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Republican senators on Wednesday accused President Biden of being more critical of U.S. ally Israel than the anti-Israel and antisemitic riots that have evolved out of protests on some college campuses across the country. “Joe Biden is putting more pressure on Israel these days than he is on Hamas itself or on the pro-Hamas chapters on America’s campuses,” Sen. Tom …

New York City Mayor Eric Adams lauded the NYPD on Wednesday after officers swept through anti-American and anti-Israel mobs at two major college campuses overnight, locking up hundreds of agitators. He then ripped into the “despicable” academic environment that allowed the groups to fester. He singled out an incident when NYPD officers tore down a Palestinian flag that protesters had …

Salma Hamamy, the president of an anti-Israel group at University of Michigan, reportedly called for Zionists to face death and a fate worse than death in a social media post. Hamamy has been profiled by media outlets such as The New York Times, which touted her in February as “one of the most prominent faces of the pro-Palestinian movement on …

President Biden is being called out for his conspicuous absence as anti-Israel agitators grow increasingly confrontational on campuses across America. After weeks of protests amid the war in Gaza, universities are cracking down on anti-Israel encampments that have taken over their campuses, in some cases breaking into and taking over buildings. There have been hundreds of arrests at Columbia, Yale …

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 …

College Democrats of America, the official student arm of the Democratic Party, have criticized the Biden administration’s policy towards the war in Gaza while praising the anti-Israel protesters on college campuses who they say have been wrongly labeled as hateful by certain politicians and MAGA Republicans. In a statement released on Tuesday following the overnight capture of Hamilton Hall at …

Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., blasted the United Nations on social media platform X for failing to condemn Hamas for months after Oct. 7 while voicing concerns about how the U.S. has treated anti-Israel agitators. “UN: Unwilling to condemn Hamas who killed, raped, mutilated and tortured more than 1,000 Israeli babies, children, women, and elderly,” Fetterman wrote, adding “Also UN:” followed …

The House voted to expand the legal definition of antisemitism used to enforce anti-discrimination laws at a time when anti-Israel protests are raging at college campuses across the country. The bill overwhelmingly passed the House by a 320-91 vote, netting a majority of Republicans and Democrats. If passed by the Senate and signed by President Biden, the bipartisan Antisemitism Awareness …

Comedian Amy Schumer said in a new interview that Hamas has escaped the intense scrutiny Jewish people have gotten in the wake of Israel’s war in Gaza. The actress and self-proclaimed “proud Jewish woman” told Hollywood outlet Variety that she believes Jewish people get way more heat in the “public discourse” than the terror group in Gaza does. She also …

JERUSALEM – The rising costs of a floating pier off the coast of the embattled Gaza Strip –said to be aimed at enabling shipments of humanitarian aid to reach the civilian population trapped in the central andnorthern parts of the Palestinian enclave –has stoked controversy after it was revealed this week that the project will cost the U.S. upward of …