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Editor’s note: This week, we’re reprinting some of our best stories from the past year. This piece, published in March, details Harvard’s detachment from a partnership with a Hamas-friendly university. The Harvard School of Public Health suspended its partnership with a Palestinian university whose faculty and students have endorsed and collaborated with Hamas and other terror groups, according to the Harvard Crimson. The suspension follows extensive reporting by The Daily Wire into Birzeit’s terrorist ties that led to 27 members of Congress calling for Harvard to “immediately shut down this partnership and condemn Birzeit University.” Harvard suspended the partnership as part of the Harvard School of Public Health’s investigation into Harvard’s FXB Center, which started last summer, School of Public Health spokeswoman Stephanie Simon told the student paper. A memorandum of understanding between the FXB Center and Birzeit expired in recent months and Harvard decided not to renew it, according to Simon. While an official partnership will not exist, the FXB Center, which collaborates with Birzeit faculty and scholars, will reportedly continue. In a Q&A with the Harvard Gazette, Dean Andrea Baccarelli said a “blue-ribbon panel of experts” were appointed to conduct the review of the FXB Center to “rigorously evaluate the FXB Center’s current status and future potential.” The review is expected to conclude this spring. The FXB Center co-hosted the “Palestine Social Medicine Course” with Birzeit University last summer, where students learned about “settler colonialism.” The program was originally supposed to take place on Birzeit’s campus in Judea and Samaria, also known as the West Bank, until it was relocated to Jordan “due to security concerns.” Under the suspension, Harvard will no longer co-sponsor the program this year and Harvard students will not be eligible to participate because of security concerns. Instead the 2025 Social Medicine Course will be sponsored by Birzeit and the World Health Organization. At the time, Simon told The Daily Wire she was aware of Birzeit’s student body’s association with Hamas, but said it has not affected its program. “Student government elections at Birzeit typically involve candidates affiliated with each of the major political parties in the region, including Hamas,” she said. “These student government elections are not germane to and have not affected the FXB Center’s work with the scholars and students at Birzeit’s Institute of Community and Public Health.” Birzeit University called for “glory for the martyrs” after Hamas’s October 7 terrorist attack on Israel, and has a long history of promoting terrorists on its campus. The university has hosted funerals and parades for terrorists on its campus, where several buildings are named after terrorists. Hanan Ashrawi, chairman of Birzeit University’s board of trustees, denied that Hamas sexually assaulted Israelis on October 7, and has defended Hezbollah and the lynching of Israeli soldiers, according to CAMERA UK. On its website, Birzeit boasts that it is a “thorn in the side of the occupation,” and says it is committed to making an impact through “resistance.” In 2023, the Birzeit student body elected two blocs affiliated with terrorist organizations — Hamas and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)— into the student government. In the election, which had a 77 percent voter turnout, the Hamas-affiliated Islamic bloc won 25 of the 51 seats, while the PFLP picked up six, according to the Jerusalem Post. In July, five members of the student council were arrested for attempting to carry out a terror attack on behalf of Hamas. The students were found with an assault rifle and thousands of dollars of cash from Hamas, the Times of Israel reported. Birzeit shared a letter from its faculty and employee union last April which praised the “global intifada,” called for an Israel boycott, and refrained from calling the United States by name, instead opting to use “Turtle Island,” a term used by so-called “anti-colonialists” to suggest that the United States exists on stolen Native American land. Birzeit’s faculty includes notable terrorist sympathizers, including assistant professor Basil Farraj who wrote a eulogy for Walid Daqqa, the leader of a group that kidnapped and killed an IDF soldier. Philosophy professor Abdaljawad Omar appeared at a PFLP-linked conference attended by Rep. Rashida Tlaib, where he praised the October 7 attacks for opening “so many doors of political possibility” and said the “promise of liberation it holds would not have manifested in our conference without the capacity to resist.” Omar also denied accusations of rape and criticized the IDF for refusing to allow Israel to be taken over by the “Palestinian military” in an op-ed shortly after the attack. “Israel chose not to engage in negotiations with any groups within its borders, leading to substantial collateral damage in numerous hostage situations,” Omar wrote. “The Palestinian military strategy aimed to delay Israel’s retaking of the area around the strip. In contrast, Israel was intent on swiftly reclaiming the territory, seemingly without regard for the safety of its own citizens.” Several other schools have had relationships with Birzeit, including Rutgers University, which affirmed its relationship with Birzeit in May amid student encampment protests. William Paterson University entered into an agreement with the Hamas-run university in 2022 for exchange programs, sharing curricula, and joint degree programs. Other schools, such as MIT, have recently co-hosted conferences, invited Birzeit professors for speaking events, or had student groups visit its campus. A spokeswoman for Harvard University declined to comment.

