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Editor’s note: The following commentary first appeared on christopherrufo.com. The pro-Palestinian encampment drama could prove a disaster for the Left. Let me explain why, and how the Right can exploit it. Most Americans do not understand the Israel-Hamas conflict or how it relates to the United States, but for good reason, most support Israel over Hamas. In this context, left-wing …

After nearly two weeks of unrest at Columbia University, administrators changed their approach and arrested hundreds of anti-Israel agitators on the campus. These agitators took over an academic building, discarded the U.S. flag there and raised the Palestinian flag in its place, among other demonstrations. The mass arrests come after the New York school borrowed from President Biden’s playbook in …

A handful of colleges and universities have shuttered in recent weeks and days amid the spread of anti-Israel unrest on campuses around the country, leaving those who paid thousands of dollars in tuition feeling frustrated that they were barred from accessing some school buildings and resources. The college closures are a “necessary evil,” according to Amy Gallatin, whose daughter attends …

Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., called on President Biden to visit Columbia University as students there and at colleges across the country hold demonstrations in protest of Israel’s war in Gaza. Johnson led House GOP leaders and the chairs of six top committees in a press conference announcing a wide-ranging congressional probe into instances of antisemitism at those demonstrations. “Yes, I …

Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti and Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman announced on Tuesday that they are leading six states in suing the Department of Education (ED) due to the overhaul of Title IX of the Educational Amendments Act. Court documents show that the lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky. The Biden …

Fox News host Jesse Watters shreds the anti-Israel protests on college campuses across the country on “Jesse Watters Primetime.” JESSE WATTERS: Columbia has Bud-lighted their brand. I didn’t think you could make Brown look normal, but you did. Who would have thought scrapping the SATs, injecting DEI, CRT, affirmative action and thousands of foreign exchange students would have created America’s …

Liberal activist and filmmaker Michael Moore sent an urgent message warning President Biden his support for Israel’s war in Gaza was an affront to their shared Catholic faith and would cost him the November election. “I‘d like to speak to one particular individual, that is President Biden,” Moore said Monday night on CNN. “[H]is chance of not being re-elected, I …

A facilities worker at Columbia University claims to have been temporarily held hostage by anti-Israel protesters after a mob of anarchists stormed an academic building on the campus and barricaded its doors. The insurrection began at approximately 12:30 a.m., when anti-Israel protesters who had been staying on the academic lawn of Columbia’s Manhattan campus, where about 120 tents remain, stormed …

Fox News host Laura Ingraham calls out university presidents for allowing “spoiled brats” to take over campuses in her opening monologue Tuesday on “The Ingraham Angle.” LAURA INGRAHAM: Biden’s spoiled brats. That’s the focus of tonight’s “Angle.” Now, stories of horrible, bratty children indulged by their parents are nothing new. Until children are punished, until they’re made to stop, they’re …

The president of Portland State University in Oregon says she is calling on the city’s police to remove anti-Israel “trespassers” who have caused “property damage” to the campus’ main library. PSU President Ann Cudd said the anti-Israel demonstrations on campus escalated Monday when a “group of individuals broke into Millar Library, the main PSU library, and entered the building” while …