Naval Academy Postpones Lecture Featuring NYU Professor Who Called Trump An ‘Authoritarian’

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Pro-Palestinian students can’t name the ‘river’ or ‘sea’ they’re chanting about



College students were quizzed by social media influencer Zach Sage Fox, and despite offering them a $100 prize for correct answers, they weren’t able to pull it off.

“Have you guys chanted, ‘From the river to the sea'?” Fox asks one student, who answers, “Yes.”

“Okay, which river? Which sea?” He presses. This particular student is attending Sarah Lawrence, where the tuition is over $85,000 a year.

“She knows it's Jordan and Mediterranean,” Pat Gray says. “She knows that.”

“Because the state of education right now, with Biden in office, is so good that you would think she’d immediately know,” he jokes.

While Gray had hope, the girl, who was holding a pro-Palestinian sign, did not know the answer.

“What does Hamas say their number one goal is according to their charter?” Fox asked another pro-Palestinian student.

“They just want to free Palestine,” the student answers. “No,” Fox says. “Murder all Jews around the world.”

“How many years did Israel occupy Gaza?” he asks more students, who all get it wrong.

“It was actually under Egyptian control for the first twenty or so years, and then Israel actually left Gaza in 2006,” Fox explains to the clueless students, before asking one of the most chilling questions of all.

“How much have our foreign adversaries donated to American universities in the last decade?” he asks, to which again, no one knows the answer. “The answer was over six billion,” he says.

“That says everything right there. You don’t think they have influence over your kid’s education?” Keith Malinak says.


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Terrorists declare support for anti-Israel student protesters while the Associated Press gives them nominal cover



Anti-Israel radicals across America have taken over several college campuses where they have erected pro-Hamas encampments, attacked police, made foreign policy demands, and parroted genocidal rhetoric. Their efforts to signal solidarity with the Islamic terrorists who massacred thousands of Israelis and dozens of Americans in October — the same terror organization that has since plotted attacks on Western nations — have not gone unnoticed overseas.

Two Palestinian terrorist groups announced their support this week for the student protesters, even referring to them as their own.

Endorsed by terrorists

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a Gaza-based terrorist group that combines Marxist-Leninist ideology with Arab nationalism, released a statement Tuesday condemning Israel and celebrating the students who have condemned the Jewish state's self-defense.

"At a time when all peace-lovers in the world stand by the Palestinian people in their just struggle to regain their usurped rights, the ugly face of Zionist racism is clearly visible," said the terror group, according to an online English translation tool. "While our students at American universities were looking forward to the support and solidarity of the administration of universities whose interests, profits and investments prevailed over noble human values."

The PFLP decried the "punitive measures" taken against students, alleging that professors and school administrators have threatened and blackmailed students "simply because they stand by the Palestinian people and support their just struggle for freedom and human dignity."

The PFLP extended the ACLU's November complaint against Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis and Florida education officials to other officials who have ordered the breakup of pro-terror student organizations.

According to the terrorists, those who have taken action against fellow travelers on campus operate "under the illusion that they are capable of suppressing the struggle of our students in universities in the United States."

"We ... affirm our unwavering support for the student struggle," said the terror group, singling out the George Soros-funded "Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM) at Columbia, Rutgers, Yale, Stanford universities, and others."

Extra to championing the student groups and underscoring their value to the terrorist cause, the PFLP gave them marching orders: "We call for strengthening the unity of students and their struggle to withdraw the investments of American universities from the Zionist entity, and to sever all forms of relations with them," emphasizing the need for the "escalation of their struggle."

Izzat Al-Rishq, reportedly a Hamas Political Bureau official, issued a statement Wednesday similarly signaling support for the student radicals on American soil, reported the New York Sun.

"The American administration, led by President Biden, violates individual rights and the right to expression, and arrests university students and faculty members because of their rejection of the genocide that our Palestinian people are subjected to in the Gaza Strip at the hands of the neo-Nazi Zionists, without the slightest sense of shame about the legal value represented by the students and university professors," said the terrorist.

