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Fifth Column

US indicts American-German man for attempted firebombing of US embassy’s Tel Aviv branch

2025-05-26

He was not named in the original report we had of the incident here. A photo of the smarmy git at the headline link.

[IsraelTimes] Joseph Neumeyer deported from Israel, arrested in New York after he left a backpack full of Molotov cocktails outside the embassy branch building earlier this month

A dual US-German national attempted to Molotov cocktail the Tel Aviv branch office of the US embassy in Israel last week and was deported back to the United States, the US Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York said on Sunday.

The suspect, Joseph Neumeyer, 28, from Colorado, arrived in Israel in April. He was arrested at his hotel on May 19 after leaving a backpack full of explosives near the US embassy branch, US prosecutors said.

He was then deported back to the US on May 25 and was arrested upon landing at John F. Kennedy International Airport. He is charged with attempting to destroy, by means of fire or explosive, the US Embassy mission.

Neumayer was arrested after he arrived outside the US embassy branch office carrying a backpack, and "without provocation," spat on an embassy guard, the US Department of Justice said. When the guard attempted to detain him, Neumeyer fled to his hotel room, but left his backpack behind.

Upon inspection, the backpack was found to contain three Molotov cocktails.

He was then tracked down and arrested at his hotel.

An investigation into Neumayer’s social media accounts following his arrest revealed that on the same day as he approached the US embassy branch, he had posted on Facebook:

"Join me as I burn down the embassy in Tel Aviv. Death to America, death to Americans, and f—k the west," according to court documents unsealed by the district attorney’s office.

According to the Ynet news site, he had also uploaded several other incendiary Facebook posts during his visit to Israel, including one featuring a swastika, and another — in which he commented on Israel’s participation in the Eurovision Song Contest — containing the phrase "Long live the Fourth Reich."

Ah. Classic neo-Nazi idiot — all is now explained, except why he flew all the way to Israel for his temper tantrum instead of hitting a local FBI office or something, since his plan clearly involved tossing his little firebombs against an exterior wall and running away.

The Department of Justice said a separate social media account believed to belong to Neumeyer had published threats to assassinate Trump.

"This defendant is charged with planning a devastating attack targeting our embassy in Israel, threatening death to Americans, and President Trump’s life," said US Attorney General Pam Bondi in a statement. "The Department will not tolerate such violence and will prosecute this defendant to the fullest extent of the law."

If convicted, Neumeyer faces a mandatory minimum sentence of five years in prison and a maximum of 20 years in prison, as well as a maximum fine of $250,000, the district attorney’s office said.

This despicable and ~~violent~~ mostly peaceful behavior will not be tolerated at home or abroad," said FBI Director Kash Patel. "The FBI, working with our partners, will bring him to face justice for his dangerous actions."

An interesting find, courtesy of The Thing From Snowy Mountain:

More social media posts by Joseph Neumeyer, who allegedly threatened to kill President Trump and @ElonMusk: pic.twitter.com/qwEyuB2ODI
— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) May 26, 2025

On May 19, Neumeyer posted on his Facebook account, “Join me this afternoon in Tel Aviv. We are burning down the U.S. embassy,” and, “Join me as I burn down the embassy in Tel Aviv. Death to America. Death to Americans and f—k the West.”

After making the Facebook posts, he traveled to the embassy with a backpack full of Molotov cocktails. A guard spotted Neumeyer, and he fled, leaving his backpack behind. He was later arrested at his hotel.

Neumeyer was deported from Israel to the United States and charged in the Eastern District of New York on May 24.

He was a former canvasser for Democrats and was a frequent donor to ActBlue. He also made posts on Facebook, threatening to assassinate President Trump and
@ElonMusk

Emphasis mine. So Antifa/Black Bloc rather than a neo-Nazi — but really, how is one to tell the difference?

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Britain

Watch: Inside The Secret Illegal Antifa Headquarters

2025-05-21

[ZERO] From Portland to Washington, D.C., and across Europe, the far-left extremist movement known as Antifa has unleashed years of orchestrated chaos driven by a radical, anti-capitalist agenda aimed at destabilizing the West. Now, for the first time, explosive undercover footage reveals life inside an illegal Antifa headquarters.

