First on Fox: Anti-Israel fundamentalists have protested Outside the Texas home of Republican Senator Ted Cruz More than a dozen times in recent weeks, agitators reportedly associated with the group Students for Justice in Palestine have occupied college campuses across the country, Fox News Digital has exclusively learned.
Cruz’s home in Houston has been the target of 14 protests since February, including Friday’s protest when a suspect was arrested. Cruz’s office said the senator remains steadfast in his support of Israel, while rejecting protesters’ tactics of “harassment or intimidation.”
A spokesperson for the senator said, “Senator Cruz will stand with Israel and support Israel’s right to defend itself and completely destroy Hamas. No amount of harassment or intimidation by terrorist supporters will change that. ”
Student agitators have infiltrated college campuses across the country in recent weeks, with radicals occupying the campus’s Hamilton Hall building at Columbia University, while schools such as UCLA, Harvard and Yale have been forced to evacuate student camps. Where protesters are demanding the complete removal of their specific schools. Israel.
This protest is taking place after the launch of the terrorist organization Hamas. War in Israel on October 7, which initially ignited anti-Semitism on campuses as protests, graffiti, and students reported they felt as if it was “open season”. Jews on our campusesThe protests have now escalated to such an extent that Jewish students have been warned to leave campus for their own safety.
An anti-Israel protester waves a flag on the roof of Hamilton Hall at Columbia University in New York City on Tuesday, April 30, 2024. Anti-Israel student protesters barricaded themselves in the Hamilton Hall building at Columbia on Tuesday after schools closed. Students who violated the order to vacate their camp. (Yuki Iwamura/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
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These protests are linked to groups linked to far-left organizations backed by black money Generous mega-donor George Soros, Fox News Digital previously reported. Namely, the National Students for Justice in Palestine (NSJP) has had a large presence amid protests on the campus of Columbia University, as well as on the campuses of UCLA, Tufts, and the University of Texas in Cruz’s home state of Austin.
Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz faced a furious mob of anti-Israel protesters outside his Houston home for the second time this weekend. (Getty Images/Ted Cruz)
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The NSJP is a national group with at least 200 chapters across the United States and regularly compares Israel’s treatment of Palestinians to Nazi Germany and the Jim Crow era in the United States and accuses Israel of genocide. . Influence Watch report. NSJP originated on the campus of UC Berkeley in 1993. According to NGO Monitor,
Protesters gather on the campus of the University of Texas in Austin, Texas, on Thursday, April 25, 2024. Students walked out of classes on Wednesday as protests over Gaza continued on college campuses across the country. (John Shapley/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images)
The national chapter celebrated Hamas’ initial attack on Israel in October, calling it a “historic victory for the Palestinian resistance.” The New York Times reported in October.
The group continued at the time, “This is what liberating Palestine means: not just slogans and rallies, but armed confrontation with the oppressors.”
The NSJP operates under a financial sponsor called the Westchester Peace Action Committee Foundation, which previously received a six-figure donation from a nonprofit funded by the Soros network, as Fox News Digital previously reported.
The group and its affiliates have been banned or censured by universities for their support of Hamas, including Brandis banning the group following the call.For violence against Jews,While Rutgers University suspended the group in December, as did Case Western in March.
Protesters outside Cruz’s home have joined in recent months Students for Justice in PalestineLaw enforcement told the senator, Fox News Digital has learned.
Anti-Israel protesters outside the home of Senator Ted Cruz in Houston this month. (Ted Cruz/Twitter)
Houston Police Department Fox News Digital confirmed that law enforcement has repeatedly responded to Cruz’s home at protests this year, but underlined that the police department can only publicly confirm that gatherings have occurred outside the residence, not outside. That can identify specific groups to which the protesters are associated.
Student protesters gather for a protest inside their camp on the Columbia University campus in New York on Monday, April 29, 2024. War protesters in Gaza, who are camping at Columbia University, have defied the disengagement deadline by chanting, clapping and drumming. (AP Photo/Stephen Jeremiah)
A protester was arrested Friday evening, according to law enforcement. Cruz posted on Twitter that evening that protesters had been on his street for two hours, banging cowbells and shouting. Fox News Digital contacted the Harris County Constable’s Office for additional information on the arrest, but did not immediately hear back.
“This is America in 2024, and it is the result of the disease that has taken over our universities. It is the result of cultural Marxism that has infiltrated and taken control of the faculty and administration.”
“So, this is going on right now. It’s almost 11pm. Pro-Hamas protesters have been yelling and cursing for two hours. Banging cowbells and whistling,” Cruz posted on Friday.
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“When a neighbor who has small children asked an officer to do something, protesters shouted “F—ing b—-!”
Cruz has previously been the target of the ire of liberal protesters who sought to demonstrate outside his home in Houston’s Royal Oaks neighborhood, including in 2021 when 60 to 70 climate activists gathered. This year, protesters is collected on an almost weekly basisAxios reported that Cruz was condemned for supporting Israel.
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A regular protester told Axios Houston in March, “The point is to show that he has constituents who don’t agree with his bigoted views. … We want to expose him to being AIPAC-funded and his allegiance to a foreign government.” Doesn’t support loyalty.” ,
Since February, protesters have held 14 demonstrations outside the Texas home of Senator Ted Cruz. (Ted Cruz/Twitter)
Cruz, meanwhile, has described the ongoing protests on college campuses as the result of “cultural Marxism” spreading within universities.
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A student protester pulls a crate filled with food and supplies from the balcony of Hamilton Hall on the campus of Columbia University in New York on Tuesday, April 30, 2024. Early Tuesday, dozens of protesters occupied Hamilton Hall, locking arms and carrying furniture and metal barricades into the building. Columbia responded by restricting entry to the campus. (AP Pool Photo/Mary Altafer)
“This is the America of 2024 and this is the result of a disease that has taken over our universities,” Cruz told Fox News’ Sean Hannity on Monday. “This is the result of cultural Marxism that has infiltrated the faculty and administration and seized control. These are violent protesters who are endangering the lives and safety of Jewish students. Let me ask you something, Sean. Tonight Where’s Joe Biden tonight? Where’s the Governor of New York tonight?”
Fox News Digital’s Andrew Mark Miller contributed to this report.
