An anti-Israel protest was organized at the University of Texas-Austin on Wednesday. The goal was for the demonstrators to occupy the South Lawn. Texas Department of Safety (DPS) came in with a very heavy show of presence once the students began to assemble. Some troopers are on horseback, much to the surprise of some news […]
NEW YORK — House Speaker Mike Johnson called on Columbia President Minouche Shafik to resign Wednesday over her handling of anti-Israel protest turmoil, declaring in an extraordinary visit to the Ivy League university that school officials have allowed “lawless agitators” to take over the campus. “I’m here today joining my colleagues and calling on President […]
Columbia University has given students another 48 hours to clear out the vast encampment covering the lawn in front of the Butler Library, warning that the school will consider “alternative options” if the protesters refuse to leave. University President Minouche Shafik said Tuesday that students had until midnight to agree to dismantle the “Gaza Solidarity […]
NEW YORK — Columbia University said early Wednesday that it was making “important progress” with pro-Palestinian student protesters who set up a tent encampment and that it was extending a deadline to clear out, yet standoffs remained tense on the Ivy League campus in upper Manhattan. Student protesters “have committed to dismantling and removing a […]
The Morning Briefing: Let the Protesters Stay Until Academia Burns to the Ground Source link
What part of “Never again” do they not understand? For decades, the two words have been used as a declaration that nothing like the Holocaust of the 1930s and ’40s would ever again be visited upon the world’s Jews. Never. Again. That’s why Israel was reconvened. “Never again” was once a common phrase on the […]
As far as the student protesters at Columbia University and other universities are concerned, they’re making a strong and principled stand for justice. Yet events at Columbia and elsewhere have taken an ugly turn, with the protesters sounding more like the National Socialists (remember, that’s what “Nazi” means) of 1930s Germany than any actual […]
Yesterday we saw something similar to what happened at Columbia University a few days ago, only at NYU things got more violent. The NYPD posted the letter it had received from NYU asking them to enter the campus and clear Gould Plaza. Earlier today, the NYPD received the attached letter from NYU — detailing a […]
I strongly disagree with most of the criticisms of Israel’s conduct in the war against Hamas, but I can understand why people disagree with me too. Many people are reflexively anti-war in all circumstances; many believe that Israel hasn’t been discriminating enough in its fighting; many don’t think the US has any business getting involved, […]
Nearly 50 anti-Israel protesters were arrested Monday morning at Hewitt University Quadrangle at the center of Yale University’s New Haven, Connecticut, campus. According to a live blog from The Yale Daily News, police began gathering around the area — often referred to as Beinecke Plaza — before 7:00 that morning, blocking entrances to the area. […]
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