President Joe Biden in a brief address on Thursday condemned the “lawless” protests that have recently sprung up across U.S. college campuses, stressing that “order must prevail” but stopping short of endorsing the deployment of the National Guard. “Violent protest is not protected—peaceful protest is,” Biden said. “It’s against the law when violence occurs. Destroying
Florida’s progressive Democratic caucus this week called on the Florida Democratic Party to cancel Sen. John Fetterman’s (D., Pa.) keynote speech at its 2024 Leadership Blue gala over his support for Israel since Hamas’s Oct. 7 terrorist attack. “The [Florida Democratic Party] must heed the calls of its constituents and cancel Fetterman’s keynote speech, demonstrating
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
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,”
Hamza El Boudali names and shames students in social media rant, claims he was offered to TA again despite backlash Pro-Palestine protest at Stanford University April 25, 2024 (Twitter/@discobones) The Stanford University teaching assistant who was caught on tape calling for President Joe Biden’s assassination and praising Hamas is now naming and shaming the students
For more than a week now, the anti-Israel and anti-Semitic protests convulsing university campuses have been the biggest news story in the country. The protests, in many cases abetted by university faculty, have put a national spotlight on the illiberalism and intellectual rot at the heart of American “higher” education and the DEI regime that