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Talking about biting the hand that feeds. Palestinian terrorists on Wednesday attacked the U.S. pier being constructed off the coast of Gaza, the Israeli TV channel i24NEWS reported.Gaza “terrorists launched mortars at the maritime construction site, damaging several pieces of engineering equipment,” the TV channel revealed. ” In addition, one person was slightly injured while running to a protected area.”The U.S. military is involved in the construction of the floating dock. It is unclear if American servicemen or civilian contractors were present at the site during the terrorist attack.Last month, President Joe Biden announced the decision to construct a floating pier for large-scale aid delivery to Gaza and supply aid through trucks and airdrops. “I’m directing the US military to lead an emergency mission to establish a temporary pier in the Mediterranean on the Gaza coast that can receive large ships carrying food, water, medicine and temporary shelters,” President Biden declared on March 7.
Several hundred NYPD cops stormed onto Columbia University’s campus on Tuesday night to oust a pro-terror mob that illegally took over an academic building amid ongoing anti-Israel protests on campus.The cops are expected to arrest the group that barged into Hamilton Hall early Tuesday morning in a drastic escalation of the protest at the Ivy League school, according to police sources.Shortly before entering the Morningside Heights campus at 9:13 p.m., about 100 cops from the NYPD’s Emergency Service Unit packed into buses and headed to Columbia in preparation for the university’s call for help, sources told The Post.Dozens of others wearing riot gear and holding zip-tie handcuffs were huddled on the street corner, apparently waiting for the go-ahead.The NYPD blocked pedestrian and vehicular traffic on 114th Street and Broadway, while spectators chastised them: “Shame, shame, shame!”
At half-past-midnight yesterday, I received a text from a Columbia undergraduate friend: “They are attempting to occupy Hamilton Hall.”It goes without saying that things inside were hectic. A couple students I know closely attempted to block the protesters from breaking into Hamilton, an audacious last stand that ended with them being shoved, grabbed, and later threatened anonymously.Other friends dialed 911, troubled by ongoing vandalism and the very real possibility of an all-out brawl.Outside, I saw your typical sign-waving, starry-eyed students, along with another darkly-clad cohort of protestors surveilling campus.Their black balaclavas and combat boots made it clear they weren’t Columbians.
A huge mob of masked pro-terror rioters broke into an academic building at Columbia University and seized it early Tuesday — rebranding the iconic hall named after founding father Alexander Hamilton and draping it with a giant flag calling for “intifada.”Dozens stormed into Hamilton Hall and sealed themselves in shortly before 1 a.m. — with some using metal barricades, chairs and tables to block others from getting inside, footage posted on social media shows. One shocking video captured a hammer-wielding demonstrator smashing through a glass-paneled door and placing what appeared to be a bike lock around its handles.An INTIFADA flag is hung from Hamilton Hall, Columbia UniversityIntifada is an armed terrorist uprising fyi. America take back control of your universities and arrest their asses. And stop the radicalisation of your youth! pic.twitter.com/pYGqdWcZoT— Brian BJ (@iamBrianBJ) April 30, 2024
Reuters — The building that Columbia University protesters seized early on Tuesday morning, Hamilton Hall, has a history of student takeovers over the decades.The current demonstration on the Ivy League campus in Manhattan echoes those past protests, almost all of which took place in April as well. Some activists have said they studied them for lessons on tactics and strategy.The eight-story 1907 campus hub today houses undergraduate classrooms as well as the classics, Germanic languages and Slavic languages departments, according to the Columbia website. Here are some of the notable instances when past student activists occupied Hamilton Hall:1968Hundreds of students held a demonstration on April 23, 1968, to protest the Vietnam War, as well as Columbia’s plans to build a gymnasium in nearby Harlem that activists claimed would effectively be segregated.After marching to the gym construction site and tearing down protective fencing, protesters returned to campus and barricaded themselves inside Hamilton Hall, preventing the acting dean from leaving his office, according to an online exhibition curated by the university’s libraries.By the next morning, Black students – who renamed the hall “Malcolm X Liberation College” – asked white students to leave to ensure their specific grievances were heard. The white students moved their demonstration to other buildings on campus.After a week-long occupation, the university called in the police. The Black students at Hamilton Hall left peacefully, heading straight to police vans waiting to take them into custody; students in other buildings, however, violently clashed with officers as they were dragged outside. Many students suffered injuries, and hundreds were arrested.
