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Pamphlets promoting resistance against ICE and police were found in Columbia's library, along with instructions on how to protect oneself during protests.
A new lawsuit accuses Columbia University student groups and activists of serving as 'Hamas' propaganda arm in New York City and on the Columbia University campus.' The suit seeks damages from well-known pro-Hamas activists and groups and provides specific examples of coordination between Iran, Hamas, and U.S. protesters.
Columbia University interim president Katrina Armstrong is facing criticism for contradicting herself on masking and the disciplinary process, raising doubts about the school's ability to restore federal funding.
Fox News accuses Israel of killing two Palestinian journalists without disclosing their terror affiliations, as evidence shows they were associated with Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
Aimee Bock and Salim Said have been convicted in the Feeding Our Future fraud scandal, while Israel has given Hamas an ultimatum to release hostages or face a full-scale ground assault.
The University of Pennsylvania has laid off its communications lecturer, Dwayne Booth, who published anti-Semitic cartoons, citing budgetary reasons.
Columbia University agrees to Trump's demands, Cornell protest leader faces deportation, and Chuck Schumer's book receives negative reviews.
The Trump administration has revoked the visa of a Cornell University graduate student who has called for the destruction of the United States and celebrated Hamas's attacks. The student has filed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump's executive order calling for the revocation of visas given to foreign students who support terrorism.
The Trump administration grants Columbia University an extension to implement policy changes. Sanctions on foreign funders of pro-Hamas campus protests are being considered. ABC News retracts claim about leaflets in Gaza. Cori Bush's husband is charged with defrauding the federal government.
Cori Bush's husband has been charged with wire fraud for obtaining COVID relief funds. Bush also used campaign funds to pay her husband for security services.
ABC News retracts claim that IDF dropped 'harrowing' leaflets in Gaza and removes language referring to IDF as 'occupation forces.'
Israel takes out two more Hamas leaders as IDF tanks reenter Gaza.
Columbia University's graduate student union is demanding a 'sanctuary campus' and free legal support for student visa holders, among other demands, as part of its negotiations with the university.
The government-run news network Voice of America (VOA) has long been criticized for its liberal bias and pro-Iran leanings. Former Arizona news anchor Kari Lake, who has been tapped by President Donald Trump to run VOA, has accused the network of being pro-Hamas and refusing to call terrorists by their name.
LaVar Charleston, former chief diversity officer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has been removed from his position for financial mismanagement and has a history of research misconduct and plagiarism allegations. The university is also under investigation for race-based fellowships and scholarships and its handling of anti-Semitism.
A new biography by historian Douglas R. Egerton explores the life of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, a poet, boxer, warrior, Harvard Divinity School graduate, essayist, novelist, feminist, abolitionist, spiritualist, and politician. Higginson commanded the First South Carolina Volunteers, the first authorized Union regiment made up of freed black men in the Civil War. He interacted and often befriended his era's most seminal figures, including Emily Dickinson, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Mark Twain, and Henry David Thoreau.
Democratic party members unite against Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, Hamas makes false statements about releasing an American hostage, and an Indian national self-deports after endorsing Hamas at Columbia University.
A Columbia University doctoral student self-deported to Canada after her student visa was revoked due to her support for the 'anticolonial liberation movement in Palestine'.
Aidan Parisi, a Columbia University encampment leader known for owning an 'emotional support rabbit,' was expelled for storming Hamilton Hall along with other student activists. Parisi expressed that the expulsion was an honor and sacrifice for the Palestinian cause.
President Trump has closed the Office of Net Assessment, a Pentagon office that paid an FBI source to spy on the Trump campaign during the Russiagate probe.
Hamas is willing to release the last living American hostage and bodies of four other dual citizens, but rejects further hostage deals. Israel prepares to resume war in the Gaza Strip. Trump administration directs negotiations with Hamas for the release of the American hostage.
Columbia students hit with multi-year suspensions, expulsions, and temporary degree revocations, a week after Trump admin cancels $400 million in federal funds.
A Columbia activist detained by ICE has retained a lawyer who has represented terrorists, while Ilhan Omar's daughter is fundraising for his legal defense. The White House has threatened military action against Iran, but Tehran has rejected diplomatic overtures. A forthcoming book alleges that Joe Biden and his Democratic allies plotted to cover up evidence of his decline.