YouTuber The Urban Legend has released 30 minutes of explosive footage captured inside a secret and illegal Antifa headquarters in Manchester, United Kingdom.

The video reveals what appears to be a fully operational base—complete with stockpiles of food, racks of clothing, a sleeping area, and what looks like a makeshift revolutionary workshop for rioters.

They only pretend to be anarchists.

The footage offers a rare and disturbing glimpse into the behind-the-scenes of the revolutionary movement that has fueled unrest across the West.

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Europe

Antifa rioted in Milan, Italy at a violent direct action to try to shut down a conference (@resum25) about remigration (i.e., mass deportations) on May 17.

2025-05-20

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Antifa rioted in Milan, Italy at a violent direct action to try to shut down a conference (@resum25) about remigration (i.e., mass deportations) on May 17. pic.twitter.com/3sFuFsazJG
— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) May 19, 2025

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Home Front: WoT

The man who died bombing the fertility clinic in Palm Springs, Calif. allegedly did it as an act of war against the pro-life and pro-natalist movement

2025-05-19

[X] Follow up to this story from yesterday.

The man who died bombing the fertility clinic in Palm Springs, Calif. allegedly did it as an act of war against the pro-life and pro-natalist movement. A manifesto allegedly written by the man was posted online before the bombing.

It has some similarities to the rantings of the… pic.twitter.com/30FaRJdoS0
— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) May 18, 2025

BOMBING: The bomber of the Palm Springs fertility clinic was a Democrat named Guy Edward Bartkus, a member of a anti-natalist cult who believes that it’s wrong to have more children. He’s also an abolitionist vegan and an atheist who prefers satan. pic.twitter.com/xiQbI3bT0T
— @amuse (@amuse) May 18, 2025

What about Black Bloc/Antifa? That usually ends up being part of the package.

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Home Front: Politix

DNI Tulsi Gabbard says Biden-era domestic terrorism policy 'must end,' calls it an abuse of power

2025-05-15

Good move. They went after everybody but the murderous Moslem set, and had the shooters who were "known" somewhere toward the bottom of the list, below the Antifa set.

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard says the Biden-era mentality of treating conservatives and citizens with dissenting views like domestic gunnies was an "abuse of power," signaling that a 2021 memo that empowered the FBI to probe Americans for "concerning non-criminal behavior" is no longer operative.

Gabbard told Just the News in a statement Monday that she has ended the domestic terrorism approach of the Biden administration that was used to justify the targeting of conservative Catholics, gun enthusiasts and parents who protested school board policies.

In fact, officials said, domestic terrorism was recently removed as a top threat from the intelligence community’s national threat assessment as a first step in that transition.

Gabbard’s statement came after Just the News reported last week that a June 2021 domestic terrorism policy memo empowered federal agencies like the FBI and Homeland Security Department to open probes on Americans solely if an agent believed they had been involved in "concerning non-criminal behavior."

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Israeli lawmakers debate controversial 80% tax bill on foreign government donations to NGOs

2025-05-06

[IsraelTimes] Likud’s Ariel Kallner says law will ‘preserve’ Israel’s Jewish and democratic character; Hadash-Ta’al MK Tibi counters that it is intended to suppress Arab vote

Lawmakers in the Knesset

…Israel’s parliament…

Constitution, Law and Justice Committee on Monday began debating a controversial bill that would levy massive taxes on nongovernment organizations funded by foreign governments, and erode their right to file lawsuits in Israeli courts.

The bill, sponsored by Likud MK Ariel Kallner, would allow the government to tax foreign government donations to domestic nonprofits at a rate of 80 percent, while also stipulating that courts need not consider petitions by groups "primarily financed by a foreign political entity."

If passed into law, the legislation would apply to NGOs that do not also receive Israeli state funding. The finance minister, with the approval of the Knesset Finance Committee, would be allowed to exempt organizations from the new rules "in special circumstances."