Helmeted NYPD Cops assembled at 114th and Broadway as they began a raid of Columbia University following days of anti-Israel agitators taking over the campus.The police began to move in around 9 p.m. Tuesday and surround Hamilton Hall, which is being occupied by anti-Israel agitators.Students were seen waving a Palestinian flag from inside Hamilton Hall as police attempted to secure the building and move people away before they made entry.Columbia student radio is reporting NYPD entering Hamilton Hall through windows and pulling students out with sledgehammers. NYPD has also started bringing in large buses to take protesters away once they begin making arrests.
This is a developing story. Check back for updates.Updated on April 30 at 9:51 p.m.The New York Police Department arrested protesters outside occupied Hamilton Hall at around 9:30 p.m. on Tuesday evening. One contingent of officers approached the admissions office entrance, where they pushed protesters to the ground and slammed them with barricades.Another group approached the main entrance, arresting protesters who had formed a human chain outside the doors. Officers threw down the metal and wooden tables and shattered the glass on the leftmost doors of Hamilton to enter the building.One protester lay on the ground in front of Hamilton unmoving as police officers stood over them. Three officers then carried the individual away from the building.Students yelled “shame” as officers gathered around the front entrance of the building, and chants of “NYPD, KKK, IOF, they’re all the same” arose.
In any movement started by the radical left, a key component to fanning the flames and keeping the masses fired up is to turn someone involved in it into a symbol, someone who will serve as an example of why they must keep up the fight and see the “mission” through.We saw it, for instance, with the Occupy Wall Street protests where people in wheelchairs were purposely put in the front rows of protest lines.The latest incarnation of OWS, the anti-Israel demonstrations, is very similar in nature, as Professor Jacobson pointed out in a recent Fox News interview.And during one such demonstration that took place this week in Georgia, the anti-Israel left found their next symbol, an economics professor from Emory University whose Thursday arrest was caught on tape by CNN, something that instantly turned her into a progressive icon among anti-Israel activists and their coddlers in higher education.In a shortened video clip shared to the Twitter machine and which has been viewed nearly eight million times as of this writing, we see Professor Caroline Fohlin telling a police officer to “stop it” in the middle of a campus protest as the officer tells her to “get down” as he is about to arrest her. She continues to refuse to get on the ground, so he maneuvers her there himself, and soon after is assisted by another officer while Fohlin claims her head hit the concrete.During her arrest, Fohlin is heard yelling “I’m a professor!”
The New York City Police Department released a video showing a professional "protest consultant" who was seen on other social media videos instructing a mob of anti-Israel agitators as they took over Hamilton Hall at Columbia University overnight Monday.New York City Mayor Eric Adams spoke about outside agitators during a press conference Tuesday evening."What should have been a peaceful protest, it has basically been co-opted by professional outside agitators. We were extremely cautious about releasing our intel information because our goal was to ensure the safety of the students, the faculty, and without destruction to property," Adams said. "We have sounded the alarm several times before about external actors who attempted to hijack this private protest."Adams and members of his administration shared information about the outside actors who were creating "serious public safety issues" at the protests.
A Manhattan doctor and a known anti-Israel protester were among the 282 people arrested overnight when the NYPD raided campus encampments at Columbia University and the City College of New York.Fernando Bobis, 42, an internal medicine doctor based in Washington Heights, was one of the 109 people arrested at Columbia’s Morningside Heights campus, where rioters had broken into an academic building, occupying it for more than 20 hours before university officials called the cops for help.“Five and 1/2 hours in a holding cell with no bathroom, no water, no food. I had a hard time checking my insulin to make sure I was okay. I’m Type 1 diabetic,” Bobis told reporters after his arrest was processed at NYPD headquarters.He was among several busted protesters who were released from One Police Plaza Wednesday morning — as hundreds of their comrades greeted them with cheers and handed out bottled water, food and sunscreen.The Brown University graduate, who said he previously took general studies courses at Columbia, wasn’t the only non-student arrested overnight.Known anti-Israel protester Jesse Pape, 47, who has clashed with NYPD officers at other anti-Israel rallies, was also booked Tuesday night.