During the St. Patrick's Day visit, Irish prime minister Micheál Martin faced a 'diplomatic balancing act' in talks with President Trump. Trump teased economic sanctions on Russia, criticized Schumer and Warren, and shrugged off concerns over the Education Department's plans to lay off employees.
Brown University's Choices Program faces criticism for its critical materials on Israel, Columbia University students protest arrest of Mahmoud Khalil, and MSNBC cohost Eugene Daniels faces criticism for his handling of the White House Correspondents' Association.
Anti-Israel agitators were arrested in New York during a protest against the detainment of Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia University student activist and foreign national, who the Trump administration moved to deport over his pro-Hamas campus organizing.
Columbia professors cancel classes in solidarity with pro-Hamas activist in ICE custody, raising questions about enforcement of class requirements.
Harvard University has implemented a hiring freeze in response to the Trump administration's threat to withhold federal funding due to the school's handling of anti-Semitic protests on campus.
Harvard University fires employee caught tearing down posters of children murdered by Hamas.
The Trump administration deports a Columbia student activist who supports Hamas, while also targeting Northwestern's Institute for Sexual and Gender Minority Health and Wellbeing. The Biden EPA's DEIA implementation team used taxpayer dollars to implement all-gender bathrooms and police pronoun use.
The book 'Forbidden: A 3,000-Year History of Jews and the Pig' by Jordan D. Rosenblum explores the history and reasons behind Jews abstaining from eating pork, as well as the use of the pig as a metaphor for Rome in rabbinic texts.
The Trump administration has slashed $400 million in federal funding to Columbia University over its failure to address anti-Semitism on campus. Columbia has suspended four students following the funding cuts.
The Palestinian Authority has resumed its payments for terrorism, contradicting its previous announcement of ending the practice.
The Democratic Party is facing an identity crisis as it struggles to find a path forward. The split within the party was on full display during President Trump's address to Congress, with some members displaying hysterical and deranged behavior.
Jewish students at Cal Poly Humboldt were told to hide their Jewish identity to avoid anti-Semitic harassment, according to a federal civil rights complaint.
Yale Law School removes references to deputy director who is a member of a U.S.-sanctioned terrorist fundraising entity.
Yale Law School scholar placed on administrative leave as university investigates allegations of connections to a U.S.-sanctioned terrorist fundraising organization.
The State Department designates Iran-backed Houthis as a foreign terrorist organization, citing their threat to American civilians and regional stability.
The Trump administration is reviewing Columbia University's contracts and grants due to the school's failure to protect Jewish students. The review could impact over $51 million in active contracts and comes as anti-Semitic incidents continue to occur on campus.
The Trump administration's task force to combat anti-Semitism will visit Columbia University and nine other schools that have faced anti-Semitic incidents following Hamas's Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist attack, the Department of Justice announced Friday.
Israel plans to resume the Gaza war with overwhelming force, deploying over 50,000 troops to conquer the entire strip in a single coordinated offensive against Hamas. The plan also involves reducing humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip and relocating the civilian population to humanitarian zones.
Barnard College and Columbia University students stormed a building, demanding the reversal of expulsions for anti-Semitic actions. After negotiations and promises of protection from the police, the students were allowed to leave peacefully.
A recent poll shows that 82% of Americans support Israel's right to defend itself, and there has been a sharp increase in anti-Semitism on college campuses.
Columbia and Barnard students protest expulsion of Barnard students and clash with security guards over anti-Semitic incident.
Journalists and liberal activists are outraged after Jeff Bezos, owner of The Washington Post, expressed his support for personal liberties and free markets in a memo to Post staff.
Harmeet Dhillon, Trump's nominee for assistant attorney general, vows to crack down on campus anti-Semitism, as incidents increase on college campuses in the US.
Joy Reid wears an MSNBC-branded tracksuit for her final show as her program is canceled due to low ratings. MSNBC faces an uncertain future as it is being spun off by parent company Comcast.
