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State violence is the universal response, no matter the city, the state, or the president.
The majority of people arrested by the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) while clearing a pro-Palestinian encampment at George Washington
by ROBERT SCHMAD
The majority of people arrested by the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) while clearing a pro-Palestinian encampment at George Washington University (GWU) were not students, D.C. Police Chief Pamela Smith said on Thursday.
Police began clearing the encampment at GWU in the early Wednesday morning hours after nearly two weeks of protesters occupying the campus. The MPD arrested 33 individuals, 11 of which were students at the institution, D.C. Police Chief Pamela Smith told FOX 5 Washington D.C. on Thursday.
“As we continued to watch [the encampment] we saw an escalation in some of the activity … and when we realized we had enough intelligence, information, to move in to clear the encampment, we made that decision,” Smith said.
MPD Deputy Director of Communications Paris Lewbel confirmed to the Daily Caller News Foundation that “11 of the arrestees identified themselves as George Washington University students.” A spokesperson for the university gave the DCNF a different figure, saying that just six of those arrested were current students. (RELATED: Pro-Palestine Protesters Gather Outside George Washington University President’s Home)
Washington D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser was set to testify before the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability on Wednesday, but it was canceled after the MPD cleared the encampment.
MPD would treat future pro-Palestinian protests as it would “any other protest or demonstration” by ensuring they are “protecting those who choose to exercise their 1st Amendment right,” Smith said.
Other universities have also reported outside individuals participating in pro-Palestinian protests.
Canary Mission database was created to document the people and groups that are promoting hatred of the USA, Israel and Jews on college campu
Some tried to position the encampments as legitimate student protests and balkedat the mere use of the term “outside agitators.” In reality, pro-terror activist groups like Within Our Lifetime (WOL) urged outsiders to support the encampments even if they were not allowed inside the university gates and played a pivotal role in organizing the protests and in their escalation.
Prominent anti-Israel activists made numerous and vocal appearances at the Columbia encampments. Among those instigating the crowds were WOL leaders Nerdeen Kiswani and Rohaan Gill.
Anti-Israel public figure Cornel West literally jumped a fence in order to spread his message of support. Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) made an appearance with her daughter, who was arrested for trespassing at the Columbia encampment and subsequently suspended from Barnard College (Columbia’s sister school). At the encampment, Omar made the outrageous statement, “People don’t care about the fact that all Jewish kids should be kept safe…we should not have to tolerate antisemitism or bigotry for all Jewish students, whether they are pro-genocide or anti-genocide.”
Other outside activists who participated in the encampments
Lisa Fithian, a professional agitator, was arguably the highest-profile personality directing the protests at Columbia. Fithian was captured on film leading the break-in to Hamilton Hall. Her participation warranted mentions in Politicoand The New York Times.
Lillian House - According to the Columbia Spectator, House was one of the protest leaders at the university from the start of the encampments. House was arrested several times across the United States. When asked by Fox News about the atrocities of October 7, she backed away from the camera and refused to discuss whether she thought the atrocities were a false narrative.
Nicquel Holmes, a recruitment assistant for The City University of New York (CUNY), was captured on video by Project Veritas outside the gate of Columbia. Using the name Luna, Holmes described her duties as an encampment “cop watcher” for WOL, which she said meant “[keeping] tabs on what [the police are] doing.” In the video, Holmes also asserts that Zionist Jews are responsible for 9/11. Her social media is filled with antisemitic and anti-Israel content, including a video of Louis Farrakhan talking about “the satanic Jews that control everything” and a song with the lyrics, “Israel’s a bitch.”
Chris Smalls, a labor organizer and anti-Israel activist, spoke at the encampment connecting the labor movement to the war in Gaza. On October 13, 2023, he posted on X, “The people united will never be defeated so yes it’s Free Palestine because we’re not Free until we’re all Free from the river to the Sea!”
Zaid Jaloudi, an activist from Hatem Bazian’s antisemitic organization American Muslims for Palestine (AMP), was filmed speaking in front of Columbia. His speech included antisemitic and anti-Israel tropes, including accusations of ethnic cleansing, genocide and white supremacy on Israel’s part.
“Outside agitator” is a term born out of racism, and any time you hear it you need to be aware. The long history of this label dates back to segregationist efforts to quell Black protests. When we hear it come up today, it has the same purpose. This is what history tells us.
For many Americans, the words “outside agitators” evoke memories of southern segregationists complaining about northern civil rights workers
by Michael Goodwin
It’s bad enough that the presidents tolerated takeovers of university properties, harassment of students and nonstop noise leading to canceled classes and threats to disrupt graduations.
Many school leaders also foolishly offered concessions during negotiations even though most protests included violations of rules and criminal laws.
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Some presidents essentially capitulated, with Brown agreeing to vote on the antisemitic divest demand.
Northwestern agreed to a quota system by setting aside five scholarships for Palestinian students each year and giving Muslim groups special spaces on campus for “community building.”
Columbia, the epicenter of the outbreak, is a textbook case of a weak leader allowing her campus to be held hostage for more than two weeks as she negotiated with ringleaders.
The Ivy League school’s president, Minouche Shafik, also twice called in the NYPD to arrest resisters who occupied university property and refused to leave.
The first time was on April 18, when New York’s Finest rousted people who set up a tent camp in the middle of the campus.
Police later said just 38 of those arrested were students, CNN reported.
During the second crackdown, 80 students were arrested, along with 32 outsiders, including James Carlson.
Combined, that means just 118 students were allegedly committing violations serious enough to be arrested in the two raids.
It’s a drop in the Columbia bucket.
Across its undergraduate and graduate programs, the university enrolls nearly 37,000 students.
Coddling troublemakers
Even if the scope is limited to the undergraduate programs at Columbia and Barnard colleges, the total number of enrolled students is about 10,000.
And just 118 of them were arrested.
Of course, more students than that participated in some demonstrations and no doubt others supported the demands or just their friends.
But the small number of hardcore disruptors illustrates how badly Shafik and Columbia’s board bungled the responses.
Had they firmly enforced existing policies against disturbances from the outset, they might have been able to stop the harassment and threats before they metastasized into full-fledged disasters.
By coddling the troublemakers, administrators encouraged them and turned them into campus leaders.
The result was a lost spring semester for serious students and more turbulence for the institution, which will suffer serious reputational damage.
Civil rights probes by Congress and the Department of Education, combined with class-action lawsuits over threats to Jewish students, promise expensive problems for years.
Alumni donations already are falling.
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OUTSIDE WHITE SUPREMACIST AND FASCIST AGITATORS CAUSING ALL THE VIOLENCE & LOOTING!
Many college and city leaders have blamed outside organizers for recent protests at universities around the country against U.S. support of