Luke Tress
By Luke Tress
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Fast Forward Jamaal Bowman says AIPAC funders want to ‘destroy our democracy’ in debate with primary challenger George Latimer
Latimer also took shots at Bowman, accusing him of taking a one-sided 'anti-Israel approach.'
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Fast Forward 16 Republican senators demand IRS investigate fiscal sponsor of Students for Justice in Palestine
Wespac, based in suburban New York City, also sponsors other pro-Palestinian groups
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Fast Forward 3 people, including local rabbi and developer Reuven Kahane, arrested in altercation at pro-Palestinian protest
Kahane is a relative of Meir Kahane, an extremist rabbi from New York who led the Jewish Defense League and was later barred from the Israeli Knesset for racism.
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Fast Forward Next up for congressional antisemitism hearings: K-12 public schools
At a hearing on Wednesday, David Banks, chancellor of New York City’s public school system, will testify at the Capitol, as will the chiefs of public school districts in Montgomery County and Berkeley
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Fast Forward More than 25% of arrested Columbia protesters were not connected to the university, police say
Mayor Eric Adams cited the alleged presence of “outside agitators” as a reason for ordering the NYPD to clear out Hamilton Hall after pro-Palestinian protesters took it over
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Fast Forward Police raid Columbia University building occupied by anti-Israel protesters, arresting dozens
The dramatic crackdown marked the second time that Columbia’s president asked the NYPD to intervene against the protesters
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Fast Forward Threading a needle on free speech, Jewish leaders demand Columbia rein in pro-Palestinian protests
When "the debate that’s taking place results in the intimidation and harassment and silencing of one party, there is not free speech for everyone,” said Ted Deutch, head of the American Jewish Committee
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Fast Forward Columbia protests: Israeli professor barred from campus and Congress members demand action to protect Jewish students
Columbia deactivates Shai Davidai’s campus entry card ahead of a planned sit-in at the protest encampment that has thrown the university into turmoil
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