House lawmakers called on the IRS to investigate U.S.-based anti-Israel activist groups that have financial links to China, according to a letter obtained by the Washington Free Beacon on Wednesday. Members of the House Ways and Means Committee said they are concerned that “foreign adversaries are taking advantage of loopholes to impact American political activity
Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) this week demanded Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu resign for his “terrible” response to Hamas’s Oct. 7 terrorist attack on Israel, calling the Israeli leader an “obstacle” to peace. “We recognize Israel’s right to protect itself. We reject the policy and the practice of Netanyahu—terrible. What could be worse than
Columbia Law School students told their Jewish classmates they should not advocate for the school to bring police to campus to ensure their safety because the presence of law enforcement “makes students of color feel unsafe,” screenshots obtained by the Washington Free Beacon show. In one message, second-year law student Aya Hashem admonished her Jewish
Student protesters ask participants, ‘Will you be ready to rally for your comrades?’ (Getty Images) Columbia University president Minouche Shafik set a midnight deadline for student protesters to clear the unauthorized tent encampment that has plagued campus—only to push that deadline back twice, first to 8 a.m. and then 48 hours. Late Tuesday night, Shafik
Students in their first year of medical school typically learn what a healthy body looks like and how to keep it that way. At the University of California, Los Angeles, they learn that “fatphobia is medicine’s status quo” and that weight loss is a “hopeless endeavor.” Those are two of the more moderate claims made
For more than two weeks, Columbia University graduate student Aidan Parisi has defied the university’s suspension, refusing to vacate his dorm room on the school’s Manhattan campus. The school announced Parisi’s suspension on April 4 following his participation in a pro-Hamas event. And while Columbia leaders have pledged to enforce the suspension, they have yet
The Senate voted late Tuesday by a wide margin to send legislation to President Joe Biden that would require Chinese owner ByteDance to divest TikTok’s U.S. operations within about nine months or face a ban. The measure, passed by the U.S. House of Representatives on Saturday, has been driven by concerns that China could access