Columbia protester asked for 'humanitarian aid' for Hamilton Hall occupiers so they don't 'die of dehydration and starvation'



A Columbia University anti-Israel protest leader held a press conference Tuesday during which she expressed her desire that students occupying Hamilton Hall get "humanitarian aid" — you know, so they don't "die of dehydration and starvation."

While New York City police entered the building Tuesday night and made arrests, getting an earful and eyeful of this protest leader and her wish list for her ultra-privileged, radical peers is still quite informative.

Some might even say entertaining:

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A reporter asked her, "Why should the university be obligated to provide food to people who've taken over a building?"

She replied, "Well, first of all, we're saying that they're obligated to provide food to students who pay for a meal plan here."

That's right. Meal plan.

The reporter continued: "You mentioned that there was a request that food and water be brought in."

If you didn't think the protest leader — garbed in the familiar keffiyeh scarf that's pretty much required clothing for anti-Israel college students — lacked self-awareness before, she lets it all hang out from here on in.

"To allow it to be brought in," she said. "I mean, well, I guess it's ultimately a question of what kind of community and obligation Columbia feels it has to its students. Do you want students to die of dehydration and starvation or get severely ill even if they disagree with you? If the answer is no, then you should allow basic — I mean, it's crazy to say because we are on an Ivy League campus, but this is like basic humanitarian aid we're asking for. Like, could people please have a glass of water?"

The reporter, refreshingly, wasn't buying it.

"But they did put themselves ... very deliberately in that situation, in that position, so it seems like you're sort of saying, 'We wanna be revolutionaries, we wanna take over this building — now would you please bring us food and water?'"

The protest leader replied, "Nobody's asking them to bring anything. We're asking them to not violently stop us from bringing in basic humanitarian aid."

Another reporter inquired if Columbia was preventing food from getting to the protesters, and the protest leader replied, "We are looking for a commitment from them that they will not stop it. ... I don't know to what extent it has been attempted, but we're looking for a commitment."

Anything else?

In response to the Post Millennial's video of the protest leader, journalist Jordan Schachtel added on X that "I did a quick search and found that this lady, who refused to reveal her name, is named Johannah King-Slutzky. She is a paid instructor & PhD candidate at Columbia studying 'theories of the imagination & poetry as interpreted through a Marxian lens.' No, I'm not making this up."

The Post Millennial reported that King-Slutsky had been listed on Columbia's website as a Ph.D. student on Tuesday morning, but the page was missing by Tuesday evening. The outlet said King-Slutsky's biography read, "My dissertation is on fantasies of limitless energy in the transatlantic Romantic imagination from 1760-1860. My goal is to write a prehistory of metabolic rift, Marx’s term for the disruption of energy circuits caused by industrialization under capitalism. I am particularly interested in theories of the imagination and poetry as interpreted through a Marxian lens in order to update and propose an alternative to historicist ideological critiques of the Romantic imagination. Prior to joining Columbia, I worked as a political strategist for leftist and progressive causes and remain active in the higher education labor movement."

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King-Slutsky has a long history of activism. In January, she attended an event where the head of the UAW was speaking. "Johannah King-Slutzky, a Columbia University graduate student and member of the student workers union within the UAW, was one of several attendees who chanted 'ceasefire now' during Fain’s afternoon speech Monday. The union called for a ceasefire in Gaza in December," WHYY reported.

“Right now he’s done nothing to earn my vote,” WHYY reported King-Slutzky as saying, because “he has not acted with urgency to stop the genocide in Gaza.”

In 2021, she participated in a campus strike of graduate student workers.

This story has been updated.

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Crowd stunned by Bill Maher’s rant on why kids should skip college



Conservatives and liberals may often be at odds, but Dave Rubin believes a large portion of the latter are starting to wake up.

Bill Maher is one of them.

Maher’s messages have been departing greatly from the common liberal talking points that most left-wing talking heads mindlessly repeat.

“Decent liberals are eventually coming around to the more conservative position,” Rubin explains before showing a clip of Maher’s shocking message for his liberal audience: “don’t go to college.”

“If you absolutely have to go, don’t go to an elite college,” he continues before adding, “because as recent events have shown, it just makes you stupid.”

While Maher is well aware that what’s happening in Israel is abhorrent, he’s found a silver lining. The students for Palestine protests cropping up around the country are waking Americans up to the fact that higher education is simply indoctrination.

Maher explains that this higher education indoctrination has created a “stew of bad ideas,” which holds among them that “the world is a binary where everyone is either an oppressor or oppressed.”

“The same students who will tell you that words are violence and silence is violence were very supportive when Hamas terrorists went on a rape and murder rampage worthy of the Vikings,” Maher continued.

Maher notes that 34 student groups at Harvard signed a letter that calls Israel the “apartheid regime” and claims it's “the only one to blame.”

“They don’t know what constitutes apartheid,” Maher adds. “Actual history doesn’t come up in their intersectionality of politics and gender-queer identities class.”


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State Department warns what could happen to $100 million in taxpayer dollars that Biden is sending to Gaza, West Bank



The State Department admitted Thursday that humanitarian aid sent to Gaza could easily end up in Hamas' control.

At the department's press briefing, spokesman Matthew Miller revealed that Israel is warning about sending money directly into Gaza to benefit innocent civilians because Hamas controls everything in the Gaza Strip.

"The concern the Israeli government has — and they've said this publicly and they’ve certainly said it privately to us — is that any assistance that goes in will be diverted once it's inside Gaza," Miller revealed.

