Northwestern University Caves To Anti-Israel Protesters, Granting Numerous Demands

 While many colleges that have been overtaken by anti-Israel demonstrators have begun cracking down on the encampments and violence, Northwestern University has instead caved to protester demands.

In a document released Tuesday, Northwestern has vowed to make concessions to protesters, including five full-ride scholarships for Palestinian students and funding two Palestinian faculty members for two years. The university also said it would commit “to fundraise to sustain this program beyond this current commitment.”

The university will also “provide immediate temporary space for [Middle East and North Africa] MENA/Muslim students.” Following that, Northwestern said it plans to provide and renovate a house for these students “as soon as practicably possible” after it finishes its current renovation project, slated for completion in 2026.

The university will include Jewish students in a “process dedicated to ensuring additional support for Jewish and Muslim students within Student Affairs/Religious & Spiritual Life.”

And while the university did not say it would divest from Israeli companies, it did say it would re-establish its Advisory Committee on Investment Responsibility, allowing students, faculty, and staff a say in how the school invests its endowment, opening a door for those who want to divest from Israel.

The university also said it would “answer questions from any internal stakeholder about specific holdings, held currently or within the last quarter, to the best of its knowledge and to the extent legally possible” within 30 days or provide a reason and timeline for a later response.

As for the camp itself, Northwestern said it would permit “peaceful demonstrations” on the campus’ Deering Meadow through the end of the spring semester, provided such activity adheres to university policies. The school said one aid tent would be allowed to remain in the encampment, but all other tents must be removed.

In addition, protesters may not use bullhorns or any other devices that project or amplify sound unless approved in advance. Only members of the Northwestern community will be allowed in the demonstration area unless authorized by the university.

 

However, the university said it would “publicly condemn the doxing of any community member and will advise employers not to rescind job offers for students engaging in speech protected by the First Amendment.”

In a statement announcing the agreement, Northwestern said the agreement “represents a sustainable and de-escalated path forward, and enhances the safety of all members of the Northwestern community while providing space for free expression that complies with University rules and policies.”

Northwestern also blamed “antisemitic and anti-Muslim/Palestinian” incidents on people not affiliated with the university, and said any members of the community “who can be identified participating in such acts will face disciplinary action.” Most of the anti-Israel protesters wear masks to hide their faces.

The agreement has been met with condemnations from those who support Israel. The Anti-Defamation League called the agreement “reprehensible.”

“The agreement between Northwestern University leadership and encampment organizers is reprehensible, dangerous, and a case study in failed leadership,” the organization’s Midwest division said in a statementposted to X. “For days, protesters violated campus codes of conduct and policies, intentionally fanned the flames of hate and antisemitism, and wreaked havoc on campus life. Instead of holding the perpetrators accountable, the university rewarded them. It would be unbelievable if it wasn’t true.”

Israel’s consulate in Chicago also condemned the agreement in a post on X, saying the university “declared itself a safe space for Antisemitism.”

“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,” the consulate wrote. “This appeasement agreement is a dark day in Northwestern history.”

From Vegas To Honolulu: Docs Show Where Foreign Nationals Paroled By Biden Admin Fly Into U.S.

 House Republicans released data on Tuesday showing where hundreds of thousands of inadmissible foreign nationals have flown into the United States after being authorized to travel into the country by the Biden administration under its “mass parole” system. 

Under the Department of Homeland Security’s Processes for Cuban, Haitian, Nicaraguan, and Venezuelan (CHNV) parole program, the Biden administration has approved over 404,000 foreign nationals from those countries for entry into the United States. The program ostensibly allows people from these countries to be paroled into the United States to work for up to two years for “humanitarian reasons or significant public benefit.” Beneficiaries of the program also need to “arrange and fund their own travel,” according to DHS. 

Documents obtained by Republicans on the House Homeland Security Committee show that paroled individuals flew into 50 different airports, primarily in the United States. The top two airport destinations were in Florida, according to the documents. 

