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

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Anti-Israel Protesters Gather Outside GWU President’s Home: ‘We the Students Have the Power’
ELIZABETH WEIBEL
7 May 2024
2:26


Anti-Israel protesters gathered outside of George Washington University (GWU) President Ellen Granberg’s home on Tuesday evening.



A crowd of protesters was seen protesting outside Granberg’s residence in Washington, DC, while chanting, “We the students have the power,” “Granberg in your ivory tower,” and, “Granberg, Granberg, we know you, are complicit in genocide too.”

Before the protesters began marching through the streets of Washington, DC, roughly more than 1,000 people were reported to have gathered at the pro-Palestinian encampment on GWU’s campus in support of a rally.



In a statement to the GWU community, Granberg acknowledged that the “issues at the heart of this protest are important and deserve our full attention and consideration.”



“However, what is currently happening at GW is not a peaceful protest protected by the First Amendment or our university’s policies,” Granberg added. “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.”



Granberg continued to call out protesters for having vandalized the statue of George Washington and for surrounding and intimidating fellow “GW students with antisemitic images and hateful rhetoric.”




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Palestinian flag and Keffiye are wrapped around the statue of George Washington at the George Washington University encampment protest. (Probal Rashid/LightRocket via Getty Images)



The anti-Israel encampment at GWU, which was established on April 25, is one of the remaining encampments established on college and university campuses throughout the nation in support of an initial encampment that began at Columbia University on April 17.



Protesters involved in the encampment at GWU consist of students from universities such as American University, Gallaudet University, George Mason University, and the University of Maryland, along with GWU.



The protesters involved in the encampment are demanding that each university divest from companies selling technology and weapons to Israel, disclose all endowments and investments, end academic partnerships with Israel, and protect pro-Palestinian speech on campuses, among other things.



Breitbart News reached out to the Metropolitan Police Department for a statement but did not receive a response by the time of publication.



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[Midnight]

Leaked Students For Justice In Palestine Texts Show Support For Massacres Of Israelis
JERUSALEM POST


Texts written by Boston University students belonging to the university’s Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) organization chapter show them enthusiastically celebrating the October 7 massacre on the day it occurred, according to leaked texts obtained by N12.



During the discussion, some students called the Hamas terrorists “freedom fighters” and hoped that the situation would erupt into a genocidal war against Israel.



Several students voiced active support for violent Palestinian “resistance,” saying slogans such as “Long live the intifada!”



Texts written by Boston University students belonging to the university’s Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) organization chapter show them enthusiastically celebrating the October 7 massacre on the day it occurred, according to leaked texts obtained by N12.



During the discussion, some students called the Hamas terrorists “freedom fighters” and hoped that the situation would erupt into a genocidal war against Israel.



Several students voiced active support for violent Palestinian “resistance,” saying slogans such as “Long live the intifada!”



Another student, named James, in the conversation said that he hopes for “the State of Israel to collapse and be replaced with something actually democratic.”



After the posters of hostages began appearing on campus, several students were outraged and said they would take down these “zionist posters.”



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[maybetoday]

Gaza Protesters Disrupt Peter Thiel’s Speech at Cambridge Union- Trap Him Inside and Block Him From Exiting Building (Video)

By Jim Hoft
May. 8, 2024 8:00 pm


Pro-Palestinian protesters interrupt Peter Thiel’s talk at Cambridge Union. picture via Youth Demand


Noted conservative entrepreneur Peter Thiel was interrupted Wednesday during his speech at Cambridge Union.



The protester screamed that Thiel was complicit in the murder of 14,000 children because of his ownership of Palantir Technologies, a data analysis company. Thiel continues to serve as its chairman. Palantir is backed by the CIA’s venture arm In-Q-Tel.



The protester accused Thiel of killing babies because of this data company(?) The activist group Youth Demand calls Thiel a genocidal tech founder.



Youth Demand wants an arms embargo on Israel and they also want no oil and gas production. Another Marxist-Islamist group.



Via Youth Demand.

Youth Demmand took credit for disrupting Thiel’s event and released a statement.



Youth Demand supporters have disrupted a talk by Peter Thiel at Cambridge University. Youth Demand is calling for a two-way arms embargo on Israel and for the UK government to halt all new oil and gas licences granted since 2021. [1]



Three supporters disrupted the speech by the controversial venture capitalist, Paypal founder and Trump donor. Peter Thiel is also the founder and chair of Military AI tech company Palantir.



In October 2023 Palintir claimed their technology keeps Israel “armed and ahead”. In January 2024 they signed a new deal with the Israeli military. This partnership aims to “significantly aid the Israeli Ministry of Defense in addressing the current situation in Israel.”



The far left protesters blocked Peter Thiel from leaving Cambridge Union.

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[Midnight]

Pro-Palestinian Protesters Attempt to Block Painter from Covering Up Their Graffiti – Then Find Out What Happens – MUST SEE VIDEO

By Kristinn Taylor
May. 8, 2024 11:15 pm

Pro-Palestinian protesters were spray-painted by a contractor at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio early Tuesday morning as they stood in front of a campus Spirit Wall that had been hijacked by Hamas supporters who had painted it over with anti-Israel messages. The protesters, who wore clear plastic face shields, stood directly in front of the wall in an effort to prevent the contractors from doing their job. A pro-Hamas encampment at CWRU is now in its second week.







Video posted by the school’s Students for Justice in Palestine group shows one of the contractors spray-painting the protesters, with one covered in white paint. The group posted the video to Instagram with the message in nearly all caps, “AROUND 5 AM THIS MORNING, STUDENTS WERE SPRAYED WITH PAINT WHILE CONTRACTORS CALLED BY CWRU ATTEMPTED TO COVER THE SPIRIT WALL. THEY LATER CAME CLOSER TO NOON AND COVERED THE ENTIRE WALL WITH PAINT. THE STUDENTS FOLLOWED THE SPIRIT WALL POSTING POLICY, AND ADMIN STILL HAD A PROBLEM. The lengths this university goes to defend Zionist Genocidal interests is insane.”



Copy of the Instagram video:

Video posted by Cleveland.com







Case Western Reserve University President Eric Kaler issued a statement Wednesday denouncing the spray-painting of the protesters:



An update on an overnight incident at the Spirit Wall

To the Case Western Reserve community:



Earlier today, I wrote to you noting that the university was investigating an incident in which an individual who was painting over protesters’ writings on the Spirit Wall hit student protesters with paint. I have reviewed video footage, which depicts students blocking the wall as a third-party contractor spray painted directly onto protesters as he attempted to finish painting the wall, and I am disturbed by what occurred.



Let me be clear: No students—or any individuals—should ever be treated this way, especially on a campus where our core values center on providing a safe, welcoming environment. This is not who we are as an institution, and I am deeply sorry this ever occurred.



The university will continue to fully investigate these actions and hold individuals responsible for this behavior, including the failure of our own officers to intervene.



Again, I want to reiterate my sincere regret for this incident. As with any violation of our codes of conduct, we will take action to hold them accountable.



Sincerely,



Eric W. Kaler

President



Kaler previously issued a statement criticizing the protesters for painting “threatening, intimidating and antisemitic” messages on campus walls.



