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The Anti-Defamation League’s (ADL) Midwest chapter issued a statement slamming Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, for reaching an agreement with anti-Israel protesters who had established an encampment on campus.

Columbia University has reportedly started suspending students involved in an anti-Israel encampment established on the campus grounds.

Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) expressed his full “support” for the United States to “bring in” Palestinian refugees from Gaza.

Anti-Israel protesters at Columbia University defied an order to clear an encampment, threatening to “burn” the university.

The IRGC of Iran claimed on Monday that Israel counted on the support of ten nations to block an unprecedented missile attack from Tehran.

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) is pressuring the mayor of Washington, DC, Democrat Muriel Bowser, to get out of the way of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) and let cops clear the rowdy leftist protesters off the campus of George Washington University.

Bill Gates announced his foundation will open an office in Riyadh as Saudi Arabia pledged $500 million to a polio vaccination initiative.

Pro-Palestinian student activists blockaded the entrances of the Sorbonne University in Paris following similar incident at Sciences Po.

The Iran-backed Houthi terrorists of Yemen claimed this weekend to have brought down a $30 million U.S. Reaper drone, the third one in six months if confirmed.

Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) criticized anti-Israel protesters taking part in encampments that have been established on several college and university campuses within the past week.

Protesters at an anti-Israel “encampment” in Harvard Yard removed an American flag from University Hall, the central administration building, and flew a Palestinian flag in its place Saturday before university staff intervened.

Roughly 2,000 pro-Israel counter-demonstrators gathered at UCLA on Sunday to protest near a “Palestine Solidarity Encampment” that was set up last week on campus.

Green Party presidential candidate Dr. Jill Stein was arrested with more than 100 others at an anti-Israel protest on the campus of Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, her campaign said.

The University of Texas at Austin suspended the Palestine Solidarity Committee, a registered student group at the campus and a chapter of the national Students for Justice in Palestine. The move follows several campus protests last week that saw nearly 60 people arrested for criminal trespass. The arrests occurred on Wednesday after law enforcement orders to disperse and leave the central tower area of the campus were ignored.

A law enforcement officer tackled a protester during an anti-Israel demonstration Thursday at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.

Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s “right-wing extremist and racist government ” was causing a humanitarian disaster in Gaza.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) approved a plan Sunday for attacking the final Hamas stronghold in the city of Rafah in southern Gaza, near the Egyptian border, as U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken prepared to visit on Tuesday.

French Foreign Minister Stéphane Séjourné arrived in Lebanon to try to broker a deescalation in the conflict on the Lebanon-Israel border.

The World Holocaust Remembrance Center — Yad Vashem – on Sunday expressed its dismay at reports of Holocaust memorials and monuments being covered in both the U.S. and the United Kingdom to shield them from marauding pro-Palestinian protesters.

Singer-songwriter John Ondrasik — also known by the moniker Five for Fighting — condemned the “evil that is Hamas” during a recent performance in Tel Aviv.

Pro-Palestinian protesters slammed members of the media and celebrities who were arriving outside of the Washington Hilton to attend the White House Correspondents Dinner.

Ships carrying humanitarian aid traveling from Turkey to Gaza were denied the right to sail by an international shipping registry.

Leftist “squad” member Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) was tricked by a social media parody account claiming to be from the “Chief Rabbi of Gaza.”

Police arrested approximately 100 people at an anti-Israel encampment on Saturday at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts.

On Friday’s broadcast of NPR’s “Morning Edition,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that China “is looking to take appropriate action” in the Middle East. Blinken stated, [relevant remarks begin around 6:10] “[W]hen it comes to China, one of the

Columbia University banned a student protester who made remarks that “Zionists don’t deserve to live,” a university spokesperson said.

Seth Greenwald, who hopes to graduate in May from the University of Texas School of Law, is a fortunate survivor of the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel. Greenwald described his experience in Israel during the horrific attack that claimed the lives of nearly 1,200 people in Israel. During a video interview, Greenwald told Breitbart Texas he was spat on twice and told to “go back to Poland” during a pro-Palestine demonstration on the university’s campus earlier this week.

The UK is considering deploying troops to deliver aid to Gaza following the construction of an offshore floating pier, the BBC reported.

On Friday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan stated that it’s “not clear” that it’s even possible for Israel to have “a credible plan” for an invasion of Rafah that the White House

White House National Security Communications Adviser John Kirby stated that there have been too many civilians killed in Gaza and the number of civilian casualties “needs to be zero.”

Several universities in Israel have called out the increasing antisemitism happening on university and college campuses in the United States, offering “support” to faculty and students.

During a portion of an interview with CNN National Security Correspondent Kylie Atwood on Friday that was aired on Friday’s broadcast of CNN International’s “One World,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken reacted to demonstrations on college campuses by stating that “we

Iranian officials and media express support for the vicious and violent antisemitic protests breaking out on American college campuses.

A group of about a dozen activists physically shoved this reporter out of the “Palestine Solidarity Encampment” on the campus of the University of California Los Angeles, a public university, on Friday.

Several groups involved in organizing anti-Israel protests that have broken out at college campuses since last week have received money from organizations funded by left-wing billionaire George Soros, according to a report.

Liberty University students gathered for a massive worship event on Wednesday, as anti-Israel protests erupt on campuses across the nation.