Biden condemns violent anti-Israel protests, won’t call up National Guard
Biden has broken his silence Thursday regarding the anti-Israel demonstrations that are roiling colleges and universities around the nation.
Biden has broken his silence Thursday regarding the anti-Israel demonstrations that are roiling colleges and universities around the nation.
University encampments ‘have been a hotbed of blatantly anti-Semitic rhetoric and action,’ Sen. Tim Scott says Anti-Israel protesters at Northwestern (Scott Olson/Getty Images) A coalition of nearly 20 Republican senators on Thursday introduced a measure blaming university leadership across the country for an explosion of anti-Semitic violence on campus that has endangered Jewish students and
President Biden on Thursday said “order must prevail” on college campuses, as some of the pro-Palestinian protests have turned violent, insisting it’s his responsibility to protect the “rule of law” as much as freedom of expression. But Mr. Biden told reporters Thursday that “no,” the National Guard should not intervene on college campuses. He also
Jewish students at Northwestern University met with members of Congress on Wednesday to recount how anti-Israel protests have turned into “shocking and scary” anti-Semitic hate-fests, with demonstrators defacing the Star of David and chanting that Jews should “go back to Germany.” “At the encampment, I was told to go back to Germany and get gassed,”
Prosecutors in former President Donald Trump’s criminal trial in New York urged the judge on Thursday to penalize the defendant for more alleged violations of a gag order limiting what he can say about those involved in the case. At a contentious hearing with Trump looking on, lawyers from Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office
‘We want to make sure that our state treasurers are defended against attacks like that,’ Noah Wall, executive director of SFOF Action, said. The national fight over the politicization of public pension funds heated up this week. Republican states across the country have passed laws to boycott Wall Street banks and asset managers who they
The judge indicated on May 2 that he will not rule on other alleged gag order violations. Judge Juan Merchan, overseeing the “hush-money” trial of former President Donald Trump on May 2, said he would not sanction the former president for his comment last week during a visit to a Manhattan construction site. Prosecutors had