"There's not an Israeli military force in Gaza, there’s not a U.N. peacekeeping force in Gaza. The people with guns inside Gaza are Hamas," he explained. "And so Hamas may try to divert this assistance and keep it from getting to the civilians who it is intended for."

Because Hamas controls Gaza, the U.S. government has a "legitimate concern" that any aid sent to Gaza will be taken by Hamas and directed toward its war effort against Israel, Miller added.

While in Israel on Wednesday, President Joe Biden announced that $100 million in taxpayer dollars will be sent to the Palestinians in the form of humanitarian relief.

Biden told Hamas not to steal the money but did not warn of any consequences aside from the money tap drying up. The Biden administration has not said how U.S. officials will prevent Hamas from stuffing its coffers with the aid. Miller only said the State Department is working on "mechanisms" for the delivery of the money but did not elaborate further.

There have already been allegations of Hamas stealing materials meant for innocent Palestinian civilians.

On Sunday, the United Nations agency responsible for supporting Palestinian refugees — the UNRWA, officially known as the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East — released a statement accusing Hamas authorities of raiding a UNRWA compound in Gaza City of fuel and critical medical supplies.

The agency later suspiciously walked back that statement. But United Nations and Israeli sources confirmed it was true.

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Of those willing to defend Israel after Hamas’ surprise invasion, Ben Shapiro has had one of the loudest voices.

Shapiro, who is Jewish himself, is among the conservatives who believe Israel must do what it needs to do in order to, as he says, “rid the world of these pieces of human debris,” otherwise known as Hamas.

However, many Americans are not on the same page — but it's not exactly their fault as the media controls what people see.

And the media happens to be proficient in lying.

Shapiro notes that one of the lies being pushed is that the recent attack on a hospital in Gaza was an Israeli attack, but it's not just the media lying about it.

Rashida Tlaib took to the stage at a rally preceding what Dave Rubin isn’t afraid to call another “insurrection” at the Capitol building — and spoke to protestors through shaky tears.

According to her, she’s been continuing “to watch people think it’s okay to bomb a hospital with children” and that she is “literally watching people commit genocide.”

“Did she pump out any of those crocodile tears for the babies that were burned, or the women that were raped, or the Holocaust survivors that are now kidnapped, or the, I don’t know, say 20+ American hostages?” Rubin asks Shapiro.

Shapiro rolls his eyes, noting that Tlaib is still propagating the lie that Israel bombed the hospital in the first place.

“Hamas puts out propaganda that Israel has bombed a hospital killing 500 people in the Gaza Strip, and that is implausible from the start if it were to be a deliberate bombing,” Shapiro tells Rubin, adding, “Israel is doing its utmost, I mean, really its utmost, not to kill civilians.”

“If Israel were doing everything it militarily had to do right now, there’d be a lot more civilians dead,” he continues. Shapiro adds that Hamas is hiding in tunnels essentially using civilians atop those tunnels as shields, which is stopping Israel from wiping them out.

“Hamas is, by its own behavior, admitting Israel seeks to avoid civilian casualties,” he adds.

Rubin agrees, noting that “if they wanted to do the unimaginable to defend their citizens, they could end this basically in three days.”

In addition, within minutes of the airstrike on the hospital, Hamas had the death count ready to go.

“The news goes out that Israel has supposedly done an airstrike on a hospital and 500 are dead. It goes out within like five minutes, they’ve got the dead counted. Nevermind that Israel is still two weeks later trying to figure out precisely how many people are dead in the October 7 massacres,” Shapiro says.

“The entire world media pumps this out,” he adds, mentioning that even the New York Times ran a front page photo of the wrong building and said that was the hospital that was blown up.

“Then it turns out there was a Palestinian Islamic Jihad rocket that fell short, because like 10% of the rockets that are fired fall into Gaza because they don’t give any bleeps about their own citizens, obviously, and it didn’t hit the hospital. It hit a parking lot next to the hospital,” Shapiro says.

“It doesn’t matter, the entire world goes insane,” he adds.


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Biden slammed by some Republicans after announcing $100 million in aid for Gaza and the West Bank



During his trip to Israel, President Joe Biden announced $100 million in aid for Gaza and the West Bank.

A post on the @POTUS X account claims that there will be "mechanisms in place so this aid reaches those in need — not Hamas or terrorist groups."

But multiple Republican politicians have suggested that the aid will end up in the hands of terrorists.

"Aid to the Gaza Strip is what Biden is prioritizing today? This aid will of course be commandeered by Hamas. No taxpayer dollars should be sent to Gaza. Stop funding jihad!" tweeted Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who is currently running in the GOP presidential primary.

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"Under present circumstances, 'humanitarian assistance' = resupply for Hamas terrorists. President Biden continues to embolden Iran and its terror proxies," GOP Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas asserted.

"Not a single dollar of U.S. aid should go to Hamas-controlled Gaza until all hostages, including AMERICANS, are safely released," Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fl.) said in a tweet.

"Biden announced $100 million in humanitarian aid to the Palestinians. He might as well have announced $100 million in aid to Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad," Republican Sen. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee declared in a post on X.

Some Democrats have expressed support for the president's move to supply the aid.

"I applaud and support President Biden’s decision to provide significant humanitarian aid to the Palestinian people in Gaza and the West Bank. Any legitimate response to the Hamas violence must strive to avoid civilian harm and civilian targets," Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois declared in a tweet.

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