Arguing in favor of the legislation, which passed a preliminary reading in the Knesset plenum in February, Kallner argued that sanctions imposed on ~~violent~~ mostly peaceful settlers by the Biden administration "came as a result of despicable blood libels by delegitimization organizations such as Breaking the Silence and others" — adding that between 2012 and 2024, "a little more than NIS 1.3 billion ($360 million) flowed from foreign countries to 83 left-wing organizations, some of which are downright anti-Zionist."

"This is a psychotic reality that distorts the discourse," he declared, railing against "foreign-funded legal warfare against the state" by human rights
One man's rights are another man's existential threat.
groups petitioning the High Court of Justice.

"The law is not against civil society, but for it, against its distortion," Kallner asserted. "The law will preserve a Jewish state, preserve democracy, and block illegal foreign intervention."

Committee chairman Simcha Rothman (Religious Zionism) agreed, claiming that foreign money funded opposition to the coalition’s judicial overhaul agenda, while "the attorney general prohibited the justice minister from using state money to produce public diplomacy [relating to] the reform."

Groups such as B’Tselem, Breaking the Silence, and the New Israel Fund have long been targeted by the Israeli right and even the political center over their focus on alleged Israeli human rights abuses against the Paleostinians.

"When it comes to the Arab public, there is no doubt that part of the politician’s intention is to prevent campaigns to encourage voting in Arab society," Hadash-Ta’al MK Ahmad Tibi told the committee.

Accusing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party of seeking to harm Arab political representation, Tibi lamented that the coalition was also working to pass a bill "that aims to make it easier to disqualify Arab lists."

Where the Arab lists are funded by foreign interests — like the US State Department during the Obama and Biden administrations — yes.

Last month, politicians voted 22-0 to approve the first reading of a bill to disqualify a candidate or list of candidates from running in municipal elections on the grounds that they have denied the existence of the State of Israel as Jewish and democratic, or expressed support for terrorism or armed struggle against Israel.

"If anyone is worried about foreign interference, let them go check past laws to see where the money of oligarchs who support political parties over the years went, and what happened in the Prime Minister’s Office," declared Yesh Atid MK Yoav Segalovich, alluding to the ongoing Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
gate scandal.

The Shin Bet and police are currently investigating members of Netanyahu’s inner circle over alleged ties between them and Doha as part of the probe. They are suspected of multiple offenses tied to their alleged work for a pro-Qatar lobbying firm, including contact with a foreign agent and a series of corruption charges involving lobbyists and businessmen.

Speaking with The Times of Israel in February, Noa Sattath, the executive director of the Association of Civil Rights in Israel, accused the government of attacking liberal civil society groups while leaving right-wing organizations untouched.

"This proposed legislation is a direct assault on Israel’s democracy and part of the ongoing judicial coup. It represents a systematic attack on all institutions that check government power, and specifically targets human rights organizations working to protect minorities in Israel and Paleostinians in the occupied territories," Sattath said.

"The selective taxation targets only foreign state funding from Israel’s closest allies — including the United States and European Union

...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
member states — who support democracy, human rights, and minority protection. Meanwhile,
...back at the argument, Jane reached into her purse for her .38...
right-wing organizations relying on private donations remain unaffected, and the finance minister has discretionary power to exempt certain organizations, while those receiving state funding are automatically excluded."

A previous version of the bill was shelved during an international uproar, nearly two years ago.

That proposal, also sponsored by Kallner, did not touch on NGOs’ legal standing, but mandated that any nonprofit group that engaged in public advocacy two years before or after receiving a donation from a foreign government would lose its status as a public institution and would no longer be eligible for tax exemptions, and in addition would be hit with a 65% income tax.

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Great White North

Alberta Canada just started a petition to become the 51st state of America

2025-05-03

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Alberta Canada just stated a petition to become the 51st state of America.

Alberta is based. pic.twitter.com/IfpX26Xwbo
— AmericanPapaBear (@AmericaPapaBear) May 2, 2025

Spokesman Jeffrey Rath: Exploratory committee representing possibly hundreds. Interesting, but not likely at this stage that anything will come of it.

