Columbia bars Jewish, pro-Israel professor from campus where pro-Hamas students have taken over — cancels in-person classes



Columbia University has reportedly barred an Israel-born, Jewish professor from entering the Ivy League’s main campus, where pro-Hamas students have taken over, the New York Post reported.

Shai Davidai, an assistant professor at Columbia Business School, has been an outspoken supporter of Israel and called for “a PEACEFUL sit in at Columbia’s declared ‘Liberation Zone’” on Monday morning amid the ongoing protests at the New York university.

Anti-Israel students set up an encampment on the lawn at the center of campus, where they have erected Palestinian flags and draped their tents with protest signs. According to the New York Times, the area is being referred to by some as the “Gaza Solidarity Encampment.”

When Davidai arrived on campus Monday morning to hold the scheduled peaceful counterprotest, he discovered that his school identification card had been deactivated.

In a video posted to social media, Davidai shouted to fellow pro-Israel students, “I have not just a civil right, a civil right as a Jewish person to be on campus, I have a right as a professor employed by the university to be on campus.”

“They deactivated my card,” he added. “They are not letting me on main campus.”

As of last October Davidai was apparently not tenured, so I\u2019m unclear how many legal protections he has, but Columbia going back to kid-glove treatment of students occupying their campus and then firing a Jewish professor by deactivating his ID badge seems like bad optics to me
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Davidai pointed out the “irony” that his card still grants him access to Columbia’s Manhattanville campus, where he teaches.

“I was just told by [administrators] that I am [to be] let on the campus of the business school where I’m teaching tomorrow,” the Post reported. “So they are willing to use Jewish brains, but they don’t want to let Jewish people in.”

In a post on X, Davidai explained that Columbia claimed it deactivated his card because it could not ensure his safety on the main campus, given the ongoing protests.

Earlier today, @Columbia University refused to let me onto campus. \n\nWhy? Because they cannot protect my safety as a Jewish professor. \n\nThis is 1938.
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He slammed the university for continuing to protect the pro-Hamas protesters whom it has allowed to take over the campus.

“We know whose safety they can ensure — for the past five days, they’ve been ensuring the safety of the students who are calling on Hamas, to target Jewish students. That’s the safety that they are ensuring,” Davidai said.

He urged Jewish and pro-Israel students to be cautious around the protesters and called on them to take videos of the encampment.

“If they don’t let you in, and then document the fact that they’re not letting other Jewish people into campus,” he stated.

Columbia President Minouche Shafik testified before the House earlier this week. She told lawmakers that there have been several complaints about Davidai and that the university has launched an investigation into the professor.

Davidai has called for Shafik’s firing, as well as “everyone in the antisemitism task force at Columbia to resign right now.”

Last week, pro-Palestinian students took over campus and refused to leave until the university met a list of demands, which included removing funding from companies with ties to Israel, the Times reported.

Shafik called the police to remove the protesters; more than 100 arrests were made.

On Monday, the university announced that it would cancel in-person classes and switch to remote learning due to the unrest.

“I am deeply saddened by what is happening on our campus. Our bonds as a community have been severely tested in ways that will take a great deal of time and effort to reaffirm. Students across an array of communities have conveyed fears for their safety and we have announced additional actions we are taking to address security concerns,” Shafik wrote in a Monday statement.

She claimed that the school needs “a reset” due to increased tensions that “have been exploited and amplified by individuals who are not affiliated with Columbia who have come to campus to pursue their own agendas.”

“To deescalate the rancor and give us all a chance to consider next steps, I am announcing that all classes will be held virtually on Monday. Faculty and staff who can work remotely should do so,” she added. “Our preference is that students who do not live on campus will not come to campus.”

“I know that there is much debate about whether or not we should use the police on campus, and I am happy to engage in those discussions,” Shafik continued. “Over the past days, there have been too many examples of intimidating and harassing behavior on our campus. Antisemitic language, like any other language that is used to hurt and frighten people, is unacceptable and appropriate action will be taken. We urge those affected to report these incidents through university channels.”

