The Rise In Anti-Semitism & Hatred of Israel (Consolidated)

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UCLA Encampment Requests Vegan, Gluten-free Food; ‘No Bananas,’ ‘No Nuts’




LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - MAY 01: A protestor sits along barricades at a pro-Palestinian eMario Tama / Getty


JOEL B. POLLAK
1 May 2024

Participants in the ongoing “Palestine Solidarity Encampment” at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) have reportedly asked supporters to bring “vegan” and “gluten-free” food, whie warning “no nuts” and “no bananas.”



The request list was obtained by Fox News’ Bill Melugin, and includes a variety of other supplies, including objects for use in clashes with counter-demonstrators and police, such as “gas masks,” “shields,” and “skater helmets.”

The ban on nuts and bananas is supposedly to protect people in the encampment who have severe food allergies.



Last week, prior to being assaulted by encampment activists, this reporter was told by guards at the gate not to bring food or nuts into the encampment. The guards also require those who enter the encampment to wear KN95 masks.



The encampment was damaged overnight Tuesday into Wednesday when it was stormed by pro-Israel vigilantes. For nearly a week, the pro-Palestinian activists have excluded members of the public and the press, by force, from the public space near Royce Hall at the center of campus. They have also used extremist anti-Israel, antisemitic slogans.



Activists violently occupying Hamilton Hall at Columbia University also demanded food and water on Tuesday before the New York Police Department (NYPD) forcibly removed them from the premises in a raid later that evening.



UCLA canceled classes on Wednesday following the overnight violence. It is unclear if they will be canceled Thursday.

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L.A. Mayor Karen Bass Vows to Prosecute Those Who Fought at UCLA
JOEL B. POLLAK
1 May 2024

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass vowed Wednesday to prosecute pro-Israel vigilantes who attacked the illegal “Palestine Solidarity Encampment” at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) overnight.



In a statement, Bass said she wanted those involved in the violence held responsible, noting actions reportedly taken by both the vigilantes and the pro-Palestinian activists — though only the vigilantes were said to use fireworks.



Mayor Bass said:



This morning, I met in person with LAPD, LASD, CHP, CalOES, UCPD and other regional agencies at the UCLA incident command post about the absolutely detestable violence on campus last night. LAPD is supporting regional law enforcement on next steps to ensure our students and campus are safe.



There must be a full investigation into what occurred on campus last night. Those involved in launching fireworks at other people, spraying chemicals and physically assaulting others will be found, arrested, and prosecuted, as well as anyone involved in any form of violence or lawlessness.



I want to make sure the message I delivered to law enforcement and other officials earlier today is clear: Free speech will be protected. Violence and bigotry will not.



I have spoken with Governor Newsom and want to thank him for his continued support.



Bass did not speak out against the lawlessness and violence practiced by the residents of the encampment for nearly a week, including an assault on this journalist, and efforts to bar Jewish students and others from access to campus.



Newsom only offered his first comment on the UCLA violence on Wednesday, having also maintained a silence for days while the pro-Palestinian activists assaulted journalists and obstructed students, faculty, and the public.



As Breitbart News reported, about 100 pro-Israel vigilantes attacked the barricades around the “encampment” — including both the wooden barricades erected by the activists, and the steel barricades apparently added by UCLA.



Los Angeles County prosecutor George Gascón is notoriously lax on violent crime. And Mayor Bass is preoccupied with the endless task of clearing encampments — not of activists, but of homeless people, whose number is growing.



Update: UCLA Chancellor Gene Block is also vowing to discipline any students involved, and backing prosecution:

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[ExquisiteGerbil]

Watch Live: Inside the Anti-Israel Encampment at George Washington University

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See scenes from inside the anti-Israel encampment set up by students on the campus of George Washington University in Washington, DC.

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Anti-Israel Encampment Established at Fordham University Hours After Police Raided Others




NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MAY 01: Pro-Palestinian protesters gather outside Fordham's LincSpencer Platt/Getty Images

ELIZABETH WEIBEL
1 May 20244

An anti-Israel encampment was established at Fordham University in New York City on Wednesday, hours after similar ones at other universities were raided.



Tents were seen set up inside a building on the university’s campus as part of a “Gaza solidarity encampment.”



Officers from the New York Police Department (NYPD), dressed in riot gear, began a raid on anti-Israel encampments at Columbia University and the City University of New York (CUNY) late Tuesday evening.



The raids came after anti-Israel protesters at Columbia University had seized control of Hamilton Hall in the early hours of Tuesday morning and smashed the glass doors of the building, carried barriers inside, and hung pro-Palestinian banners from the windows.

Video footage posted to X showed protesters gathered outside of Fordham University at the Lincoln Center campus in support of the encampment set up inside.



The crowd could be heard chanting, “Disclose. Divest. We will not stop. We will not rest. Disclose. Divest.”

Several protesters were also seen linking arms outside of the building in an attempt to protect the encampment.



An NYPD bus was also seen splattered with red paint.



Protesters chanted, “We will free Palestine within our lifetime,” and “students, students, hold your ground; NYPD, back down.”

An initial pro-Palestinian encampment was established at Columbia University on April 17, resulting in several students being suspended the next day and hundreds of protesters being arrested.



While Columbia University removed the initial encampment, another one popped up in its place.



Anti-Israel encampments have been established at colleges and universities across the nation, including George Washington University, Harvard University, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Princeton University, and the University of California Los Angeles.


Protesters at the various encampments on college and university campuses have a varying list of demands, including for the universities to divest from Israeli companies, end academic ties with Israeli educational institutions, provide full amnesty for protesters involved in the encampments who have either been suspended or arrested, a ceasefire in the war between Israel and Hamas, and for the United States to stop arming Israel.



Hamas launched an attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, leaving 1,200 people dead and more than 200 people taken as hostages.


The attack also saw roughly 3,000 Hamas terrorists invade Israel by land, sea, and air and kill concert-goers at a music festival, while others went on to hunt down Jewish men, women, and children, subjecting many to torture, rape, and even death.



In response, Israel has launched a self-defense operation in the Hamas-controlled territory of Gaza.

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[Midnight]

HOW ABOUT THAT? Radicals at UCLA Have BUILT A WALL Around Their Protest (VIDEO)

By Mike LaChance
May. 1, 2024 10:00 pm



Left wing radicals at UCLA have built a wall around their protest, presumably to keep out people who don’t agree with them.