Addressing intimidating speech on university property: May 7, 2024

To the Case Western Reserve community,



I fully support individuals’ rights to share their viewpoints in accordance with our freedom of expression policy. However, that policy—and the core values that define our university—have been continually violated over the past eight days, including yesterday afternoon when protesters at the non-sanctioned encampment on Kelvin Smith Library Oval painted an advocacy wall near Eldred Hall with language the university administration and many members of our community view as threatening, intimidating and antisemitic.



As I have repeatedly noted, constructive, meaningful exchanges should never involve harassment, incitement, or behavior that threatens and is intimidating to our community. I strongly condemn the language posted yesterday on the advocacy wall, and want to reiterate to our entire community that such language—no matter to whom it is directed—will not be tolerated on our campus.



After defacing the advocacy wall, later in the evening, the protesters painted the spirit wall near Thwing Center with language that was less threatening but still intimidating to some in our community. The university has painted over the advocacy wall and will complete painting over the spirit wall this morning. The university is investigating an incident in which one or more protesters blocking the spirit wall were hit by paint.



The students involved in yesterday’s advocacy wall painting and those who continue to break university policy by remaining in an unapproved encampment on private property will be held fully accountable for their actions through the conduct process. Any faculty and staff members who take part in activities that violate the freedom of expression policy—which this encampment does—also will be required to go through a conduct process. The actions of all participants, whether within or outside the CWRU community, may also be in violation of criminal or civil law.



I understand and appreciate the importance of advocating for a cause that is deeply personal and undeniably tragic, as the Israel-Hamas war and the resulting loss of lives are in Israel and Gaza. But advocacy for a cause is most persuasive when it goes back to those core values upon which Case Western Reserve operates, with responsibility, civility and ethical behavior among them. I urge the student protesters to remove the encampment and begin the student conduct process.



Sincerely,



Eric W. Kaler



Cleveland’s mayor and chief of police issued a joint statement, reported WOIO-TV:



Mayor Justin Bibb and Chief Annie Todd Respond to Recent Incidents on the CWRU Campus



In light of the recent video that surfaced from the CWRU campus, which displays individuals being painted over with spray paint, it is crucial that we express our stance unambiguously.



Cleveland is a city for everyone, and we must respect the thoughts, feelings, and voices of those who come from various backgrounds. These diverse perspectives are what makes us special, and ultimately stronger, as a city. Our community deserves venues where they have the ability to constitutionally-express their opinions openly without fear of criminal interference. We support 1st Amendment rights and implore CWRU leadership to consider this and think about how the decisions they make and the actions they take – especially against those who are abiding by the law – will influence some of the progress we have collectively made as a city. At the same time, we urge individuals to demonstrate peacefully.



We want to be clear in that we condemn all forms of violence and the Division of Police stands ready to offer support should that occur. Public safety has been and always will be our number one priority.



Mayor Bibb & Chief Todd



WOIO also reported a student protester named Raissa complaining about the incident:



“It was a pressurized paint gun spraying harmful chemicals with carcinogens and toxins directly with no concern for health or the well-being of an individual who is paying to be here,” said Raissa.



“We had some students talking to the police like how can they do this. The painters were like were following orders. The police said we’re following orders from higher administrative and I guess they didn’t think of the morality of what they were doing,” said Raissa.



Video of the encampment posted early Monday:

The campus protest continued Wednesday evening:

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[OmegaMan]

First Faculty-Led Anti-Israel Encampment Established at New School


ELIZABETH WEIBEL
8 May 2024

The first faculty-led anti-Israel encampment was established on Wednesday at The New School in New York City.



Faculty from the college set up tents in the lobby and established the Refaat Alareer Faculty Solidarity Encampment, days after officers from the New York Police Department (NYPD) cleared encampments at The New School and New York University.



The NYPD ended up arresting 45 students involved in the encampment, according to the New School Free Press.



Fewer than a dozen tents could be seen set up in the lobby.



“On Wednesday afternoon, autonomous faculty members at The New School launched the first faculty-led encampment in the nation,” New School’s Students for Justice in Palestine (TNS-SJP) said in a statement. “The action follows the mass arrests and violence that took place last week across New York City’s campuses when university leadership called in the New York Police Department to sweep and shutter the Gaza solidarity encampments.”

Students were also seen protesting outside of the building where the faculty-led encampment was located and could be heard chanting, “40,000 people dead! New School your hands are red! 40,000 people dead! Columbia your hands are red!”

TNS-SJP continued to write that “the students do not stand alone,” adding that “their demands for immediate divestment in companies complicit in Israel’s genocidal war” were the demands of the faculty.



“We call on the Investment Committee of The New School’s Board of Trustees to vote immediately to divest from companies that benefit directly or indirectly from the genocide in Gaza and the occupation of Palestine,” the statement continued.



The faculty-led encampment is named after Refaat Alareer, a writer and professor from the Gaza Strip who was killed by an Israeli airstrike in northern Gaza in December 2023.



“Students nationwide have shown extraordinary courage, risking arrest, loss of future opportunities, suspensions and expulsions, not to mention ferocious harassment and physical violence,” the statement continued. “They have been demonized in the establishment media, by university leaders, and at the highest levels of government for an unequivocally moral act – standing against genocide, apartheid and oppression.”



In response to the arrests of students involved in the encampment, between 270 and 300 members of the faculty from The New School took part in a vote in which almost 95 percent expressed no confidence in New School Interim President Donna E. Shalala and the Board of Trustees.

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[ExquisiteGerbil]

Report: Miss Israel Threatened, Harassed in NYC for Identifying Herself as IDF




Noa CochvaAP Photo/Ariel Schalit


EMMA-JO MORRIS
9 May 2024
New York, NY

Miss Israel was called a “war criminal,” a “little Zionist,” and threatened with a knife after identifying herself as a soldier in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) in New York City on Monday, according to reports.



Miss Israel Noa Cochva was berated and threatened on the streets of the Big Apple while carrying a poster that read, “I am an IDF soldier. Ask me anything,” the Daily Mail reported.



As Cochva stood in Washington Square Park in Greenwich Village, next to New York University, one onlooker approached her, saying, “I heard there was a Zionist here,” with a knife brandished at the beauty queen.



“She pulled a knife on us, and we got so scared we actually ran away,” Cochva told the New York Post. “That woman, it looked like she was really aiming to hurt us. I will never forget the hate in her eyes.”



Cochva was doing advocacy work for the pro-Israel group “Facts for Peace.” According to the Post, she was engaged in a “social experiment” to engage with students in “meaningful conversations” about the war they have been so vocal in protesting.


Jessica Schwalb via Storyful



“I’ve been to war, and I know what it looks like from within,” she told the Post. “But none of them wanted to talk or listen.”



“It’s an awful thing to see what’s going on at the universities,” she said. “It’s hard to see a generation of future leaders not even open to asking questions.”



“You’re getting your information from TikTok instead of real-life people who have been to war,” she continued. “To me, that’s ignorance.”



Another passerby barked, “You are a war criminal; how do you sleep at night?”



“I sleep really well because I know that I’m on the right side of history,” Cochva replied.