German Chancellor-designate Friedrich Merz has invited Benjamin Netanyahu to visit Germany without being arrested, defying the International Criminal Court's arrest warrant for the Israeli prime minister.
Northwestern University's mandatory anti-discrimination training is under scrutiny for relying on unverified data from CAIR and for not addressing anti-Israeli or anti-Zionist sentiment.
MSNBC is canceling Joy Reid's show, The ReidOut, in an effort to improve ratings and replace it with new programming.
Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas fired his prisoners' affairs commissioner this week, seemingly demonstrating new seriousness about reforming the system of payments for terrorists that the commissioner oversaw and vocally defended.
Louis Ferrante's 'Borgata: Clash of Titans: A History of the American Mafia' explores the theory that the Mob was behind the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, presenting evidence and motives that challenge the official explanation.
The United States is facing off against the Chinese Communist Party in the Indian Ocean, while Hamas terrorists in Gaza have been found to have strangled two young boys with their bare hands. NBC News has settled a defamation suit with a Georgia doctor after falsely accusing him of performing mass hysterectomies.
Three buses exploded near Tel Aviv in a suspected terror attack. No casualties reported. Police are searching for suspects and scanning for additional suspicious objects.
The Trump administration has frozen funding for the Palestinian Authority Security Forces (PASF), a group that has been involved in terrorist attacks on Israelis. The move is part of the administration's broader global aid freeze and comes as the Palestinian Authority and its leader, Mahmoud Abbas, compete for control of post-war Gaza.
CBS News host Margaret Brennan faces backlash for claiming the Holocaust occurred because Nazis 'weaponized' free speech, while promoting stories critical of the Trump administration on social media. This is the latest in a series of issues related to Jews and Israel for CBS News.
State Department fellowship programs faced internal resistance against U.S. support for Israel, while a D.C.-based nonprofit that receives taxpayer funds is running ads to disrupt Trump's deportation policies.
The Israeli military will maintain a buffer zone in southern Lebanon to protect border communities and prevent Hezbollah from rearming, despite objections from Lebanese and Hezbollah officials.
Former militant group leader now leads anti-ICE protests in LA, while opponents of Trump's executive orders turn to the courts for legal recourse.
Adam Schiff and Chuck Schumer criticize Trump's dismissal of inspectors general, while Trump aims to fulfill his campaign promise of making IGs independent.
The House Committee on Education and the Workforce has requested fresh disciplinary documents from Columbia University regarding recent anti-Semitic demonstrations on campus. The committee's chairman, Rep. Tim Wahlberg, criticized the university for its failure to address the pervasive anti-Semitism that persists at Columbia. The request comes as the university faces investigations from both Congress and the White House.
Senator Tina Smith of Minnesota will not seek reelection, complicating the Democratic party's efforts to retake the Senate.
Photos unearthed by the Free Beacon show that military leaders in the California National Guard pledged loyalty to the LGBT community during a 2016 ceremony. Attendees felt pressured to attend the event, which was described as 'culty.'
The United Arab Emirates' ambassador to the United States believes that there is no alternative to President Trump's plan to rebuild Gaza and relocate its population.
President Trump has instructed his team to start negotiations to end the war in Ukraine after speaking with Russian president Putin. The release of American citizens by Russia and Belarus is seen as a positive sign. Trump will inform Ukrainian president Zelensky about the conversation.
President Trump and King Abdullah II of Jordan discuss Trump's plan to 'take' Gaza, with Abdullah initially appearing open to the idea but later reiterating Jordan's opposition to the displacement of Palestinians.
President Trump successfully secures the release of an American teacher imprisoned in Russia after the Biden administration's unsuccessful efforts.
Pete Buttigieg's support for taxpayer-funded transgender surgeries for inmates and illegal immigrants is under scrutiny. Gazans express a desire to leave the territory due to the living conditions created by Hamas. The Trump administration cancels federal grants for diversity programs at universities. A lawsuit accuses the University of Illinois Chicago of illegal race discrimination through race-based hiring programs.
Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas has restructured the 'pay for slay' program, but experts doubt it will truly end the controversial program.
The historical precedent of governments losing sovereignty and power after launching unprovoked attacks on neighboring countries suggests that the Palestinians in Gaza may no longer have the right to decide their own destiny and who governs them.