How quaint.



It’s probably safe to assume that if Trump wins in November and resumes construction of the border wall, some of these students will be the first ones to protest and call the border wall racist.



Like all things with the left, it’s different when they do it.

The Associated Press thinks this is still about the conflict in Gaza:



Violence erupts on campuses as protesters and counter-protesters clash over the war in Gaza



Counter-protesters “forcefully” attacked a pro-Palestinian encampment at UCLA early Wednesday, the university’s chancellor said, and activists clashed with police officers who destroyed their tents at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, part of a series of escalating violence on some college campuses over the war in Gaza.



UCLA administrators and campus police delayed intervening and calling for law enforcement backup in the brawl on the Los Angeles campus, prompting widespread condemnation from Muslim students to the city’s mayor to California Gov. Gavin Newsom.



The counter-protesters, some of whom carried Israeli flags, threw traffic cones and chairs, released pepper spray, and pulled down the barricade surrounding the encampment. University officials said 15 people were injured in the confrontation, including one person who was hospitalized.



The chaotic scenes unfolded Wednesday after police burst into a building occupied by anti-war protesters at Columbia University on Tuesday night, breaking up a demonstration that had paralyzed the school.



Here’s a video report:







This could be ended right now, but Biden needs the votes of these young radicals in November.


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[Midnight]

Pro-Palestinian Encampments Spread: UC San Diego, UT Dallas (Busted)


JOEL B. POLLAK
1 May 2024

Anti-Israel activists have continued to set up new pro-Palestinian encampments, even as others are removed by police, with the latest sites going up at the University of Texas-Dallas and University of California San Diego (UCSD).



The UT-Dallas protest is noteworthy, given that Gov. Greg Abbott (R) swiftly dispatched Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) officers to clear a similar encampment at UT-Austin last week. And the UCSD protest risks friction with the local Jewish community, as the campus sits near the heart of an Orthodox Jewish neighborhood in La Jolla.



Fox 5 San Diego reported:



Pro-Palestine demonstrations ramped up on college campuses in San Diego on Wednesday, with an encampment forming on UC San Diego’s campus and University of San Diego students walking out of class for a memorial of those killed in Gaza.



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The protests came less than a day after hundreds of San Diego State students staged a walkout, calling on the university’s administration to cut financial ties with Israel and better support Palestinian members of the campus community.



All three build off of movements mounted by students at college campus across the country against the conflict in Gaza and U.S. involvement in the war. Protesters have specifically pressed for their schools to divest from Israel and condemn its ongoing military offensive, which they describe as an unfolding genocide.



The only “genocide” in the conflict is Hamas’s genocidal charter, which calls for the annihilation of Israel and the murder of Jews around the world. The UCSD protest also used the term “intifada,” which refers to a violent uprising. The last intifada was a bloody campaign of bombings and shootings by Palestinians against Israelis, mostly civilians.



Update: Police have dispersed the encampment at UT-Dallas, just hours after it was established.

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Pro-Palestinian encampment remains at SUNY New Paltz campus

The school administration says it got involved and demanded that demonstrators disassemble, but the protesters said they were not leaving.

News 12 Staff
May 2, 2024, 8:57 PM
Updated 1 hr ago


Thursday marked over 24 hours since an encampment was set up by pro-Palestinian protesters on the SUNY New Paltz campus.


The school administration says it got involved and demanded that demonstrators disassemble, but the protesters said they were not leaving as of Thursday night.

Organizers of the encampment said they were inspired by the encampments from Columbia University and UCLA.


There are several hundred students and professors there demonstrating. Some told News 12 they are willing to risk arrest to get their point across.


Some protesters say they have supported Gaza since October of last year and claim they have experienced harassment from the administration.


They say they have demands for the school's administration. Their demands include that the school divest from Israeli products, disclose its investments and give amnesty to the demonstrating students from any retribution from the school.


Rae Ferrara, the media liaison for the group, told News 12 they are ready to negotiate with the university.


"We would love to negotiate with the university. As for now, our No. 1 priority is the safety of the people inside the encampment. We're not leaving," Ferrara said.

Jewish students whom News 12 spoke to said they don't feel comfortable on the campus. Some have returned home and because of that, some are thinking they might have to transfer to other schools.


Some said they don't even feel safe wearing a Star of David necklace. They also said they are being harassed and targeted.


"I don't feel comfortable on my classes right now. I feel like eyes are on me. Yesterday, when I was at the encampment with some of my friends people inside the encampment were taunting us, they were recording us, making hand gestures at us," said student Aracelis Ascher.


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SUNY Purchase students start pro-Palestinian encampment

Student leaders told News 12 this was the result of months of protests dating back to last fall where they felt the school administration did not take their concerns about the Israel-Hamas war seriously.

Jonathan Gordon
May 2, 2024, 8:35 PM
Updated 1 hr ago


The first pro-Palestinian encampment on a Westchester County college campus began at SUNY Purchase on Thursday evening.


Student leaders told News 12 this was the result of months of protests dating back to last fall where they felt the school administration did not take their concerns about the Israel-Hamas war seriously.


They're calling for the school to be more transparent about their financial investments and divest from any connections to Israel.


Junior Sabrina Thompson said students were inspired to launch this movement after similar college campus protests across the country.


"Students are always on the right side of history. Students always have been an active voice for social justice for peace," Thompson said.


School officials said police responded to the campus and removed more than 50 people who were not affiliated with the campus. A police presence remained on the campus into the evening.


One man who only identified himself as Joseph stood at the front entrance of the campus with an Israeli flag draped around his body.


"The rules of the university should be followed and if it is improper to camp out and occupy the space then it should be cleared," he said.


A spokesperson for SUNY Purchase told News 12 in a statement:

"The students are peacefully protesting, as is their right, as long as they follow the campus rules of order and student code of conduct. We are committed to maintaining that right and the safety of the entire campus so that all members are free to learn, work and live without disruption or bias."


Students said they are prepared to stay as long as it takes until their demands from the school administration are met.

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Governor Plans to 'Send a Message' to Anti-Israel Protesters - 'They Will Be Put in Jail'



By Jack Davis

May 2, 2024 at 6:23pm


As anti-Israel protests continue at multiple colleges across Georgia, Gov. Brian Kemp warned demonstrators that there is a line between the right to protest and the wrong of violence.