It's like the Seattle CHAZ encampment all over again. Far-left activists have declared the UCLA campus a "liberated zone" and are refusing entry for many students not affiliated with the pro-Gaza protests. They have erected barriers and placed guards, creating makeshift checkpoints which require a special wrist band in order to gain passage.Wristbands are being used to identify anti-Israel students at @UCLA so that they are allowed to enter Royce Quad, Royce Hall, and Powell Library.Some students are allowed in and out, others are kept out. This is ILLEGAL and UCLA is not just tolerating it but facilitating it. pic.twitter.com/CbdodKLK53— Sia Kordestani (@SiaKordestani) April 30, 2024In other words, if you aren't an "ally" then you don't get to attend classes, or, if you're lucky you are allowed to take a longer route around the barricades. Keep in mind, this is not a protected form of protest or free speech, which explains why many college campuses have chosen to have protesters removed by police. UCLA so far appears to be supporting the activists and has allowed them to take control. 🚨 Happening NOW at @UCLA – politically uninvolved students are blocked from going to class by masked anti-Israel individuals.@UCLAchancellor pic.twitter.com/nXzGGlbzG6— Sia Kordestani (@SiaKordestani) April 30, 2024
Update: as of 8 p.m. April 30, Cal Poly Humboldt says 32 people have been arrested.Some names have been changed to protect identities.After a week-long pro-Palestine protest at Cal Poly Humboldt, multiple law enforcement agencies descended onto campus grounds on Monday around 10:00 p.m. An audio message blared through a sound system strapped atop a University Police Department vehicle threatening use of plastic, rubber bullets, and chemical agents on protesters for over five hours. Eventually, around 3:30 a.m., hundreds of police officers dressed in full riot gear swarmed campus, arresting over 30 protesters, including students and at least one Cal Poly Humboldt professor.On Monday evening, April 22, protesters took control of the quad area, Siemens Hall, and Nelson Hall. Over the course of a week, entrance points to the quad had been fortified with dumpsters, chairs, doors, office furniture, tape, rope, and chain. Tents filled the grassy areas surrounding Siemens and Nelson Halls. Chalk, markers, and spray paint covered both pavement and wall surface-areas with messages making the protesters’ conviction and commitment to their cause clear: “Free Gaza,” “Stop Funding Genocide,” “Silence is violence.” were among the messages written by protesters. Despite a coordinated police response surveillance system set by the protesters, the exact time the police would arrive, remained unclear. The inevitable police response finally arrived around 10 p.m. on Monday, with a University Police Department vehicle threatening protesters with rubber, plastic bullets and chemical agents should they refuse to disperse from campus grounds.
Pro-Palestinian protesters and counter-protesters at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa united to show their displeasure with President Joe Biden.Video footage posted to X showed protesters on both sides chanting, “F*ck Joe Biden.”To date, Biden’s approval rating sits at 39.5 percent, with a disapproval rating of 56.1 percent, according to FiveThirtyEight.As Israel continues its self-defense operation in the Hamas-controlled territory of Gaza, Biden and his administration have been losing support among Arab Americans, who feel even more “betrayed” over the passage of a $95 billion foreign aid package, $61 billion of which was sent to Ukraine, and roughly $26 billion of which was sent to Israel.Both sides now chanting “F***” Joe Biden” pic.twitter.com/Jbt7TU1b9b— Maven Navarro (@MavenNavarro1) May 1, 2024
Before diving into the overnight turmoil of violent clashes at some of America's most progressive universities, let's begin with this post from a user on X, suggesting that the woke mind virus is at work here: I can't believe I have to explain what's happening here, but here goes. Elite students of Ivy League schools have glamorized oppression so much that they have now reached role play status to satisfy their fantasies. Here, the students have appropriated the suffering of Gazans and are cosplaying as living through humanitarian crisis. In their American make-believe story where Ivy League infrastructure sets the scene, the students play Gazans and the school administration plays Israel.Israel (the school) is blocking their "basic humanitarian aid" in this play, and if they don't receive it soon, they will "die of thirst and starvation" (appropriating exact experiences of Gazans). They also destroy upper class buildings and claim them as "liberated" while the students repeat chants in zombie-like chorus, playing the roll of "freedom fighters" destroying Israeli infrastructure and claiming them freed. If I'm alive in a world where people don't see the levels of perversion in this, I give up. You don't see this in lower tier schools from kids of lower socio-economic standing because they aren't plagued with the guilt of privilege that they're seeking to launder through Middle East role plays of feigned suffering. This is as first world dystopia as it gets. Meanwhile, these Ivy League students who can have much more than a glass of water and as much food as their stomachs can take are commanding the attention of the media and the entire American audience, while actual Gazans who need humanitarian aid are ignored. I still have to pinch myself that people don't see this.I can’t believe I have to explain what’s happening here, but here goes. Elite students of Ivy League schools have glamorized oppression so much that they have now reached role play status to satisfy their fantasies. Here, the students have appropriated the suffering of Gazans and… pic.twitter.com/6oyuWortDk— Elica Le Bon الیکا ل بن (@elicalebon) May 1, 2024In recent weeks, student protests—some funded by George Soros—have erupted throughout some of America's wokest universities and colleges. Students and/or possibly paid agitators have erected around-the-clock encampments at Columbia University in New York City, Yale University, New York University, Harvard University, University of Texas at Austin, and the University of Southern California. On Tuesday night, there was a nationwide effort by school administrations and local police forces to disband pro-Palestinian protesters from campuses. Let's begin with scenes from Columbia University. Police in riot gear stormed students occupying Hamilton Hall and cleared a nearby protest encampment on the college's lawn.
