First appearance on Fox: Anti-Israel radicals have staged more than a dozen protests in recent weeks in front of Republican Sen. Ted Cruz’s Texas home, and agitators have been occupying college campuses across the U.S. “Student” group, Fox News Digital exclusively reported.
Cruz’s home in Houston has been the target of 14 protests since February, including Friday’s protest where one suspect was arrested. Cruz’s office said the senator remains a staunch supporter of Israel but has dismissed the protesters’ “harassment and intimidation” tactics.
A spokesperson for the senator said: “Senator Cruz will continue to support Israel and its right to defend itself and completely eliminate Hamas, despite the amount of harassment and intimidation it faces from supporters of terrorism.” But that doesn’t change.”
In recent weeks, student agitators have invaded college campuses across the country, including radicals on the Columbia University campus occupying the campus’ Hamilton Hall building, while at UCLA, Harvard, Yale Universities and other schools are working to clear student camps where protesters are demanding a complete withdrawal from elite schools. Israel.
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The protests were held in response to the terrorist organization Hamas starting a war in Israel on October 7th, and initially took the form of protests that fanned the flames of anti-Semitism and graffiti on campus. students reported feeling as if it was “open season on college.” Jews on our campus” Protests have now escalated to the point where Jewish students are being warned to leave campus for their own safety.
Anti-Israel demonstrators hold flags on the roof of Columbia University’s Hamilton Hall on Tuesday, April 30, 2024, in New York City. Anti-Israel student demonstrators barricaded themselves inside Columbia University’s Hamilton Hall building on Tuesday, when the school began suspending classes. Students rebelled against orders to vacate their camp. (Yuki Iwamura/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
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Fox News Digital previously reported that the protests were linked to groups with ties to underground finance and far-left organizations backed by liberal mega-donor George Soros. Namely, the National Student Movement for Justice in Palestine (NSJP) is in the midst of protests on the campuses of Cruz’s hometown of UCLA, Tufts, and the University of Texas at Austin, as well as Columbia University. It has a strong presence.
Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz again encountered a raucous crowd of anti-Israel protesters in front of his Houston home this weekend. (Getty Images/Ted Cruz)
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NSJP, a national organization with at least 200 chapters across the United States, regularly compares Israel’s treatment of Palestinians to Nazi Germany and the Jim Crow era in the United States, and condemns Israel’s genocide. Influence Watch reported. NSJP’s origins date back to 1993 on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley. According to NGO Monitor.
Protesters gather on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin on Thursday, April 25, 2024 in Austin, Texas. Students finished classes on Wednesday as protests over Gaza continued to sweep university campuses across the country. (John Shapley/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images)
The national branch celebrated Hamas’ first attack on Israel in October, describing it as a “historic victory for Palestinian resistance.” The New York Times reported in October.
“This is what the liberation of Palestine means: not just slogans and rallies, but an armed confrontation with the oppressors,” the group continued at the time.
NSJP operates under a financial sponsor called the Westchester Peace Action Committee Foundation, which received six-figure donations from nonprofits funded by the Soros network, Fox News Digital reported. Previously reported.
The group and its affiliates have been banned or censured by universities for supporting Hamas, including a ban on the group following Brandeis’ call. ”against violence against Jews,”Meanwhile, Rutgers University suspended the group in December, and Case Western also suspended it in March.
Law enforcement officials have told the senator that protesters who have erupted in front of Cruz’s home in recent months are affiliated with Students for Justice in Palestine, Fox News Digital has learned.
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Anti-Israel protesters in front of Sen. Ted Cruz’s home in Houston this month. (Ted Cruz/Twitter)
The Houston Police Department confirmed to FOX News Digital that law enforcement has repeatedly responded to Cruz’s home over protests this year, but police can publicly confirm that there was a gathering outside the residence. It outlined that it could only confirm that the protesters were identified and could not identify specific groups to which the protesters belonged. .
Student protesters gather for a protest inside an encampment on the Columbia University campus on Monday, April 29, 2024, in New York. Gaza war protesters camped out at Columbia University ignored a deadline to disperse by chanting, clapping, and beating drums. (AP Photo/Stephen Jeremiah)
One protester was arrested Friday night, according to law enforcement. Cruz posted on X that night that protesters had been shouting and ringing cowbells in the streets for two hours. Fox News Digital reached out to the Harris County Constable’s Office for details on the arrest, but did not immediately receive a response.
“This is America in 2024. This is the result of a disease that has infected our universities. This is the result of cultural Marxism infiltrating the faculty and taking control of the administration.”
“This is happening right now. It’s almost 11 p.m. Prohamas protesters have been screaming and cursing for two hours. Ringing cowbells and blowing whistles,” Cruz posted on Friday. .
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“When a neighbor with small children asked the officers to do something, the protesters yelled that she was a ‘fuck you!
Mr. Cruz has previously drawn the ire of liberal protesters who tried to demonstrate in front of his home in Houston’s Royal Oaks neighborhood, with 60 to 70 climate change activists expected to join him in 2021. collected. This year, protesters Assembled almost every weekAccused Cruz of supporting Israel, Axios reported.
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“The important thing is to show him that there are actually voters out there who don’t share his very bigoted views. … We don’t support his funding from AIPAC or his allegiance to foreign governments. ” one regular protester told Axios Houston in March. .
Protesters have demonstrated 14 times in front of Sen. Ted Cruz’s Texas home since February. (Ted Cruz/Twitter)
Meanwhile, Cruz blamed the escalating protests on college campuses as a result of “cultural Marxism” that has spread on campus.
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Student protesters pull wooden crates containing food and supplies from the balcony of Hamilton Hall on the Columbia University campus in New York, Tuesday, April 30, 2024. Early Tuesday morning, dozens of protesters occupied Hamilton Hall, locking up their weapons and carrying furniture and metal barricades into the building. Columbia University responded by restricting access to campus. (AP Pool Photo/Mary Altafer)
“This is America in 2024. This is the result of a disease that has hit our universities,” Cruz told Fox News’ Sean Hannity on Monday. “This is the result of cultural Marxism that has infiltrated and taken control of the faculty and administration. These are violent protesters who are threatening the lives and safety of Jewish students. I want to ask you something. But, Sean, where is Joe Biden tonight? Where is the Attorney General tonight? Where is the Governor of New York tonight?
Fox News Digital’s Andrew Mark Miller contributed to this report.
