George Soros is paying student radicals who are fueling nationwide explosion of Israel-hating protests

George Soros and his hard-left acolytes are paying agitators who are fueling the explosion of radical anti-Israel protests at colleges across the country.

The protests, which began when students took over Columbia University’s Morningside Heights campus lawn last week, have mushroomed nationwide.

Copycat tent cities have been set up at colleges including Harvard, Yale, Berkeley in California, the Ohio State University and Emory in Georgia — all of them organized by branches of the Soros-funded Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) — and at some, students have clashed with police.

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Rex Murphy: Hatred of Israel is the great moral disorder of our time

Baptists and Christadelphians stage anti-Israel march in Toronto,

It is the great moral disorder of our time.

Dear Israel is but a spit of earth on a huge globe. Three years after six million Jews were put to torture, humiliation, whippings, rape, medical experiment, starvation, and vile death, was it not surely time — time for all the nations of the Earth who had reached some moral understanding of life and government — to allow Jewish people time to rest, time to mourn, time to see what and who might be left of them.

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Police evict Pro-Palestine protesters from Nancy Pelosi speech at Oxford Union

Police were forced to remove two pro-Palestine protesters from the Oxford Union on Thursday after they hijacked a speech by Nancy Pelosi, the former US speaker of the House.

The pair of students waved Palestinian flags as they disrupted her address at the debating society shortly after 6pm.

The protesters were swiftly removed by Thames Valley Police and escorted out as the crowd inside the chamber applauded.

Unbelievable …

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Jewish student sues TMU over ‘poisoned’ antisemitic environment

A Jewish student has sued Toronto Metropolitan University, arguing that the university has become a “poisoned antisemitic learning and working environment” in the wake of the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel.

Nicole Szweras, a student in the media production program and formerly an employee in the university’s “equipment distribution centre,” is seeking $1.3 million in damages.

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Israel could be Biden’s Vietnam

Pundits and protestors are drawing parallels between Joe Biden and Lyndon B Johnson – another liberal presidency doomed by an ugly war. In so many ways, Gaza is not Vietnam. America has no boots on the ground; no draft if it did. Yet the analogy builds in three troubling steps.

One: Biden owns the Middle East conflict even as he denounces the casualties. Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times notes that in January, the Israelis dropped a US-made bomb from a US-made plane on a US-relief group in a war supported by the US. “How can that not come back to Biden?” Kristof concludes that the President, for all his anti-war instincts, remains a die-hard Zionist, reluctant even to cut ties with an alleged crook like Netanyahu (there is reportedly a photo of the President on the prime minister’s desk inscribed: “Bibi, I love you but I don’t agree with a damn thing you have to say.”)

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Police arrest 108 at Emerson College as antiwar student protests spread

Confrontations between pro-Palestinian student protesters and police continued to spread at colleges across the country, with fresh arrests at Emerson College, the University of Southern California and the University of Texas at Austin, and reports of new encampments set up at Princeton University and Northwestern University.

In Boston, police moved to break up a protest led by Emerson College students outside the State Transportation Building, moving in on students who formed a human wall and raised umbrellas, according to video footage from the scene.

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MPP Sarah Jama asked to leave Ontario legislature for wearing a keffiyeh

Independent MPP Sarah Jama has been asked to leave the Ontario legislature for wearing a keffiyeh on Thursday.

Speaker of the House Ted Arnott banned the wearing of the traditional Palestinian scarves after he said it appeared to him the keffiyeh was being worn to make a political statement.

Jama, who represents Hamilton Centre, was asked to remove the keffiyeh, but refused. She was then asked to leave, however, remains in the chambers and has refused so far.

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CUPE president silences members who call her out for wearing keffiyeh at union meeting

Some members of a Toronto-area public sector union say it has become an unsafe space for Jews after their union president wore a keffiyeh during a video meeting and then muted fellow union members who raised objections to her “political” attire.

The news comes as the Ontario legislature is embroiled in a fractious debate about whether the keffiyeh — a traditional scarf often worn by Palestinians — is acceptable clothing to wear within Queen’s Park.