“If they spit in officers’ faces like we have seen, they are gonna have a bad day and they will be put in jail,” Kemp said, according to WJCL-TV.



“People need to pay the piper,” Kemp said.



“If you’ve broken the law, it you’re damaging property, if you’re assaulting especially police officers, you should have harsh penalties to send a message,” he said.



“We are not going to allow Georgia to become the next Columbia University,” he said.

On Wednesday during a bill signing event, Kemp praised the police response to the protests, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.



“I want to first thank our law enforcement across the state who are standing strong and maintaining order in the face of protests and disturbances on our college campuses.


Despite what some in the media and other circles are saying, these officers are showing immense restraint in the face of agitators bent on causing disturbances and we are grateful for their professionalism and service in keeping our places of learning safe,” he said.



On Thursday, protests broke out at two campuses of Georgia Southern University. However, in addition to the pro-Palestine marchers at the Statesboro campus, a pro-America group showed up, according to WJCL.



“We live in the United States of America, not Palestine. Palestine is halfway around the world. We need to worry about what’s going on back here, before we start what’s going on out there,” organizer Landon Owenby said.



“I came out here originally with no sign and then I just went to the bookstore and bought some markers and a poster board and wrote fix our country first because I think that’s more valuable than what they’re doing,” he said, according to WTOC-TV.



“We need somebody in office that will be able [to] fix it and get that under control and that’s why I’m saying, ‘fix our country first,’” Owenby said.



Related: Trump: FBI Should Focus on 'Radical Left Morons' - 'The Right Is Not Your Problem'

Despite dueling groups, there was no violence.



“The university clearly supports our students’ rights to speak their minds and share their opinions on any subject, so this is another example of that,” Shay Little, vice president of student affairs at Georgia Southern, said.



On Monday, 16 arrests were made at the University of Georgia in Athens, according to WAGA-TV. The college said nine of those were students at the college.



In a statement, the college said protesters knew the rules and disregarded them.



“Make no mistake: These individuals chose to be arrested, and they chose to resist arrest. They are all adults, and they consciously made these unfortunate decisions. But actions have consequences,” the statement said.



Protests have also taken place at Emory University that resulted in 28 arrests last week, according to WXIA-TV.



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Northwestern President: We Didn’t Send in Cops on Encampment Because We Didn’t Think We Could Protect Them



IAN HANCHETT
3 May 2024

On Thursday’s edition of WBUR’s “Here and Now,” Northwestern University President Michael Schill discussed the deal the school struck with demonstrators on campus and said police didn’t move in and make arrests because “we have a relatively small police force and we didn’t feel that we could adequately protect our police force if they went in and protect the students. And so, we decided that that was probably not a great option.”



Schill said, “Well, we started from having certain principles: One, health and safety for the entire community, both our Jewish and our Muslim students, police, faculty, and staff. Secondly, we needed to bring the protests into compliance with university rules, along with consequences for people who violated those rules. And thirdly, we needed to be committed to freedom of expression and have no tolerance for antisemitism or anti-Islamic intimidation or harassment. And we were guided by those principles and then the results that we ended up with are following from those principles.”



Co-host Peter O’Dowd then asked, “And just to be clear, I understand the university police were present during the protests on your campus over the past week or so. What kept them from moving in and making arrests?”



Schill answered, “So, we have a relatively small police force and we didn’t feel that we could adequately protect our police force if they went in and protect the students. And so, we decided that that was probably not a great option. We were also looking at what was happening at other universities, and even when they went in with force, it typically wasn’t successful. And so, we thought the best way to sustainably de-escalate the situation was to actually talk with our students. We have a good, sustainable agreement now, which provides a number of things that the students wanted and that we wanted to do.”


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Arrests Hit 2000+ as Anti-Israel Protests Continue to Roil U.S. Campuses

SIMON KENT
3 May 20245

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Anti-Israel protests have rocked college campuses across the United States in past weeks and now protester arrest numbers are rising as authorities try to end the disruption.



AP reports police have arrested nearly 2,200 people in the period of trouble with no sign of protests – or arrests – ending anytime soon despite police resorting to using riot gear, tactical vehicles and flash-bang devices to clear tent encampments and occupied buildings.



Even as the arrests are being made, students are pleading for special treatment and demanding no records are kept of their lawful detention.

The AP report sets out the methodology for assessing arrest numbers, stating:



A tally by The Associated Press recorded at least 56 incidents of arrests at 43 different U.S. colleges or universities since April 18. The figures are based on AP reporting and statements from universities and law enforcement agencies.



Police officers behaved admirably by arresting many “radical left,” anti-Israel “lunatics” on the campuses of Columbia University and the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), former President Donald Trump said Thursday, as Breitbart News reports.



Trump, who is running as the law and order candidate against President Joe Biden in the 2024 election race, told reporters before entering a Manhattan courthouse radical “morons” should not be allowed to “take over this country.”



Jewish GWU Students Call for University to Remove Anti-Israel Encampment (Video at link below)


“I’m so proud of New York’s finest. They’re great, great people, too. I know so many of them. They’re incredible. They did a job at Columbia. And likewise, in Los Angeles, they did a really good job at UCLA,” Trump said.



“This is a movement from the left, not from the right. The right is not the problem despite what law enforcement likes to say,” Trump said about the anti-Israel protests, as the Breitbart report noted.



“The FBI director said that he worries about the right. Don’t worry about the right; the right is fine. Worry about the left because this is a movement from the left.”

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Arrests Hit 2000+ as Anti-Israel Protests Continue to Roil U.S. Campuses
SIMON KENT
3 May 2024

Anti-Israel protests have rocked college campuses across the United States in past weeks and now protester arrest numbers are rising as authorities try to end the disruption.



AP reports police have arrested nearly 2,200 people in the period of trouble with no sign of protests – or arrests – ending anytime soon despite police resorting to using riot gear, tactical vehicles and flash-bang devices to clear tent encampments and occupied buildings.



Even as the arrests are being made, students are pleading for special treatment and demanding no records are kept of their lawful detention.

The AP report sets out the methodology for assessing arrest numbers, stating:



A tally by The Associated Press recorded at least 56 incidents of arrests at 43 different U.S. colleges or universities since April 18. The figures are based on AP reporting and statements from universities and law enforcement agencies.



Police officers behaved admirably by arresting many “radical left,” anti-Israel “lunatics” on the campuses of Columbia University and the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), former President Donald Trump said Thursday, as Breitbart News reports.