Perhaps recognizing the resonance of the anti-Israeli rhetoric with elements of the Democratic Party, Hamas added, "Today's students are the leaders of the future, and their suppression today means an expensive electoral bill that the Biden administration will pay sooner or later."

Pro-Hamas radicals by any other name

Palestinian terrorists clearly understand what the student radicals mean to accomplish, but the Associated Press appears keen to pretend students' intentions are alternatively benign.

The liberal media outfit has begun referring to the pro-Hamas protests as "antiwar protests" despite their participants' genocidal slogans — such as "long live intifada" or "from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free" — and the violent verve that animates them.

This rhetorical switch aligns the publication with Progressive Democrats, such as anti-Israel Rep. Cori Bush (Mo.), who similarly refer to the pro-Hamas students as "anti-war protesters."

Natalie Sanandaji, a New Yorker who survived the Nova music festival massacre, expressed disgust this week over the Associated Press' strategic wordplay, telling "Just the News, No Noise," "When people are chanting in their protests, 'intifada now,' simply look up the definition of 'intifada' — that is not anti war."

"To downplay it is to make these people feel like what they're doing is okay," continued Sanandaji. "We need to talk about how serious it is. Downplaying it is just putting more people at risk."

"Nobody is pro-war. To call this an anti-war protest is absurd," Dan Schneider, vice president of Media Research Center's Free Speech America told Just the News. "This is not about war. This is about the extermination of Jews and the elimination of Israel as a legal state."

Human rights activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali suggested on X that it would even be deceitful to refer to the protesters as pro-Palestinian, noting, "They are not pro Palestinian. They are anti-Jewish and anti-American. They are flexing their Islamist muscles. Incompetent and weak university students who allowed this problem to get out of hand will not stop them."

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NYU prof rips hate speech double standard: If I said 'lynch the blacks' or 'burn the gays' I'd 'never work in academia again'



Amid the anti-Israel protests erupting on colleges campuses of late — which have boiled over into anti-Semitism — New York University professor Scott Galloway blasted what he sees as a "double standard" when it comes to repercussions for hate speech on campus.

Galloway on Tuesday spoke to MSNBC host Willie Geist — and as video showed pro-Palestinian protesters donned in their familiar black-and-white checkered Keffiyeh scarves hollering their chants, Galloway noted that "if I went into the NYU square with a white hood on and said 'lynch the blacks' or 'burn the gays,' my ID would be shut off by that night."

The Stern School of Business prof added, “I would never work in academia again. There would be no need for the words 'context' or 'nuance'; I wouldn’t be protected by terms like 'First Amendment' or 'free speech.' I would be out of the world of academia. It seems like we have a double standard when it comes to hate speech — as long as it's against Jews."

Some examples of anti-Semitism at Columbia University were caught on video:

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Geist readily agreed and asked Galloway, "Why is there that double standard? Because of course you're right; you don't even have to say it out loud. If these things were being said about black people or gay people or Latinos or Asians or anybody else, forget it. Shut down the school. Everybody's expelled. Why is there still that double standard?"

Galloway had a few theories, among them that Israel in the last several decades has moved from being a David to a Goliath — and that college students have wrongly conflated the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s with the Israel-Hamas war.

He added that students also have "digressed unfortunately because of an orthodoxy promoted by me and my colleagues that there are oppressors and oppressed, and the easiest way to identify oppressors is how white and how rich they are. Fairly or unfairly, Israel is seen as ground zero for whiteness and how wealthy they are."

Galloway also said young people are being “manipulated” by TikTok, given the popular Chinese video platform is the young generation's "frame for the world."

“If you look at TikTok, there are 52 videos that are pro-Hamas or pro-Palestinian for every one served on Israel,” he told Geist. “I think that we are being manipulated. I think Americans are easier fooled than convinced they've been fooled, but if I were the CCP, I'd be doing exactly the same thing." He added that social media is "sowing division and polarization."