Additional encampments sprouted up at Yale, the University of Michigan, and MIT to support the protesters arrested at Columbia.

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Chris Cuomo: Raw Oct. 7 video shows that Hamas 'enjoyed mutilating,' held 'heads and bloody corpses' of Jews as 'trophies'



NewsNation's Chris Cuomo said he attended a private screening Thursday with other journalists of raw Oct. 7 video.

While Cuomo said he had seen some of the imagery from the 47-minute video on previous occasions, "a lot more" was "new" to him.

In a chilling monologue posted to X, Cuomo shared that the screening brought the trauma of 9/11 to his mind and what it meant for America. "They hit us where it hurt," he said and added that it was about "terrorists robbing us of what and who we are about at home: It is us, or it is them."

Then Cuomo described what he took away from the screening of the Oct. 7 Hamas massacre of Jews:

If an enemy wanted to make sure that Israel would come for them, the message would be, "We're going to take children, women, innocents, and more, tie them up, and burn them alive. Just like the Holocaust." The ultimate fear of what the world can bring the Jews' way. When a decision is made that Jews are less than human and treated that way, in words and deeds, I now know that is exactly the message Hamas sent — on purpose, at scale. And I was not aware of that before. I had seen that before, but I did not understand how intentional the effort was. They did it methodically. You hear it in the voices, the commands, the ease, the excitement of finding and mutilating victims. Being told "let them play with IT."

Merely murdering innocents was the least of it. ... This was not death from above; it was death in your face, hands-on and personal. They enjoyed mutilating and went back and celebrated in the streets with heads and bloody corpses as trophies. This was absolute genocide. It's a word that people are misapplying, and this is where it does apply. Even more important — to the terrorists apparently — was what they left behind. Charred reminders of a holocaust. The obvious desire to see as many Jews utterly destroyed as possible. Families melted together on purpose. And yes, there are women dead, bloody groins, twisted disfigured legs. The [Israeli Defense Forces] says this is not a morbid coincidence; it's a part of a pattern of rape and torture.

Forty-seven minutes is just a fraction of the dead, but it is overwhelming that Hamas wanted war. This was not the irrepressible angst of the desperate who want freedom, who want better, nor certainly want anything approximating peace. They wanted to Jews to know that they want them to burn — again.

He continued:

I now understand ... better what is fueling Israel. This is not tit for tat. This is not, "You did to us, and now might will make right." They are fueled by the deepest fears of genocide, because those fears are real. I am not trying to erase or in any way mitigate the massive death toll of civilians in Gaza or diminish the obvious need for the violence to stop. If anything, after seeing this video today, there's an increased urgency to avoid what could still come because ... this could get much worse. When people have been given reason to believe it is you or them, they are capable of anything. And while people are moved to absolute outrage by what they see, I'm telling you, Israel is doing far less than it could. It is easy to say "stop" — I'm saying it, everybody's saying it — it is very hard to say "how." Why? Because seeing what the terror group in charge of Palestine did to the Jews and has promised to do again, how do you ask Israel to risk being vulnerable to those who do not honor agreements and have made it very clear they don't want peace? They want to burn and kill the Jews. That's why it's so hurtful and people are so hair-triggered when people say things in protests here in America that maybe they don't mean that way; maybe they don't see that context. But the people on the other side of the propaganda do. The suggestion, "Well, here's what you do. You stop bombing; use commandos." How does that not suggest to Israel, "You have to do this in a way that Hamas can kill more of you; you have to reduce your advantage"? ... "But you also have to stop bombing because aid has to get in." "Will Hamas allow it in?" "Oh yes, they have." That's not the sum total of the reports that we get. They have NOT let aid organizations get in to see the hostages and to help them. And they have a history of diverting and taking aid that was meant for others and other things. It's not about numbers; it is about Israel being shown its worst fears can be realized — because they were. So knowing that and ... understanding our own history with what we did in response to a threat that was nowhere as real and present as what Israel's facing, what do we do to make it stop?
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Anything else?