Trump, who is running as the law and order candidate against President Joe Biden in the 2024 election race, told reporters before entering a Manhattan courthouse radical “morons” should not be allowed to “take over this country.”



Jewish GWU Students Call for University to Remove Anti-Israel Encampment (Video at link)

“I’m so proud of New York’s finest. They’re great, great people, too. I know so many of them. They’re incredible. They did a job at Columbia. And likewise, in Los Angeles, they did a really good job at UCLA,” Trump said.



“This is a movement from the left, not from the right. The right is not the problem despite what law enforcement likes to say,” Trump said about the anti-Israel protests, as the Breitbart report noted.



“The FBI director said that he worries about the right. Don’t worry about the right; the right is fine. Worry about the left because this is a movement from the left.”

[Midnight]

Pro-Hamas Protesters Find Out that Students in SEC Country Fight Back



By George C. Upper III

May 3, 2024 at 8:19am


It has been said by people wiser than I (I’ll admit that the bar is low) that the best available option for addressing “bad speech” isn’t to regulate it, but to allow for more free speech to challenge it.



Students at the University of Mississippi provided a pretty decent — though not perfect — example of that Thursday when largely peaceful counter-protesters shut down an anti-Israel protest on their campus.



Protesters representing “UMiss for Palestine” had gathered to demand that Ole Miss “divest from companies tied to Israel,” according to the left-leaning Mississippi Today.



Problem one with that demonstration: The university has said that it has no direct investment in companies based in Israel.



Problem two: Ole Miss students themselves.


The demonstration lasted for less than an hour before police disbanded it.



According to Mississippi Today, the counter-protesters, seen in video below chanting as police led the Hamas supporters away, threw a “water bottle and other items at the protest, prompting the protesters to respond in kind with water.”



No injuries were reported, however, and no arrests made, according to numerous outlets.



The university itself apparently viewed the event as “mostly peaceful” on both sides.


“As a public institution, the University of Mississippi is committed to supporting the rights of our students, faculty and employees to express their views in a respectful manner and to assemble peacefully as enshrined in the First Amendment,” Chancellor Glenn Boyce said in statement to students and faculty Thursday evening.



“While today’s demonstration was passionate and several protesters and counter-protesters received warnings from law enforcement over their actions, there were no arrests, no injuries reported, and the demonstration ended peacefully.”



The Daily Mississippian numbers the anti-Israel protesters at about 30 and the counter-protesters in the hundreds — numbers that several video posts on X, including one from Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves, seemed to support.

Reeves was on campus Thursday to give the welcome address at the Aerospace and Defence Alliance Symposium, The Daily Mississippian reported, though his office would not confirm that he was on campus at the time of the protests, citing security.



“I am aware of today’s scheduled protest on the campus of Ole Miss. Mississippi law enforcement is also aware,” he said in a statement later. “And they are prepared. Campus police, City, County, and State assets are being deployed and coordinated.



“We will offer a unified response with one mission: Peaceful protests are allowed and protected – no matter how outrageous those protesters views may seem to some of us,” he added. “But unlawful behavior will not be tolerated. It will be dealt with accordingly. Law and order will be maintained!”

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NYPD Finds ‘Death to America’ Signs on NYU Property

Frank Bergman
May 3, 2024 - 4:22 pm




The New York City Police Department (NYPD) has revealed that officers found signs that included the slogans used by Islamic terrorists and America’s enemies while clearing out anti-Israel protesters from the NYC college campus.



Police officers are sharing examples of the material that they found while breaking up an “illegal encampment” at New York University on Friday.



Cleaning crews were called in to remove tents and sweep away the belongings left behind by the protesters.



NYPD Deputy Commissioner of Operations Kaz Daughtry shared various photos of “inflammatory literature and signage” found at the protest.



Among the materials recovered from the scene were signs that carried the terrorist slogan “Death to America.”



“The NYPD proudly protects everyone’s right to free speech and peaceful protest,” Daughtry said in the post, before sharing the signage.



One piece of literature found on the site explicitly calls for “Death to America” and “Death to Israeli real estate.”



The signs urged protesters to “destroy zionist business interests everywhere.”



“Long live the intifada [uprising against the Jewish state],” the signs declare.


NYPD Chief John Chell spoke to reporters on Friday about the discovery.



Chell confirmed the NYPD had two operations “at the request of school presidents.”



Police ran operations at New York University and The New School in NYC.



He confirmed that officers arrested 56 people, with no incidents.


The police chief noted that “99%” of those arrested were students.



“You will not find a truce from us,” one sign recovered from the protest area said.



“Enough with De-Escalation Trainings: Where are the Escalation Trainings!” added another.



On April 22, police went to NYU and arrested more than 100 students.


The students held a demonstration in solidarity with the students at Columbia University.



On Wednesday, the anti-Israel agitators had already re-established the encampment on the campus.



They were allegedly there to oppose Israel’s war with Hamas in Gaza.



However, as Slay News reported, some of the leftist students even admitted they had no idea why they were protesting.



One young woman was asked on video why she was protesting.



However, she struggles to answer when asked what the “goal” of the demonstration was.



“I think the goal is just showing our support for Palestine and demanding that NYU stops — I honestly don’t know all of what NYU is doing,” she tells the interviewer.



“I really don’t know,” she admits.



“I’m pretty sure they are…”



She then asks her friend for help in explaining.



“Do you know what NYU is doing?” she asks.



They both admit they have no idea.


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“I wish I was more educated,” the friend, who is wearing a Covid mask outdoors, admits.



“I’m not [educated] either,” the first woman adds.

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Virginia State Police in Full Riot Gear Pepper Spray and Tackle Pro-Hamas Agitators at Tantrum Encampment (VIDEO)

By Margaret Flavin
May. 4, 2024 5:20 pm


Pro-Hamas agitators at UVA were petulant when police arrived to remove their tantrum encampment.



As police entered the area, the protestors taunted police as they hysterically shrieked, “UPD, KKK, IDF, you’re all the same,” likening the police to the Ku Klux Klan and Israel Defense Forces.



Virginia State Police were dispatched to campus to remove the Hamas cheerleaders from their encampment, which, according to University officials, violates school policy.



When the agitators refused to dismantle tents and leave, officers in full riot gear began spraying pepper spray.