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Asylum seeker Ahmed Alid inspired by ‘revenge’ for Israel-Hamas war guilty of murdering pensioner

A Moroccan asylum seeker, who claimed he was acting in revenge for the Israel Hamas conflict has been convicted of murdering a pensioner in Hartlepool.

Ahmed Alid, 45, stabbed Terence Carney, 70, to death just days after the October 7 terror attacks last year.

Alid was also found guilty of the attempted murder of his housemate Javed Nouri, 31, who he knifed in his bed minutes before attacking Mr Carney.

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Naomi Klein calls for ‘Exodus from Zionism’

Renowned Canadian Jewish author and columnist Naomi Klein called for an “exodus from Zionism,” denouncing the ideology as a “false idol” that has strayed from the core values of Judaism, in an op-ed for The Guardian.

In her piece, Klein used biblical allegory to draw attention to the recent conflict between Israel and Gaza, condemning Zionism for turning the “transcendent idea of the promised land” into a “deed of sale for a militaristic ethnostate.”

Klein’s piece directly challenged the traditional view of Zionism as a movement for Jewish liberation, instead portraying it as an ideology that has justified oppression, colonialism, and violence in the name of Jewish safety.

The Israel-Hamas conflict is now as much an intramural affair as religious war.

 

We need an exodus from Zionism – by Naomi Klein

 

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Michael Oren: FBI must investigate money trail behind campus antisemitic protests

… This shift has notably affected disciplines like American Studies, which have become distinctly anti-American, Oren continued. He also pointed out that even some Jewish academics have joined the anti-Israel chorus, failing to recognize the potential negative consequences for themselves. “They fail to see that this path also ends badly for them.”

Reflecting on Passover, Oren cited the Haggadah’s story of the Wicked Son, which he believes mirrors the stance of those who don’t identify with their own people and criticize Israel’s defenders. “It’s the best image for these people who keep saying that if you defend Israel, you’re a bad Jew. Eventually, they’ll become one of the bad Jews themselves. This movement is a deep-seated cultural trend that has taken decades to evolve, and undoing it may also take decades,” said Oren.

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Seventy Israeli hostages have been killed, says captive

Around half of the remaining Israeli hostages abducted by Hamas have been killed in Gaza, an Israeli-American captive said in a rare proof-of-life video.

Hamas released a two-minute video on Wednesday night showing 24-year-old Hersch Goldberg-Polin appealing to the Israeli government to bring him home.

Ceasefire talks between Israel and Hamas that would have included a hostage swap and pause in fighting have collapsed.

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FBI Won’t Say If It’s Investigating Self-Declared ‘Hamas’ Terrorists Protesting At U.S. Universities

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) would not say Tuesday whether it is investigating people identifying themselves as part of a foreign terrorist organization heard chanting “We are Hamas” outside U.S. universities including Columbia.

Video footage shows masked Islamists taunting Jewish students outside of President Barack Obama’s alma mater. One woman shouted at a pro-Israel activist, “We are Hamas” while standing outside Columbia University. “We’re all Hamas.”

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It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like 1938

“The environment at Columbia University is absolutely dreadful.”

If Jews do not feel safe on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, in New York City, in the United States of America, where can they feel safe?

NYC is home to some 1.3 million Jews, the most outside of Israel. Jewish men and women have thrived in The Big Apple for hundreds of years, enjoying religious freedom, prosperity, political power, and the affection and goodwill of millions of their gentile neighbors, colleagues, and loved ones.

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I’ll See Your Charlottesville and Raise You Columbia

How is Biden’s reaction not unmistakably worse than Trump’s?

Ithink it’s time for a little trip down memory lane, don’t you?

The date was August 14, 2017, and Donald Trump was holding a press conference a couple of days after a civil disturbance in Charlottesville, Virginia, had turned deadly.

In Charlottesville, the local Hard Left-dominated city council had opted to defenestrate a historical landmark, that being a statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee in a prominent place in town. A protest was planned and permitted for those critics of tearing the statue down to express their opinion, and attaching themselves to that protest was a group of alt-right agitators who held a tiki torch parade through Charlottesville the night before.

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