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/11/03/454316172/why-the-history-of-american-white-bread-is-anything-but-bland">sandwich bread</a>, are racist.
A June 2023 article in The Trace <a href="https://www.thetrace.org/newsletter/ski-mask-ban-racism-policing-fashion/">states</a>, “Philadelphia is considering a ban on ski masks to reduce gun violence. It’s reminiscent of other policies that criminalize Black fashion.” Given that a <a href="https://www.heart.org/en/news/2023/01/17/black-people-rarely-hit-the-ski-slopes-but-those-who-love-winter-sports-are-working-to-change-that#:~:text=It's%20true%20that%20Black%20skiers,changed%20over%20the%20past%20decade.">mere 1.5%</a> of those hitting the slopes in 2021-2022 were Black, this is a strange way to characterize the ski mask. The article ignores the fact that the original purpose of mask bans was to ensure that Klan members could not hide from the law.
To be clear, not all criminals wear masks, and not all masked people are criminals. But the point stands that wearing a mask while protesting in support of vile ideas or while committing a crime serves no purpose other than hiding one’s identity to avoid accountability.
In 2020, mask mandates were au courant, and rioters at “<a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/media/513902-cnn-ridiculed-for-fiery-but-mostly-peaceful-caption-with-video-of-burning/">Fiery But Mostly Peaceful</a>” protests <a href="https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/health/after-months-of-pleading-for-coronavirus-social-distancing-health-officials-supportive-of-protests-black-lives-matter-calls-them-too-dangerous/">hid</a> their faces as they rioted, <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/06/why-people-loot/612577/">looted</a>, and <a href="https://minnesotareformer.com/2021/05/27/one-year-later-few-charges-for-the-arson-and-destruction/">burned</a> down buildings. And the cowardice continues today with protestors in Western cities <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2023/10/13/israel-palestinian-colleges-hamas-rallies/">screaming</a> “from the river to the sea” (a chant meaning that from the Mediterranean Sea to the Jordan River, Israel should not exist) and physically assaulting Jews. Thanks to COVID-19 popularizing face masks, protesters today hide their faces, thereby making it difficult to identify and prosecute them, as they scream antisemitic slurs that would make a Grand Wizard blush (if you could see his face). And that is the point: pro-Hamas protestors wear masks to avoid accountability.
Not only is hiding one’s face bad for identifying criminals, it is also bad for civil society. Lawmakers in my home, France, agree.
<a href="https://www.iwf.org/2010/09/15/french-burqa-ban-passes-upper-house/">Since 2010</a> France has <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66634890">banned</a> wearing full face veils, including the <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/24118241">niqab and burqa</a>, in public—a measure misleadingly referred to as the “burqa ban.” The law applies equally to people of all religions, ethnicities, and nationalities who wish to cover their face in a public or government building, and it remains perfectly legal to wear a <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/24118241">hijab or shayla</a> in public, as many Muslim women in France do. France banned face-coverings because lawmakers believed that they impeded “vivre ensemble,” or citizens’ ability to peacefully coexist and participate fully in French society. And the notion that face covering impedes a healthy society is grounded in solid research.
Researchers at UC Berkeley and Google <a href="https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/are_facial_expressions_the_same_around_the_world">compared</a> facial expressions across 144 countries and discovered that “people around the world tended to gaze in awe during fireworks displays, show contentment at weddings, furrow their brows in concentration when performing martial arts, show doubt at protests, pain when lifting weights, and triumph at rock concerts and competitive sporting events.” The data are clear—human beings from a tender age communicate with our faces just as much as our words. <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3997585/">According</a> to a National Institute of Health (NIH) study, “Even newborns show clear evidence of organized facial expressions defining distinct communicative states that respond to maternal care.”  Facial coverings stymie communication and interpreting emotions—two things that drive human interaction.
Emmanuel Levinas, a French philosopher, once <a href="https://wisela.org/daily-kavanah-wednesday-june-10/">wrote</a>, “The face speaks to me and thereby invites me to a relation; … the face opens the primordial discourse whose first word is obligation.” To put this in context, much of Levinas’s philosophy is rooted in what it means to encounter, or relate to other people. Seeing another person’s face calls upon us to be responsible to one another as human beings. It stands to reason that hiding one’s face is an attempt to abdicate one’s responsibility to others and to society.
The Klan used masks to terrorize innocent people in the 1920s, as pro-Palestinian and BLM activists do today. Of course, people should be allowed to demonstrate in favor of unpopular or even contemptible ideas without fear of reprisal. But they shouldn’t be allowed to engage in criminal behavior—or to mask themselves to get away with it. It shouldn’t be too much to ask that they have the courage to stand up, unmasked for what they believe in. And like everyone else, they must face responsibility for their actions.
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<div>Ellie Krasne-Cohen is a visiting fellow at Independent Women’s Forum and founder of Krasne Strategies. She is a member of the National Association of Scholars.</div>
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<div>The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.</div>

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