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-Lurid Crime Tales-

Chicago authorities charge man with hate crime for attack of Jewish DePaul students

2025-04-19

[IsraelTimes] Adam Erkan, 20, allegedly assaulted two students in November; one of the students says he’s afraid of attending classes on campus because of antisemitic threats against him

One of the men who allegedly beat two Jewish DePaul University students after one showed support for Israel last November has been charged with a hate crime.

Adam Erkan, 20, has been charged with two counts of aggravated battery and hate crime, the Cook County State Attorney’s Office announced this week.

The arrest comes as DePaul’s president has been summoned to testify in Congress about antisemitism on his campus. Robert Manuel is scheduled to appear on May 7 before a House committee that set the tenor for federal scrutiny of antisemitism on college campuses in the aftermath of Hamas’s October 7, 2023, attack on Israel.

The arrest also comes two weeks after the students who were allegedly attacked in November, Max Long and Michael Kaminsky, filed a lawsuit against DePaul, saying that the Jesuit university failed to protect Jewish students on campus.

DePaul denounced the attack when it was reported, saying the school was “outraged” and was working with Chicago police to find the perpetrators and determine whether the individuals “targeted our students because of their Jewish identity.”

On Thursday, the school said Erkan was not affiliated with DePaul and expressed gratitude to law enforcement. “Acts of hate and violence have no place at DePaul,” the school said in a statement. “We condemn antisemitism in all its forms and stand in solidarity with those affected by this reprehensible act.”

Long is an IDF reservist who was in Israel when Hamas attacked. He operates a nonprofit that aims to help lone soldiers — those who move to Israel from abroad without their families to enlist in the IDF. Since October 7, amid growing criticism of the IDF and backlash against its soldiers abroad, he has worked to bring reservists to college campuses to share their stories.

On his own campus, he made a habit of draping himself in an Israeli flag and holding a sign that said, “Come talk about Israel with an IDF soldier.” He was engaged in that work outside DePaul’s student center in November when two masked individuals allegedly shouted antisemitic remarks and proceeded to punch him. Kaminsky then allegedly stepped in to help Long. The students declined medical treatment at the scene, DePaul said, but Kaminsky discovered a fractured wrist that required surgery, while Long said he had suffered a concussion with long-lasting effects.

Following the attack, several Jewish organizations protested on DePaul’s campus to demand action against antisemitism. Last month, the school barred a Chicago pro-Palestinian activist group, Behind Enemy Lines, from its campus. And the nonprofit Lawfare Project, representing Jews seeking civil rights redress, took up the Jewish students’ case.

Kaminsky and Long’s lawsuit against DePaul alleges that the school failed to protect the students despite a pattern of prior threats and harassment against Long. The lawsuit alleges that, since the attack, students have posted fliers describing Long as “wanted” and accusing him of being an “IDF butcher.” He told local news that he was so fearful of physical attacks that he dropped a course that required him to be on campus.

Now that one of the alleged perpetrators has been arrested, Kaminsky — a criminal justice major who recently received the “Student Activist of the Year” award from the Combat Antisemitism Movement — said he felt some relief.

“I think there is a little sigh of relief knowing that one of the two violent perpetrators who went out of their way to attack two Jewish students is now off the streets for the time being,” Kaminsky told ABC News following Erkan’s arrest.

ABC7 Chicago has video and photos of the attackers, adding:

A judge has ordered the man accused of attacking two Jewish students on DePaul University's Lincoln Park campus to be detained. Adam Erkan, 20, is facing aggravated battery and hate crime charges nearly five months after the attack.

Chicago police allege it was Erkan, a student studying cybersecurity at Triton College, who beat students Max Long and Michael Kaminsky, one of them an Israeli soldier, late last year, leaving them with a concussion and broken wrist.

Video shows that violent encounter from Nov. 6. It shows two masked men beat and knock down Long and Kaminsky.

The two said they were advocating for conversation outside the university's Student Center about the Israel-Hamas War.

On Thursday, a judge ordered Erkan to be detained in Cook County Jail until his next hearing April 22 in Skokie, calling him a danger. Judge James Costello said he couldn't think of a scenario to release Erkan and guarantee students' safety.