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Pro-Hamas protesters arrested for taking over New York universities won't face criminal records: Report



Hundreds of pro-Hamas protesters who were arrested this past week for taking over New York universities with unruly rallies will not face criminal records, the New York Post reported.

According to the media outlet, none of the 228 demonstrators who participated in the protests at Columbia University and New York University received charges that will go on their records.

The rowdy protesters were detained by the New York Police Department and released a short time later. Of the 120 anti-Israel activists who were removed from the NYU campus on Monday, 116 received summonses for trespassing, and four received desk appearance tickets for other charges, including resisting arrest.

DATs require the charged individuals to appear in the New York City Criminal Court for arraignment.

Another 108 pro-Palestinian protesters, including Minnesota Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar's daughter, Isra Hirsi, were arrested at Columbia University earlier this month — 100 received summonses for trespassing and eight received DATs.

Neither summonses nor DATs go on criminal records.

One law enforcement source told the Post that the lack of accountability will only push the pro-Hamas activists to continue their demonstrations.

"They'll keep getting arrested and go back out and keep doing the same thing because this is all a performative game for them," the source explained. "It's a game because the system doesn't hold them accountable for their nightly temper tantrums."

The campus takeovers prompted Columbia University to switch its Morningside Heights classes to "hybrid," which effectively canceled nearly all in-person courses with few exceptions. Many administrators and staff members were encouraged to work remotely to avoid the potentially dangerous demonstrations.

Most individuals arrested at Columbia University receive summonses, and some others received DATs for offenses including resisting arrest and assaulting a police officer, the Post reported.

The protesters have repeatedly refused to leave the university campuses, setting up tents and signs while demanding the schools divest from companies with ties to Israel.

Despite the protesters dodging jail time and criminal records, more than 1,400 academics signed a letter vowing to boycott Columbia University events over the brief detainments, according to the school's newspaper. The academics from around the globe also demanded the university "divest from Israel's US-backed genocide in Gaza and the West Bank."

"We are appalled by the Columbia administration's decision to call the NYPD's Strategic Response Group onto campus, in full riot gear, to arrest over one hundred peacefully protesting students," the letter stated.

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NYPD arrests over 150 pro-Hamas protesters at NYU as volatile demonstrations spread



The New York Police Department arrested more than 150 pro-Hamas protesters at New York University on Monday evening amid a wave of volatile demonstrations taking over university campuses.

Many of the detained anti-Israel protesters were students and faculty who had set up an encampment on the NYU campus. According to the school’s newspaper, Washington Square News, the pop-up campsite was formed by the NYU Palestine Solidarity Coalition, which consists of more than 20 on-campus groups.

The protesters demanded that the university divest from entities with ties to Israel and shut down its Tel Aviv site. Similar encampments have sprouted up at a number of universities across the country, including Columbia University, MIT, Yale, and the University of Michigan.

Fountain Walker, NYU’s head of campus safety, warned protesters that they would “face consequences” if they failed to leave the area by 4 p.m., according to Washington Square News.

“With the breach of the barricades early this afternoon, that requirement was violated, and we witnessed disorderly, disruptive, and antagonizing behavior that has interfered with the safety and security of our community,” Walker told the crowd. “If you leave now, no one will face any consequences for today’s actions — no discipline, no police.”

Despite the warning, the demonstration continued to grow, with activists outside campus arriving to support those inside the encampment.

Around 8:30 p.m. on Monday, NYPD officers in riot gear instructed the protesters to disperse, warning that they would be arrested for trespassing if they refused. Police then began handcuffing demonstrators with zip ties. The remaining protesters responded to the arrests by forming a circle around the encampment and linking arms.

A video captured by a reporter with the City showed faculty and students creating a human barrier between police and the rest of the protesters.

While students pray at one end of the plaza police enter through back entrance LRAD plays while line of faculty hold a line.
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Other videos shared on social media showed rowdy and disorderly protesters hurling chairs and other objects at NYPD officers.

