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A 45-year-old Columbia University facilities worker who went viral for shoving an anti-Israel protester against a wall during last week’s campus chaos told The Free Press that the school “failed.” Anti-Israel protesters invaded Hamilton Hall last week and facilities worker Mario Torres, who was on duty at the time, was photographed trying to “protect the building” but hasn’t returned to …

A senior at Columbia University who missed out on her high school graduation due to COVID will also not get to walk at her college graduation due to anti-Israel protests. “It’s so disappointing,” Katie, a senior at Columbia University, said Monday in an interview with Fox News host Jesse Watters. “To be honest with you, even weeks ago when I …

The rapper Macklemore released an anti-Israel song on Monday, in which he praised the student-led protests on college campuses across the country and called out President Biden, the police and the music industry. The new track is titled “Hind’s Hall,” referring tothe Columbia University buildingthat students occupied and renamed in honor of a six-year-old Palestinian girl killed in the Israel-Gaza …

A group of 13 U.S. federal judges appointed by former President Trump has vowed not to hire law school students and undergraduates from New York City-based Columbia University due to the school’s handling of the anti-Israel protests that ultimately led to an academic hall being occupied. In a letter obtained by Reuters which was addressed to Columbia University President Minouche …

Several Columbia University students spoke out to Fox News Digital on Monday after administrators announced they would be canceling the school’s main commencement ceremony. Security concerns in the wake of raucous anti-Israel protests were top of mind in making the decision, a university official told Fox News. One graduating senior, who also testified before the House Education & Workforce Committee …

One Columbia student is taking matters into her own hands, petitioning the university to hold commencement on campus after it canceled its main ceremony over security concerns. Columbia University senior Dana Krantz, who started the petition, joined “Fox & Friends First” alongside fellow senior Ally Woodward to discuss the importance of holding a university-wide commencement ceremony on campus despite weeks …

Second gentleman Douglas Emhoff is the only one of the four principals in the White House who’s known to have personally called Jewish students who’ve felt intimidated or affected by anti-Israel protests, according to a report. Emhoff, Vice President Kamala Harris’ husband, marked Holocaust Remembrance Day on Monday by hosting students at the White House whose grandparents survived Nazi Germany’s …

President Biden’s Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona was grilled on Capitol Hill Tuesday on whether U.S. taxpayers would foot the student loan bills for anti-Israel agitators “breaking the law” at college campuses. House Education and the Workforce Committee Chair Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-N.C., asked Cardona that because he has “been proudly volunteering the taxpayers to take on the student loan …

FIRST ON FOX — A prominent Washington D.C. area rabbi has filed an assault lawsuit against anti-Israel protesters, who allegedly damaged his ears while blasting “bullhorns, sirens and loudspeakers” in an attempt to drown out his prayers. Rabbi Shmuel Herzfeld alleges that he “suffered acute acoustic trauma and other harm” when confronted by anti-Israel protesters while he was praying in …

As the world commemorates Holocaust Remembrance Day, a new report highlights the lingering disease of antisemitism around the world. The Annual Antisemitism Worldwide Report, published by Tel Aviv University (TAU) and the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), indicates an increase of dozens of percentage points in the number of antisemitic incidents in Western countries between 2022 and 2023. Antisemitic incidents spiked dramatically …