In court, prosecutors spelled out the details of Erkan's movements in what the judge deemed a "concentrated plan."

Prosecutors said Erkan, cloaked in a ski mask, initiated a conversation with Long. The second suspect, who remains at large, knocked Long to the ground, unconscious, prosecutors said. As that happened, prosecutors say Erkan beat Kaminsky, and they say both attackers continued to beat Long and Kaminsky before running off.

Prosecutors say Erkan and his co-assailant's sprint from campus was captured on surveillance video. Some of the clothes the second man is seen wearing, they say, were found in a trashcan nearby, and video shows Erkan's SUV speeding off.

Erkan has hired a private attorney.

His father, who lives in New Jersey, was also in court Thursday.

Prosecutors said Erkan was seen near the scene in a car registered to his father, and that's partially how he was tracked down. Prosecutors said Erkan's father identified his son in surveillance video in February. The vehicle was traced to Hoffman Estates.

Another suspect remains at large, who was in Tinley Park for part of the day of the attack, prosecutors said. Erkan and the other suspect spoke on the phone that day, prosecutors said. Police have a warrant for Erkan's phone and watch, but have not yet been able to access them.

Erkan has been ordered not to have contact with the victims or witnesses in the attack. He has no prior criminal history, his attorney said.

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Home Front: Politix

J6er Explains Why He’s Running for Office

2025-04-13

[PJMedia] Former Jan. 6 prisoner Jake Lang, having survived years in jail without trial and much of it in solitary confinement, is now running for Senate in Florida.

Lang declared in exclusive comments to PJ Media that his Senate run is part of "the beginning of a new era of politics that Donald Trump
...Oh, noze! Not him!...
started," as he was also an "outlier, being the one who broke through the political mold as a political outsider, and paving the way for the next generation of American patriots, and not your typical political candidates, to run."

Such candidates, Lang emphasized, "have been through persecution like myself and President Trump, that have had our own government turn against us to try to destroy us, the Deep State apparatchiks." The American people, Lang said, are tired of the "establishment, Uniparty hacks that the GOP has put forth for decades and decades that have worked hand in hand with the Democrats
...every time you hear the phrase white people, white supremacy, white anything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat. Ask him/her/it to reimagine something for you; they do that a lot, though not well. They can hear a dog whistle a mile or two away. They invented the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and inspired the addition of the word (Thomas) Nasty to the English language. They want to stop continental drift and repeal the law of unintended side effects...
to nearly destroy our country. And people want to see ... drastic, revolutionary change, which is what the MAGA movement is about."

The Jan. 6 protestors originally meant their protest at the Capitol, which was not intended to be ~~violent~~ mostly peaceful, as "a cry out for change." Lang believes his four years in abusive prison conditions prepared him to run for office, and "poignantly marks that change in America, and I can't wait to be a part of this new golden era that Donald Trump had proclaimed during the State of the Union address." He hopes other Jan. 6ers will "answer the call to public service and to change this country."

Lang and I also discussed parallels between "the weaponization of our government" under the Biden administration that threatened our constitutional republic and the sentencing of popular right-leaning leader Marine Le Pen in La Belle France. Donald Trump narrowly escaped being "incarcerated for the rest of his life, along with myself and many of his supporters, not just Jan. 6ers, but other people they would have dragged into [it], including" Trump’s co-defendants. This "political persecution that almost marred America and made us like the third world banana republics," nearly turned us into "the despotic regimes that we see all across the world that try to silence and persecute political adversaries," Lang argued.

Lang reflected on his time in "prison for four years and six days, two and a half years, of solitary confinement, just five miles away from the United States Capitol in the DC jail. That was a blemish ... on the American way of life and our justice system." Thus, his campaign promise is "to end the era of political persecution, to re-establish the rule of law that is non-selective, non-prejudicial, non-biased, but even and equally applied and fairly applied across the board."

He slammed RINOs such as Mitch McConnell and John Thune, who have spent too long collecting a paycheck while not fulfilling their promises to voters. Some Republican senators have even at different points promoted "woke nonsense that villainizes Donald Trump and his supporters," while weaseling out on condemning "~~violent~~ mostly peaceful gunnies on the Black Lives Matter and the Hamas
Hamas

..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
and the Antifa
...the armed wing of the Democratic Party...
movements."