Bottles and chairs thrown as NYPD Clears the NYU occupation encampment 'Liberated Zone', making mass arrests.\n\nFULL STORY: https://t.co/ogESGvZcpK\n\nVideo by @yyeeaahhhboiii2 Desk@freedomnews.tv to license
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By approximately 9:30 p.m. all of the demonstrators had dispersed or been arrested, Washington Square News reported. It noted that NYPD began releasing the detained students and faculty in groups of two to five around 3:50 a.m.

NYU spokesperson John Beckman said, “We witnessed disorderly, disruptive, and antagonizing behavior that has interfered with the safety and security of our community, and that demonstrated how quickly a demonstration can get out of control or people can get hurt.”

“We also learned that there were intimidating chants and several anti-Semitic incidents reported,” Beckman continued. “Given the foregoing and the safety issues raised by the breach, we asked for assistance from the NYPD. The police urged those on the plaza to leave peacefully but ultimately made a number of arrests.”

Some remaining protesters who were not arrested by authorities marched toward NYPD headquarters carrying flares late Monday evening.

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Attacker punches female NYU administrator in face in broad daylight — yet another random assault against a woman in NYC



An attacker punched a New York University female administrator in the face in broad daylight Wednesday — yet another episode in a growing series of random assaults against women in New York City.

What are the details?

NYU campus safety issued an alert saying a "male-presenting" attacker punched the right side of the administrator's face "without any provocation or words being exchanged" just after 10:30 a.m. on the south sidewalk of Washington Square North between 5th Avenue and Washington Square West in Manhattan.

The alert indicated that the suspect then fled east toward University Place.

The suspect was described as 5'6" to 5'7" with a slim build and dark complexion, wearing a gray hoodie sweatshirt (hood up), gray sweatpants, and black sneakers, the alert stated, adding that New York City Police are "investigating this incident as a hate crime (that might be tied to reports of a series of similar unprovoked attacks on women that Campus Safety communicated about in late March)."

WNBC-TV reported that the 27-year-old administrator wasn't seriously injured.

More of the same?

The NYPD said over the last 28 days, there have been 50 unprovoked attacks involving men attacking women they don't know, the station said, adding that while the number represents an increase of 8% compared to the same time period last year, such attacks are down year over year by 12% overall.

"I'm honestly scared, but it is what it is," one woman told WNBC. "You just got to watch, make sure you're OK. Take care of yourself."

Blaze News noted in late March that horrified New York City women reported that males punched them in the face and head in unprovoked, broad-daylight attacks over the previous month.

"I was literally just walking and a man came up and punched me in the face," influencer Halley Mcgookin said through tears in a video describing an attack against her that had just taken place, Today reported. "Oh my God, it hurts so bad. I can't even talk."

Not long after, another woman came forward saying she also was punched in an unprovoked attack. What's more, there was video of the brutal punch, the victim suffered a broken jaw — which had to be wired shut — and the suspect reportedly was released without bail despite seven prior assault arrests.

NYC woman randomly punched while walking down street youtu.be

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'Sounds like foul play': Family says 'happy' 18-year-old NYU student didn't commit suicide, hires PI to unravel mystery death



The family of an 18-year-old NYU student who fell to her sudden death is questioning the official narrative surrounding her puzzling passing.

Doreah Salti plummeted five stories from New York University's Barney Building on Stuyvesant Street in the East Village on Feb. 10. Police found the 18-year-old unresponsive with severe bodily trauma. She was rushed to Bellevue Hospital, but she later succumbed to her injuries from the fall.

Investigators initially suspected her death was a suicide.

However, Salti's family doesn't believe their "happy" daughter committed suicide and are searching for answers to her mystery death.

Fewer than three hours before her untimely death, Salti had purportedly been on a museum field trip.

