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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 …

Two Democratic lawmakers called on President Biden to condemn the left-wing of his party while addressing the rise of antisemitism in the U.S. after weeks of anti-Israel protests on college campuses. “He needs to remind Americans that Auschwitz is not long ago and not far away. That pluralism and tolerance are part of America’s DNA and I hope in so …

Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., called on anti-Israel demonstrators to protest against Hamas and demand that the terror group agree to a cease-fire deal as the war enters its seventh month. Fetterman sat down Tuesday for an interview with Fox News anchor Bret Baier on “Special Report,” where he addressed the anti-Israel protests continuing to rock college campuses nationwide. “I’m not …

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 …

A crowd of anti-Israel protesters waving Palestinian flags on the Upper East Side were filmed shouting down a lone dissenter proudly waving an Israeli flag. A man who was one of the few visibly Jewish people in the crowd pointed and shouted at the protester, prompting the others to start in with chants of: “Shame!” A man waves an Israeli …