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Britain

Thousands in London protest Trump’s Gaza proposal, demand arms embargo on Israel

2025-02-16

[IsraelTimes] March to US Embassy, organized by Palestine Solidarity Campaign, sees antisemitic chants and slogans; draws small band of pro-Israel counterprotesters

Thousands of pro-Paleostinian and anti-Israel demonstrators marched through central London to the United States embassy on Saturday to protest against US President Donald Trump
...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party...
’s proposal that the US "take over" 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...
and turn it into the "Riviera of the Middle East."

Waving Paleostinian flags and placards saying "Hands off Gaza," several thousand people walked from Whitehall in Westminster over the River Thames to the embassy in Nine Elms, chanting, among other slogans, "From the river to the sea, Paleostine will be free," according to the Daily Mail.

Among those in attendance was former Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn, who was seen at the front of a bloc marching under a banner demanding to "stop arming Israel."

Of course. How could he possibly stay away?

Several attendees could be seen holding signs with inflammatory language or symbols emblazoned on them, including a man identified as 69-year-old John Hamilton, who the Daily Mail reported was carrying a placard featuring two swastikas that he claimed were a way to "draw comparisons between the Zionists and the Nazis." The sign was inside an evidence bag, to draw attention to an identical sign that had been taken from him when he was arrested during a November 2023 protest.

Earlier this month, Trump stunned the world when he suggested the US could redevelop the war-torn Gaza Strip into a prime real estate location as a means of rebuilding it. His proposal envisages resettling Paleostinians elsewhere, chiefly in Jordan and Egypt, apparently with no plan for them ever to return, despite other members of his administration and Israel insisting it would be a temporary measure. Other Western leaders and the Arab world have widely condemned the idea.

Protesters held banners that read, "Stand up to Trump" and "Mr Trump, Canada is not your 51st state. Gaza is not your 52nd."

"I think it’s completely immoral and illegal and also impractical and absurd," 87-year-old Holocaust survivor Stephen Kapos told AFP.

"You simply cannot deport two million people, especially that the surrounding countries already said that they wouldn’t take them, not out of the goodness of their heart but because it would destabilize those countries," he said.

"So it’s not going to happen but it does a lot of damage simply stating that as an endgame," he added.

The march, organized by the Paleostine Solidarity Campaign (PSC), was the 24th major pro-Paleostinian and anti-Israel protest in Britannia’s capital since Hamas
Hamas

..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
’s October 7, 2023 assault on Israel.

The assault — in which thousands of bully boyz invaded southern Israel from the Gaza Strip, killing some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and taking 251 hostages, amid acts of brutality and sexual assault — sparked immediate demonstrations worldwide, even prior to Israel’s response.

The PSC has faced heavy backlash in recent weeks, after newly obtained information from the Metropolitan Police Service showed that the group first filed a request to hold an anti-Israel protest shortly after noon on October 7, some eight hours after Hamas breached the Israel-Gaza border in multiple places, invaded Israel and began its slaughter.

At the time that the request was filed, the massacre was ongoing and the IDF was scrambling to regain control of the southern communities invaded by Hamas. Israel was still far from fully understanding the scale of the unfolding disaster.

A heavy police presence was deployed as officers kept protesters away from a counter-march led by the "Stop the Hate" group, founded post-October 7 to respond to the frequent anti-Israel marches.

The Telegraph reported that protestors from the main demonstration shouted, among other things, "Zionist pig," and "Khaybar, Khaybar, oh Jews, the army of Mohammad will return" — an Arabic chant referring to an ancient battle between Moslems and Jews — at the pro-Israel counterprotestors.

Stop the Hate also shared a series of signs on social media that it found particularly egregious, including a map labeled "Paleostine" with the borders of the entire State of Israel, several comparisons of Israel to Nazi Germany and the war in Gaza to the Holocaust, and a sign alleging that both major parties in the UK and the US are "owned by Israel."

"Antisemitic tropes were popular at today’s PSC protest. Placards about Jewish power are never called out by the organisers," the group said on X.

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Hours after Hamas invaded on Oct. 7, UK anti-Israel group began planning mass protest

2025-02-08

[IsraelTimes] As massacre was unfolding, Palestine Solidarity Campaign asked police in London to approve demo the following week; Campaign Against Antisemitism: PSC ‘rushed to activism while Jews were being slaughtered’

Pro-Paleostinian, anti-Israel activists in the UK began organizing a large anti-Israel demonstration in central London even as the Hamas
Hamas

..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
onslaught in southern Israel was unfolding, UK news outlets have reported, citing information revealed by the Freedom of Information Act.

Soon after midday on October 7, 2023, the Paleostine Solidarity Campaign sought and obtained police approval for a mass protest to be held a week later, the reports said on Thursday.

A recent request for information from the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) showed that the Paleostine Solidarity Campaign called the police shortly after noon on October 7 — some eight hours after Hamas breached the Israel-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...
border in multiple places, invaded Israel and began its slaughter — to inform the police of its intention to hold a demonstration against Israel the following Saturday, on October 14, 2023.

The Palestine Solidarity Campaign called the police shortly after noon on October 7 — some eight hours after Hamas breached the Israel-Gaza border in multiple places, invaded Israel and began its slaughter — to inform the police of its intention to hold a demonstration against Israel the following Saturday, on October 14, 2023.

At the time that the request was filed, the massacre was ongoing and the IDF was scrambling to regain control of the southern communities invaded by Hamas. Israel was still far from fully understanding the scale of the unfolding disaster. In total, some 1,200 people were killed that day, most of them civilians, and 251 were taken hostage and dragged back to the Gaza Strip.

The police approved the October 14 demonstration, and it went ahead, as did other anti-Israel marches and protests elsewhere in the UK. Numerous anti-Israel demonstrations have been held in the UK since.

"The Met was contacted on Saturday, Oct. 7 at approximately 12:50 p.m., via telephone call and informed of the intention to protest," a police spokesperson said in response to the request for information, as cited by the Telegraph. "The Met committed this to our systems on the same day and are satisfied being contacted by telephone was a sufficient means in which to notify the MPS as the event was taking place seven days after notification."