Military service is mandatory in Israel for all citizens at 18 years old. Women are required to serve for two years, and men are required to serve for three years.



“Of the roughly 100 people she encountered, about 70 percent spewed anti-Israel comments, often shouting or rolling their eyes, she said. Only one person asked her an earnest question,” the Post reported.



“The amount of hate that people had for me today … I was just trying to have peaceful conversations with them,” the beauty queen said in a tearful Instagram post following the ordeal.



“I took an oath to save everyone’s life. I treated Palestinians. I treated terrorists. I treated everyone in Gaza,” she said.



An American military officer stopped Cochva to chat about “the sense of purpose she gained from serving her country,” the Post reported, and another passerby thanked her and told her, “I’m with your people.”


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Greta Thunberg Joins Mass Anti-Israel Protest at Eurovision Song Contest

SIMON KENT
10 May 2024

Professional activist Greta Thunberg joined thousands of anti-Israel protesters in Malmo, Sweden, on Thursday adding her voice to their anger at Israel being allowed to compete in this year’s Eurovision Song Contest.



The Stop Israel protesters waved green, white, black and red Palestinian flags as they packed the historic Stortorget square near Malmo’s 16th-century town hall before marching through the city for a rally in a park several miles from the Eurovision venue, Sky News reports.



Police estimated that between 10,000 and 12,000 people took part. Among those in the crowd was 21-year-old Greta Thunberg who was draped in a keffiyeh (a symbol of solidarity with Palestine).


The demonstrations were marked by the release of smoke canisters in Palestinian colors and chants of “free Palestine.”



The march took place at the same time as Israel’s entrant – 20-year-old Eden Golan – was taking part in the final dress rehearsal for the second Eurovision semi-finals, in the Malmo arena.



As it turned out, the protests against Israel in general and Eden Golan in particular came to nought.



Golan performed her song “Hurricane” in Thursday’s second semi-final in front of 9,000 spectators at the host city’s Malmo Arena and booked her place in the final thanks to viewers’ votes.



Israel now joins the group of 26 nations that will compete on Saturday in a contest watched around the world by millions of lovers of the pop sounds that Eurovision promises each year.





Singer Eden Golan representing Israel with the song “Hurricane” reacts after placing in the final after the second semi-final of the 68th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) at the Malmo Arena, in Malmo, on May 9, 2024. (IDA MARIE ODGAARD/Ritzau Scanpix/AFP via Getty)



“Well, I feel… I’m so overwhelmed with emotions. It’s truly such an honour to be here, on stage performing and showing our voice, and representing us with pride and making it to the finals is something that’s crazy,” 20-year-old Golan said after securing her place in the final.



Some online betting comparison sites list Golan as among the favourites to win this year’s edition, hosted in the birthplace of ABBA.



Israel made its debut in Eurovision in 1973 and has won the contest four times.

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Pro-Palestinian Protest Comes to a Screeching Halt After School President Publishes an Ultimatum



By Warner Todd Huston

May 11, 2024 at 1:39pm


As most college administrations bend the knee to the anti-Israel, pro-Hamas protesters across the country, one college president took a markedly different — and brave — turn against the trend.



For weeks now, schools have been swamped by these destructive protests, which were shutting down classes, disrupting finals as the school year winds down, and even forcing the cancellation of some graduation exercises.



Tellingly, anywhere from one quarter to one half of these protesters are not even students in the schools at which they are protesting. Many are left-wing activists supported by anti-American billionaires such as George Soros.



Some schools have bent over backwards for these destructive, anti-Jewish student groups, allowing them to set up illegal tent encampments for weeks on end and causing all manner of disruptions on campus, not to mention leaving tons of garbage on the grounds in their wake.



But one college president in Rhode Island didn’t put up with all this for very long, according to The Boston Globe.



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More than two dozen students at the Rhode Island School of Design had thought it was a good idea to join the wave of protests against Jews by barricading themselves in a college campus building on Monday.



The students, who were part of Students for Justice in Palestine, demanded that the school formally condemn the “Israeli Occupation of Gaza as genocide” and demanded that the school endowment divest from companies that are “implicated in sustaining Israeli Apartheid,” The Providence Journal reported.

College president Crystal Williams spent some time trying to negotiate with the militants. But her first few entreaties were rejected, with the students proclaiming, “(We) will not bend an inch.”



But only four days later, they were running out of their keep with their tails between their legs thanks to Williams’ strong reply to their disruption.



The leftist students dismantled their barricades and left the building on Thursday after Williams gave them a sensible ultimatum.



On Thursday morning, Williams sent out a campus-wide email telling the protesters to submit to “restorative justice” and take down the barricades.



“The barricades on the second floor of 20 Washington Place violate multiple Rhode Island Fire Codes. We need you to create a means of egress and ingress by 12:00 p.m.,” Williams wrote, per the Journal. And she also ordered school staffers to assist the protesters to tear down their obstructions and return the furniture to where they belonged as the fire marshals stood by to make sure it all happened according to plan.



Related: New Anti-Semitism Bill Is This Generation's Patriot Act - Sounds Great, Horrific in Practice

By noon that day, the protesters, who were calling themselves “De-Occupiers” — as in Israel should “de-occupy” Palestine — had completed the task of opening the space back up to entrance and exit. And they were also satisfying the “restorative justice” demand, which meant they had to return the area to the condition in which they found it when they arrived.



But the protesters were still occupying the second floor of the building, so president Williams issued another decree. She ordered them to clean up their messes and disperse, or face expulsion if they decided to stay in place.



“If students do not vacate the space by 2:30 pm, we will proceed with expulsion from Rhode Island School of Design,” Williams sternly warned.



The college chief also told the students her staff would “meet with students and faculty whom their actions have immediately negatively impacted, listen to the impact of their actions and engage in respectful dialog, and reimburse those who have spent personal funds on no longer viable projects as a result of the occupation.”



She had other harsh words to these disruptors, too, adding. “The student work on the second floor, some of which was intended to be showcased at the International Contemporary Furniture Fair next weekend, has been jeopardized. Grant applications have been missed because the work to support the application is in the space; finals work is in the space; crit spaces have been inaccessible, impacting other students’ education, etc.,” wrote Williams. “Their occupation of the academic space and refusal to allow students and faculty to retrieve their work oppose our college’s mission and code of conduct.”



After all that, the protesters decided that retreat was the better part of valor and they fled the building instead of getting expelled.



Still, Williams did say she would allow protesters to hoist their protest signs and spout their hate-speech outdoors, saying in her email, “I want to reiterate that peaceful protest, freedom of speech, and freedom of expression are not just important; they are the bedrock of our art and design community. We respect and uphold these values.”



Williams eventually reported that the students had vacated the building and were no longer manning their barricades.



This college president should serve as a model for the others. These protesters have no right to disrupt the education of their fellow students like they are all across the country.



And they most certainly have no right to threaten Jewish students, put them in fear of their safety, and prevent them from enjoying their American freedoms and rights.