The security of America’s power grid is under threat from the Chinese Communist Party and other foreign regimes who are pre-positioning energy devices they can sabotage from afar. Rapid state government action is needed to remove these technological threats that are already embedded in our electrical grid. A new report from Strider Intelligence revealed that solar inverters feeding electricity into the U.S. power grid are overwhelmingly manufactured by Chinese companies tied to Beijing’s government and military. These devices are connected to the same networks that power America’s hospitals and defense installations, keep communications and water systems running, drive manufacturing and transportation, underpin the financial sector, and enable emerging technologies like AI and quantum computing. The Chinese inverters are present at a scale far larger than previously understood. Nearly every utility surveyed by Strider, representing roughly 12% of national electricity generation, relies on Chinese inverters. As Strider warns, without decisive intervention, “the Chinese government, through its control over [government-linked] firms and data networks, could exploit this access to manipulate or disrupt the U.S. grid in a crisis.” Because these inverters occupy critical control points and can be controlled remotely, they give Beijing a degree of proximity no foreign adversary should ever possess inside American infrastructure. These vulnerabilities did not appear overnight. They grew out of decades of accelerated “green” energy expansion, during which time solar became the dominant source of new electricity across America. Much of the solar hardware came from companies with direct links to Chinese intelligence and military. Security concerns were ignored in the rush to scale renewables, resulting in American tax incentives and utility fees funding Chinese sabotage devices. This outcome is in part the product of a successful CCP influence operation. China has long waged an insidious campaign to promote the “green” energy agenda to make the United States more dependent on their products. Research from State Armor revealed that Energy Foundation China, a nonprofit supervised by the Chinese Communist Party, has quietly pushed tens of millions per year into U.S. universities and advocacy groups to push policies that deepen America’s reliance on Chinese technologies. Industrial ambition paired with political influence secured Beijing’s access to our infrastructure. While federal action is needed, Washington’s response has been slow, disjointed, and largely blind to the scale of the threat. Many of the vulnerabilities sit in infrastructure overseen by the states. That is where the solutions must begin. State leaders must completely block adversary-linked companies, nonprofits, and middlemen from critical infrastructure. Texas did so with the 2021 Lone Star Critical Infrastructure Protection Act, enacted to prevent a Chinese General from controlling the electrical grid near Laughlin Air Force Base. Entities tied to the CCP have no business inside the systems that power our grid, move our water, carry our data, or keep our transportation networks running. States should also prohibit the installation of Chinese network-connected technologies that create remote access points and kill switches inside critical systems. Strider’s findings confirm that many inverters and battery systems include built-in communication features that expose the grid to third parties without operator knowledge or consent. State attorneys general should invoke existing consumer-protection, data-privacy, and deceptive trade practices laws to hold companies liable when they sell equipment that contains malware and kill switches. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton recently opened an investigation into Chinese Military Company CATL for battery systems that create grid vulnerabilities. Nebraska Attorney General Hilgers and Florida Attorney General Uthmeier have launched fraud lawsuits against Chinese camera systems that facilitate espionage and sabotage. Companies should be enjoined from selling dangerous devices, and the dollars recovered through successful fraud claims should go toward replacing insecure Chinese-connected hardware. States have the authority to act now, long before Congress finishes arguing over what comes next. They can close the backdoors, cut off adversary-linked contractors, and replace the equipment that should never have been allowed into the grid in the first place. America cannot secure its future while foreign adversaries secure control over our essential systems. China has spent years pre-positioning itself inside U.S. infrastructure through industrial dominance and political influence. The danger is already inside our systems. We can either treat this as the national security threat it is, or concede that our utilities will be regulated by China’s government instead of our own. * * * Michael Lucci is the founder, CEO, and Chairman of State Armor, which he created to develop and enact state solutions to global security threats. Follow him at: @Michael7ucci The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the Daily Wire. Christmas Sale – Get 40% off New DailyWire+ Annual Memberships

In 2025, executions in the United States surged sharply, with 47 men put to death, marking the highest annual total in 16 years, the largest since 2009, and nearly double the number carried out in 2024. Florida, Alabama, South Carolina, and Texas accounted for nearly three-quarters of the executions, while the number of states actively implementing capital punishment increased to 12, up from nine in 2024. Louisiana resumed executions after a 15-year hiatus, while South Carolina carried out the nation’s first firing-squad executions since 2010, using the method in three of its five killings. The Supreme Court denied all requests to stay executions throughout the year. This spike in executions coincided with President Donald Trump’s executive order issued on his first day back in office, declaring capital punishment an essential tool for deterring and punishing heinous crimes. The order invoked the Founding Fathers’ support for the death penalty, framed it as a moral and legal necessity, and cited its ongoing popular support. Trump’s order strongly criticized politicians and judges who have opposed or obstructed executions, specifically condemning former President Joe Biden’s 2021 federal execution moratorium and his December 2024 commutation of 37 federal death-row prisoners, labeling these actions as a defiance of the law and an insult to victims of violent crime. The executive order directed the attorney general to pursue the death penalty in all qualifying federal cases, emphasizing the murders of law enforcement officers and capital crimes committed by illegal immigrants. It also instructed federal authorities to encourage state prosecutors to pursue capital charges, ensure that states have access to lethal injection drugs, and review incarceration conditions for those whose sentences were previously commuted. Additionally, the order called for efforts to overturn Supreme Court precedents that restrict capital punishment. Christmas Sale – Get 40% off New DailyWire+ Annual Memberships Following these directives, the Department of Justice authorized more than 20 new federal capital prosecutions in 2025, expanding the use of the death penalty at both the federal and state levels. The horrific details of murders committed by those executed by the state are too numerous to mention. For a few salient examples, see here, here, and here. Famed constitutional law and political philosophy professor Walter Berns wrote, “If human life is to be held in awe, the law forbidding the taking of it must be held in awe, and the only way the law can be made awe-inspiring is to entitle it to inflict the penalty of death.” He also stated, “There is a point in the history of society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it sides even with those who harm it, criminals, and does this quite seriously and honestly.”

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