Responding to the report, the Campaign Against Antisemitism told the Daily Mail that "this revelation ends the charade that the Paleostine Solidarity Campaign is a peaceful advocacy group."

"For sixteen months, the Metropolitan Police has allowed regular anti-Israel marches by a group that rushed to activism while Jews were being slaughtered," the group added.

In a statement to the Telegraph, PSC defended its decision to begin organizing a protest on October 7, while the mass-murder of Israelis was in progress, claiming that "it was already clear" Israel would respond to the Hamas onslaught with "indiscriminate violence."

"It is entirely appropriate, therefore, that PSC would call for a protest that would seek an immediate ceasefire and call for the root causes of Israeli occupation and apartheid to be addressed," a front man for the group said.

He accused those opposed to the PSC’s actions on October 7 of attempting to "deflect attention from the crimes against humanity that Israel has committed."

Thousands of people rallied on October 14 in London and other UK cities, demanding "Freedom for Paleostine" and denouncing Israel. In London, demonstrators massed near BBC News’ headquarters before an afternoon rally near then-prime minister Rishi Sunak’s Downing Street office and residence. There were festivities in Trafalgar Square when activists threw bottles, placards and flares at the police, according to the Daily Mail, and at least 15 people were arrested.

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This is the Labour Party: Holocaust education exhibit denied space in Parliament for being ‘too political’

2025-02-03

[JewishChronicle] The National Holocaust Museum (NHM) has been denied permission to run an exhibition in Westminster Hall on the grounds that it was too political.

In correspondence seen by the JC, authorities told NHM, who wished to set up the display for Holocaust Memorial Day, that "Westminster Hall is a politically neutral space and activity which could be perceived as campaigning/lobbying or trying to influence political opinions would not be permitted".

They were instead offered to apply for a space in the Upper Waiting Hall, a much less central location in the Palace of Westminster.

The exhibition tells the story of the Jewish communities in Berlin, Baghdad, Kielce (Poland), Aden (Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
) and southern Israel and the pogroms that led to their ethnic cleansing in 1938, 1941, 1946, 1947 and 2023 respectively.

“How dare you claim that noble brown Moslems were ever mean to the Jews like eeeevil rightwing Nazis! And how dare you claim that there were native, brown Jews in the Middle East who were not white European colonizers!!” *hands over ears, eyes screwed shut* “Lalalalalalala — I can’t hear you!!!!!!”

Titled The Vicious Circle organisers also have plans to for international showcases in Tallinn, Berlin and the European Parliament in Brussels.

However,
the difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits...
despite the claims of political neutrality, the JC understands that the controversial Paleostine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) was allowed to display the Paleostinian flag in Westminster Hall as they organised supportive activists to lobby MPs.

The JC has previously reported about signs on display at PSC-organised marches comparing Israel’s war in 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...
with the Holocaust, displays of support for Hamas
Hamas

..always the voice of sweet reason...
and Hezbollah and suggestion that the BBC is controlled by Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and "infested" with "Zionists".

It can’t be forbidden behaviour if the Labour staffers believe it to be a higher truth, no matter the fiddlin’ facts.

NHM Director Marc Cave told the JC: "On Holocaust Memorial Day, Britannia’s remembrance of the only industrialised, multi-country genocide ever known was extremely moving. Its support for our community of Holocaust survivors was heart-warming.

"Why does our desire to highlight the delusion that drives all murder of Jews so unsettle the Westminster Hall committee? The Holocaust is not finished business. It has been reopened by haters welcomed into Parliament — a group who play their part in driving the next turn of the Vicious Circle against Jews."

They don’t want to know. If they knew, they’d have to do something about it, when they really just want the Jews to stop making such a fuss.

He added: "A Parliament which does not therefore welcome an exhibition which presents an alternative view, based on hard facts and zero ’lobbying’ content — is not the democratic institution I believed it was.

"It is only fair that Westminster Hall accords us the same democratic opportunity it has granted to monomaniacs who absurdly pin all the world’s problems on 0.2 per cent of its population."

However,
the difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits...
Parliamentary authorities insisted that the signs which the PSC were allowed to display in Westminster Hall were temporary and solely for the purpose of directing guests during their mass lobby event.

A mass lobby is when a large number of people contact their MPs in advance and all arrange to meet with them at Parliament on the same day to discuss a particular cause.

Both the Trades Union Congress and The Guide Dogs for the Blind Association were also allowed to display signage for the purposes of directing activists during their mass lobbies of parliament, and authorities said that these weren’t comparable to an exhibition.

A parliamentary spokesperson told the JC: "Requests for exhibitions in Westminster Hall are taken on a case-by-case basis, and many requests are made throughout the year. These are completely different to mass lobbies — signage is considered on a case-by-case basis for the sole purposes of directing individuals during a mass lobby."

Meanwhile,
...back at the shootout, Butch cautiously raised his hat over the edge of the horse trough on the end of a stick......
ahead of Holocaust Memorial Day, an exhibition put on by the Holocaust Educational Trust was on display in another prominent location in Westminster.

Testimony 360: People and Places of the Holocaust, located in Portcullis House — the newer part of the parliamentary estate where many MPs have their offices and routinely meet guests — features cutting-edge AI and virtual reality technology that allows MPs and visitors to Westminster to ask questions to a digital version of Holocaust survivor Manfred Goldberg BEM, and virtually explore the sites from his testimony.

Speaker of the House of Commons Sir Lindsay Hoyle, who toured the exhibition with survivors featured in it, also hosted a Holocaust Memorial Day ceremony in Portcullis House.

Last year, Westminster Hall featured a Chanukah reception and speeches by representatives of all three major political parties and Jewish communal leaders.

Lord Mann, the government’s independent adviser on antisemitism, said that the occasion was the second time in the 800-year history of Westminster Hall that a Chanukah reception had been hosted there, and he confirmed it would now be "an annual event in Parliament".