The same night that she died suddenly, Doreah was asking her father if he had purchased opera tickets that they had previously discussed attending. Salti had told relatives that she was returning home to Chicago for Presidents' Day weekend and planned to attend the performance at the Lyric Opera House on St. Patrick’s Day.

Isabella Salti, Doreah's twin sister, said they were planning a trip to Miami for their birthday in April. Doreah had even purchased bathing suits, sunglasses, and outfits for the birthday jaunt.

Isabella described her sister as a "happy, happy 18-year-old," who always had big dreams.

Doreah had been admitted to NYU’s summer program for artistry in Paris, France.

Doreah's father, a 57-year-old surgical oncologist at Edward Hospital in Illinois, doesn't believe that his daughter committed suicide.

"There was no mental health history, no [suicide] note, no bad grades, no substance abuse, no family history of mental health issues," George Salti told the New York Post. "She was fine … she was normal on that day."

Maria Salti, Doreah's mother, declared that the family was "100% confident Doreah would never take her own life."

George said that he had spoken to a New York City medical examiner, who also didn't believe that Doreah had purposely jumped to her death. Apparently, Doreah had severe injuries to her hands and wrists, which reportedly signals that she attempted to protect herself during the fall.

"She went head-first and covered her face," George explained. "Somebody who covers their face is trying to protect themselves, they are not trying to kill themselves."

He added, "The medical examiner indicated she does not think she jumped."

The distraught dad added, "I said, 'It sounds like foul play.' And she responded, 'Or an accident.'"

The medical examiner's office said Doreah's cause of death is "still a pending investigation."

However, the Salti family has hired a private investigator to unravel the mystery death. The family has also retained the services of Cohen & Gresser, a prominent international law firm.

Maria said, "Doreah was a bundle of joy. She was intelligent, funny, joyful, creative, a deep thinker, always looking forward — a dynamo. She always brought laughter to the family."

The mother noted, "Part of her college essay was about being a stand-up comedian. She was witty, she was smart."

"Words fall short of describing what losing a child is like," the grieving mother said. "We have to deal with the pain and the questions."

The father said more than 1,000 people attended her funeral at St. George Orthodox Church in Cicero, Illinois.

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NYU's 'nonbinary' Hamas apologist defaces posters for hostages hours after using ABC News as platform to double down on Israel criticism



The so-called "non-binary" New York University student who referred to Hamas' slaughter of over 1,400 Israelis and dozens of Americans earlier this month as "resistance" was recently given an opportunity by ABC News to amend her comments on national television. The unrepentant 24-year-old, Ryna Workman, doubled-down on her remarks and was seen hours later defacing posters of the hostages taken by the terrorist organization.

What's the background?

Days after the Hamas terror attacks, Workman, who refers to herself as an ungendered plurality, published a statement in her capacity as SBA president, saying, "This week, I want to express, first and foremost, my unwavering and absolute solidarity with Palestinians in their resistance against oppression toward liberation and self-determination. Israel bears full responsibility for this tremendous loss of life."

"This regime of state-sanctioned violence created the conditions that made resistance necessary. I will not condemn Palestinian resistance," she continued in her Oct. 10 statement. "Instead ... I condemn the violence of apartheid. I condemn the violence of settler colonialism. I condemn the violence of military occupation."

Blaze News reported that Workman's denunciation of Israel in the immediate aftermath of its attack by terrorists did not go unnoticed by her prospective employer with whom she was set to make a small fortune as a lawyer.

Winson & Strawn LLP ultimately rescinded the NYU law student's offer of employment.

Troy McKenzie, the dean of the law school, attempted to distance the school from Workman's pro-terror remarks, noting she did not speak for the school.

Days later, the NYU Student Bar Association moved to depose Workman.

According to the student paper Washington Square News, Workman's removal couldn't come fast enough. Last week, all members of the association stepped down.

Workman told the student paper, "You're seeing these resignations because it's a scary time to be speaking up for human rights right now, and I don't think it should be."

