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Sexual Violence Prevention Association Slams Dem Rep Eric Sorensen Over Rape Joke
The Sexual Violence Prevention Association says Rep. Eric Sorensen (D., Ill.) should be "held accountable" for joking about rape, the association's leader told the Washington Free Beacon.
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In Brief Address, Biden Condemns 'Lawless' College Protests and Says No National Guard on Campuses
President Joe Biden in a brief address on Thursday condemned the "lawless" protests that have recently sprung up across U.S. college campuses, stressing that "order must prevail" but stopping short of endorsing the deployment of the National Guard.
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Progressive Florida Dems Push To Cancel Fetterman Speech Over Support for Israel
Florida's progressive Democratic caucus this week called on the Florida Democratic Party to cancel Sen. John Fetterman’s (D., Pa.) keynote speech at its 2024 Leadership Blue gala over his support for Israel since Hamas’s Oct. 7 terrorist attack.
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Police Clear UCLA Anti-Israel Encampment and Arrest Dozens of Activists
Los Angeles Police early Thursday morning cleared the anti-Israel encampment at UCLA and arrested dozens of activists, who for the past week have barricaded a central swathe of campus and flouted the university’s order to disperse Wednesday night. During the showdown, protesters shouted "shame on you!" to the officers and compared them to the Ku Klux Klan.
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Senate Resolution Condemns Explosion of Anti-Semitism on Campus
A coalition of nearly 20 Republican senators on Thursday introduced a measure blaming university leadership across the country for an explosion of anti-Semitic violence on campus that has endangered Jewish students and put the nation on edge.
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Northwestern Jewish Students Recount 'Scary and Shocking' Campus Anti-Semitism in Meetings With Lawmakers
Jewish students at Northwestern University met with members of Congress on Wednesday to recount how anti-Israel protests have turned into "shocking and scary" anti-Semitic hate-fests, with demonstrators defacing the Star of David and chanting that Jews should "go back to Germany."
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Stanford TA Who Called For Biden’s Assassination Doxxes Students He Says Recorded Him
The Stanford University teaching assistant who was caught on tape calling for President Joe Biden’s assassination and praising Hamas is now naming and shaming the students he says recorded his remarks and reported him to the administration.
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The Invisible President
For more than a week now, the anti-Israel and anti-Semitic protests convulsing university campuses have been the biggest news story in the country. The protests, in many cases abetted by university faculty, have put a national spotlight on the illiberalism and intellectual rot at the heart of American “higher” education and the DEI regime that makes it hum. We’re not in the business of offering political advice to President Joe Biden, but it is hard to miss his absence from the situation. The...
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Embattled Biden Nominee Adeel Mangi Facilitated Meeting Between Leaders of Anti-Israel and Anti-Police Groups
Embattled Biden judicial nominee Adeel Mangi introduced the heads of two left-wing organizations whose anti-Israel and anti-police stances have imperiled his nomination for the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, emails obtained by the Washington Free Beacon show.
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Biden Admin Funneled $1.3 Million to Taliban, Audit Finds
The Biden administration funneled nearly $1.3 million to the Taliban as part of reconstruction projects in Afghanistan that are being administered by the United States, according to a government oversight group.
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A Guide to University Statements on Anti-Israel Campus Protests
Student protesters have erected more than 100 "Gaza Solidarity" tent encampments on college campuses across the United States in recent weeks. College presidents and provosts from coast to coast have issued statements addressing the disruptions. Some of them have stamped them out expeditiously, while others have fanned the flames. Below we present those statements—the good, the bad, and the ugly.
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UCLA's Race And Equity Director: Jews 'Enjoy the Benefits of Whiteness'
Anti-Israel protests have turned violent at the University of California, Los Angeles, where Johnathan Perkins, the school's director of race and equity, has lamented that Jews "enjoy the benefits of whiteness" and questioned whether nations would support Israel "if the Jewish people persecuted in the Holocaust are not also considered 'white.'"