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The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill confirmed approximately 30 anti-Israel demonstrators were detained Tuesday morning for refusing to leave an encampment protest set up on campus. At 5:30 a.m., UNC Chapel Hill administrators shared a statement from Interim Chancellor Lee Roberts and Provost Chris Clemens advising protesters to leave the area and remove tents, tables or other items …

Columbia University leadership was urged by 21 House Democrats on Monday that the “time for negotiation is over,” as an anti-Israel encampment broiling with antisemitism has persisted on campus for weeks. Led by Reps. Josh Gottheimer, of New Jersey, and Dan Goldman, of New York, 21 House Democrats signed a letter urging Columbia University’s Board of Trustees to disband “the …

Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., in a new interview, blasted the “germ of antisemitism” seen in anti-Israel protests unfolding on American college campuses.”It’s a great American value to protest, but I don’t believe living in a pup tent for Hamas is really helpful,” Fetterman said on NewsNation’s “The Hill Sunday.” “I want to be clear, there is a germ of antisemitism …

White House national security communications adviser John Kirby said Sunday that the United States remains hopeful for “six weeks of peace” with a hostage deal that “Hamas has not fully rejected.” Speaking with host George Stephanopoulos on ABC’s “This Week,” Kirby said Israel assured the Biden administration that the Jewish state will not launch a campaign in the final Hamas …

Calls are mounting to temporarily shutter schools plagued by anti-Israel unrest as most colleges continue to pursue a hands-off approach to the encampments — even as the vitriol increasingly includes explicit threats of violence against Jews and others who don’t support the metastasizing movement. “Columbia should shut down campus entirely, take all learning remote, but also padlock the campus and …

Anti-Israel agitators at Columbia University filed a civil rights complaint with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) on Thursday demanding an investigation of “discriminatory treatment of Palestinian students and their allies” after NYPD officers arrested over a hundred demonstrators this week. The group said the students had been “peacefully protesting Israel’s genocide.” “Columbia’s vicious crackdown on …

Mayor Eric Adams and New York City Police Department top brass condemned “outside agitators” for fanning the flames of anti-Israel protests at Columbia and New York University as police made more arrests. At his usual Tuesday press conference from City Hall, Adams, a Democrat and former police officer, praised the NYPD’s response. “We can’t have outside agitators come in and …

President Biden cast the events in Charlottesville, Virginia, and his framing of former President Trump’s response, as the impetus for his 2020 White House run – but Biden now faces his own “Charlottesville moment.” Biden has repeatedly and emphatically condemned the riots in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017 for spewing “antisemitic bile,” even saying the protests motivated his run for the …

Anti-Israel agitators on Columbia University’s campus have “crossed the line” and become a terrorist organization amid ongoing protests at the Ivy League school, a professor told Fox News Digital. “Yesterday, what we saw is that the pro-terrorist student organizations have crossed the line to being an actual terror organization,” business professor Shai Davidai told Fox Digital. Davidai cited video footage …

A Harvard Medical School professor plagiarized extensive segments of a report on potentially carcinogenic chemicals, according to a federal judge. The Harvard Crimson reported that assistant professor Dipak Panigrahy previously submitted an expert report exceeding 500 pages on behalf of plaintiffs in a class action lawsuit against Lockheed Martin. The report claimed that a Lockheed Martin facility in Orlando, Florida, …