An anti-Israel student group behind a fiery protest on the campus of Columbia University in New York City says it walked away from talks with school leaders until administrators pledge not to have them arrested or forcefully removed from their encampment on the Ivy League institution’s West Lawn. “Since good faith negotiations are impossible if one side threatens to use …
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Anti-Israel campus protests are spreading: California, Texas brace after activists overrun Columbia, Yale
After anti-Israel protests formed at Columbia University, UC Berkeley and Yale, additional activist groups have become inspired to lead their own resistance movements, forcing schools in California, Texas and Maryland to brace for potential mayhem, Fox News has learned. Activist groups at the University of California – Los Angeles (UCLA), the University of Texas at Austin, and Johns Hopkins University …
Read More »Jewish-American alum says Columbia president should have taken these steps 'the second' protests started
An alumna of Barnard College, one of Columbia’s four undergraduate colleges, is watching the anti-Israel protests and general unrest at Columbia University with a heavy heart. Dozens of students were arrested and suspended at Yale and Columbia universities after anti-Israel protesters set up encampments on campus in the past week. The anti-Israel protests at Columbia even prompted school officials to …
Read More »Columbia professor condemns AOC for calling anti-Israel protests 'nonviolent': She's an 'agent of chaos'
A Columbia professor barred from campus after hosting a pro-Jewish rally slammed Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., on Wednesday, following her comments on the “nonviolent” anti-Israel protesters. “AOC is agent of chaos, and I am just looking forward to my kids and grandkids reading about this chapter in history, and the list of all the rabid antisemites, and to see her …
Read More »USDA raises school nutrition standards in attempt to fight diet-related disease
The Biden administration on Wednesday announced new rules limiting the sugar and sodium content of meals served to millions of children at U.S. public schools. The standards unveiled by the U.S. Department of Agriculture are part of President Joe Biden’s broader effort to combat diet-related disease such as childhood obesity. “We all share the goal of helping children reach their …
Read More »UT Austin protests descend into chaos, anti-Israel students yell at police: 'Pigs go home!'
One hundred or more protesters gathered on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin on Wednesday to participate in an unruly anti-Israel demonstration. The rowdy protests invited hundreds of onlookers, some of whom joined in on the anti-Israel chants on the school’s South Lawn. UT Austin is one of many American universities where anti-Israel protests have intensified over …
Read More »Columbia sets deadline for agreement with protesters, threatens 'alternative options' for clearing protesters
Columbia University in New York set a deadline for administrators and anti-Israel protesters to reach an agreement to end the encampment on campus, as a police presence is standing by at the university. University President Minouche Shafik initially set a deadline of midnight for an agreement with student organizers that must include dismantling the encampment, dispersing and following university policies …
Read More »JESSE WATTERS: The United States doesn't negotiate with terrorists
Fox News host Jesse Watters takes aim at the Biden administration and FBI Director Christopher Wray for their handling of anti-Israel protests on college campuses across the United States on “Jesse Watters Primetime.” SPEAKER JOHNSON CALLS OUT CAMPUS ANTISEMITISM AS COLUMBIA’S ANTI-ISRAEL PROTESTERS SHOUT AT, HECKLE HIM JESSE WATTERS: Hundreds of radicals chant, “Death to America,” and Chris Wray says …
Read More »Jewish NYU professor sounds off on double standard for anti-Israel protesters
Jewish New York University professor Scott Galloway criticized anti-Israel protesters and antisemitism on college campuses, arguing there was a double standard when it came to hate speech directed at Jewish people. “If I went into the NYU square with a white hood on and said, ‘lynch the Blacks’ or ‘burn the gays,’ my ID would be shut off by that …
Read More »Mike Rowe rips Ivy League for having 'lost its mind' amid anti-Israel protests: 'Thugs and bullies'
“How America Works” host Mike Rowe called out the Ivy League for allowing “madness” and antisemitism on campuses in a post Monday. Rowe said that his foundation, mikeroweWORKS, is helping place young people at trade schools, which unlike the Ivy League, he argued, does not have students that are calling for the extermination of Jews. “[T]he Ivy League has truly …
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