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[ExquisiteGerbil]

Eurovision Chaos: Ten Thousand Protest in Multicultural Malmö Against Israeli Participation, Police Convoy Escorts Jewish Singer Eden Golan to Final



Russian-Israeli singer Eden Golan representing Israel with the song "Hurricane" waves an IGetty Images


KURT ZINDULKA
11 May 2024
4:33


Thousands of pro-Hamas protesters took to the streets of Malmö again on Saturday in opposition to Israel’s participation in the Eurovision Song Contest being held in the multicultural Swedish city.



Swedish police have estimated that between eight and 10,000 anti-Israel demonstrators gathered in the centre of Malmö to demand that Israeli Eurovision contestant Eden Golan be removed from the final.



Golan, who is representing Israel with the song “Hurricane” — originally titled “October Rain” in reference to the October 7th Hamas terror attacks on Israel that left over 1,200 dead and saw hundreds taken hostage — has largely been confined to her hotel room during the contest over security concerns and has been under protection organised by Israel’s top security agency, Shin Bet.



The 20-year-old Jewish singer was also filmed being escorted to the final event by a convoy with approximately 100 Swedish police officers in order to safeguard her from the protesters, The Sun reports.

Israel’s ambassador to Sweden, Ziv Nevo Kulman, condemned the protests, telling Dagens Nyheter: “We have the world’s biggest music competition in Malmö and the focus in recent weeks has been on extremists because the pro-Palestinian groups demonstrating are among the most extreme of the extreme.



“They were the same people who celebrated in the streets after October 7th. And they are joined by the BDS movement and the radical left from across the continent who choose to come to Malmö. The provocations come from the other side, they are the ones who seek confrontation.”



The ambassador also criticised the Eurovision audience for booing Golan, saying: “I know that it is not forbidden to boo a bad artist. But Eden Golan hadn’t even started singing before people booed. It was political and I don’t think it belongs in Eurovision. And seriously, I don’t think you’re expressing any opinion when you boo an artist.”

In addition to facing down large-scale protests, Golan has also faced fire from her fellow contestants, even reportedly being forced to move into another room from other performers at the behest of Irish contestant Bambie Thug, who has also reportedly called for Golan to be disqualified from the final. The 31-year-old Irish singer, who uses “they/them” pronouns and claims to be “non-binary”, said on Friday that she “cried” when it was revealed the Jewish singer had reached the Eurovision final.



Bambie Thug, who entered the competition with her Satanic-styled song “Doomsday Blue”, said: “I cried with my team… It is a complete overshadow of everything, goes against everything that Eurovision is meant to be,” adding: “It’s a big, big community together and their contestant was never allowed to even meet us.”



Meanwhile, Marina Satti, who is representing Greece in the contest, was filmed pretending to sleep while Golan was giving a press conference.

Nevertheless, Golan has put on a brave face throughout the chaos, writing on social media on Saturday ahead of the final: “I stand on this stage with so much pride. proud of our song and the hard work we’ve put into it. proud of my country and the people in it. I feel your love and support from miles away that nothing or no one can break me down. tonight I’m sharing OUR voice and going to give the best performance I can. I love you guys.”




Russian-Israeli singer Eden Golan representing Israel with the song “Hurricane” waves an Israeli flag during the final dress-rehearsal of the 68th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) at the Malmo Arena, in Malmo, Sweden, on May 11, 2024. (Photo by Andreas HILLERGREN / TT News Agency / AFP) / Sweden OUT (Photo by ANDREAS HILLERGREN/TT News Agency/AFP via Getty Images)



The protest on Saturday is just the latest large-scale anti-Israel demonstration to hit Malmö during this year’s Eurovision contest, with upwards of 10,000 taking to the streets of Malmö on Thursday, with even Swedish political activist Greta Thunberg joining their ranks.



Malmö has been at the heart of the massive demographic shifts in the Nordic nation over the past decade, with Muslims now making up 20 per cent of the city’s population.



Officials in Sweden have admitted that this radical change has come along with a rise in anti-semitism and terrorist activity, resulting in the Jewish population declining by approximately half of what it was in the 1970s. Some of the remaining Jewish population told the German newspaper Die Welt this week that they did not feel “welcome in [their] own city” and that many have opted to leave the city while the Eurovision contest was being held.

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If these fools when to Gaza within hours they'd either be beheaded, hung from a crane, or thrown off a building, but they're too stupid to realize that! 


Pro-Hamas “Queers for Palestine” Agitators Block Exit to Disney World – But One Angry Dad Wasn’t Having It (VIDEO)

By David Greyson
May. 12, 2024 6:00 pm



Pro-Hamas agitators blocking freeways and bridges has become an all too common theme these days.



A group of protestors calling themselves, “Queers for Palestine” blocked the exit to Disney World in Orlando, Florida on Interstate 4 on Saturday.



The agitators claimed Disney supports genocide and chanted, “Free, free Palestine!” while holding up banners.



New York Post reported:



A small group of anti-Israel protesters from a Florida chapter of Queers for Palestine blocked access to Walt Disney World Saturday — and were promptly arrested.



The keffiyeh-clad crew used their vehicles to block the Disney exit of Interstate 4 in Orlando, alleging that the company “supports genocide.”



The protesters held banners across the ramp and chanted, “Free free Palestine.”



“Some fed-up drivers were seen using the shoulder of the highway to go around the demonstrators — while one angry motorist got out of his car to confront them,” New York Post reported.



Tensions ran high as drivers were losing their patience. One man got out of his car and started to yell at the agitators. Video footage taken by one of the agitators shows them getting into their car and start to drive off. The police were on the scene.



Watch:

Considering this was Florida, police promptly showed up and arrested the agitators for blocking the highway. According to Fox News reporter Bill Melugin, it took about 11 minutes for them to be arrested.

While some states have failed to take quick action, Florida has shown itself to be a law and order state.

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Pro-Israel Conference in Nashville Canceled Due to Threats from Antifa and Pro-Hamas Groups

by Jim Hoft 

May 13, 2024 8:15 pm

Guest post by Joe Hoft and JoeHoft.com – republished with permission

A Pro-Israel conference scheduled in Nashville has been canceled by the convention center due to pro-Hamas and Antifa activists who bombarded the hotel with threats

A conference on Israel to be held in Nashville May 20-22 was canceled by the convention center on Sunday, on the guidance of Nashville police, due to pro-Hamas and antifa activists who bombarded the hotel with threats. Lawyers are involved, as are Senator Marsha Blackburn and the Governor of Tennessee. The organizers are looking for a new venue.

Speakers at the conference included Michele Bachmann, Caroline Glick, Rabbi Pesach Wolicki, and others.

Here is a press release from the group who organized this event.

My understanding is that years ago Obama started importing people from the Middle East into America and Nashville was a spot where the illegal immigrants were placed. It is no wonder that the event was shut down.

Is Nashville safe anymore?

Are the Jewish people safe in Joe Biden’s America?

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[Midnight]

‘Muslim Terrorists Are in Our Midst’: Florida Imam Calls for Annihilation of All Jews

Joshua Klein

13 May 2024

Jews — who are “tyrannical” and the “brothers of apes and pigs” — should be “annihilate[d],” according to a Florida Islamic cleric, who also accused Israel’s army of being “worse than the Nazis.”