Patrick Webb@RealPatrickWebbBREAKING: 136 pro-Palestinian college/university-campus encampments were being planned back in November 2023, according to LA source familiar with local organizers.
Anti-Israel groups accuse Chicago, DNC of trying to ‘protect’ Biden from protests at 2024 Dem conventionA coalition of anti-Israel agitators seeking to protest outside the Democratic National Convention in August are continuing to put pressure on the City of Chicago, alleging their First Amendment rights are being violated, while some Democrats fear unrest could disrupt the annual convention.A series of lawsuits have been filed against the city in recent months by the Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression, the Anti-War Coalition, and Students for a Democratic Society at the University of Illinois — some of which have voiced support for the anti-Israel encampment at the University of Chicago.In a Tuesday filing at the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, the coalition of protesters stated they want to "engage in peaceful political speech and seek to exercise their First Amendment rights at the Convention to deliver their political messages directly to… President Biden."That effort is being stifled by the City of Chicago, which denied the groups "respective applications for parade permits within sight or sound of the Convention," according to the filing.
One of the most violent leaders of the Columbia University riots is allegedly a professional agitator and limousine liberal — the scion of millionaire ad execs who owns in a $3.4 million Brooklyn brownstone, has a model babymama and a stepmom dating John Cougar Mellencamp.James Carlson, aka Cody Carlson, aka Cody Tarlow, is “a longtime anarchist,” a high-ranking police source said.He bought his 2,893-square-foot, three-story brownstone with four wood-burning fireplaces and a carriage house in Park Slope in 2019 for $2.3 million, according to property records and online listings.The provocateur, who has arrests dating back to 2005, is one of three children of prominent advertising execs Richard “Dick” Tarlow and his wife, Sandy Carlson Tarlow.Dick Tarlow, died in 2022 at age 81 with an estate worth at least $20 million, court papers show.
After Hamas on Monday announced its acceptance of an Egyptian-Qatari cease-fire proposal, Israel said its leaders approved a military operation in the southern Gaza town of Rafah and began striking targets in the area. Still, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he would send negotiators to continue talks on the deal.The high-stakes diplomatic moves and military brinkmanship left a glimmer of hope alive — but only barely — for an accord that could bring at least a pause in the 7-month-old war that has devastated the Gaza Strip. Hanging over the wrangling was the threat of an all-out Israeli assault on Rafah, a move that the United States strongly opposes and that aid groups warn will be disastrous for some 1.4 million Palestinians taking refuge there.Hamas's abrupt acceptance of the cease-fire deal came hours after Israel ordered an evacuation of Palestinians from eastern neighborhoods of Rafah, signaling an invasion was imminent.Netanyahu’s office said that the proposal Hamas accepted was “far from Israel’s essential demands,” but that it would nonetheless send negotiators to continue talks on a deal.
