Police peacefully arrested student protesters at the University of Southern California, hours after officers at the University of Texas at Austin aggressively detained dozens in the latest clashes between law enforcement and the anti- Israel mobs that have been allowed to take over campuses nationwide.
Red-state Texas not immune to anti-Israel protestsChad Groening, AFN.net A Texas-based conservative activist says she was saddened to watch anti-Israel protesters swarm college campuses in the Lone Star State. The public learned this week the anti-Israel, pro-Hamas mobs are not confined to Ivy League schools after protesters fought state troopers at the University of Texas at Austin. 
On the campus of Texas A&M, communist group "Young Democratic Socialists of America" marched and chanted in favor of Hamas, which brutally murdered 1,2000 Israelis on October 7. Cathie Adams, a former chairman of the Republican Party of Texas, suspects many of the demonstrators are not students. “There was a rental mob, not people who were Texan,” she says. “These were people who were bussed in from other states." Adams also suspects the anti-Israel protests in Texas include a large number of Muslims, who populate cities such as Dallas and Plano. |
At Columbia University in New York the protesters have been given permission to continue their tent city for at least another day. Jewish students there have been told, because of threats from the pro-Hamas students, that they can complete their academic year from off campus locations.
Yesterday, House Speaker, Mike Johnson visited Columbia and called on the university president, Minouche Shafik, to resign over her failure to protect the Jewish students.
“If this is not contained quickly and if these threats and intimidation are not stopped, there is an appropriate time for the National Guard,” he said.
Columbia graduate student Omer Lubaton Granot, who put up pictures of Israeli hostages near the encampment, said he wanted to remind people that there were more than 100 hostages still being held by Hamas.
“I see all the people behind me advocating for human rights," he said. “I don’t think they have one word to say about the fact that people their age, that were kidnapped from their homes or from a music festival in Israel, are held by a terror organization.”
At the University of Texas in Austin, hundreds of local and state police — including some on horseback and holding batons — pushed their way into the crowd and made 34 arrests at the behest of the university and Texas Gov. Gregg Abbott, according to the state Department of Public Safety.