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UK police question Labour ex-chief Corbyn over anti-Israel march; 77 arrested, 9 charged

2025-01-21

[IsraelTimes] Lawmaker questioned under caution after protesters allegedly breached conditions set by police aimed at keeping protest away from synagogue; Corbyn’s brother among those charged

Former leader of Britannia’s Labour party Jeremy Corbyn was questioned under caution by police on Sunday over his participation in an anti-Israel, pro-Paleostinian rally the previous day that developed into a clash with police.

Also questioned was former senior Labour party member John McDonnell, who, like Corbyn, is now an independent politician in the House of Commons.

Both men voluntarily agreed to be questioned, the BBC reported.

Officers charged nine people with public order offenses after dozens were arrested at the protest in the British capital, the London Metropolitan Police said Sunday.

More than 70 people were arrested at Saturday’s march after what police called a "coordinated effort to breach" protest conditions, including the perimeter of the rally which was meant to be static.

Among those charged was Corbyn’s brother Piers Corbyn.

The march, organized by the Paleostine Solidarity Campaign, had initially planned to gather around the corner from the Central Synagogue, an Orthodox congregation founded more than 150 years ago.

From there it was to march towards Whitehall, the British government district. Police refused to permit that plan and instead approved only a static demonstration at another location.

Instead of remaining in place at Portland Place, near the headquarters of the BBC, some demonstrators broke through a police line and marched to Trafalgar Square, the Met said in a post to social media platform X.

Corbyn, responding to the police statement, said it was "not an accurate description of events at all."

He claimed that, along with other speakers, he had coordinated with police to move to Trafalgar Square "to lay flowers in memory of children in 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...
who had been killed."

"This was facilitated by the police. We did not force our way through," Corbyn wrote.

Protest organizers have denied an "organized" breach of conditions and accused officers of heavy-handedness in their policing of the demonstration.

So long as it was spontaneous, that makes it ok to break the rules they agreed to? A novel legal theory.

Of the 77 arrested, 25 have been released on bail while 48 remain in jug. Those charged are due to appear at London’s Westminster Magistrates Court "in the coming days," police said.

"Yesterday we saw a deliberate effort, including by protest organizers, to breach conditions," said police commander Adam Slonecki on Sunday.

"We will continue to work through CCTV footage, videos from social media and our body worn cameras so we can make further arrests and bring forward charges where we identify criminality."

Among those charged was Christopher Nineham, 62, the vice chair of the Stop the War Coalition (SWC),

…formed in London days after 9/11 by a coalition of Labour Party, socialist, and communist activists — another tentacle of the anarcho-communist syndicalist Black Bloc octopus — in an attempt to stop the American response, and then to stop the wider War on Terror, and then naturally self-defense by the Jewish state. It is arguably a militant arm of the Labour Party…

one of the organizers of the demonstration. Protest organizers accused the police of arresting Nineham “~~violent~~ mostly peacefully and for no apparent reason" in a statement on X.

"At no stage was there an organized breach of the conditions imposed by the police," the organizers said, calling the arrests a "direct assault on freedom of assembly and democracy."

The Campaign Against Antisemitism said the rally and scuffles with police were "a dark day for London."

"Not only did we see the usual antisemitic bile and open support for Jew-hating terrorist organizations to which our nation’s capital has become accustomed, but snuffies repeatedly breached the modest restrictions imposed by the police on today’s protest," it said in a post to X.

It’s the left wing. Of coursethey hate Jews. Jeremy Corbyn was expelled from the Labour Party for being too blatant about it.

"For over a year we have called for these marches to be banned; we reiterated that call yesterday when it was clear that the police would not be able to control the situation," the watchdog said.

And for a year the London authorities coddled the marchers because they, too, hate Israel and Jews.

Leading up to the march, dozens of British politicians, including Jewish officials, wrote a letter to police protesting the route of the rally and saying frequent pro-Paleostinian marches on Saturdays interfered with Jewish religious practice.

Nine days ahead of the march, police issued a statement saying it would use its powers to "prevent the Paleostine Solidarity Campaign forming up in the vicinity of a synagogue ahead of its planned protest." The statement said the decision had been made prior to the politicians’ letter.

But the Paleostine Solidarity Campaign said in its own statement that it rejected the police order, and that it had agreed on the route with the police in November.

The group said the synagogue itself was not on the route of the march and pointed to "thousands" of Jewish participants in its rallies as a sign that they aren’t antisemitic. It said discussions with the police remain ongoing.

On Sunday a ceasefire that had been announced days earlier came into effect after 15 months of war that began when the Paleostinian terror group Hamas
Hamas

..a regional Iranian catspaw,...
led thousands of murderous Moslems in a devastating attack on Israel in which they killed some 1,200 people and took 251 hostages.

In January this year, Corbyn joined a South African delegation for hearings at the International Court of Justice, where the country accused Israel of committing genocide against Paleostinians in the war against Hamas in Gaza. The veteran left-winger, who led the main opposition Labour Party into the last election in 2019, but stepped down as leader after overseeing its worst results in decades, has been sitting as an independent MP since 2020.

The party suspended him after he refused to fully accept the findings of a rights watchdog’s probe into claims that antisemitism became rampant within Labour’s ranks under his leadership. The Equality and Human Rights Commission ruled the party broke equality law when Corbyn was in charge.

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Thousands at London anti-Israel march; Manchester activists steal bust of Chaim Weizmann

2024-11-03

[IsraelTimes] Police arrest man in UK capital for sign they say ‘supported terror’; in Manchester, activists nab effigy of Israel’s first president on anniversary of Balfour Declaration

Tens of thousands of anti-Israel protesters marched through the streets of London towards the US embassy Saturday to call on Washington to stop arming Jerusalem amid its war on Iran-backed terror groups Hamas
Hamas

..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
and Hezbollah.

Protesters waved Paleostinian and Lebanese flags and signs reading, "Free Paleostine" and "End Israeli apartheid."