Days after Hamas' surprise Oct. 7 attack, the terror group's main spokesperson was caught on video walking out of an interview with Cuomo — after which Cuomo said the spokesperson simply couldn't deal with "reality of the pain" his own "terror organization" has "caused."

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ALL the evidence points to THIS culprit in Gaza hospital rocket strike



A rocket has allegedly hit al-Ahli Baptist Hospital, a Christian-run medical complex in central Gaza, killing hundreds.

However, no one is taking the blame. Rather, officials in Gaza and Israel are blaming each other for the carnage.

Stu Burguiere and Glenn Beck believe they have a good idea of who is likely telling the truth in this situation.

“Maybe, we don't just take Hamas’ word for what happened,” Stu tells Glenn.

While both sides are refusing to take the blame, there’s now evidence that the rocket may have not hit the hospital at all. The initial video that was circulating showed a rocket allegedly hitting the hospital, but new images have surfaced of the hospital as recently as today. Which aside from the parking lot, appears to be perfectly fine.

“Maybe they were having a block party in the parking lot and they put all of their patients in the parking lot, because that’s the only part that seems to be hit at all,” Stu notes, adding that the videos of an intact hospital are being posted by Palestinian sources.

“It’s ruining all their propaganda,” he adds.

Stu believes it makes more sense for the rocket to have been launched by Hamas itself, as it can’t take Israel one on one.

“The one thing Israel needs to avoid is bombing a hospital and killing 500 people, so at the very least, your instinct should be well, if it was Israel, had to be a mistake,” Stu says. As for Hamas, the “only thing they want is chaos and a larger war in the area.”

“This is what happens when you dismiss that one group of religious extremists,” Glenn says, who “actually mean it when they say, ‘We are trying to wash the world in blood.’”

“I cannot believe that we’re sitting here talking about which side is right when one side is literally quoting scripture. Their scripture, not yours,” he adds.


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WATCH: Mark Levin OBLITERATES New York Times writer who accused Israel of 'war crimes'



As Hamas relentlessly attacked Israel with a barrage of rockets, practically no one in the mainstream media came to the Israelis' defense and their right to strike back against their attackers. Instead, the media openly lectured the American public (and Israel) on the "proper" response to Hamas' aggression. Meet Exhibit A: Nicholas Kristof, foreign policy columnist for the New York Times.

Appearing on "Real Time with Bill Maher," Kristof suggested that Israel may have committed "war crimes" for simply trying to defend their nation against unwarranted aggression.

On "LevinTV" this week, BlazeTV host Mark Levin obliterated Kristof's insane arguments, while exposing Hamas as the real perpetrators of crimes against humanity.

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Anti-Israel statement from Vanderbilt U. student gov't weeps for Palestinians — and predictably fails to mention 'Hamas,' 'rocket attacks,' or 'terrorism'



Vanderbilt University's student government was called out for issuing a decidedly anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian statement over the weekend in the wake of the recent ceasefire after nearly two weeks of deadly fighting between the warring factions.

What are the details?

The unsigned statement is curiously titled "In Solidarity with Students" — but given the weight of the overall words, it seemed clear that not every student was created equal in the eyes of the college's student government.

While it makes a passing reference about extending "support and consolation to Israeli students also affected by this crisis" and that "there is no place for antisemitism or anti-Jewish sentiment of any kind" on campus, the vast majority of the two-page statement is passionately anti-Israel and pro-Palestinian — and fails to even mention the words "Hamas" or "terrorism" or the thousands of rocket attacks the Jewish state endured.

