Ben Sales
By Ben Sales
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Fast Forward Trump administration cancels $400 million of grants to Columbia U over campus antisemitism
The announcement did not detail which grants were canceled, nor what they funded
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Fast Forward Barnard clamps down after bomb threat clears pro-Palestinian protest in library
At least nine protesters were arrested at the scene as dozens of NYPD officers entered the library. The bomb threat was deemed not credible.
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Fast Forward Trump posts ‘Shalom Hamas’ and says Gazans will be ‘DEAD’ if they keep holding hostages
He concluded, ‘Also, to the People of Gaza: A beautiful Future awaits, but not if you hold Hostages. If you do, you are DEAD'
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Fast Forward Pentagon official posted neo-Nazi talking point about Jewish lynching victim Leo Frank last year
The Frank post is one of several times Kingsley Wilson’s tweets have used the same language as antisemitic conspiracy theories
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Fast Forward 17-year-old Israeli injured in car-ramming dies of her wounds
Yahli Gur was one of more than a dozen people wounded when an attacker rammed his vehicle into a bus stop last week
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Fast Forward Israel, Gaza and hostages get just brief mention in Trump’s address to Congress
He also briefly spoke of plans for a “Golden Dome” modeled off of Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system
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Fast Forward Trump threatens to pull funding from campuses that allow ‘illegal protests,’ endorses mask ban
The threat came after his administration said it was considering stopping more than $50 million in federal contracts with Columbia University over its “ongoing inaction in the face of relentless harassment of Jewish students"
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Fast Forward Will Trump green-light Israeli annexation of the West Bank at his address to Congress?
Trump said he’d have an announcement about Israeli annexation by March 4
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