London police said a man was arrested at the protest after he was observed carrying a placard suspected of expressing support for a terror organization.

According to posts on social media, the sign read, "Resistance® is not terrorism."

Far-left politician Jeremy Corbyn addressed the protest, which was organized by the Paleostine Solidarity Campaign.

A small pro-Israel counter-protest gathered near the march, with protesters waving British and Israeli flags and holding signs calling for the release of hostages held in 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...
Earlier on Saturday, a British anti-Israel group claimed to have stolen a bust of Chaim Weizmann, Israel’s first president, from the University of Manchester in northern England.

The group, Paleostine Action, said their activists went to "abduct" the sculpture of the late Israeli leader because he "secured" the Balfour Declaration, "which began the ethnic cleansing of Paleostine by signing the land away."

Greater Manchester Police said the burglary was reported shortly before midnight Friday night, according to British media reports. Police said they were investigating the incident.

The group said their activists stole the bust to mark the 107th anniversary of the declaration, in which the British Government issued a commitment to "establish in Paleostine a national home for the Jewish people," which was at the time governed by the Ottoman Empire.

The declaration is considered the first of many steps that led to the creation of Israel.

Weizmann, who worked as a biochemistry professor at the University of Manchester, was a leading statesman of the Zionist movement in the early 1900s. He spearheaded the international diplomatic efforts that led to international recognition of the budding Jewish state, and is considered one of Israel’s founding fathers.

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British far-left lawmaker Jeremy Corbyn to form parliamentary alliance with pro-Palestinian MPs

2024-09-03

[IsraelTimes] The former UK Labour leader and independent MP for Islington North, Jeremy Corbyn is set to form a parliamentary alliance with four independent politicians who were elected on pro-Paleostinian platforms. He has called for more MPs to join the group.

The Independent Alliance, including Corbyn along with MPs Shockat Adam, Ayoub Khan, Adnan Hussain, and Iqbal Mohammed, is promising to push for an arms embargo on Israel, according to a statement.

Far-left politician Corbyn was suspended from the Labour Party in 2020 due to remarks he made following an investigation into antisemitism in the party under his leadership.

His successor Starmer has spent the second half of his parliamentary career clearing Labour of the far left’s legacy of extremism and racism, and planting his party’s flag firmly in the electoral center.

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Anti-Israel BDS calls on UK campuses thwarted by lawfare as antisemitism spikes

2024-09-01

[IsraelTimes] Bombastic university protests fuel a record-breaking rise in reported incidents of Jew-hatred — but the type and scope of divestment they seek is often contrary to British law

For decades, the prestigious London School of Economics has been seen as a hotbed of student radicalism and left-wing politics.

But this summer the school has struck twin blows against anti-Israel student protesters — taking legal action in June to end a monthlong occupation of a university building and last month robustly rejecting the demands of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement.

The stance by the London School of Economics (LSE) reflects the failure of BDS campaigners to advance their goals on Britannia’s campuses despite a wave of pro-Paleostinian protests and a surge in antisemitic incidents in the UK following the October 7 Hamas
Hamas

..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
-led terror onslaught and the subsequent war in 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 an 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...
According to the latest analysis by the Community Security Trust (CST), which monitors antisemitism and provides protection for Jewish venues, there has been "a significant rise in anti-Jewish hate incidents in higher education settings." January to June 2024 saw a record half-year figure and a sharp increase of 465% over the same period in 2023. Nearly three-quarters of incidents — in which the victims or offenders were students or academics, or which involved student unions, societies or other representative bodies — contained discourse relating to Israel, Paleostine and the Middle East, compared to 52% of all incidents nationally.

The Union of Jewish Students agrees. "Following a year where Jewish students have experienced the worst campus antisemitism crisis — that continues to unfold — a renewed campaign of BDS that targets Jewish life on campus is misguided, disruptive, and unacceptable," a union spokesperson said in a statement. "BDS is a divisive
...politicians call things divisive when when the other side sez something they don't like. Their own statements are never divisive, they're principled...
movement prioritizing a single narrative instead of nuanced and respectful discussion. It divides peers, alienates Jewish students and creates an atmosphere that can and has fueled antisemitism on campuses across the UK."

Since October 7, there has been a jump in anti-Israel campaigning on campuses. Student unions have passed motions attacking the Jewish state and demanding university authorities heed the demands of the BDS movement.

But, as has often been the case in the past, events at the LSE have drawn the most media attention. Anti-Israel, pro-Paleostinian students occupied a building on the school’s central London campus in mid-May and issued a laundry list of demands they wanted fulfilled if they were to vacate. These included divestment from "any and all companies identified as complicit in crimes against the Paleostinian people"; a ban on "representatives of the Israeli state or Zionist holy warriors" speaking at the university; and a bar on "active or reserve IDF members who have participated in genocidal acts or war crimes" enrolling at the university as students.

The students also demanded the university issue a public statement in collaboration with the Paleostine, Islamic and other pro-BDS societies "expressing unwavering solidarity with Paleostinian liberation," and trash its adoption of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of antisemitism.

At graduation ceremonies in July, students receiving their degrees unfurled Paleostinian flags and banners accusing the university of being "an Islamophobic institution." Unsurprisingly, Jeremy Corbyn, the far-left former leader of the Labour Party, addressed students at the encampment, telling them they were "on the right side of history."

Nonetheless, anti-Israel campaigners appear to have largely faltered in their efforts to use the conflict to push their agenda.

In June, the LSE went to court and became the first UK university to take legal action to end an anti-Israel encampment on its campus. The school’s administration has also taken a tough line against students’ BDS demands.

In a report issued in July, the LSE’s governing council said the school would not adopt the divestment policy demanded by the students which, in effect, encompassed all companies "that do business in or with the State of Israel."

The council’s report argues its decision is consistent with LSE’s environmental, social and governance policy, noting the "impossibility of distinguishing this conflict from so many others of concern to different groups within the LSE community."