Although reports at first suggested tear gas was used, Virginia State Police said, NO law enforcement in Virginia have or deploy tear gas, by its defined chemical composition.”





Protesters are being taken into custody and Virginia state police in full riot gear are spraying tear gas. @29newswvir pic.twitter.com/Be2JYthUHA



— Anahita Jafary (@anahitajafary_) May 4, 2024

According to University officials, the encampment is in violation of a policy. While officials expressed support for peaceful protests on the UVA campus, they do not allow setting up tents and prohibit the use of electronically amplified sound, which includes electric megaphones.



The nasty chants can be clearly heard coming from a banned megaphone.



UVA officials said in a statement on Tuesday, “UVA has seen an increase in peaceful expressive activity on our Grounds this year in response to the ongoing Middle East conflict. As an institution committed to free expression and the open exchange of ideas, we strive to ensure these activities can take place safely, and in a manner that permits all parties to make their voices heard.”



“The University is prohibited by the Constitution and our own values from restricting speech based on its content, even in cases where the content is hurtful or offensive,” the school said. “We do, however, enforce reasonable restrictions on the time, place, and manner of expressive activities, so as to assure the safety of our community and to avoid disruption to University life or the rights of others. As we become aware of planned expressive activities, University officials engage with organizers to inform them of these policies.”



The policy regarding tents specifically states:



All tents and air supported structures erected on State Property or paid for by UVA funds are to be approved and inspected by UVA Fire Safety personnel prior to use. All tents and air supported structures require a permit. Permits may be obtained through the Office of Environmental Health and Safety (EHS).

All stages erected on State Property are to be permitted through the office of the UVA Building Official and in accordance with the International Building Codes. Please submit permit request for stages to [e-mail].

All tents and stages not erected on State Property but paid for with UVA Funds must be approved by EHS and the UVA Building Official in order for the funds to be allocated from UVA Procurement.

Firms and/or individual(s) erecting tents must have a bond or insurance that has been reviewed and approved by the University’s Office of Risk Management at 434-924-3055.

All tents must be at least 20 feet from buildings, other tents, or any other structure. Tents shall not be placed directly under any tree or overhead projection unless otherwise permitted.

Although students are whining and whinging about “a sudden change” in the policy, Daily Progress reporter Jason Armesto reports that the ban on tents has been communicated to students dozens of times over the past few days and “Chief Longo and student affairs have both communicated it to protestors, ‘In any interaction with folks down there this has come up.'”

State troopers were called in to deal with the unhinged mob.

The screaming shrews who would not comply were hauled off by police.

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University of Chicago Anti-Israel Encampment Demands HIV Tests, Dental Dams, Plan B

HANNAH KNUDSEN
3 May 2024



An organizer involved in the anti-Israel, pro-Hamas encampment at the University of Chicago released a list of needed supplies, which includes Plan B, HIV tests, vaseline, and much, much more.



UChicago United for Palestine, which describes itself as a “coalition currently committed to Palestinian liberation and racial justice at The University of Chicago,” posted a list of items needed for the encampment at the university, listing more than two dozen items.



The organization listed the items “needed most” at the top, which include a table, wound-packing gauze, heat gloves, portable chargers, CAT tourniquets, goggles, emergency bandages, trauma shears, and more.



But the list also contained several sexual-oriented items, including dental dams for oral sex, HIV tests, and Plan B.



Additionally, the list asked for menstrual cups, vaseline, disposable stethoscopes, and buckets with lids:

The list coincides with demands from the protesters involved in the “Palestine Solidarity Encampment” at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), as they have requested very specific items as well, including “vegan” and “gluten-free” food, as well as “no bananas.”

The demands come as protesters continue to rally at universities across the country. However, New York Police Department (NYPD) Deputy Commissioner of Public Information Tarik Sheppard revealed that the pro-Palestinian “encampments” at many of these universities are run by “outside agitators,” some of whom receive funds from “around the world.”

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Anti-Israel Protesters Disrupt Main Graduation Ceremony at the University of Michigan

ELIZABETH WEIBEL
4 May 2024

Anti-Israel protesters interrupted the main commencement ceremony at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor on Saturday.



In a video posted to X, protesters carrying the Palestinian flag were seen walking down an aisle towards the front of the stage at the commencement ceremony.

Protesters could be heard chanting, “Disclose, divest, we will not stop, we will not rest, disclose, divest” as people in the crowd can also be heard saying, “F**k you” in response to the protesters.

A plane with the message, “We stand with Israel. Jewish Lives Matter,” was also seen flying above the graduation ceremony at Michigan Stadium.

A student dons a graduation cap with the Flag of Israel as Pro-Palestinian protesters disrupt the ceremony during the University of Michigan’s spring commencement on May 4, 2024, in Ann Arbor, Michigan. (Nic Antaya/Getty)



Anti-Israel protesters interrupted a commencement ceremony for the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance on Friday evening as well.



Protesters carried the Palestinian flag and signs that read, “ACAB,” “Free, free, Palestine,” and “UM Funds Genocide.”



The crowd gathered for the commencement ceremony responded by telling the protesters to “get out” of the auditorium, and several people could be heard chanting, “USA! USA! USA!”




A student dons a graduation cap with the Flag of Israel as Pro-Palestinian protesters disrupt the ceremony during the University of Michigan’s spring commencement on May 4, 2024, in Ann Arbor, Michigan. (Nic Antaya/Getty)


Anti-Israel protests and encampments have sprouted up on various college and university campuses since an initial one was established at Columbia University on April 17. The day after the first anti-Israel encampment was established at Columbia, several students were suspended and hundreds of protesters were arrested.



While the first encampment at Columbia University was removed, another one was established and remained until late Tuesday when the New York Police Department conducted a raid after protesters seized control of Hamilton Hall, an academic building on campus.



Protesters involved in the various encampments and protests have issued various demands, which include divesting from Israeli companies and companies that do business with Israel, ending academic ties with Israeli educational institutions, ending academic student trips to Israel, calling for a ceasefire in the war between Israel and Hamas, and for the United States to stop arming Israel, among other demands.

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WSJ: Pro-Palestinian Encampments Trained for ‘Months’; Wespac Denies Role
JOEL B. POLLAK
4 May 2024



The Wall Street Journal reports that many of the pro-Palestinian activists in campus “encampments” around the nation trained for “months” with veteran activists and groups before launching their invasions last month.