Strong senators are needed, Lang told me, to fight the "Marxist cultural shifts that they've tried to push upon us, including the [Covid] vaccine, the transgenderism, the increas[ing] prostrating before the raci[st] elements of our country," which occasionally infects even the Republican Party. He vows "to back President Trump's agenda 100% and to stand by him loyally and to show fidelity and strength," unlike some senators, "as a firebrand
...firebrands are noted more for audio volume and the quantity of spittle generated than for any actual logic in their arguments...
, as the new era of MAGA Republicans."

Lang sees his duty as representing the American people against the Deep State, with "patriotism and conservatism in the halls of Senate and all of Congress." In the past, the Senate has had even more RINOs than the House, unfortunately.

The arrest of Le Pen in La Belle France is "a warning" to Americans, Lang said, "if you follow along this path, this is where you will end up with the despotic government bringing down its power upon your ability to even control and pick who are your leaders. And we almost saw that in America." Fortunately, in America, the "will of the people superseded the worst contortions of the Deep State and of the demonic entities that would like to see our country destroyed," but for a while under Biden and Harris our fate hung on "a very thin thread."

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Fifth Column

Lawsuit accusing UC Berkeley of tolerating antisemitism can proceed, US judge rules

2025-04-03

[IsraelTimes] Court refuses to weigh in on assertion that Zionism is core tenet of Judaism, saying doing so would be unconstitutional, but allows equal protection and civil rights claims

A US federal judge has said Jewish groups may pursue a lawsuit accusing the University of Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,, Berkeley, of tolerating an "unrelenting" stream of antisemitic harassment toward Jewish students and faculty, in a decision made public on Tuesday.

US District Judge James Donato said two Jewish groups may pursue equal protection, free exercise of religion, and civil rights claims against school officials, including University of California President Michael Drake and former UC Berkeley chancellor Carol Christ.

Donato said the plaintiffs plausibly alleged that Jewish students and professors were treated differently at UC Berkeley because they are Jewish, and that the school was "deliberately indifferent to the on-campus harassment and hostile environment."

The plaintiffs had cited myriad instances, including an Israeli professor having her invitation to teach at the school revoked; protesters calling Israeli students "Talmudic devils"; and a student with a Star of David necklace being surrounded by masked protesters, who told him, "Zionists can go back to Europe."

At the same time, the the Socialist paradise of San Francisco

...where God struck dead Anton LaVey, home of the Sydney Ducks, ruled by Vigilance Committee from 1859 through 1867, reliably and volubly Democrat since 1964...
-based judge dismissed a contract-based claim surrounding student organizations’ bylaws prohibiting those who espouse Zionist beliefs.

He also, notably, declined to take up the plaintiff’s assertion that "Zionism is a central tenet of the Jewish faith," saying that for the court to weigh in on such a matter would raise "a serious constitutional problem," as it would involve weighing in on religious doctrine.

"It may be that the Court may properly determine whether Zionism is a sincerely held religious belief for some individuals, as circumstances might warrant, but the Court will not determine if it is a central tenet of Judaism," Donato wrote.

Lawyers for the defendants did not immediately respond on Wednesday to requests for comment.

The plaintiffs are the nonprofit Louis D. Brandeis Center and Jewish Americans for Fairness in Education, a nationwide group whose members include UC Berkeley staff and students.

Many top US colleges and universities have been accused of tolerating antisemitism and mishandling protests after Hamas
..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
’s October 7, 2023, attack on Israel — in which snuffies killed some 1,200 people and took 251 hostages — started the ongoing war in the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
Strip.

The demonstrations frequently included open endorsements of violence and support for terror groups. They also sparked waves of arrests as well as some suspensions and expulsions, which many pro-Paleostinian groups have condemned as an attack on free speech.

Last month, US President Donald Trump
...His ancestors didn't own any slaves...
canceled $400 million of federal funding for Columbia University over its alleged failure to police antisemitism.