The council rejected demands that the university back the Paleostinian cause, saying its duty was to preserve "free expression and thought on campus and protect the academic freedom of all our faculty and students." The Israeli-Paleostinian conflict, it said, is "an ongoing geopolitical dispute with many complex dimensions as to which members of our community hold a wide range of views and positions."

And the council said it would protect "protest and criticism," before pointedly adding "so long as it does not cross the line into harassment or hate and does not impede the teaching, research, and learning opportunities of others."

LEARNING FROM THEIR YANKEE COUNTERPARTS
Inspired by similar efforts in the US, the summer saw pro-Paleostinian encampments appear at universities across the country, including at elite "Russell Group" colleges, such as the universities of Cambridge, Oxford, Bristol, Manchester, Leeds, Exeter, and the LSE. In some instances, welcome talks at open days for prospective students were invaded — on occasion, with the permission of staff — by pro-Paleostinian activists. Elsewhere, summer exams were disrupted, canceled and moved due to students barricading themselves in buildings.

The organization UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI) has been keeping a close eye on developments, warning student unions and university administrators when their actions are likely to breach various British laws which regulate and have an impact upon the higher education sector.

Student unions, for instance, are charities and are barred from campaigning on issues beyond those directly affecting student life.

Those who administer university pension funds — a key target for activists calling for divestment from Israel and companies linked to the Jewish state — are subject to complex legislation. They are, for instance, not allowed to make decisions which might risk significant financial damage to the fund or which might not command broad support from the beneficiaries of the funds — primarily, former university staff.

More broadly, given their reliance on taxpayer funding, universities have to comply with regulations that bar them from allowing politics to influence their purchasing decisions.

Finally, the UK’s Equality Act is stringent and bars discrimination, harassment and victimization on the basis of factors including race (which covers nationality and ethnic origin), religion, or philosophical belief (which may include anti-Zionism), while public order legislation criminalizes threatening or abusive language and stirring up racial or religious hatred. The Terrorism Act bans the expression of views supportive of proscribed terrorist organizations, such as Hamas.

UKLFI has demanded tougher action by universities to protect Jewish students against antisemitism, harassment and discrimination, while warning them of the perils of acceding to the — often illegal — demands made by anti-Israel activists on campuses.

"We are concerned that they are responding to these unlawful encampments by giving in, which will only cause more trouble in future," Jonathan Turner, UKLFI’s chief executive, told The Times of Israel. "They really shouldn’t allow the intimidation by the encampments to affect their policies. It’s one thing to hear reasoned argument from people behaving in a civilized way, but paying off, as it were, those who are making it extremely unpleasant for many of the other students is not actually the best course."

In April, for instance, UKLFI told the University of Exeter, which is ranked one of Britannia’s top universities, that the "current situation" on the campus was "unacceptable" for Jewish students.

It highlighted "extremely aggressive" weekly anti-Israel protests which were accompanied by chants of "genocide," "murderers" and "from the river to the sea." Jewish students, the letter said, were now being forced to cover up outward signs of their Jewish identity and walk in groups. It also detailed instances of lecturers describing the October 7 massacre as "resistance," and PhD students making "viciously antisemitic" comments in an online group.

In June, UKLFI claimed that Oxford University’s "appeasement" had encouraged disruption which had led to the cancellation of some exams, while others took place amid noisy anti-Israel protests. The exam papers of Israeli, Jewish and Zionist students, who had been the "targets of such venomous hostility and threatening behavior," should be marked more generously than those of other students, UKLFI argued, noting anti-discrimination legislation.

And last month, UKLFI wrote to the vice-chancellor of Bristol University — another top UK institution — after masked anti-Israel protesters disrupted visiting day lectures, and were then permitted or encouraged by staff to deliver speeches labeling the university "complicit in the genocide in Gaza" because it had failed to break ties with arms companies. Anyone choosing to attend Bristol University, the protesters told prospective students and their parents, had a "duty to resist" Israel’s "genocide." The "uninterrupted hate speech," and the role of staff in facilitating it, warned UKLFI, breached the university’s obligations under the Equality Act.

FOCUS ON PENSION FUNDS
A number of student unions — including at the University of Manchester and University of Nottingham — that passed motions calling for BDS campaigns have been forced to reverse course by their trustees following warnings by UKLFI and legal advice that advocating on issues not directly affecting students would breach their status as charities.

Turner believes the situation at UK universities is "not quite as bad" as the "horrifying" position on many US campuses.

Nonetheless, pro-Israel groups are not complacent about the potential threat posed by BDS on British campuses. Turner cites the University of Edinburgh’s response to an anti-Israel encampment which included instructions to its fund manager to pause the purchase of new shares in Amazon and Alphabet (Google’s parent company). Amazon and Google are targeted by the BDS movement because they have contracts with the Israeli government to provide cloud technology.

In a letter to the university’s vice-chancellor in June, UKLFI warned that, if the instruction affected the institution’s pension fund, the university could be opening itself up to legal action.

UKLFI is also concerned about decisions made by the University of Aberdeen in response to a pro-Paleostinian student encampment.

Aberdeen has pledged a review of its investments and its contracts with IT giant HP and fast-food company Subway. (HP provides and operates technology for the Israeli government while Subway’s local franchises are accused of offering in-kind donations to the IDF).

And although the university responded to the encampment’s demand of a boycott of Israeli academic institutions by defending academic freedom, it went on to say that it had no active agreements with Israeli universities and no intention of embarking on new ones.

Britannia’s previous Conservative government was pushing an anti-BDS bill through parliament when the general election was called. While the new Labour administration hasn’t proposed reviving the bill, Turner believes the UK’s existing laws remain "quite strong."

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Despite huge UK win, Labour party struggled against some pro-Palestinian candidates

2024-07-06

[IsraelTimes] Senior figure Jonathan Ashworth loses seat to pro-Gaza independent as UK’s new ruling party underperforms in areas with large Muslim populations; Corbyn wins seat as independent

Britannia’s Labour Party suffered significant election setbacks in areas with large Moslem populations on Friday amid discontent over its position on the war in 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 an 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...
, despite a landslide victory in the parliamentary vote.