Workman further claimed in a statement, "The harassment campaign against me has targeted all facets of my identity: the fact that I am Black, the fact that I am queer, the fact that I am nonbinary. ... Regardless of how terrible my week has been, this attention on one student’s email to their fellow law students is entirely misplaced and a dangerous distraction. We must stay focused on what really matters, and that is doing all we can to prevent furthering the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza."

Doubling down

Workman appeared on "ABC News Live Prime" this week to discuss the backlash she has faced for signaling common cause with terrorists.

After the student regurgitated anti-Israeli talking points similar to those repeatedly advanced by leftists such as Democratic Reps. Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, ABC News host Linsey Davis asked, "If you were to redo the letter, obviously with the benefit of hindsight, anything you would have done differently?"

The student did not appear the slightest bit repentant for her remarks, answering, "I think I will continue to speak up for Palestinian human rights and use whatever platform I have available to me to call for a ceasefire and, you know, end this occupation that's harming the Palestinians."

Visibly dumbfounded by the student's response, Davis provided Workman with another opportunity to modify her previous glorification of savagery: "I'm just gonna try one more time. Would you change anything? Even the timing of it? Because some people felt it was too soon because your letter came before Israel even launched any kind of retaliation."

"I think it's important to note that the genocide happening right now did not start on Oct. 7, it started over 75 years ago," responded Workman. "We are seeing violence happening that is part of a much larger structural violence system that is happening in Palestine right now."

Davis asked whether Workman condemned Hamas' actions. The student doubled down on her previous remarks criticizing Israel, saying, "I think what I use my platform for and who I condemn was pretty clear by my message. And I think that I will continue to condemn apartheid and military occupation."

Davis changed tack, asking instead whether there was "room to have empathy for the Israelis who lost their lives, who were brutalized, who were raped and also empathy for the Palestinians? ... Do have empathy for the Israeli victims?"

Workman dodged the question and reiterated her call for a ceasefire.

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Back at it and joined by more NYU students

Hours after the interview, Workman was spotted dressed in the same garb in New York City defacing posters of Israeli civilians who had been taken hostage by Hamas, reported the New York Post.

A video uploaded to X shows her taping pro-Palestine rally advertisements over the hostage posters. The ads, for an Oct. 25 national student walkout, read, "NYU STUDENTS, DEMAND A FREE PALESTINE. ... Bring a mask, a friend, and a kufiyah if you have one."

The protest was aimed at demanding the university's divestment from Israel.

@ABCNewsLive @LinseyDavis She couldn\u2019t even change her interview outfit as she disgracefully walks around NYC covering up innocent hostage posters @ABCNewsLive @nyulaw @nyuniversity @WinstonLaw
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Workman was not alone in her Wednesday walkout. Hundreds of NYU students, including members from various groups such as Students for Justice in Palestine, Young Democratic Socialists of America, and Faculty for Justice in Palestine reportedly joined her, marching from Schwartz Plaza to Washington Square Park.

John Beckman, a spokesman for the university, indicated that the signs exhibited by the anti-Israel protesters were "antisemitic, repugnant, and a disgrace; they are, in a word, vile."

One sign read, "Where there is oppression, there will be resistance."

Another showed a blue Star of David in a garbage can with the caption, "Please keep the world clean," reported the Daily Mail.

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HORRIFYING: NYU students caught on camera REMOVING posters of missing Israelis



As the atrocities committed by Hamas continue in Israel, they continue as well right here in America.

It’s bad enough that rallies and celebrations in support of Palestine have been held across the country, but now, supporters are taking it a step further.

Dave Rubin plays a clip of two NYU students and a professor ripping down the posters of missing Israelis around campus.

“The gall of this,” says Dave before displaying an image of the posters the the trio was removing.

These posters are “not calling for death; they're not calling for murder ... they're just saying these people have been kidnapped [and] we would like these people back.”

“These kids don't know what they're protesting; they don't know what they're saying; they have been fed lies forever, and they're just pawns,” sighs Dave.


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