Protests
April 30, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Kill-the-Jews protesters at Columbia have taken over that school’s main administration building, Hamilton Hall. Scenes from the campus are horrifying: Students at Columbia University have occupied Hamilton hall. Today the university president explicitly said to students the school would not be divesting and threatened to suspend students protesting. The last time this building was taken over by student protesters was in 1968 pic.twitter.com/IhoWVYlocB — Lama Al-Arian (@lalarian) April 30, 2024
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April 29, 2024 — John Hinderaker
So who is behind the kill-the-Jews campus protests that, as Steve noted earlier today, have panicked Congressional Democrats who fear a political debacle as in 1968? Consistent with the retro nature of the protests, the organizers appear to be largely left-wing retreads, with a financial assist, it is reported, from one or more Soros entities. Take, for example, Charlotte Kates. Kates has been prominent in the Columbia protests: Radical anti-Israel
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April 28, 2024 — John Hinderaker
A year ago, it would have been hard for me to imagine anything that would cause me to sympathize with the White House Correspondents’ Dinner and its attendees. A more disgraceful event, and a more disgraceful group of people, are hard to conceive of. But last night, the dinner was beset by kill-the-Jews protesters, an even worse gang: "Shame on you!" pro-Palestinian protesters let their voices known to the members
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April 27, 2024 — John Hinderaker
The kill-the-Jews rallies going on across America have resulted in casualties, including the leader of Columbia’s protests, now banned from the campus although it doesn’t appear that he has been expelled. Here in Minnesota, we have the entertaining spectacle of the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion officer at the University of Minnesota’s School of Public Health being fired, and subsequently starting a lawsuit. On to that in a moment, but first,
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April 25, 2024 — John Hinderaker
The protesters setting up tent cities to celebrate Hamas may attend “elite” universities, but that doesn’t mean they are very bright. You may have seen this short video of a couple of Columbia students who aren’t exactly sure what or why they are protesting: 🚨VIDEO: A REAL interview we had at NYU: QUESTION: "Why are you protesting?" PROTESTER #1: "I don't know. I'm pretty sure there's something about Israel [turns
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March 31, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Let’s hope so. Kill-the-Jews protesters broke into St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York last night, chanting “Free Palestine” and the like, and disrupting an Easter mass. They were hauled out after a couple of minutes: The protesters carried a sign that said “Silence is Violence.” That is dumb, of course. Speech isn’t violence, let alone silence. Still, they might have a point in this sense: the Left’s silence about the
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March 9, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Joe Biden’s State of the Union speech began almost a half hour behind schedule. The reason apparently was that his route to the Capitol was blocked by an illegal “kill the Jews” protest. So an official government proceeding was delayed by protesters who were violating the law. Doesn’t that sound familiar? Blocking an official proceeding. I think we have recent precedent on this. https://t.co/fxOZ9vxc74 — Josh Holmes (@HolmesJosh) March 8,
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February 15, 2024 — John Hinderaker
We are far beyond the point where climate activists could be regarded as misguided but well-meaning. They are evil, pure and simple. Here, climate activists vandalize the United States Constitution display at the National Archives, bleating stupid pronouncements about “rich white men.” You have to go to college to become that dumb: BREAKING: Climate activists just ruined the display of the Constitution in the Rotunda of the National Archives in
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January 28, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Left-wing activists have taken to throwing food at paintings in order to make some kind of point. The latest victim is the Mona Lisa, in Paris’s Louvre Museum: In a video posted on social media, two women with the words “FOOD RIPOSTE” written on their T-shirts can be seen throwing soup at the glass protecting Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece and passing under a security barrier to get closer to the
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November 12, 2023 — John Hinderaker
Some of the worst anti-Semitic campus outbursts of recent weeks have been at MIT. Pro-genocide activists physically prevented Jewish students from attending classes, and refused to disperse when ordered to do so by university officials. Normally you would assume that a student who engaged in such barbaric conduct would be expelled. Yet MIT has treated its anti-Semites with kid gloves. Why? MIT’s President Sally Kornbluth has now made a statement
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October 31, 2023 — John Hinderaker
This morning, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin testified before the Senate Appropriations Committee on behalf to the Biden administration’s supplementary funding request for Ukraine and Israel. Blinken’s testimony was repeatedly interrupted by pro-genocide protesters. The protesters timed their interruptions so that every couple of minutes the hearing would be suspended: Blinken is a partisan hack, but this outpouring of anti-Semitism was outrageous. It is
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October 23, 2023 — John Hinderaker
Yesterday there was a pro-genocide rally in Minneapolis that took over a major highway and illegally blocked traffic. The demonstrators stood up for baby-burning, gang rape, kidnapping and mass homicide. Just another day in a land where immigration policy has been off the rails for a long time. The invaluable Andy Ngo has the story: https://t.co/C2Dz7xdCTP — Andy Ngô 🏳️🌈 (@MrAndyNgo) October 23, 2023 The pro-Palestine rioters in Minneapolis chased
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October 21, 2023 — John Hinderaker
This afternoon, more than 5,000 demonstrators rallied in Brooklyn, demanding an end to Jews in the Middle East: At least 5,000 anti-Israeli protesters filled the streets of Bay Ridge Saturday at a rally where they called for the eradication of the Jewish state and demanded the United States withdraw its support of its closest ally in the Middle East. “Eradication of the Jewish state” means “Death to the Jews.” “We
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October 18, 2023 — John Hinderaker
Today, pro-Hamas insurrectionists illegally occupied the Cannon House Office Building. Capitol police made a few desultory arrests, but the illegal demonstration was allowed to continue. Logan Ratick has a series of short videos. Here are some of them: Capitol Police are just watching Cannon be overrun by protestors. This is where reporters and members of Congress do their live TV hits from pic.twitter.com/G4rC1xKLdd — Logan Ratick (@Logan_Ratick) October 18, 2023
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October 13, 2023 — John Hinderaker
What with today being proclaimed an “International Day of Jihad,” and in view of events elsewhere, France has banned all pro-Palestinian protests in order to avert violence. They don’t have our First Amendment, and we couldn’t really do this. Still, some will find it heartwarming: France has banned all pro-Palestine protests. This group is now being run out by the Paris police. pic.twitter.com/s78zsqzIog — 🇺🇸ProudArmyBrat (@leslibless) October 12, 2023
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July 10, 2022 — John Hinderaker
The Left has a rather schizophrenic attitude toward protests and demonstrations. Some are wonderful, like the George Floyd riots, which were not, in fact, protests at all. Or like arson and other destruction committed at pro-life facilities. Others are detestable, like the Dutch farmers’ protests, or the French “yellow vests,” or the Canadian truckers. Some protests, too, can only be ignored, like when hundreds of thousands of pro-life citizens show
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February 22, 2022 — John Hinderaker
The Trafalgar Group has applied its unorthodox methodology to test Americans’ attitudes toward Justin Trudeau’s emergency declaration and his handling of the truckers’ protest generally. The results are striking: 55% of respondents say they disapprove of Trudeau’s handling of the protest, while only 35% say they approve. That in itself isn’t surprising. What is remarkable is the partisan split. Republicans disapprove of Trudeau’s response to the truckers’ protest by an
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