The most blatantly anti-Israel sections of the statement are found on the second page where Vanderbilt's student government catalogs death and destruction by Israel's "occupying forces" and uses phrases such as "indigenous Palestine," "targeting Muslim Palestinians during the holy month of Ramadan," "ethnic cleansing," and "inhumane and cruel acts of war, supremacy, and genocide."

Hillel had something to say

In the wake of the student government statement, Vanderbilt's Hillel group put together a response on its own Instagram page — and the campus' Jewish organization was not happy.

"Vanderbilt Hillel strongly condemns the recently released, biased statement from Vanderbilt Student Government," Hillel's statement begins. "Despite VSG's claim to denounce antisemitism, their statement contributes to the continued erosion of Jewish students' sense of safety at Vanderbilt and has unleashed a torrent of offensive comments online."

The Hillel statement goes on to say that Jewish students are being "targeted for harassment and abuse for their Jewishness, Zionism, and support of Israel as a Jewish state" and are left feeling "unwelcome and threatened" on campus. The statement also urged Vanderbilt to help student leaders especially to learn "the ways that anti-Israel activism becomes antisemitism."

What did Vanderbilt have to say?

The school made note on its website of the competing social media statements without mentioning specific student groups and encouraged peaceful, restrained interactions in regard to the volatile topic.

"Some student organizations on our campus have posted statements on social media about this issue that have prompted heated debate and discussion, marked by at times offensive and inflammatory rhetoric. Student organizations do not speak for the university or the overall Vanderbilt community. They are formed and led by students as an opportunity to enhance their college experience and become well-rounded leaders, scholars and citizens who navigate the world with civility, curiosity and respect for others. As such, all our students, whether members of these organizations or not, are expected to adhere to our high standards of conduct aligned with the university's policies and rules governing such groups."

The school's statement added that "we must all ensure through our words and our actions that Vanderbilt remains a safe and welcoming community committed to civil discourse, especially when we hold strong and impassioned views. Language and actions that constitute harassment and bullying are unacceptable and will not be tolerated."

AOC and Bernie Sanders try to block Biden admin's arms sale to Israel — all while the US' top Middle East ally is bombarded by Hamas terrorists



Hamas has been bombarding Israel with rockets over the last several days in its latest efforts to violently challenge the United States' top ally in the region. Over the last week and a half, Hamas terrorists have fired more than 4,000 rockets at Israel, the nation's air force said, according to the Associated Press.

As Hamas rockets continued to rain down on Israeli communities, left-wing Democrats in the U.S. Congress were spending their time trying to stop President Joe Biden from selling arms to Israel that the nation could use to defend itself against terrorism.

What happened?

The Biden White House approved a $735 million sale of weapons to Israel, the Washington Post revealed Monday. These weapons include JDAMs, or Joint Direct Attack Munitions, which, Fox News said, are tail kits that convert "dumb" bombs into precision-guided missiles. Analysts believe JDAMs have been instrumental in the recent cross-border conflict with Hamas.

According to the Post, the administration notified Congress of the planned sale on May 5, five days before recent hostilities began. The declaration is required under law, and lawmakers have 15 days to object with a nonbinding disapproval resolution.

In the U.S. House of Representatives, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) has been leading the charge to kill the arms deal, along with known anti-Israel Democratic Reps. Rashida Tlaib (Mich.) and Ilhan Omar (Minn.), who called the potential sale "appalling."

AOC, along with Tlaib and Rep. Mark Pocan, introduced a resolution Wednesday to block the arms sale.

In a statement on the resolution, the democratic-socialist lawmaker said, “For decades, the U.S. has sold billions of dollars in weaponry to Israel without ever requiring them to respect basic Palestinian rights. In so doing, we have directly contributed to the death, displacement and disenfranchisement of millions," the Post reported.

And she took to Twitter to claim that the move was all about protecting human rights and allege that Israel has been targeting civilian and media sites.

"The United States should not be rubber-stamping weapons sales to the Israeli government as they deploy our resources to target international media outlets, schools, hospitals, humanitarian missions and civilian sites for bombing," Ocasio-Cortez said. "We have a responsibility to protect human rights."