As Breitbart News and others have noted, many of the “encampments” have used similar tactics, and the activists are well-trained in methods such as linking arms to push people (including journalists) out of their enclosures. Veteran activists have been onsite, such as Lisa Fithian, who was recently seen at the Columbia University encampment. And the New York Police Department has stated that funding for the encampments has come from around the world.



The Journal adds depth in its report, adding that National Students for Justice in Palestine (NJSP), which is involved in the encampments, has been receiving funding from a group in New York called Wespac:



The recent wave of pro-Palestinian protests on college campuses came on suddenly and shocked people across the nation. But the political tactics underlying some of the demonstrations were the result of months of training, planning and encouragement by longtime activists and left-wing groups.



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Though there isn’t a centralized command overseeing the student movement opposing Israel’s invasion of Gaza, there are connections between longstanding far-left groups and the protesters.



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For the last decade, donations to NJSP have been received and administered by the Wespac Foundation, according to Howard Horowitz, Wespac’s board chairman. The donations are passed on to NSJP “for projects in the United States,” he said, declining to provide further details.



Wespac denied being involved in the encampments or coordinating in any way with the participants in the campus protests.



However, NGO Monitor also listed Wespac among the non-governmental organizations involved in “orchestrating” the protests: “WESPAC Foundation, a Westchester, New York-based organization registered with the IRS as a 501(c)(3) non-profit, serves as the fiscal sponsor for National SJP.” It adds (original emphasis):



WESPAC (Westchester Peace Action Committee Foundation) – founded 1974



WESPAC serves as fiscal sponsor for some of the NGOs responsible for antisemitism on campuses, including Students for Justice in Palestine and Within Our Lifetime. WESPAC also fulfills this role for U.S. Palestinian Community Network (USPCN), Adalah-NY, and the Palestinian Youth Movement USA.

WESPAC’s sources of income are mostly unknown. Public records reveal a handful of foundational donors, including from large donor-advised charities that further obscure the original donors.

WESPAC uses “apartheid” and other demonizing rhetoric, campaigned for convicted PFLP terrorists, and contextualized the October 7th atrocities.

Wespac also told the Journal that it does not support violence, antisemitism, or terrorism.

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Anti-Israel Protesters at George Washington University Project ‘Genocide Joe’ over American Flag




WASHINGTON, DC - MAY 3: An image of President Joe Biden with the words "Genocide Joe" Kent Nishimura/Getty Images


ELIZABETH WEIBEL3 May 2024

Anti-Israel protesters projected President Joe Biden’s face over an American flag that was hanging from a building behind their encampment at George Washington University (GWU) in Washington, DC.



Biden’s face, with the words “Genocide Joe,” was projected across an American flag that the university had hung from Lisner Hall, an academic building behind the encampment Friday afternoon.

Protesters at the encampment could be heard chanting, “Long live the intifada” as Biden’s face was projected onto the flag.

Protesters at the encampment were also heard renaming the university’s U-Yard as, “Shahada Square.”



“We reject the terms that our Imperialist, Colonialist, Colonialist Overlords have chosen for us,” a speaker was heard saying. “We name s**t for ourselves and we do it to honor our martyrs. From today on, this is Shahada Square.”

The anti-Israel encampment was established at GWU on April 25 and is one of many protests and encampments that have sprouted up on college and university campuses in support of an initial encampment that was established at Columbia University on April 17.



The day after the encampment at Columbia University was first established, several students were suspended and hundreds of protesters involved were arrested.



While Columbia University got rid of the first encampment, another one was formed and stayed until the New York Police Department conducted a raid at the university hours after protesters seized control of Hamilton Hall.



Protesters involved in the encampment at GWU have, among other things, defaced the statue of George Washington with the words, “Geoncidal Warmongering University,” written at the base of the statue and across the top half of the plaque.



The statue also has a Palestinian flag draped in the back.



Protesters involved in the various encampments and protests have issued a variety of demands, which include divesting from Israeli companies, ending academic ties with Israeli educational institutions, ending academic student trips to Israel, providing full amnesty to protesters who have faced criminal charges or academic disciplinary action, and a ceasefire in the war between Israel and Hamas.


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Chicago Police Arrest 68 Pro-Palestinian Protesters Outside Art Institute




WARNER TODD HUSTON
5 May 2024

Nearly 70 pro-Palestinian protesters were arrested outside the Art Institute of Chicago on Saturday as anti-Israel protests continue to expand in the nation’s big cities.



The arrests came after a group began setting up tents on the Art Institute’s small north garden area. Those arrested are being charged with criminal trespass to property, according to Chicago’s WLS-TV.



The Chicago Police said some of those responsible for trying to set up the encampment were students at the School of the Art Institute along with members of Columbia College Chicago. The CPD moved in and tore down the tents after 4:30 p.m.



According to Art Institute administrators, officials tried to work with the protesting students to set up their tents in a location other than the north garden, but protest leaders, some of whom were not students at the school, refused to engage in discussions. Officials even noted that they offered dispensation for the protesters and would have shielded them from any disciplinary measures if they worked with school administrators to hold their protest in a more suitable place.



However, these activists reportedly turned violent and rebuffed the offers of school officials. Officials ultimately pulled away from sanctioning the protest when “protesters surrounded and shoved a security officer and stole their keys to the museum, blocked emergency exits and barricaded gates.”



The Chicago Police Department also claimed to have tried talking with the protesters, but after two hours of failed negotiations, and three warnings, the police gave up and moved in to clear them.



The Art Institute said they respected the rights of the group to protest, but when they turned threatening and violent, their support came to an end.



The school issued a statement saying:



The Art Institute of Chicago respects a group’s right to peacefully protest without harming staff and visitors. Today, a group of individuals, including some SAIC students, began a protest in the museum’s North Garden, and as it progressed, protesters surrounded and shoved a security officer and stole their keys to the museum, blocked emergency exits, and barricaded gates. The protest also began to escalate on Michigan Avenue outside of the museum. Because our priority is the safety of our employees, our visitors, and our collection, protesters were offered an alternative location to continue their protest on campus that would be safer for all involved, and they did not accept that relocation offer. During multiple rounds of negotiations, SAIC student protesters were promised amnesty from academic sanction and trespassing charges if they agreed to relocate. The school also agreed to meet with a student group to discuss their demands. After approximately five hours, an agreement could not be reached. The Chicago Police Department ended the protest in the safest way possible, and we estimate that approximately 50 people were arrested.