During a sermon at the North Miami Islamic Center in Florida in late April, Imam Dr. Fadi Kablawi called for Allah to support “our oppressed brothers” in Palestine, as well as for the total annihilation of Jews, whom he referred to as “apes and pigs” — a phrase that radical Islamists have historically used to describe Jews.

“Oh Allah, annihilate the tyrannical Jews… for they are no match for You,” he said. “Oh Allah, annihilate the brothers of apes and pigs… [and] cut off their seed.”

A clip of the sermon, which was originally streamed live on the mosque’s Facebook page and later published by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), garnered nearly 80,000 views as of Monday afternoon.

In it, the North Miami imam can also be seen accusing the Israeli army of being “worse than Nazis,” attributing wild and baseless allegations of soldiers stealing Palestinian skin and other organs.

“[Israel’s army] is the most immoral army… they are worse than Nazis,” he claimed, adding that he “apologized to the Nazis last week because these people have been proven to be worse than the Nazis.”

“They steal the skin of the Palestinians. It is not enough that they stole their land; now they steal their skin,” he added, claiming that organs are “missing from children [and] from adults.”

Kablawi, who called for Allah to “show us the black days that you inflict upon the Jews” just weeks after the October 7 massacre, then suggested identifying just “who is behind organ trading” both in the United States and around the world, reviving conspiracy theories alleging that Israeli rescue and medical teams sent to Haiti after the devastating 2010 earthquake participated in organ trafficking.

“Go ask the Haitians, when they had the earthquake, what happened there with these Israeli organizations going under [the guise of] medical help,” he said. “Go ask them, those who know, [how a] guy will come limping into their tents for treatment [and then] he will be carried out dead, organs missing.”

According to the Florida imam and dental practitioner, the barbarism of the Jews can be attributed to the fact that “there is no God for these people.”

“These people look at you as nothing but a mistake or, at best, you were created for their service,” he argued. “That is what they believe. That is what they say… and we don’t spread propaganda.”

He has previously called the establishment of Shari’a law “freedom for Mankind” and said the United States does not belong to Americans but to Allah alone.

In response, many are expressing outrage over the radical rhetoric being espoused on American soil.

On Monday, Florida State Representative Randy Fine, chairman of the House Health and Human Services Committee, penned a letter calling on the Florida Board of Dentistry to immediately suspend Kablawia’s dental license for “openly advocating for violence against his Jewish patients.”

“Muslim terrorists are in our midst, and one is practicing dentistry courtesy of the people of the State of Florida,” the letter begins, noting the serious and imminent danger the imam’s dental practice poses to Jews in the Sunshine State.

“The vast majority of Florida’s Jews are Zionists,” he noted.

The matter comes as more and more sermons and lectures containing radical rhetoric from Islamic leaders in America and the West come to light.

In October, a Colorado imam live-streamed a lecture for children that included a Quranic tale of Allah turning Jews into monkeys, as well as claims that Jews are predominantly deceptive and persistently “tricking us to trust them,” and it is ill-advised to “trust” or “do business” with them.

In November, an imam in California called for Zionist “dogs” to be “annihilated,” as he accused Israel of evildoing and expressed his longing for “the day that I get to listen to the last gasping breath of them hanging from the rope that Allah gave them to hang themselves.”

In March, a Michigan Islamic cleric appealed to Allah, seeking to become “soldiers” for Islam in any form desired, including death, and vowed that Muslims will yet “slaughter” the Jews “like sheep” when the opportunity arises.

It also comes as more and more Western youth are reportedly turning to the Quran, often adopting radicalized views in the process.

In November, young TikTokers began promoting al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and his propaganda, as his “Letter to America” justifying the September 11 attacks went viral on the Chinese-owned social platform, with videos on the topic garnering millions of views.

During the public debate on the Israel-Hamas war, a new generation of those mostly born after September 11, 2001, or too young to recall the deadliest terrorist attack on American soil in U.S. history were seen defending bin Laden for his opposition to America and its support for Israel.

More recently, anti-Israel protesters on college campuses were seen participating in Islamic prayer, many with covered heads, surrounded by Palestinian flags.

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Pro-Hamas Students and Faculty Occupy NYC Campus Building as New Wave of Protests Launch

Frank Bergman
May 15, 2024 - 4:23 pm




New anti-Israel protests have erupted at The New School in New York City, with students and faculty members reportedly occupying a building on the institution’s campus.



The pro-Hamas protesters are reportedly attempting to get the school’s board of trustees to vote on divesting from companies supporting the Jewish State.



The occupation of the Welcome Center in Manhattan comes as two anti-Israel encampments have been ongoing at The New School.



One protest is led by students and the other by faculty.



A report by The New School Free Press student newspaper said the occupiers were letting people out of the building on Tuesday night.



However, they not letting anyone inside.



The New School has yet to issue a statement on the new protests.



The Welcome Center is the first stop on campus tours and houses multiple offices, including admissions.



Those occupying the Welcome Center have renamed the building the “Lama Jamous Center.”


The name is in reference to a 9-year-old girl who has been reporting on the war from inside Hamas-controlled Gaza, according to The New School Free Press.



They want the private university to divest from companies that are backing Israel.



The protesters are now hanging a Palestinian flag from the upper levels of the Welcome Center, the outlet added.



The continued anti-Israel protests at The New School come as it is preparing to host its commencement ceremonies this Friday.


Graduation events at other colleges in Manhattan, such as Columbia University, have been frequently disrupted by anti-Israel protesters.



Earlier this month, the New York Police Department was called to break up anti-Israel protests at The New School and New York University.



After the operations, NYPD Chief of Patrol John Chell told reporters that police took the actions “at the request of school presidents.”



Police ultimately arrested 56 people, with no incidents.

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Pro-Hamas Activists Take Over UC Berkeley Building — After Deal to End ‘Encampment’

Joel B. Pollak

15 May 2024

4:43

A group of radical pro-Palestinian activists took over a building at the University of California Berkeley on Wednesday, just hours after administrators and protesters struck a deal to end a weeks-long “encampment.”

The Daily Californian, the UC Berkeley student newspaper, reported:

A group of pro-Palestine protesters broke in and took over Anna Head Alumnae Hall on Wednesday afternoon.

The protesters — gathering in a group of about 30 by 3:15 p.m. — hung up the Palestinian flag as well as boards reading “Free Gaza” and “Avenge Al Shifa.” [Al-Shifa is a hospital in Gaza that was taken over by terrorists, and where the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) killed and arrested hundreds in battles last month, with zero civilian casualties.] There also appear to be protesters inside the hall, according to pictures circulating on Instagram.

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“We are occupying the hall because saying ‘free Palestine’ is not enough,” a speaker from the hall said. “You have to put action behind your words.”

The university said that the students who took over the building were not party to the agreement struck with the encampment.

Pro-Palestine protesters take over a vacant UC Berkeley owned building at Channing Way and Bowditch Street in Berkeley, Calif., on Wednesday, May 15, 2024. (Photo by Santiago Mejia/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)

Earlier, the Daily Californian reported, the protesters agreed to disband the encampment in return for a promise by the university to examine its broad investment strategies — albeit without specifically divesting from Israel.