Israel has said that JDAMs have been used for the Gaza airstrikes and in other similar situations in order to avoid harming civilians, which is the opposite of what Hamas has done with its indiscriminate bombing of Israeli cities.

On the U.S. Senate side, avowed socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said he plans to introduce a similar resolution Thursday to stop the weapons sale, the Post reported.

"At a moment when U.S.-made bombs are devastating Gaza, and killing women and children, we cannot simply let another huge arms sale go through without even a Congressional debate," Sanders tweeted.

"I believe that the United States must help lead the way to a peaceful and prosperous future for both Israelis and Palestinians," he continued in a follow-up tweet. "We need to take a hard look at whether the sale of these weapons is actually helping do that, or whether it is simply fueling conflict."

Though the Sanders resolution will likely get an up-or-down vote, its fate is uncertain, the Post said. Should it get the 51 votes needed for passage, it would still need to pass the House, which AOC and her ilk would likely support it.

The president, however, would have the power to veto the resolution. If he did, both congressional chambers would need to rally two-thirds of their respective bodies to overturn the veto.

Breaking: Israel and Hamas militants reportedly agree to ceasefire



The deadly conflict between Israel and Hamas militants will be coming to an end after a ceasefire was reportedly reached between the two parties.

The ceasefire was reported by Channel 12 News in Israel on Wednesday.

A senior Hamas official appeared to confirm the news during an interview on Lebanon's al-Mayadeen TV according to Reuters.

"I think that the ongoing efforts regarding the ceasefire will succeed," said Hamas political official Moussa Abu Marzouk.

"I expect a ceasefire to be reached within a day or two, and the ceasefire will be on the basis of mutual agreement," he added.

The conflict has been raging for ten days during which hundreds of rockets have been fired at Israel from militants in the Gaza Strip. While the nation's vaunted Iron Dome defense system was able to intercept most of the rockets, some were able to slip past onto civilian areas. Palestinians and their allies also rioted and attacked Israelis in several cities across the country.

Israeli authorities say 12 deaths have been documented from the conflict, while on the Palestinian side officials say 228 have perished.

Critics of Israel in the U.S. were angered greatly when President Joe Biden said in a statement that Israel had a right to defend itself against such rocket attacks. Among those was the only Palestinian-American in Congress, Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), who confronted Biden as he arrived in Michigan to tour a Ford plant.

Earlier on Wednesday the White House said in a readout between Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that the president had made it clear he expected "significant de-escalation today on the path to a ceasefire."

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Major newspaper wants to know why anyone should trust the Associated Press if it's going to claim it didn't know Hamas was in its building



Israeli Defense Forces took down a Gaza City building that housed multiple media outlets and personnel, including Associated Press journalists, over the weekend because, according to Israel's government, the building also housed Hamas assets and terrorists.

After the attack, the AP denied having any knowledge that Hamas was in the building, despite evidence to the contrary. Now a major U.S. newspaper wants to know why anyone should trust what the AP reports.

What happened?

On Saturday, IDF forces destroyed a Gaza City high-rise that housed the AP because it was a location also known to house Hamas, the terrorist organization currently lobbing thousands of rockets into Israel. An hour before launching its strike, the Israeli military warned civilians and journalists in the building that they needed to evacuate. As a result, zero members of the media were injured.

Following the strike, the IDF said, "After providing advance warning to civilians & time to evacuate, IDF fighter jets struck a multi-story building containing Hamas military intelligence assets. The building contained civilian media offices, which Hamas hides behind and deliberately uses as human shields."

But members of the AP decried the IDF's move, saying the media agency, which had been in the building for 15 years, had no idea Hamas was also on the premises.

The AP reported on the incident as though it was unaware of Hamas' presence, saying, "The Israeli military said it targeted the building because it contained assets of Hamas intelligence agencies, which it said were using media offices as 'human shields.' It did not provide evidence for the claims."