His administration also sent letters to 60 schools including UC Berkeley in March, warning of possible enforcement actions if they did not address antisemitic harassment and discrimination.

John Coghlan, a lawyer for plaintiffs in the UC Berkeley lawsuit, called Donato’s decision "an overwhelming victory" for his clients.

"We’re looking forward to continuing to fight for the Jewish community at Berkeley," he said in an interview. "To the extent there is greater momentum toward combating antisemitism, that helps our case."

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Fifth Column

Universities are Suspending Students for Justice in Palestine Chapters

2025-04-03

[HotAir] Yesterday the University of Pittsburgh suspended the school's chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP). The suspension was in response to a protest the group carried out a protest at the school library in December.

Following a study-in organized by students at Hillman Library during the last week of the fall semester, the Office of Student Conduct is requiring SJP to complete a conduct hearing. As the only registered Palestine advocacy club at Pitt, potential sanctions may throw the future of pro-Palestinian organizing on campus into question...

At the study-in, students surrounded themselves with Palestinian flags, keffiyehs and signs with messages such as “hands off Palestine” and “there are no universities left in Gaza” while studying at tables...

The Office of Student Conduct alleged that SJP “promoted and hosted an event” in a non-reservable part of the library, according to the incident description provided to SJP by the office. Posts from SJP’s Instagram at the time attribute the gathering to “autonomous student activists.” A club co-president said SJP did not organize this gathering and only made these posts to “amplify” the study-in.

This is the sort of legal fiction that groups like this often seek to create when breaking the rules: It wasn't us it was an autonomous collective of students who happen to be members in our group.

In this case it didn't work. The SJP chapter was called in for a disciplinary meeting and given an interim suspension on March 18. While that suspension was in place, the group then hosted an event marching across the campus.

A group of pro-Palestinian protesters defied an order from their university to stop holding events when they held a march across the University of Pittsburgh campus on Saturday.

Pitt placed Students for Justice in Palestine on interim suspension this past week, saying members of their group improperly communicated with members of the university conduct hearing board. As part of the suspension, they would not be allowed to hold events.

This is not the only school that has recently suspended an SJP chapter. UCLA banned its chapter of the group last week over a protest at the home of a UC Regent.

The UCLA groups were under interim suspensions since Feb. 12, when Chancellor Julio Frenk announced the restrictions in a campuswide message, citing “violence” during a Feb. 5 action at the home of UC Regent Jay Sures.

“No one should ever fear for their safety. Without the basic feeling of safety, humans cannot learn, teach, work and live — much less thrive and flourish. This is true no matter what group you are a member of — or which identities you hold. There is no place for violence in our Bruin community,” Frenk’s letter said.

At the time, the student groups replied via Instagram statements, saying they rejected “Frenk’s accusations that student protesters have committed violence against the UCLA community.”

Sures, vice chairman at United Talent Agency, said he was targeted because he is Jewish. In addition to photos that showed his property vandalized with red blood-like handprints, there was video of protesters briefly surrounding Sures’ wife in her car as she tried to drive to work.

UCLA is not the first UC campus to ban the group.

UCLA joins several other UC campuses and others throughout the country that have banned or suspended Students for Justice in Palestine, including UC Irvine, UC San Diego and UC Santa Cruz.

Other schools across the country have also been banning or suspending the group including the University of Michigan, Tufts, Brown, Rutgers and Swarthmore. This group is wearing out its welcome and that's good news because this group is clearly pro-Hamas and is willing to break school rules/laws in order to promote its cause.

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Fifth Column

Portland leftist arrested after allegedly trying to blind staff working inside a Portland Tesla showroom

2025-04-03

[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

A radical Portland leftist named Davis Loren Nafshun was arrested on March 29 after allegedly trying to blind staff working inside a Portland Tesla showroom using a powerful green laser. The laser, which Antifa also used in 2020 at the riots to injure the eyes of officers… pic.twitter.com/GqYKoQpnAG
— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) April 3, 2025

Let’s make it a crime to shine that at people, on the level of assault with a deadly weapon. Blinding people is not at all like teasing the cat to leqp up walls after the little, red dot.

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