The Art Institute has already had problems with antisemitism.



In January, the school was sued under Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act for “pervasive and severe antisemitic harassment and discrimination.”



The Jewish student who filed the lawsuit claimed that Chun-Shan (Sandie) Yi, an assistant professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, assigned a project that characterized Israeli soldiers as being rapists and sexual abusers of Muslim children in Gaza.



The Art Institute is far from the only school in Chicago suffering “encampments” and protests by pro-Palestinian activists.



Last week, pro-Palestinian protesters erected an encampment at the University of Chicago and issued a wide list of demands, including reparations and calling for defunding the campus police.



The encampment was visited by hard-left Obama Education Secretary Arne Duncan and 25th Ward Alderman Byron Sigcho-Lopez.

Sigcho-Lopez kicked up a controversy in March when at an earlier protest he was seen speaking while standing behind a burned American flag. He later claimed he did not know the burned flag was there.

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Deported Terrorist Speaks to Hamas-Endorsed Encampment at University of Chicago

By Margaret Flavin
May. 5, 2024 7:30 am


Deported terrorist Sami Al Arian was invited to speak to the Hamas-endorsed anti-Israel protesters at the University of Chicago.



Al Arian, a former University of South Florida professor, was indicted in February 2003 on 17 counts under the Patriot Act. A jury acquitted him on eight counts and deadlocked on the remaining nine counts. He later struck a plea bargain and admitted to one of the remaining charges in exchange for being released and deported. He was deported to Turkey on February 4, 2015.



Al-Arian was accused of aiding terrorists. In February 2003, he was charged with racketeering for Palestine Islamic Jihad (PIJ).



The Gateway Pundit reported that his wife, Nahla Al-Najar, was pictured protesting at Columbia University campus.



UChicago United for Palestine, which organized the campus encampment, announced Al Arian’s participation in a Zoom meeting on their Instagram.



”Today, we will have the honour of being joined by Dr. Sami Al Arian, a former professor of computer engineering, prominent speaker and human rights activist and US political prisoner,” the group wrote. “Dr. Al Arian has since relocated to Turkey, where he is the Director of the Center for Islam and Global Affairs (CIGA) at Istanbul Zaim University.”

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From The Geller Report:



If the Palestinian Arabs really wanted a state, they would have accepted one of the many offers that have been made to them to establish one, going back to 1948. What they really want to do is destroy Israel utterly, in accord with the succinct Qur’anic command: “Drive them out from where they drove you out” (2:191). It is actually a historical myth that the Israelis drove the Arabs out; the Arab Higher Committee told them to leave, but that fact has been obscured by decades of propaganda. Now, however, no less a luminary than Sami al-Arian, a former U.S. academic and darling of the Left, has revealed the truth: the goal of the Palestinian jihad is not a Palestinian state, but the demise of the Jewish state.



Speaking on Al Jazeera on July 30, al-Arian said: “In my view, the Palestinian cause is not about creating a state, like everybody says. It is not about a one-state solution or a two-state solution. The Palestinian cause has to do with the very presence of Zionism in the region. Therefore, our greatest strategic goal, in the meantime, we can take steps, but the greatest strategic goal is to dismantle the State of Israel, which means uprooting Zionism from Palestine.”



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Al-Arian has been quite clear about his views for decades. In 1991, during a speech in Chicago, al-Arian screamed: “The Quran is our constitution. Jihad is our path … Victory to Islam… Death to Israel… Revolution… revolution till the victory.” Showing he hadn’t changed, in mid-December 2020, al-Arian spoke via Zoom at the Fourth International Conference on the Muslim Ummah. There al-Arian also called for “defeating and dismantling the Zionist project,” adding: “We cannot pursue an ummah project without actually attaining our real independence. We cannot attain our real independence without dealing with the problem of Israel….As long as Israel exists, the ummah will stay weak and fragmented, and disunited and divided and dependent and under control.”



Many have warned that the protests on college campuses have nefarious elements behind the scenes pushing their radical agenda.



Leaders have raised the alarm on who is lurking in the shadows of these protests, including New York City Mayor Eric Adams.



Adams has alleged that protests at Columbia University and City College of New York (CCNY) were infiltrated by “outside agitators” affiliated with “terrorist groups.”



In an interview with Vladimir Duthiers on CBS Morning, Adams detailed the city’s response to the chaotic scenes that unfolded at both institutions, where nearly 300 individuals were arrested Tuesday night.



“These were not spontaneous student movements but calculated disruptions by professional agitators,” Adams explained, noting that a significant portion of those arrested had no affiliations with either university.



Officials at Stanford University sent a picture of a protestor on their campus wearing a green headband, similar to what is worn by Hamas terrorists, to the FBI.



Those cheering on the anti-Israel protests include Hamas leaders and Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

One bright spot in the mess on U of C’s campus is that not everyone at the school is a brainwashed terrorist sympathizer.



Counter-protestors marched on campus with Old Glory flying while chanting “USA, USA, USA…..”

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Pro-Palestinian Protesters Storm Barricade, Crash Met Gala: Arrests Made

PAUL BOIS
6 May 2024



A cadre of pro-Palestinian protesters were seen parading outside the swanky New York Met Gala, which fashion mogul Anna Wintour hosted on Monday night, with some storming the barricade past police.



The protests were announced earlier in the day, with the New York Post reporting that cops were bracing for disruption. Protests have become regular occurrences at prominent events since the Hamas terrorist attacks in Israel on October 7, 2023. Per the article:



The NYPD was bracing for possible unrest to rock Monday’s star-studded Met Gala, law enforcement sources told The Post — as anti-Israel groups held a “Day of Rage” protest at CUNY’s nearby Hunter College.



Police security was heightened in and around the Metropolitan Museum of Art as A-listers started descending on the iconic Upper East Side venue for the glitzy gala Monday evening, sources said.



No specific threats have been identified so far for Fashion’s Biggest Night — but everything is on the table, a police source noted, adding that protests in the vicinity were widely expected.



“We are using every tool at our disposal,” a source told the outlet. “We approach this like we do all large-scale events — examining information and applying it to a measured and calculated response should the need arise.”



“The Met Gala is a large event that draws an international audience,” another source told the outlet. “There are regular peaceful protests that occur in the vicinity. Working in partnership with private-sector partners, we will ensure a safe event for all.”