The personal diary of a USAID staffer exposes the distress and fear felt by government employees as they face the elimination of taxpayer-funded programs and wasteful spending under the Trump administration.
President Trump has signed an executive order sanctioning the ICC over its efforts to prosecute America and its allies, primarily Israel. The order places financial and visa sanctions on all ICC personnel and their families.
A federal judge rejected Cooper Union's request to dismiss a lawsuit brought by Jewish students, alleging the college violated the Civil Rights Act by failing to protect them from anti-Semitic attacks.
President Trump is set to restore his 'maximum pressure' sanctions campaign on Iran, aiming to eliminate the country's illicit oil exports and fulfill a campaign promise to target Iran's financial networks.
Brown Med prioritizes diversity over clinical skills, USAID faces criticism, and Kamala Harris's campaign spent heavily on celebrities and influencers.
The Trump administration has put scores of USAID staffers on administrative leave in response to their insubordination, as the agency has a history of prioritizing left-wing issues and funding groups linked to Palestinian terrorism.
The Trump administration is launching a task force to combat anti-Semitism in schools and on college campuses, following a rise in anti-Semitic incidents. The task force will include representatives from the Department of Education and the Department of Health and Human Services.
Columbia Business School professor Avi Friedman resigns over the university's appointment of Joseph Massad, a professor known for praising Hamas, to teach a course on Zionism.
President Trump plans to withdraw the U.S. from the UN Human Rights Council and cut funding to the UN relief agency for Gaza due to anti-Israel bias.
The Biden administration provided $3 million to the Palestinian Authority Security Forces for weapons training, despite their involvement in attacks against Israelis.
Two new books address the challenges President Trump faces when it comes to forging a lasting peace in the Middle East: One Jewish State: The Last, Best Hope to Resolve the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict by David Friedman and The Battle for the Jewish State: How Israel -- And America -- Can Win by Victoria Coates.
David Friedman and Victoria Coates release new books on Middle East foreign policy, proposing different approaches to resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Review of 'I Am André: German Jew, French Resistance Fighter, British Spy' by Diana Mara Henry, which explores the resistance and survival of André Scheinmann during the Nazi regime.
Donations from George Soros and Reid Hoffman make up 70% of Ben Wikler's campaign funds for the DNC chair race.
Chinese and Russian ships are destroying internet and energy infrastructure in Finland and Sweden. Israel is secretly building military outposts in southern Lebanon and Gaza. DNC members will vote for a new party leader.
Anti-Israel groups face class action lawsuit for orchestrating traffic blockade in Washington D.C.
Israel has been secretly building military outposts in southern Lebanon and the Gaza Strip as part of a plan to create buffer zones along both borders.
Columbia University's anti-Israel group, Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD), engaged in acts of vandalism by clogging toilets with cement and soaking a building with red paint. The group's actions were in line with tactics they studied months earlier at an event hosted by a recognized student organization on campus.
Hamas released Israeli hostages in a chaotic ceremony that was condemned by Israeli leaders. The behavior of the Gazan mob highlights support for anti-Israel terrorism. The hostages were eventually brought to Israeli hospitals. Hamas staged the scenes as part of a propaganda effort.
President Trump signs executive order to investigate and potentially deport anti-Semitic resident aliens, while also prohibiting federal funding to schools teaching critical race theory or 'radical gender ideology.'
President Trump is set to sign an executive order to deport anti-Semitic student visa holders and to bar federal funding for schools teaching critical race theory.
The Washington Post cited an anti-Semitic organization under U.S. sanctions in a sympathetic piece about 'Palestinian prisoners' freed in Israel-Hamas hostage deal.
Virginia Democrats block appointment of anti-Semitism expert to George Mason University board amid concerns over campus anti-Semitism and recent terror plots involving students.
President Donald Trump has suggested resettling residents of the Gaza Strip in Arab countries as a way to resolve the conflict in the region.
President Trump has imposed punitive measures on Colombia after its Marxist president denied entry to U.S. deportation planes carrying migrants.
Lawsuits against oil and gas companies for climate change dismissed by court.
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