Over 91,000 people flew into Miami, while over 60,000 were flown into Fort Lauderdale. Other top airport locations included New York City (14,827), Houston (7,923), Orlando (6,043), Los Angeles (3,271), Tampa (3,237), Dallas (2,256), San Francisco (2,052), Atlanta (1,796), Newark (1,498), Washington, D.C. (1,472), Chicago (496), Las Vegas (483), and Austin (171).

Other people flew into Hawaii, the Bahamas, Ireland, Canada, and the Virgin Islands. The numbers only include data from January 2023 until August 2023. 

DHS told the committee that the people approved for the program were technically inadmissible. “All individuals paroled into the United States are, by definition, inadmissible, including those paroled under the CHNV Processes,” the department said. 

“Secretary Mayorkas’ CHNV parole program is an unlawful sleight of hand used to hide the worsening border crisis from the American people. Implementing a program that allows otherwise inadmissible aliens to fly directly into the U.S. — not for significant public benefit or urgent humanitarian reasons as the Immigration and Nationality Act mandates — has been proven an impeachable offense,” said Homeland Security Committee Chair Mark Green (R-TN). 

At the same time, DHS has been flying paroled individuals from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela, over half of illegal crossings at the southern border during fiscal year 2023 were from those countries, according to the committee. 

 

“Following our subpoena and the House’s impeachment vote — especially in light of the Senate’s complete failure to fulfill its duty to hold a trial — the Committee will not rest until this administration is finally held accountable for its open-borders agenda and its devastating impact on our homeland security,” Green added.

Senator Barrasso Pushes For University Leaders To Be Fired, Federal Funding Pulled Over Pro-Hamas Protests

 Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY) said at a press event on Wednesday that university leaders who have placated pro-Hamas extremists on their campuses deserve to lose their jobs and their schools should have their federal funding pulled.

Barrasso’s remarks come as multiple major universities have seen encampments spring up on their campuses where anti-Semitism has been fostered and various criminal acts have taken place.

“Violent mobs are continuing to sweep across America’s campuses. And these are anti-Jewish mobs, pro-Hamas mobs,” Barrasso said. “We have Jewish students on campus who are hearing the kind of threats that their great grandparents heard in Nazi Germany. And yet, the Biden administration and the Democrats across the country refuse to act.”

“Jewish students have actually been chased out of the classroom and off campus. And yet, university administrators, they cater to the mobs,” he continued. “The pro-Hamas terrorists have been out there shutting down classrooms and they have canceled classes today at UCLA. Commencements have been canceled.”

Barrasso said that college university presidents and administrators who have “put extremism ahead of education” should “lose their jobs.”

“So, Joe Biden and the national Democrats try to downplay this un-American activity. That’s dangerous and it’s wrong,” he said. “We have laws in this country to protect against violence, to protect students. Students have a right to be protected. Jewish students, all students on campus [have a right to be protected] from harassment, from discrimination.”

He said that schools that have failed to protect students should “lose their federal funding.”

“But Joe Biden would rather waffle than act. And why is that? Why does he bow down to these pro-Hamas protesters? It’s because of the election coming up and he knows he needs their votes,” he concluded. “That’s absolutely wrong. What the president ought to be doing is applying the law, returning order to campuses, and getting students back into the classroom.”

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Arizona’s Republican-Controlled Senate Passes Repeal Of State’s 1864 Abortion Law

 The Arizona GOP-controlled state Senate voted on Wednesday to pass a repeal of the 160-year-old law protecting unborn children from nearly all abortions after the state’s Supreme Court allowed the law to go into effect last month.

Two Republicans joined 14 Democrats to give the repeal enough votes to pass the state Senate after three Republicans voted with Democrats in the state House last week to approve the legislation, the Associated Press reported. The final vote tally in the state Senate was 16-14.

State Sen. Jake Hoffman blasted his Republican colleagues who joined with Democrats in passing the repeal.

“It is disgusting that this is the state of the Republican Party today,” Hoffman said.

Meanwhile, Arizona Democratic Attorney General Kris Mayes said the vote is “a win for freedom in our state.”

