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‘Death to Israeli real estate,’ ‘Death to America’ signs found on NYU property, NYPD says


By Timothy H.J. Nerozzi Fox News | Published May 3, 2024 10:48am EDT | Updated May 3, 2024 1:39pm EDT

Read more at https://www.foxnews.com/us/death-israeli-real-estate-death-america-signs-found-nyu-property-nypd

Police officers involved in clearing out protesters at a New York City college campus are sharing signs recovered from the scene bearing terrorist slogans.

New York Police Department officers broke up an “illegal encampment” at New York University on Friday, with cleaning crews called in to remove tents and sweep away the belongings of the protesters. NYPD Deputy Commissioner of Operations Kaz Daughtry shared various photos of “inflammatory literature and signage” found at the protest.

BLACK STUDENT ERUPTS ON ANTI-ISRAEL ‘WHITE LIBS’ FOR BLOCKING PATH ON CAMPUS: ‘COSPLAYING AS THE OPPRESSED’

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A piece of protest literature recovered from the anti-Israel encampment at New York University. (New York Police Department)

“The NYPD proudly protects everyone’s right to free speech and peaceful protest,” Daughtry said in the post, before sharing the signage.

One piece of literature found on the site explicitly calls for “Death to America” and “Death to Israeli real-estate.”

NYPD Chief John Chell spoke to reporters on Friday and confirmed the NYPD had two operations “at the request of school presidents,” including at New York University and The New School in New York.

OVER 2,000 ANTI-ISRAEL AGITATORS HAVE BEEN ARRESTED DURING ANTISEMITIC PROTESTS ON US COLLEGE CAMPUSES

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Hundreds of students rally in Washington Square Park along with faculty in response to the mass arrests at NYU. (Fox News)

He confirmed that officers arrested 56 people, with no incidents. The police chief noted that “99%” of those arrested were students.

“You will not find a truce from us,” one sign recovered from the protest area said.

“Enough with De-Escalation Trainings: Where are the Escalation Trainings!” added another.

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A photo shows a poster put up on the New York University campus during anti-Israel protests. (New York Police Department)

On April 22, police went to NYU and arrested more than 100 students who held a demonstration in solidarity with the students at Columbia University and to oppose Israel’s war with Hamas in Gaza.

On Wednesday, Fox News correspondent Alexis McAdams reported from the campus that the anti-Israel agitators had re-established the encampment.

Editor’s note: This headline has been updated for accuracy.

Fox News Digital’s Lawrence Richard contributed to this report.

Timothy Nerozzi is a writer for Fox News Digital. You can follow him on Twitter @timothynerozzi and can email him at timothy.nerozzi@fox.com

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Come for the Education, Stay for the Amputation: Iran Offers Free Scholarships to U.S. Students


By: Jonathan Turley | May 2, 2024

Read more at https://jonathanturley.org/2024/05/02/come-for-the-education-stay-for-the-amputation-iran-offers-free-scholarships-to-u-s-students/

Now this could truly be educational. Students protesting on our campuses have been offered free scholarships at Shiraz University in Fars. So, while Northwestern has reached a settlement with protesters to give scholarships to Palestinian students and positions to Palestinian faculty, U.S. protesters can now go to Iran for their education.

Mohammad Moazzeni, head of Shiraz University told media that “students and even professors who have been expelled or threatened with expulsion can continue their studies at Shiraz University and I think that other universities in Shiraz as well as Fars Province are also prepared [to provide the conditions].”

This could be the single most transformative educational experience of their lives. Of course, Iran is better known for floggings than free speech. Iran is particularly prone to such contradictions like executing homosexuals while denying that there are any homosexuals in Iran or objecting to the treatment of protesters in the West while jailing, beating and killing protesters.

Warning: vegan meals are not available at Iranian protests. Instead, it has ordered the arrest and killing of writers and artists while holding such fun events as a cartoon competition on the Holocaust.

While expungements are not a common feature of the criminal justice system, it does have unique elements like judicially ordered blindings. Likewise, where else can you go where a criminal defendant was ordered to be executed by being tied into a burlap bag and thrown down a cliff with sharp rocks?

Some universities clearly have space after students were arrested for protesting the death sentence given a rapper. That includes Shiraz University where the Iranian regime’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) arrested students for protests.

The good thing is that U.S. students are already covering up their faces. Iranian women have faced arrest for being photographed without hijabs.

Students like Khymani James, the Columbia organizer declaring that “Zionists don’t deserve to live” have the right viewpoint but may find that the Iranian officials are less supportive in other respects.

Just a year studying abroad in Iran is worth a lifetime of education.

So Iranian universities are making the ultimate pitch to come for the free education and stay for the free amputations.

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Cornell Professor Files Disorderly Conduct Charge Against Colleague Who Disrupted Coulter Event


JonathanTurley.org | April 18, 2024

Read more at https://jonathanturley.org/2024/04/18/cornell-professor-files-disorderly-conduct-charge-against-colleague-who-disrupted-coulter-event/

Cornell Professor Randy O. Wayne has filed a criminal complaint against Monica Cornejo, an assistant professor of interpersonal communication, for her disruption of the recent speech by conservative commentator Ann Coulter. As we discussed, Cornell Provost Michael Kotlikoff extended the invitation after an earlier event was interrupted by protesters and declared that the university would not allow the exercise of free speech to be blocked by activists.  In defiance of that policy, Cornejo proceeded to interrupt the event with heckling and profanities.