An anti-Israel encampment swarmed MIT before police came in to break it up. Officials cleared it out, but a few people remained after the 2:30 PM ET deadline given by the university. Those people will be suspended.They returned, too.During the afternoon, people chanted, “We are the Intifada,” a day after people literally called for ethnic cleansing.Students chanting “we are the intifada” outside the anti-Israel encampment at MIT, after being told to leave by 2:30 PM or be suspended. pic.twitter.com/7nLBTda29S— Kassy Akiva (@KassyDillon) May 6, 2024Protestors at MIT today chant “globalize the intifada” and “there is only one solution, intifada revolution.” pic.twitter.com/vtUbFRyh8d— Steve McGuire (@sfmcguire79) May 6, 2024This is after video came out yesterday of MIT protestors explicitly calling for ethnic cleansing.MIT finally decided to set a serious deadline. Of course since most media didn’t cover the chants or videos, they are missing this context. https://t.co/sGjTW6bQ80 https://t.co/ffClloGofl— AG (@AGHamilton29) May 6, 2024
Probably the first of many college posts today.The Rhode Island School of Design (RSID) Students for Justice in Palestine captured the school’s Providence Washington Hall and renamed it Fathi Ghaben Place.Artist Fathi Ghaben died in February. He painted a mural of PLO founder Yasser Arafat surrounded by children.BREAKING: Students from the Rhode Island School of Design have taken over a room in RISD Administrative building and have barricaded it. After doing so, they renamed the building "Fathi Ghaben Place." Ghaben was a "revolutionary artist." pic.twitter.com/8NF2QX1UvR— Stu (@thestustustudio) May 7, 2024Masked activists hide behind a glass door as they speak to a crowd at Rhode Island School of Design.
The Columbia University custodian who took on a pro-terror protester during the seizure of Hamilton Hall said he was “freaking out” when the mob stormed the building while he was working — an experience that’s left him too scared to return to campus.Mario Torres, 45, was caught in the violence when rioters took Hamilton Hall on April 30, with the father-of-two caught on camera wrestling with demonstrator James Carlson, who The Post revealed to be the scion of millionaire ad execs.“We don’t expect to go to work and get swarmed by an angry mob with rope and duct tape and masks and gloves,” Torres told The Free Press.“The school could have done more to, A, prevent this and, B, to be there for us when we needed them,” he added, noting that he feels “abandoned” by Columbia.Torres was working in Hamilton Hall when the mob stormed the building, breaking through glass and barricading the entrances as they sought to occupy the historic building named after founding father Alexander Hamilton that was home to a similar 1968 protest.Torres said it was clear the seizure of Hamilton Hall was well planned given the protesters quick work and coordination, with the custodian noticing that even the cameras were covered.The worker said he was trying to “protect the building” when he came across Carlson, 40. He was able to pin the trust-fund kid against the wall and rip off his hoodie, exposing his face.
FIRST ON FOX: A watchdog organization with a focus on higher education released video this week showing an operative from an outside communist group taking part in an anti-Israel protest on the campus of the University of California, Los Angeles."I'm a revolutionary organizer," a woman named "Annie" tells an undercover journalist with Accuracy in Media in a video released on Wednesday. "I'm an outside agitator," she adds with a smile."I'm with the Revcoms, Rev Comm Corp, for the emancipation of humanity," Annie said when asked what group she was with while describing her fellow communists as "comrades."Revcom, which made news last fall for burning an American flag at a Jason Aldean concert, writes on its website that "this system of capitalism-imperialism is the source of all the outrages and madness that people are subjected to, here and all over the world—and it is long past time it be swept off the face of the Earth."
"Our investigation confirms that in many cases, the antisemitic protests taking place on college campuses across the country are being organized and supported by outside agitators," Accuracy in Media President Adam Guillette told Fox News Digital. "It should come as no surprise that the Revolutionary Communist Party played a role in stoking the flames of hatred at UCLA."
Anti-Israel protesters and faculty at The New School in New York reportedly are occupying one of the institution’s buildings in an attempt to get its board of trustees to vote on divesting from companies supporting the Jewish State. The occupation of the Welcome Center in Manhattan comes as two anti-Israel encampments have been ongoing at The New School – one led by students, and the other by faculty. A report by The New School Free Press student newspaper said the occupiers were letting people out of the building on Tuesday night but not letting anyone inside. The New School did not immediately respond Wednesday to a request for comment from Fox News Digital.
A University of Pennsylvania student who claimed she was left “homeless” when administrators kicked her off campus for participating in an anti-Israel encampment is the daughter of a wealthy Filipino family.Eliana Atienza, 19 — who told the Philadelphia Inquirer she had nobody to turn to for help in the US after she was kicked off campus in early May — is the daughter of Kim Atienza, a prominent media personality in the Philippines who is partial to showing off his extravagant lifestyle online.Her mother, Felicia Atienza, graduated from the Wharton Business School and has served as the president and CEO of several international schools over the years, according to the Washington Free Beacon.The family enjoys flaunting their wealth on social media, with posts showing their extensive motorcycle collection, first-class flights with private showers and caviar service and hobnobbing with celebrities.