The abortion ban repeal now heads to Democratic Governor Katie Hobbs’ desk, who is expected to sign it. Hobbs has condemned the abortion ban, saying, “A law from 1864 written by 27 men cannot be allowed to govern the lives of millions of Arizona women.”

If Hobbs signs the bill, state law will revert to a 15-week abortion limitation that was signed into law by former Republican Governor Doug Ducey in 2022. The near-total abortion ban, however, will be in effect for a limited time as the repeal won’t take place until 90 days after the end of the legislative session, which will likely be June or July, according to the AP. Attorney General Mayes said her “office is exploring every option available to prevent this outrageous 160-year-old law from ever taking effect.”

The 1864 law banned abortion in every circumstance except when the mother’s life was in danger. It also punished anyone who aided in an abortion by two to five years in prison. The Arizona Supreme Court upheld the law last month, and said it was “enforceable.” The decision was celebrated by pro-life groups, such as Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, which called it an “enormous victory for unborn children and their mothers.”

 

Some Republicans, however, said the abortion law goes too far as pro-abortion Democrats argued that the Arizona law was “enforceable because Trump ended Roe.” Abortion could be a major issue in the 2024 election, and Democrats are hoping to use it to stir up voter enthusiasm in November, especially in vital swing states like Arizona, Michigan, and Wisconsin.

After the state high court’s decision, former President Donald Trump called on the Arizona legislature and governor to act quickly to “remedy what has happened,” arguing, “The Supreme Court in Arizona went too far on their Abortion Ruling, enacting and approving an inappropriate Law from 1864.”

Pro-Hamas Protesters At UCLA Demand ‘Inhalers,’ ‘Vegan Food,’ ‘Gluten Free Food’

 Pro-Hamas protesters at UCLA released a list of “needs” this week as they isolate themselves while living in an encampment that authorities have deemed to be unlawful.

The needs were written in a Google document posted online by the local chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine.

“We will not leave,” said the protesters in the so-called UCLA Palestine Solidarity Encampment. “We will remain here until our demands are met.”

Fox News correspondent Bill Melugin obtained the online document on Wednesday and posted it on X.

Included in the list of “urgent” needs were items that are often used by rioters like Antifa, including: Airsoft Goggles, Gas masks/respirators, Skater helmets, Shields, Wood for barriers, Knee and elbow pads, Rain ponchos, Canopies, Utility gloves of various sizes (especially for small hands), Super bright flashlights with strobe, and Umbrellas.

The protesters also demanded medical supplies, including Epi-Pens, Non-steroid Inhalers, Headlamps, and Organizational bins.

For food, the protesters demanded: “hot food for lunch!!! (IMPORTANT!!), Vegan food, Gluten free food, Ice, NO packaged food, NO coffee, NO bagels, NO bananas, and NO nuts.”

 

Under “logistics” needs, the agitators said that they needed “Sleeping pads, Double A, Triple A, C, and D batteries; Rope, Zip ties, Electric/Solar Powered generators, Lotion, Aquaphor, and NO sunscreen.”

The protesters demand that the products they are given comply with the anti-Semitic Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement.

The list was overwhelmingly mocked on social media by a wide range of public figures.

“UCLA working hard to overtake Columbia as the most embarrassing & lawsuit-prone university debacle in the country,” said political commentator Guy Benson.

Stop Anti-Semitism asked, “Did they all throw out their iPhones to meet BDS compliance?”

DeSantis Bans Lab-Grown Meat In Florida To Fight Against WEF Agenda, Protect Local Ranchers

 Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed a bill into law on Wednesday that bans the sale of lab-grown meat in the state as part of his administration’s commitment to having a “vibrant agriculture industry.”

Speaking at a press conference, DeSantis said that this bill was different than legislation he has signed in the past to protect the industry because this focuses on protecting it from “acts of man” that are rooted in an “ideological agenda” that wants to blame ranchers for climate change.