AP President and CEO Gary Pruitt said his organization was "shocked and horrified" by the move, claiming, "The Israeli government says the building contained Hamas military intelligence assets. We have called on the Israeli government to put forward the evidence."

"AP's bureau has been in this building for 15 years. We have had no indication Hamas was in the building or active in the building," Pruitt asserted. "This is something we actively check to the best of our ability. We would never knowingly put our journalists at risk."

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu countered the AP's claims Sunday, telling CBS' "Face the Nation" that the building was a "perfectly legitimate target" and that the intelligence about Hamas' location was shared with the U.S. government.

Even more damning, former AP reporter Matti Friedman reported for The Atlantic in 2014 that the AP was fully aware of Hamas' presence.

The AP staff in Gaza City would witness a rocket launch right beside their office, endangering reporters and other civilians nearby—and the AP wouldn't report it, not even in AP articles about Israeli claims that Hamas was launching rockets from residential areas. (This happened.) Hamas fighters would burst into the AP's Gaza bureau and threaten the staff—and the AP wouldn't report it. (This also happened.) Cameramen waiting outside Shifa Hospital in Gaza City would film the arrival of civilian casualties and then, at a signal from an official, turn off their cameras when wounded and dead fighters came in, helping Hamas maintain the illusion that only civilians were dying. (This too happened; the information comes from multiple sources with firsthand knowledge of these incidents.)

What's this about trusting the AP?

In response to the AP's claim of ignorance about Hamas being in their building, the New York Post asked in a staff editorial in the Tuesday issue why anyone should trust the AP's reporting.

"If it's true that AP was so unaware — and the evidence suggests it's unlikely — how can anyone trust its reporting in the region?" the Post asked.

The paper indicated that, if the AP was unable to figure it out, its reporting abilities should be called into question. If AP did know, then its willingness to cover-up and obfuscate should lead people to question the agency's ability to deliver trustworthy news.

Citing Friedman's 2014 report, the Post said, it certainly appears the AP did know about Hamas occupying the same building and refused to reveal it.

"It seems that what AP doesn't know — and doesn't report — always favors Hamas over those the group terrorizes," the Post concluded.

Andrew Yang caves to leftist outrage over his tweet condemning Hamas terrorists



New York City mayoral candidate Andrew Yang appeared to apologize for a tweet condemning the terrorist attacks by Hamas militants on Israel after public outrage by the left and some of his own supporters.

"I'm standing with the people of Israel who are coming under bombardment attacks, and condemn the Hamas terrorists," said Yang in a tweet on Monday.

Yang, who is one of the frontrunners in the mayoral race, was harangued by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) about the tweet on Tuesday but by Wednesday he acquiesced and cited many other detractors in his apology.

"I spoke to a group of volunteers for the campaign yesterday, some of whom have been with me for years. Many of them were upset with my recent tweet expressing solidarity with the people of Israel in conjunction with the violence in the region this week that has claimed the lives of innocents and children on both sides," said Yang in the lengthy statement posted to Twitter.

"They felt that my tweet was overly simplistic in my treatment of a conflict that has a long and complex history full of tragedies. And they felt it failed to acknowledge the pain and suffering on both sides. They were, of course, correct," he continued.

"I mourn for every Palestinian life taken before its time as I do for every Israeli," he continued. "Suffering and pain and violence and death suffered by anyone hurts us all. All people want to be able to live in peace. We all ways that for ourselves and our children."

Despite the clarification by Yang, many of his detractors were still unhappy that he did not condemn Israel in his new statement.

"The most telling part of @AndrewYang's erasure of Palestinian human rights, is he even used his apology to to say he's choosing sides. And that side is Israel," responded one critic on Twitter.

Yang wasn't the only mayoral candidate to have public relations troubles this week. Two candidates were mocked and ridiculed after they severely underestimated the cost of housing in NYC during a candidate interview.

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