The protesters showed up as promised, and videos immediately went viral on Monday night.

A video later showed protesters removing the barricade, which led to some arrests.

According to a subsequent New York Post article, more than 1,000 people were seen participating in Monday’s protest.



“A still-growing crowd is marching north on Fifth Avenue, blocking traffic before cops, warning they could be arrested, barricaded the thoroughfare at 79th Street,” it noted.





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“Let 10 Million Cop Cars Burn!” – Radical Pro-Hamas Terror Group ‘Rachel Corrie’s Ghost Brigade’ Admits to Torching 15 Portland Police Cars in ‘Preemptive Attack’

By Jim Hoft
May. 6, 2024 9:00 pm


A far left terrorist organization torched 15 police cars in Portland, Oregon last week.

Fifteen police vehicles were torched at the Police training facility near the Portland Airport last week.



The case was being investigated as arson.



KGW reported:








The terror group called on far left supporters to smash frat house windows if they came out to confront the Marxist- pro-Hamas groups.



They called on supporters to attack the police.



The crazed city officials will release them from jail by morning.







Here if the full screed they post at the Rose City Counter Info website.



On May Day we torched some PPB cars at their training facility. We cut through a fence, set ten fires and are happy it grew to burn fifteen cars!



We did it for the Haymarket Martyrs.

We did it for all the Black and Indigenous rebels murdered by slavers and settlers.

We did it for all the brutalized student protesters.

Above all we did it for the Palestinian martyrs! (and we want to remind the world that the “official” count is stuck at 35,000 martyrs because the Israelis bombed every hospital to stop accurate reporting of the dead)



Our attack was preemptive. After seeing Humboldt, Columbia, UCLA and more we knew the occupation at PSU would be swept violently and wanted to attack PPB before.

While we respect the student occupations, particularly the ones occupying buildings and causing damages to the colleges, we hate to see them passive and waiting to be attacked. Catch the police off guard! They do not believe you are free! Show them you are! Raid them before they raid you!



For the students we have the following messages:

1-No symbolic victories. Do not accept speeches and committees and apology emails. The two demands: Divest! Amnesty for all!

2-No negotiations. Do not give up ground until you see the money pulled out and the charges dropped and the suspensions canceled.

3-Do not let them demobilize you! Do not let the parties (fudge the Communist pieces of shit), the student government or the admin tell you its over. Its not! Keep the threat of your return present, especially if the admin refuses to meet demands.

4-FIGHT! Defend your camps! If the frat bros come, smash their frat house windows! If the Zionist settlers come, throw fireworks at them! If the cops come don’t just resist arrest, fight them! They will hate you and beat you if you’re peaceful or violent, and it is time to be violent.

5-Out of the quads, out of the buildings, into the streets! As the semester ends this is not over. Fight during the summer. When next year starts fight then too!



We call for more actions to avenge Palestinians and the brutalized students at PSU and beyond! Let ten million cop cars burn!

-Rachel Corrie’s Ghost Brigade



For the record, Rachel Corrie was a pro-Hamas protester who was killed by an Israeli bulldozer in Rafah, Gaza in 2003.



Corrie, 23, from Olympia, Washington, was trying to stop the bulldozer from tearing down a building in the Rafah refugee camp when she was run over. She was taken to Najar hospital in Rafah, where she died, said Dr. Ali Moussa, a hospital administrator.



Corrie was standing in a trench where she could not be seen, protecting an entrance to a weapons tunnel.



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George Washington University Now Begging DC Police for Help as Student Protesters Start Calling for the BEHEADING of School President and Trustees (VIDEO)
By Mike LaChance
May. 6, 2024 9:20 pm

Pro-Hamas student protesters at George Washington University are now openly calling for the beheading of the school president and members of the board of trustees.



They allowed this situation to go on for too long and now it’s completely out of control.



As you’ll see in the video below, these students are actually chanting ‘Guillotine, Guillotine!’



NBC 15 News reports:



GW president says school needs help from DC police as protesters call for beheadings



The president of George Washington University said late Sunday night her school needs the help of local police to restore law and order as anti-Israel encampment activities continue.



GW President Ellen Granberg’s released a statement Sunday denouncing the encampment degeneration over the weekend. Granberg also said the school cannot restore order without the help of Washington’s Metropolitan Police Department (MPD).



“The demonstration, like many around the country, has grown into what can only be classified as an illegal and potentially dangerous occupation of GW property,” Gransberg said. “It is also essential to highlight that at no point was this encampment lawful.”…



Social media video surfaced over the weekend of an encampment activity called “People’s Tribunal” where GW protesters acted out sentencing senior university officials to death.



This mock court was held for GWU’s board of trustees and for the school’s president, shouting for these individuals to be beheaded.



“To the guillotine,” protesters said.



Watch below:

Does any of this seem normal to anyone?



Do you think this is what the founders of George Washington University had in mind?

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Police in the Netherlands Uses BULLDOZERS To Raze Pro-Hamas Camp at the University of Amsterdam, Clashes With Protesters in the Streets

By Paul Serran
May. 7, 2024 4:20 pm




Even ultra-liberal Amsterdam has had enough of those Gaza camp thugs.



Police in the Netherlands arrested about 169 activists as they broke up a pro-Palestinian demonstration camp at the University of Amsterdam.



The protests that have disrupted campuses in the United States are spreading into Europe.



Police in the Dutch capital said on the social media platform X that their action was ‘necessary to restore order’ after protests turned violent.



There were no immediate reports of injuries.



This comes after yesterday Anti-Israel students & activists armed with sticks attacked Jewish students at the University of Amsterdam. The Jewish students have dared to express their disapproval against the occupation of campus. Security watched on during the attack

Reaction was swift, as Police used BULLDOZERS to raze the protest camps in the University campus.

Reuters reported:



“Police clashed with pro-Palestinian protesters as thousands marched in the Dutch capital on Tuesday, a day after riot police violently broke up an encampment at Amsterdam University.



Police were seen using batons against protesters to prevent them from marching past the nearby Holocaust Monument on their way to Amsterdam city centre.”

Student are protesting the war in Gaza and academic ties with Israel.



The protests have spread across Europe but so far have remained much smaller in scale than those seen in the United States.



Dutch police said they had to act to stop the event on Monday and dismantle tents due to safety risks.



“‘The police’s input was necessary to restore order. We see the footage on social media. We understand that those images may appear as intense’, police said.”



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