In an email, Professor Wayne confirmed that on Wednesday April 17, the day after the event, he filed a criminal complaint with the Cornell University Police. The listed offense was disorderly conduct. While this was filed with the university police, the state definition of disorderly conduct under § 240.20 states:

A person is guilty of disorderly conduct when, with intent to cause
public inconvenience, annoyance or alarm, or recklessly creating a risk
thereof:

1. He engages in fighting or in violent, tumultuous or threatening
behavior; or

2. He makes unreasonable noise; or

3. In a public place, he uses abusive or obscene language, or makes an
obscene gesture; or

4. Without lawful authority, he disturbs any lawful assembly or
meeting of persons; or

5. He obstructs vehicular or pedestrian traffic; or

6. He congregates with other persons in a public place and refuses to
comply with a lawful order of the police to disperse; or

7. He creates a hazardous or physically offensive condition by any act
which serves no legitimate purpose.

Disorderly conduct is a violation.

Cornejo is accused of repeatedly interrupting and making an obscene gesture at the event before being forced to leave. It is not clear if the university also filed a complaint, but none was listed. Indeed, at the time of this posting, Wayne’s complaint was not listed on the university police website.

Cornejo is described in media reports as “one of the first undocumented tenure-track faculty members at Cornell.” She was interrupting a speech by Coulter titled “Immigration: The Conspiracy to End America.”

In a 36-second video posted by The College Fix officers indicate that she is under arrest for “disorderly conduct.” According to the site, she repeatedly responded, “don’t touch me — do not touch me,” and tells them “I am a faculty member.” (I could not make out the last reported statement on the tape itself).

Putting the criminal charges aside, the question is what Cornell will do about a faculty member who openly defied the free speech policies of the university and sought to prevent others from hearing opposing views. As I discussed in the earlier column, she is just the latest faculty member to engage in such anti-free speech conduct on campuses. Why should students heed the warnings of Cornell when their own faculty show contempt for these protections?

Randy Wayne had a critical role in arranging the visit by Coulter. We have also previously discussed his challenging of universities policies and actions in the past.

A free speech panel is scheduled to be a held on campus on April 23.

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Anti-Israel Protesters Demonstrate Outside Israeli Embassy in Washington


By: Mary Margaret Olohan / @MaryMargOlohan / October 19, 2023

Read more at https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/10/19/anti-israel-protesters-demonstrate-outside-israeli-embassy-in-washington/

Hundreds of anti-Israel protesters supporting Palestine gathered outside the Israel Embassy in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday evening. Photo: Mary Margaret Olohan, The Daily Signal.
Organizers estimated that more than 1,000 people were in attendance at a pro-Palestinian demonstration outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday evening. (Photo: Mary Margaret Olohan/The Daily Signal)

Hundreds of anti-Israel protesters supporting Palestinians gathered outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday evening. Many of the protesters carried signs calling for Palestinians to take over Israel and for the U.S. to stop sending aid to the Israeli government. Organizers estimated Wednesday night that more than 1,000 people were in attendance.

“End the occupation now,” they chanted. “End the siege on Gaza now.”

“Tear down Israel’s border wall!”

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Members of the U.S. Secret Service were guarding the Israeli Embassy, the front of which was lit up with blue lights showing the Jewish Star of David. At certain points through the protest, the anti-Israel demonstrators attempted to project the words “GUILTY” onto the embassy.

No arrests were made related to the demonstrations, Secret Service spokesman Alexi Worley told The Daily Signal, noting: “The Foreign Missions Branch of our Uniformed Division protects more than 500 foreign diplomatic missions in the Washington metropolitan area, which can include assisting with handling demonstrations at diplomatic locations.”

Protest leaders repeated claims spread by Hamas and pushed by legacy media outlets that Israel had bombed a hospital in Gaza, killing hundreds. Israeli authorities have denied responsibility and said that a rocket launched by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad struck the hospital after misfiring.

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One female leader of the protest compared inaction in the current political climate to inaction toward the Holocaust, telling the crowd: “I saw a post that said, if you were ever curious what you would have done during slavery, if you were ever curious what you would have done during the Holocaust … look at what you are doing right now.”

Photographs of signs captured by The Daily Signal exhibited antisemitic or anti-Israel sentiment, including one sign that said: “IS (not) REAL: terrorist, racist, baby killing, evil, apartheid ‘state.’” Another read, “LAND U KILL 4 IS NOT YOURS.” Yet others read, “ISRAEL BOMBS HOSPITALS, BIDEN PAYS FOR IT” and “ISRAEL’S DAYS ARE NUMBERED.”

“Nazi Israel leading the Palestinian Holocaust,” read another.

As has been the case at many pro-Palestinian protests in the D.C. area and across the U.S., many of those attending the protest covered their faces to avoid recognition and wore black-and-white checkered scarves, called keffiyehs, over their heads.

The protesters also took issue with legacy media coverage of the brutal Hamas terrorist attacks on Israel, chanting, “Washington Post, you can’t hide. You encourage genocide.”

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