The Daily Californian noted:

Chancellor Carol Christ agreed to “support a comprehensive and rigorous examination of our investments and our socially responsible investment strategy” in exchange for the decampment.

The agreement, which was first signed and sent to encampment negotiators early May, included Christ’s plan to request the UC Berkeley Foundation to expedite hearing concerns on investment, a request to the Chair of the Regents Investment Committee to develop a broader framework for ethical investment strategies and the creation of a UC Berkeley Divestment Task Force made up of students, faculty and staff.

As part of the agreement, the Foundation’s Environmental, Social, and Governance, or ESG, Committee will hear community concerns on specific industry sectors including weapons manufacturing, mass incarceration and surveillance industries.Should the ESG Committee deem “the issue … serious enough to consider divestment,” the agreement states, the committee will create a divestment task force in consultation with students and administration.

However, in a separate letter, UC Berkeley Chancellor Crist explained to the academic senate that divestment from Israel was “not permissible”:

I acknowledge the UCB Divest Coalition demand is full divestment from Israel. As stated by the University of California Office of the President, such divestment is not permissible. In no way may any criteria established limit in any way investing in companies on the basis of whether or not they do business with or in Israel.

The University of California as a whole has rejected divestment from Israel, or boycotting Israeli universities, because of concerns about academic freedom. However, as Breitbart News has pointed out elsewhere, boycotting or divesting from Israel may also be unlawful under California’s anti-“boycott, divestment, sanctions” (BDS) laws.

The nation has seen a wave of pro-Palestinian — and often pro-Hamas, pro-terror, and antisemitic — campus protests, which have taken the form of “encampments” in which students have seized university property and stayed overnight.

UC Berkeley was, until Wednesday evening, one of several universities at which pro-Palestinian activists agreed to disband their encampments after reaching agreements with administrators. Others saw police intervene to remove and arrest protesters; and still others saw encampments simply disband without having any of their demands met.

A few — such as the protest at Columbia University — saw activists escalate their tactic by taking over buildings.

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University of California Advises Students to ‘Leave Area’ near Anti-Israel Protest

Pro-Palestinian demonstrators confront police as they clear an encampment after students o

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The University of California Irvine advised students to “leave” the area and buildings near where pro-Palestinian protesters were holding their protest.

“Anyone currently in buildings in the vicinity of the protest are advised to exit buildings & leave area at this time,” the University of California wrote in a post on X. “Please disregard all previous orders to shelter in place. If able, please leave immediately & continue to avoid the protest area until further notice.”

Prior to this statement, the university had issued a statement advising students and faculty to “shelter in place.”

The university explained that around 2:30 p.m., hundreds of protesters took over the “Physical Sciences Lecture Hall” and surrounded the building, blocking the entrance and piling tents on top of each other in an attempt to make a barrier, according to ABC7 News.

Protesters could be heard chanting, “Free, free Palestine” and “The students united will never be defeated,” according to video footage posted to X.

Roughly 100 hundred police officers and sheriff’s deputies were reported to have responded to the situation at the University of California Irvine campus and ordered protesters to leave the area before making arrests.

Irvine Mayor Farrah Khan issued a statement on X in which she said it was “a shame that peaceful free speech protests are always responded to with violence.”

“Taking space on campus or in a building is not a threat to anyone,” Khan wrote. “UCI leadership must do everything they can to avoid creating a violent scenario here. These are your students w/ zero weapons.”

Breitbart News reached out to the University of California Irvine for a statement but did not receive a response by the time of publication.

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Harvard Students and Professors Protest Against Israel and US – Chant “Intifada, Come to America!” (VIDEO)

by Jim Hoft 

May 19, 2024 

6:40 pm

Harvard students, supported by their Professors in full regalia, are currently calling for the “intifada, come to America!” These students and faculty and are not just antisemitic, but anti-American.

Station 24 responded to the calls to war: “The chilling chant of ‘Intifada, come to America’ by Harvard students and faculty, backed by their professors, marks a dark moment in academia, where hate and violence are advocated over peace and understanding, undermining the very fabric of our society and the values of higher learning.”

Today’s protest at the Johnston Gate was organized by the Boston Liberation Center and Party for Socialism and Liberation.

What is it with the Red and Green Alliance? They both hate Jews and America. They both want America destroyed.

The last time there was an intifada a thousand Jews and their children were murdered.

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Marxist Student Thugs and Pro-Gaza Goons Disrupt Princeton Memorial Day Parade and Block the Road – After Spotting American Flags Coming Toward Them

By Jim Hoft 

May. 27, 2024 7:45 am

Princeton Marxists and Pro-Gaza goons disrupt the annual Memorial Day Parade.
Dozens of radical Marxists and Pro-Gaza goons shut down the Princeton Memorial Day Parade on Sunday chanting, “Free, free Palestine!”

This is how the youths honored the fallen servicemembers and veterans.

You can thank their Marxist professors.

What a disgusting, disrespectful bunch.

The protesters blocked the street when they saw the American flags coming.

The young Marxists belong to the Princeton 4 Palestine group.

This was last year’s Princeton Memorial Day Parade.

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Pro-Palestinian Protesters Swarm Police, Set Fire to Israel’s Embassy in Mexico City

Warner Todd Huston

29 May 2024

3:11

Pro-Palestinian protesters reportedly swarmed police outside Israel’s embassy in Mexico City on Tuesday, throwing rocks and bottles and setting fires on the embassy grounds.

Video of the unrest shows protesters trying to tear down metal fences erected around the embassy, and at one point the grounds were set afire, according to the Hill.

According to the Associated Press, some 200 protesters accosted police outside the embassy and six officers were injured.

Mexico City police, deployed in riot gear and carrying shields, used tear gas on the protesters.

The protests came on the heels of an Israeli attack on a Hamas position near a refugee camp in Rafah. After the attack, fire apparently spread into the camp. Israeli officials said they are investigating the incident and feel that an IDF tank attack on a Hamas ammo supply near the camp accidentally spread the fire. But they deny actually striking the camp itself.

“We are looking into all possibilities including the option that weapons stored in a compound next to our target which we did not know of may have ignited as a result of the strike,” said Israeli chief military spokesperson Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari, according to Reuters.

White House spokesman John Kirby said the incident did not cross President Biden’s “red line.”

“Now, obviously this had tragic results, and obviously that needs to be investigated, and we need to know why even using small-diameter, precision guided munitions, this was able to happen, but we’ll have to let the Israelis get to the bottom of that,” Kirby said, according to the New York Post.

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Anti-Israel Protesters Block LGBTQ Pride Parade in Philadelphia

Paul Bois

2 Jun 2024

1:37

A cadre of anti-Israel protesters blocked an LGBTQ pride parade on the streets of Philadelphia on Sunday, halting the procession.

The protesters were heard chanting a variety of anti-Israel slogans that have been said at protests around the country. They could be heard shouting, “Palestine will live forever! From the sea to the river!” and “No pride in genocide.” Video captured the moment:

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According to the New York Post, the blockade happened “at the intersection of 11th Street and Locust Street after the Philly Pride March and Festival kicked off around 10:30 a.m. at Washington Square and headed to the city’s Gayborhood section.”

