All posts tagged "Hamas"

A Wisconsin congressional hopeful landed in handcuffs after a profane outburst aimed at a father who was driving his young son to school.

Matthew Arndt, a Green Party candidate running in Wisconsin's 6th Congressional District, was arrested Thursday on a disorderly conduct charge with a hate crime enhancer after he cursed out an Israeli immigrant over an anti-Hamas bumper sticker, the New York Post reported.

The father told the Post the trouble began on a road in the Milwaukee suburb of Mequon, where Arndt pulled up beside him, rolled down his window and started swearing and flipping him off....

President Donald Trump poked Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Monday for not giving him enough praise during the Israel-Gaza ceasefire deal.

Rubio joined Trump, Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff and other aides ahead of the peace summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, in a conversation with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, The Daily Beast reports.

“This is clearly in my mind, I think in the mind of everyone in this room, it is probably one of the most important days for world peace in 50 years. That’s not an exaggeration,” Rubio said....

Reactions began to pour in as reports surfaced that Hamas had responded to the demands outlined by President Donald Trump in an effort to establish peace.

Hamas said Friday it would release all Israeli hostages, alive or dead, under the terms outlined in the Gaza proposal. They have not signed onto the plan, but it's a significant first step in the direction of ending the war.

Social media users reacted to the news. ...

A doorbell video showed a terrified Turkish national in a hijab being handcuffed and led away by agents from the Department of Homeland Security on Wednesday near the Tufts University campus in Massachusetts.

The attorney for Rumeysa Ozturk, 30, said the grad student was heading to meet friends to break the Ramadan fast when she was surrounded by officers and pulled from the street.

CNN's Gloria Pazmino gave a breakdown of the video....

Columbia University could be close to giving in to President Donald Trump's demand that it enact certain measures aimed to combat anti-semitism on campus or lose $400 million in federal funding, according to reporting in The Wall Street Journal.

The Trump administration canceled funding earlier this month, but granted the university a "review period" and a deadline of Thursday to agree to a list of nine demands.

The demands include "banning masks, empowering campus cops and putting the school’s department of Middle East, South Asian and African Studies under 'academic receivership,' which means it would no longer be controlled by the faculty," wrote reporters Douglas Belkin and Liz Essley Whyte....

In a CNN interview Monday, the executive director of the New York Civil Liberties Union likened the arrest of a pro-Palestinian Columbia University student to 1950s McCarthyism.

The name of Sen. Joseph McCarthy, who led the "Red Scare" congressional hearings to root out alleged communists, is now synonymous with the political persecution of left-wing liberals.

The Department of Homeland Security announced on X on Sunday night that “in support of President Trump’s executive orders prohibiting anti-Semitism, and in coordination with the Department of State, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested Mahmoud Khalil, a former Columbia University graduate student. Khalil led activities aligned to Hamas, a designated terrorist organization." ...