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House Speaker Mike Johnson is calling Wednesday for Columbia University President Minouche Shafik to resign over her handling of anti-Israel demonstrations on campus, calling her “very weak” and “inept.” Johnson said during a radio interview with Hugh Hewitt that he is holding a press conference at Columbia University later today “with some of my colleagues from the HouseRepublicans from NewYork …

As anti-Israel agitators successfully held a days-long “encampment” at Columbia University in New York City, students at other elite schools across the United States began carrying out their own marches and sit-ins. While some Democrats have attempted to describe these protests as “mostly peaceful,” participants often repeat hateful and antisemitic chants that call for the death of Israeli Prime Minister …

Students at a growing number of U.S. colleges and universities are forming anti-Israel protest encampments with a unified demand that their schools stop doing business with Israel. Inspired by ongoing protests and the arrests last week of more than 100 students at Columbia University in New York City, seen at the epicenter of the ongoing demonstrations, students from Massachusetts to …

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 …

Pamphlets declaring “Death to America” were shared at a growing anti-Israel encampment at the University of Michigan this week, according to an eyewitness. One of the pamphlets, titled “10 anarchist theses on Palestine solidarity in the United States,” was made available for students to take and read. The pamphlet discusses a wide-ranging set of opinions related to the confrontation between …

White House officials addressed the anti-Israel protests taking place at universities across the country on Wednesday, saying President Biden believes in free speech, but when violent rhetoric and physical intimidation takes place, it must be called out. White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was asked by a reporter during a briefing on Wednesday what the president thinks of how the …

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 …

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu released a video message Wednesday saying “what’s happening in America’s college campuses is horrific.” “Antisemitic mobs have taken over leading universities. They call for the annihilation of Israel. They attack Jewish students. They attack Jewish faculty,” he said. “This is reminiscent of what happened in German universities in the 1930s. It’s unconscionable. It has to …

Anti-Israel protests at New York University’s (NYU) campusturned violent Monday nightwhen demonstrators hurled bottles at police officers who were sent to the scene to disperse a large unruly crowd, officials said. NYPD Deputy Commissioner of Operations Kaz Daughtry posted a video to X taken from a live news feed showing several airborne bottles being flung at police. The NYPD inserted …

A group of ecoactivists were arrested after disrupting traffic at an airfield in Massachusetts on Saturday, the latest in the ongoing trend of public demonstrations against climate change. Approximately two dozen protesters with the ecoactivist group Extinction Rebellion were arrested by police and taken into custody at Laurence G. Hanscom Airfield in Bedford. The activists stood in the path of …