“Others wore Palestinian-style Kufiya scarves around their heads, and one protester could be seen holding a white sheet stuffed to look like a deceased child wrapped in a shroud,” the outlet added.

The protest highlights a growing tension between segments of the Democrat Party base who believe that anti-Israel protests should take precedent over other causes like LGBTQ activism.

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Sick: Masked Protestors Hold ‘Kill Hostages Now’ and ‘They’re Not Coming Home’ Messages at Solemn NYC Israel Day Parade As Families of Captives March

By Margaret Flavin
Jun. 2, 2024 8:20 pm


Image: @parmisljavan/X

Today’s Israel Day Parade in New York City was marred by hate-filled and hate-fueled pro-Hamas protestors, including one man who carried a sign reading “Kill Hostages Now.”



The protestor covered his face in a black mask and wore a Palestinian flag as a cape.



The man taunted marchers, which included family members of hostages kidnapped by Hamas terrorists.



Another protestor, also conveniently covering her face so as not to be recognized for her vile behavior, held up her phone with the message, “They’re not coming home,” spelled out.



“They” include the Bibas family and their two young sons. In February, the Israeli military shared a video of Hamas monsters kidnapping Yarden Bibas and his wife Shiri along with their two red-haired babies, Ariel and Kfir.



Kfir turned one in captivity in January.





The Bibas family, including their two babies, were kidnapped by Hamas terrorists.


Pure evil.

While it is unclear exactly how many hostages remain in the hands of the barbaric monsters, Israeli officials believe 128 hostages taken in the October 7 attacks remain in Gaza and that at least 34 of them are dead.

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Pro-Palestinian Protesters Occupy Stanford President’s Office: ‘F*** Amerikkka’
ELIZABETH WEIBEL
5 Jun 2024



Pro-Palestinian protesters were arrested and suspended after taking over and occupying the office of Stanford University’s president.



Students at the university in California took over and occupied the office of Stanford University President Richard Saller around 5:30 a.m. on Wednesday, according to the Stanford Daily. University officials reported that “extensive graffiti vandalism” had been left on the “sandstone buildings and columns of the Main Quad,” according to NBC News.



Officials confirmed to the outlet that thirteen people who had been inside the building had been arrested, while those who were students were “immediately suspended.”



Seniors who were involved in the protest would “not be allowed to graduate,” officials added.



“We are appalled and deeply saddened by the actions that occurred on our campus earlier today,” Saller and Stanford University Provost Jenny Martinez said in a joint statement, according to the outlet.



Photos posted to social media showed graffiti written on the buildings of Standford University saying, “De@th 2 Isr@hell,” “F**k Amerikkka,” and “Free Palestine.”

A masked protester can be seen sitting in Saller’s office in a video posted to X. The masked protester states that students are “occupying President Richard Saller’s office in light of the ongoing genocide in Gaza carried out by the Israeli government.”

“We have three demands,” the protester continues. “First, we demand a divestment is put on the agenda of the Board of Trustees meeting on June 12 and 13. Second, we demand that Stanford disclose their 2022 financial year investments. Finally, we demand amnesty for all student protesters on Standford’s campus.”



During the month of April and into early May, anti-Israel protesters at various college and university campuses across the nation started encampments and staged protests over the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.



The protests and encampments that flooded university campuses such as George Washington University, the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), the University of Vermont, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, among many others, were inspired by an initial encampment established at Columbia University on April 17.



The day after the encampment at Columbia University was suspended, several students were suspended and hundreds of protesters were arrested. Another encampment popped up in its place and remained until the New York Police Department (NYPD) conducted a raid of the campus after protesters seized control of an academic building.


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Pro-Hamas Thugs Protest in Front of White House, One Dressed Up as Spiderman While Releasing Smoke (VIDEO)

By David Greyson
Jun. 8, 2024 6:40 pm


Pro-Hamas thugs were protesting near the White House on Saturday at Lafayette Square Park while chanting against Joe Biden.



Fox 5 Washington DC reported:



Protesters surround the White House and call for a ceasefire in Palestine. The crowd continues to grow as protestors can be heard chanting “Hey Joe Biden, you’re a sellout!” The Red Line protest aims to send a message to President Joe Biden to “Stop the Genocide” as supporters surround the White House.



This comes as a response to the Biden administration’s handling of the Israel-Hamas war.



A pro-Hamas supporter was releasing smoke dressed as Spiderman chanting pro-Hamas sayings with other supporters nearby also chanting.



Most of these protestors have no clue what they are saying since it is just a “repeat after me” sort of chant.



“Biden, Biden you can’t hide, we charge you with genocide,” Pro-Hamas supporters chanted.



They continued, “In our millions and our billions, we are all Palestinians,” Pro-Hamas supporters continued.



“From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” Pro-Hamas supporters continued.



Most of these supporters probably don’t know what river or sea they are chanting about.



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Fox News reporter Lucas Tomlinson noted the protestors violated DC’s laws on wearing hoods or masks to conceal the identity of the wearer.







To add to the already weird protest, other pro-Hamas supporters were holding up signs that said “Fags for Hamas.” It would appear that this group has no understanding of what would happen to them if they were in Gaza or any Islamic country for that matter.



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Other pro-Hamas supporters defaced a statue of Rochambeau and another of General Marquis de Lafayette. Very little seems to be done to prosecute these people who continually break the law. These days, you have to be a Trump supporter to go to jail.



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University of Minnesota Pauses Hiring of Professor Tapped to Lead Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies Who Called Israel’s War Against Hamas Terrorists a ‘Textbook Case of Genocide’
By Margaret Flavin
Jun. 11, 2024 1:00 pm

The University of Minnesota has reportedly walked back plans to hire academic Raz Segal as the new head of the university’s Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies (CHGS).



Although they have not publically announced the decision, the university received public blowback after two members of the center’s advisory board resigned, citing, in part, Segals’s stance after the October 7 Hamas terrorist attacks.



In an article in Jewish Currents on Oct. 13, just days after October 7, Segal called Israel’s military operation against Hamas “a textbook case of genocide.”



Segal wrote, “The assault on Gaza can also be understood in other terms: as a textbook case of genocide unfolding in front of our eyes. I say this as a scholar of genocide, who has spent many years writing about Israeli mass violence against Palestinians.”



In a piece in NJ Spotlight News Segal suggested that complaints from Jewish students regarding campus safety amid unauthorized anti-Israel protests were “baseless” and that anti-Jewish student protesters “aren’t escalating anything” but are subject to “a vicious police attack against them.”



In the Los Angeles Times, Segal argued that the creation of the Jewish state “reproduced the racism and white supremacy that had targeted Jews for exclusion.”



According to The Jewish Insider, a spokesperson for the University of Minnesota told the outlet that the director selection process was put on hold “to allow an opportunity to determine next steps.”



“Members of the university community have come forward to express their interest in providing perspective on the hiring of the position of Director of the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies,” the spokesperson said. “Because of the community-facing and leadership role the director holds, it is important that these voices are heard.”