The party, which has long counted on the backing of Moslem and other minority groups, saw its vote fall on average by 10 points in seats where more than 10% of the population identify as Moslem.

Jonathan Ashworth, who had been expected to serve in Keir Starmer’s Labour government, lost his seat to independent Shockat Adam, one of at least four pro-Gaza candidates to win. Several other Labour candidates came close to losing.

"This is for the people of Gaza," Adam said, holding up a Paleostinian keffiyeh scarf at the end of his acceptance speech on winning in the Leicester South constituency.

Pro-Gaza independents also won in Blackburn, and Dewsbury and Batley, beating Labour into second in both. Labour also failed to win in Islington North, where its former leader, veteran left-winger and ardent pro-Paleostinian activist Jeremy Corbyn, won as an independent.

While Labour has said it wants the fighting in Gaza to stop, it has also backed Israel’s right to defend itself, angering some among the 3.9 million Moslems who make up 6.5% of Britannia’s population.

Starmer has faced criticism for only gradually shifting toward calling for a ceasefire. While the party has committed to recognizing a Paleostinian state, it has not set out a definitive timetable for doing so.

A Savanta poll last month found that 44% of Moslem voters ranked the conflict as one of the top five issues and, of those, 86% said they would consider backing an independent running on the issue.

"The Moslem Vote" campaign called on voters to pick pro-Paleostine candidates running as independents or from smaller parties like the left-wing Workers Party, which put forward more than 150 candidates. There were 230 more independent candidates than at the last election in 2019.

The Workers Party’s outspoken leader

George Galloway
... a British national embarrassment, not particularly honest, more fond of dictators and terrorists than he is of his native countrymen except at the peak of the election cycle...
won a by-election in March for a vacant parliamentary seat in Rochdale, which has a big Moslem population, after Labour withdrew support from its candidate over a recording espousing conspiracy theories about Israel.

Labour won the seat back from Galloway on Friday.

Other Labour politicians only just held on to their seats, as they were challenged by pro-Gaza candidates.

Wes Streeting, Labour’s health chief and a senior member of the party, won by just 528 votes over British-Paleostinian Leanne Mohamad in Ilford North.

Jess Philipps beat the Workers Party candidate Jody McIntyre by just 693 votes and then struggled to give a speech amid booing and jeering by pro-Paleostinian activists.

Philipps was one of several of leader Keir Starmer’s "shadow cabinet" to leave their high-profile policy roles over the party’s Gaza policies.

Conservative defector wins first-ever Reform UK seat in parliament

[IsraelTimes] Nigel Farage’s right-wing populist Reform UK party wins its first parliamentary seat in the British election in the early hours of Friday, with Lee Anderson retaining a seat he won in 2019 when he was a member of the Conservative Party.

Anderson defected to Reform earlier this year and ran again as the party’s candidate.

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Europe

Ex-French Prez Hollande to Run in Election for Far-Left Popular Front

2024-06-16

[Breitbart] Former French President François Hollande said he will run as a candidate in the snap legislative elections after throwing his support behind the far-left-led “New Popular Front” alliance.

Seven years after leaving office from a presidency mired by Islamic terrorism and economic hardship, François Hollande has returned to the frontlines of French politics, throwing his hat in the ring to once again serve as a deputy in the National Assembly.

Hollande, a longtime member of the Socialist Party, was nominated by the leftist party to represent the so-called “New Popular Front” in the constituency of Corrèze, Le Figaro reports.

“In an exceptional situation, I had to make an exceptional decision,” Hollande said on Saturday, adding: “If I made this decision, it is because I felt that the situation was serious. The danger represented by the extreme right is now proven. How can we remain indifferent?”

While the far-left has been deeply divided over the past several months, particularly in the wake of the October 7th terror attacks on Israel and the rise of antisemitism in France, the Socialist Party, the green Les Écologists, and the French Communist Party announced this week they would partner with the far-left La France Insoumise (France Unbowed/LFI) party of radical leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon.

The move of partnering with Mélenchon — the leading leftist in the country who is often compared to Bernie Sanders in the U.S. or Jeremy Corbyn in the UK and who has been accused of antisemitism and cosying up to radical Islamists — explained by the more centrist elements of the “New Popular Front” as being necessary to confront the rise of the populist right-wing National Rally of Marine Le Pen, which is predicted to win the snap elections called by President Emmanuel Macron after being trounced by the Le Pen party in the European Parliament elections earlier this month.

Although the New Popular Front — named after the alliance of French leftist parties in 1936 led by Socialist Prime Minister Léon Blum — has won the backing of leading left-wing figures such as former President Hollande, there have been many on the left who have criticised the new alliance.

Former Socialist Prime Minister Manuel Valls, who served as François Hollande’s second in command from 2014 to 2016, described the alliance with LFI as a “miserable electoral agreement” and a “moral mistake”.

“The fact that social-democratic and environmentalist parties are signing an agreement with La France Insoumise, whose anti-Semitic remarks, pro-Hamas and long-time pro-Putin positions are known to everyone, outrages me. The mobilisation of the left in the face of the peril of the extreme right, the use of hackneyed historical concepts like the Popular Front – not everyone can be Léon Blum – in no way justify crossing this red line,” Valls told Le Point.

“There is no reason to sign a pact with Jean-Luc Mélenchon and his friends. Everyone has been able to see the political and ethical abyss that should separate the other parties on the left from these people. Mélenchon considered the rise of anti-Semitism in France to be ‘residual’. This should disqualify him forever… It is a sad day for the left.”

Hollande’s decision to join the far-left alliance came as leading critics of Mélenchon were “purged” on Friday from the various leftist parties that comprise the New Popular Front.

Commenting on the cutthroat political manoeuvring, the centre-left Le Monde newspaper wrote: “This has created dissidence from the outset. The move, condemned by Mélenchon’s partners, is yet another sign of the authoritarian and sectarian practices that prevail within LFI. This settling of scores was the worst possible message to send at the dawn of this new union.”

