UCLA protesters shout ‘shame on you!’ and compare officers to Ku Klux Klan California Highway Patrol officers clear a pro-Palestinian encampment at UCLA (Mario Tama/Getty Images) Los Angeles police early Thursday morning cleared the anti-Israel encampment at UCLA and arrested dozens of activists, who for the past week have barricaded a central swathe of campus
The president said pro-Palestinian protesters ‘do not have the right to cause chaos.’ President Joe Biden on May 2 decried the violence stemming from pro-Palestinian protesters across American college campuses. “Violent protest is not protected,” he said in an unscheduled speech from the White House, affirming his dedication to both the right to free speech
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
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,”
‘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
The funding consists of multiple grants that will go to nine states, 27 local governments, and one tribe. Energy projects across the nation are about to receive a $26.9 million boost from the Biden administration as part of the latest round of grants from a renewable energy program. According to a May 1 press release