According to an internal email obtained by the Washington Free Beacon (WFB), on Friday, Minnesota’s interim College of Liberal Arts dean, Ann Waltner, extended an offer to Segal to serve as the center’s chair.



Almost immediately, French professor Bruno Chaouat and music professor Karen Painter announced their resignation from the center’s advisory board.



WFB shared both Chaouat and Painter’s resignation letters.



Chaouat wrote in part, “Professor Segal, by justifying Hamas’s atrocities five days after they occurred (via a perverse allegation that Israel was committing a genocide), cannot fulfill the mission of the Center.”



“He has failed to recognize the genocidal intent of Hamas. He does not understand that a movement like Hamas is inherently fascist and represents precisely what CHGS stands against.”



Painter wrote that Segal “has positioned himself on an extreme end of the political ideological spectrum with his publications on Israel and Gaza.”



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The University of Minnesota has reportedly walked back plans to hire academic Raz Segal as the new head of the university’s Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies (CHGS).



Although they have not publically announced the decision, the university received public blowback after two members of the center’s advisory board resigned, citing, in part, Segals’s stance after the October 7 Hamas terrorist attacks.



In an article in Jewish Currents on Oct. 13, just days after October 7, Segal called Israel’s military operation against Hamas “a textbook case of genocide.”



Segal wrote, “The assault on Gaza can also be understood in other terms: as a textbook case of genocide unfolding in front of our eyes. I say this as a scholar of genocide, who has spent many years writing about Israeli mass violence against Palestinians.”



In a piece in NJ Spotlight News Segal suggested that complaints from Jewish students regarding campus safety amid unauthorized anti-Israel protests were “baseless” and that anti-Jewish student protesters “aren’t escalating anything” but are subject to “a vicious police attack against them.”



In the Los Angeles Times, Segal argued that the creation of the Jewish state “reproduced the racism and white supremacy that had targeted Jews for exclusion.”



According to The Jewish Insider, a spokesperson for the University of Minnesota told the outlet that the director selection process was put on hold “to allow an opportunity to determine next steps.”



“Members of the university community have come forward to express their interest in providing perspective on the hiring of the position of Director of the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies,” the spokesperson said. “Because of the community-facing and leadership role the director holds, it is important that these voices are heard.”



According to an internal email obtained by the Washington Free Beacon (WFB), on Friday, Minnesota’s interim College of Liberal Arts dean, Ann Waltner, extended an offer to Segal to serve as the center’s chair.



Almost immediately, French professor Bruno Chaouat and music professor Karen Painter announced their resignation from the center’s advisory board.



WFB shared both Chaouat and Painter’s resignation letters.



Chaouat wrote in part, “Professor Segal, by justifying Hamas’s atrocities five days after they occurred (via a perverse allegation that Israel was committing a genocide), cannot fulfill the mission of the Center.”



“He has failed to recognize the genocidal intent of Hamas. He does not understand that a movement like Hamas is inherently fascist and represents precisely what CHGS stands against.”



Painter wrote that Segal “has positioned himself on an extreme end of the political ideological spectrum with his publications on Israel and Gaza.”



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At least 25 anti-Israel protesters arrested at UCLA
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The student protesters had set up an “unlawful encampment” on campus, complete with “wooden shields and water-filled barriers,” according to police.



Some 25 anti-Israel protesters were arrested on Monday at the University of California, Los Angeles, after setting up an “unauthorized and unlawful encampment” on campus.



About 100 UCLA students marched on campus around 3:15 p.m. and set up “and set up…tents, canopies, wooden shields, and water-filled barriers,” the public university’s police department stated.



The students violated university policy by blocking access to parts of campus, and used “amplified sound” to disrupt final exams, according to police.



After officers warned the group, the students relocated to another site on campus, where they were asked again to disperse. The same thing occurred at a third location, where police officers made arrests around 8 p.m.

Those students arrested were barred from campus for two weeks.



“Approximately 150 protesters remain in the area as of the latest update,” according to police.



Protesters damaged a fountain, “spray-painted brick walkways, tampered with fire safety equipment, damaged patio furniture, stripped wire from electrical fixtures and vandalized vehicles,” police said.


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Pro-Palestinian Protesters Reportedly Firebombed a Building at University of California
ELIZABETH WEIBEL
15 Jun 2024
3:55

Pro-Palestinian protesters reportedly firebombed “the side of a building” on the University of California Berkeley (UCB) campus and claimed that students had been “attacked” on another campus.



In a post on Instagram on Thursday, Palestine Action in the United States shared a post from an anonymous user who claimed responsibility for firebombing the side of Koshland Hall, a building at UCB that houses “labs from the Department of Molecular & Cell Biology.”



The post included a screenshot of a notice that had been written by an author, “student intifada,” on the San Francisco Bay Area Independent Media Center website. In the post the author wrote that students at the University of California Los Angeles “were attacked” and in response, anti-Israel protesters “retaliated” by setting off a firebomb on the side of Koshland Hall.



“Not sure what building it even was,” the group added. “Honestly don’t really care. Every single building on the UC Berkeley campus deserves to be incinerated following the UC system’s treatment of student protestors. Last night they attacked a young woman student who was speaking her mind on a megaphone. So we unloaded a firebomb on the side of a campus building. The flame was big and spread across the trees and bushes on the side of a building.”



Officers from the University of California Police Department (UCPD) began an investigation regarding the alleged use of arson at UCB’s campus, according to Kron4 News.



“Long live the student intifada for Palestine liberation,” the post continued. “Stop the genocide now. UC System must divest from Israel or face our wrath of revenge. Blessed is the flame.”



The Jerusalem Post noted that the post from the “student intifada” author mentioned that a “student with a megaphone” was attacked. However, Students for Justice in Palestine at UCLA (SJP UCLA) reportedly confirmed that she had been “later released.”



The manifesto referred to a Students for Justice in Palestine UCLA student with a megaphonne who had been seized by police, but later released, according to SJP UCLA.



Both SJP UCLA and the UCPD reportedly stated that “anti-Israel activists had attempted” to re-establish an anti-Israel encampment at UCLA.



“They attempted twice, each time being dispersed by police for restricting public movement and disturbing nearby exams, before police and protesters finally clashed,” the outlet reported. “UCLA Associate Vice Chancellor for Campus Safety Rick Braziel said in a statement Tuesday that some students had missed finals because of the encampments, and others had to be moved mid-examination.”



The outlet added that Rick Braziel, the Associate Vice Chancellor for Campus Safety at UCLA, stated that there had been “at least six injuries to UCPD personnel and other safety officers,” as a result of attacks from protesters.



“One security guard was left with his head bleeding after he was struck with an object,” Braziel said in a statement. “Simply put, these acts of non-peaceful protest are abhorrent and cannot continue.”



Braziel added in his statement that 27 people had been arrested.



This comes after anti-Israel protesters at UCB took over a building on May 15, hours after university administrators and protesters came to an agreement to end a weeks-long encampment. Protesters involved in the takeover of the building were reportedly not part of the group that struck an agreement with administrators.



On May 16, 12 anti-Israel protesters were arrested after a new encampment had been established.



Breitbart News reached out to the University of California Berkeley for a statement but did not receive a response by the time of publication.

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