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Ex-Labour leader Corbyn to run as independent candidate in UK election

2024-05-25

[IsraelTimes] Veteran left-winger, Jeremy Corbyn says will defend London seat after he was suspended from party for refusing to accept findings of watchdog over antisemitism under his leadership.

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Britain

Sunak led the British Conservatives to disaster. But it's not over yet

2024-05-08

Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
by Vasily Egorov

[REGNUM] The main result of voting in the last municipal elections in England was the final confidence in the fate of the ruling Conservative Party. They should be perceived as the last electoral test before the parliamentary elections, which will take place in the fall. Here, English voters decided on candidates for municipal deputies, regional mayors and police commissioners. So the Conservatives managed to re-elect only 515 of their municipalities, and another 474 Conservatives lost their positions. It turns out that almost every second candidate from the party lost his constituency.

They made promises they never intended to keep, then proceeded to visibly break them. Voters resent that kind of thing.

Moreover, in terms of the number of deputies promoted to municipal representative bodies, they were inferior not only to Labor, but even to the Liberal Democrats, thus taking only the overall third place in the virtual overall standings. To understand the scale, the Liberal Democrats in the House of Commons have only 15 deputies, versus 345 Conservatives.

Labor has quite successfully regained influence in the once industrial north of England. That very north of England, which in 2019, for the first time in history, decided to vote for the Conservatives and Boris Johnson personally. The Liberal Democrats are confidently entering the south of England, where the Conservatives ruled for many years.

In short, Rishi Sunak's party is being pressed from all sides by competitors. As for the elections of regional mayors, the picture is even more clear.

Ten of the eleven winning mayors are Labor and only one is Conservative. Sunak's party lost its second incumbent mayor in this election.

By far, the most media-rich mayoral race was the re-election of London Mayor Sadiq Khan to a third term.

And here, too, conservatives have only themselves to blame.

Yes, London is indeed very different from the rest of England. Yes, there is a completely different ethnic composition of the population, and the city itself is much to the left on the political spectrum. However, Sadiq Khan is by no means universally loved by its residents. Add to this the sharp increase in crime and attempts to introduce draconian taxes on cars as part of the fight against emissions.

To succeed in the fight for the post of London mayor, all that was needed was a successful candidate. But for some reason the Conservatives promoted the unknown Susan Hall and lost by a margin of 10%. So Labor opened more than one case of champagne during the counting days. But there are a couple of points that may later come back to haunt their leader Keir Starmer.

First of all, it is worth noting the good results of the Green Party. This force has managed to win over left-wing students who are not happy with Starmer's efforts to steer the party towards the political centre. Overly ambitious left-wing projects (such as, for example, the “green transition”) were thrown into the trash by Labor, and the inner circle of Jeremy Corbyn (former Labor leader, popular with left-wing activists and youth) was pushed to the party fringes. It is these dissatisfied people who view the greens as a new refuge.

The Greens themselves are becoming even stronger in traditionally left-wing university districts such as Bristol and Norwich. So far, this result is not fatal for the Laborites, but everything will change after they come to power and the inevitable first mistakes.

Even more noteworthy is the exodus of the Muslim electorate from the Labor camp.

For the past six months, Keir Starmer has had to justify his half-hearted position on Gaza and Israel. Inconsistency on this sensitive issue has led to politically active Muslims looking for a new party and leaving Labor in droves.

Some of them have probably interpreted the term "green transition" too literally and have already left Labor under the green banner of environmental activists (such candidates won in Bradford and Manchester). Others are looking for smaller batches. For example, the labor party of George Galloway, who at one time left the ranks of Labor because of the war in Iraq.

The Reform Party still remains on the political field. The same brainchild of one of the main heroes of Brexit, Nigel Farage.

The party fielded its candidates in only 12% of municipalities and managed to win only a couple of them. Another thing is that in those districts where the party was present on the ballot, the candidate received more than 10%. This is a death sentence for conservatives. The Reform Party will not win parliamentary seats, but will become an ideal spoiler for Rishi Sunak's Conservatives, drawing votes from part of the right-wing electorate.

The surprising result of this election was that the dissatisfied within the Conservative Party finally resigned themselves to the inevitable. There are years ahead in opposition, and perhaps even the complete disappearance of the party, which in other circumstances would already be thinking about preparing for the bicentenary.

A week before the elections, conservative oppositionists anonymously declared that the party's crushing defeat would be a trigger for internal rebellion. A couple of days passed and there was silence around Rishi.

This silence is easy to explain.

It’s just that the dissatisfied never had a single candidate on whom everyone could rely. Which means Rishi Sunak needn't worry. He will not be evicted from Downing Street now, but in a couple of months. A Labor victory in the autumn parliamentary elections is now inevitable.

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Fifth Column

UF taking firm stance on campus pro-Hamas protesters

2024-05-01

[FOX35ORLANDO] The University of Florida is taking a firm stance on campus protesters amid ongoing demonstrations at schools across the country in support of the Paleostinians in the ongoing conflict with Israel.

"The University of Florida is not a daycare"

Campus police and the Florida Highway Patrol reported the arrest of nine individuals on Monday for failing to adhere to protest regulations.

UF, like many other colleges and universities, has been grappling with protests by students and faculty. However,
death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate...
recent measures have been implemented, with the campus administration announcing new rules and warnings that violators would be treated as trespassers.

"The University of Florida is not a daycare, and we do not treat protesters like children — they knew the rules, they broke the rules, and they’ll face the consequences," the university said in a statement.

"For many days, we have patiently told protesters — many of whom are outside agitators — that they were able to exercise their right to free speech and free assembly. And we also told them that clearly prohibited activities would result in a trespassing order from UPD (barring them from all university properties for three years) and an interim suspension from the university," the statement continued.