“These will be people who will lecture the rest of us about things like global warming, they will say that you can’t drive a internal combustion engine vehicle, they’ll say that agriculture is bad, meanwhile, they’re flying to Davos and their private jets,” he said. “This is really a vision of imposing restrictions on freedoms for everyday people while these elites are effectively pulling the strings, calling the shots, and doing whatever the hell they want to do in their own lives.”

DeSantis said that policies and vision that the World Economic Forum has for the world is “dead on arrival in the state of Florida.”

“We have fought it through standing up against things like Central Bank Digital Currency, where they want to be able to control your money; we fought against it by banning the Chinese Communist Party from purchasing land in the state of Florida; we have fought it by putting an end to woke banks denying or canceling financial services for Florida, just based on their political opinions; and we’ve also protected Floridians from government tracking of credit card transactions related to the purchase of firearms and ammunition,” he continued. “I think what they’re looking to do is create a social credit system. That’s what they have in China. And so your ability to participate in the economy, access credit, will be circumscribed by your ideological positions and your political positions.”

DeSantis said that the extreme agenda of the WEF, which includes having people eat bugs, has not taken root in Florida and that it’s also struggled to gain traction in many other states as well.

 

“They want to basically eliminate meat, they want to eliminate cattle, they want to eliminate chickens, and they want to create protein in laboratories,” he said. “So it’s fake, essentially, lab-created meat, and their goal is to get to a point where you will not be raising cattle, where you will not be developing meat like we’ve been doing for hundreds and hundreds of years in the State of Florida.”

DeSantis said the notion that they just want to put the fake meat on the market and let the free market take its course is false.

“That’s not really what they’re going for because they know if that was put out there to compete with with normal beef that they would lose,” he said. “So what they want to do is put that out there and then say, ‘Well, wait a minute, you can do this in a lab. You don’t need to do cattle, you don’t need to do all this, so why don’t you just phase all that out? That’s ultimately the goal. Now they’re not at the point where they’re going to execute that today. But I think part of being good stewards of these industries, of the state, of the public well being, is to think of forward and head off threats before they even come.”

Hundreds of Migrants Swarm Seattle Park, Erect Tent Encampment, Issue List of Demands

 Hundreds of migrants, most from Africa and Venezuela, swarmed into Powell Barnett Park in Seattle on Monday and hastily erected a tent encampment before issuing a list of demands including free housing, food, and other needs.

The park, situated in Seattle’s Central District neighborhood, was invaded in a planned takeover by more than 200 migrants who brought in wood pallets and erected tents on top of them.

One of the migrants, Republic of Congo Central African native Don Tstay, told the media they plan to stay until their demands are met.

“So far they haven’t kicked us out, and we plan to stay until we get housing,” Tstay saidaccording to KOMO-TV.” He added that “the government” needs to give them housing, work permits, and other freebies.

Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Jonathan Choe noted that it seems the entire incident was choreographed because a group of “far-left activists” were already on hand to begin helping the migrants fulfill their demands.

Tsay admitted that they are being guided by activist groups, but refused to tell KOMO the name of the groups.

He noted that he and his fellow migrants were kicked out of their free housing at a motel in Kent when city funding ran out and the motel owners turned out all non-paying residents. And since then, these activist groups have been planning the next moves for the evicted migrants.

KOMO confronted the managers of Quality Inn in Kent but were told that no migrants had been evicted.

Venezuela national Adriana Medina told Fox News that the camping is “very, very difficult for everyone. … Even now, we don’t know how much time we’re going to have to camp. … We don’t have these answers. We can’t tell anyone what we’re doing because we don’t know ourselves.”

Another migrant insisted that he and his fellow illegals are “the future of America.”

“They have children who were born here, they have kids who are in school here. They are the future of America,” said Republic of Congo native Samuel. “They’re asking for support to be able to stay here.”

The station was also told by a migrant in the encampment that he wants the government to give him money while another said the government needs to give him a place to live.

City officials of Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell’s office insisted they were taking the demands seriously and are working with the migrants to acquiesce to their needs.

“It is not healthy nor safe to camp in a park, and we will continue to create connections to appropriate resources as available,” a statement read according to KOMO.