The Times of Israel adds more about other schools:

At some recent rallies, protesters have been met with counterprotesters accusing them of fomenting anti-Jewish hatred. The pro-Paleostinian side, including some Jewish activists opposed to the Israeli actions, say they are being unfairly branded as antisemitic for criticizing Israel’s government and expressing support for human rights
...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions...
In dealing with the protests, university officials have struggled to strike a balance between allowing freedom of expression and stamping out hate speech.

The issue has taken on political overtones in the run-up to the US presidential election in November, with Republicans accusing some university administrators of turning a blind eye to antisemitic rhetoric and harassment.

White House spokesperson John Kirby on Tuesday denounced non-peaceful forms of student protests, calling the occupation of campus buildings "the wrong approach."

"Hate speech and hate symbols have no place in this country," Kirby added. "A small percentage of students shouldn’t be able to disrupt the academic experience... for the rest of the student body."

BIDEN AGAINST ’INTIFADA’
Meanwhile,
...back at the shootout, Butch clutched at his other leg......
US President Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. You're a lyin' dog-faced pony soldier...
condemned protesters’ use of the term "intifada" during the latest spate of demonstrations, the White House said.

For Israelis, the Arabic word "intifada," literally "uprising," conjures traumatic memories of mass waves of deadly terror attacks in 1987-1993 and again in the early 2000s.

Extremist protesters have regularly called for a renewed intifada against Israel and for "globalizing the intifada" in protests that have wreaked havoc across campuses in recent weeks.

Biden "condemns the use of the term ’intifada,’ as he has the other tragic and dangerous hate speech displayed in recent days," White House deputy press secretary Andrew Bates said in a statement. "President Biden respects the right to free expression, but protests must be peaceful and lawful."

"Forcibly taking over buildings is not peaceful — it is wrong. And hate speech and hate symbols have no place in America," Bates added.

Biden opposes last night’s takeover of a building at Columbia University by anti-Israel protesters, the White House said.

"The president believes that forcibly taking over a building on campus is absolutely the wrong approach. That is not an example of peaceful protest," National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby says during a press briefing.

The College 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...
of America, the US Democratic Party’s student organization, released a statement in support of the protests, calling the actions of the protesters "heroic."

"There is nothing more American than the right to protest peacefully for what is right," the statement read, commending "the bravery of students across the country who have been willing to endure arrests, suspension and threats of expulsion to stand up for the rights and dignity of the Paleostinian people.

"Our position is clear:

Very clear, indeed. Jeremy Corbyn had nothing on you lot,

We stand with those protesting for peace and we find all calls for violence, such as those against Jewish and Moslem students, wrong," the statement said. "Those spreading hate have no place in the movement for peace."

ARRESTS IN CALIFORNIA, DEALS ELSEWHERE
Students at dozens of campuses from Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, to New England have set up similar tent encampments to demonstrate their anger over the Israeli operation in Gazoo
Islamic 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 an 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. In October of 2023 Gazooks belonging to Hamas invaded Israel, killed over a thousand people, raped a bunch of women. Then they bitched and moaned about genocide when their butts handed to them in the entirely justified retaliation.
At Cal Poly Humboldt University, police early on Tuesday swarmed the campus, where students were occupying a school building, and starting detaining people, local media reported. Some 25 people were said arrested. Police on Monday had declared the protest an unlawful assembly and warned people they faced arrest if they did not disperse. According to The New York Times

...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...
, protesters at Humboldt had taken over Siemens Hall and redubbed it "Intifada Hall," spraying graffiti inside and vandalizing the campus president’s office.

Civil rights groups have criticized law enforcement tactics on some campuses where police have clashed with protesters and have used chemical irritants.

Police detained about 30 protesters at their encampment at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill early on Tuesday, according to a university statement, noting that students had trespassed into classroom buildings overnight.

At the University of Texas at Austin, police arrested dozens of students whom they hit with pepper spray at a pro-Paleostinian rally on Monday.

Northwestern University reached an agreement with demonstrators that will see them take down their "Gaza solidarity encampment." The students agreed to take down all but one of the nearly 100 tents erected on the school quad since Thursday. In exchange, Northwestern agreed to take several steps to expand student engagement in the school’s financial investments.

Northwestern also agreed to fund the tuition of five Paleostinian undergraduates and hire two visiting Paleostinian faculty members in addition to providing a temporary space on campus for Middle Eastern and Moslem students until their existing house finishes renovation.

Jewish and pro-Israel groups slammed the agreement.

"Today, Northwestern University declared itself a safe space for antisemitism," the Israeli Consulate in reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown
...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel...
tweets. "We are appalled by Northwestern’s decision to turn its back on Jewish and Israeli students who have been targets of hateful harassment and intimidation. This decision rewards the pro-terror, anti-Israel, and anti-America aggressors on campus."

Brown University in Rhode Island also reached a deal, with students removing their encampment from school grounds in exchange for the institution listening to their arguments for divesting from Israel. The move represented a first major concession from an elite American university.

In a statement, Brown President Christina Paxson said students had agreed to end their protests and clear their camp by 5 p.m. local time Tuesday and "refrain from further actions that would violate Brown’s conduct code through the end of the academic year."

In turn, "five students will be invited to meet with five members of the Corporation of Brown University in May to present their arguments to divest Brown’s endowment from ’companies enabling and profiting from the genocide in Gaza.'"

Meanwhile,
...back at the shootout, Butch clutched at his other leg......
The Washington Post reported that a Jewish student is suing Columbia University for failing to provide adequate protection for Jewish students. According to the report, the lawsuit claims Columbia allowed the protests to drive Jewish students off campus rather than take steps to ensure their safety. The decision by the faculty to offer remote learning for students who felt unsafe as a result of the protests created "two very different educational experiences for Jewish and non-Jewish students," the report cited the lawsuit as stating.

Separate but unequal. Eventually one university will proudly declare that its quota for Jews is 50% — like that one fabled university in imperial Russia, each Jewish student will have to bring his own non-Jew, and ensure that he manages to make it all the way to graduation.

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