A trove of public documents revealed that the federal government has kept close tabs on pro- and anti-Israel protests across the country and cited concerns that Yale University was “pro-Hamas.” The documents, obtained and reported on by Bloomberg, reveal that agents with the Federal Protective Service (FPS), a law enforcement agency under the purview of the Department of Homeland Security, closely surveilled the wave of protests that came in the wake of the war between Israel and Hamas, which began after the terrorist organization’s attack on October 7. One October 13 email concerning a pro-Israel demonstration at Yale University cited concerns that the institution is “pro-Hamas.” The email from the FPS investigator explained that he had received a call from a United States Marshal informing him of a pro-Israel rally that was scheduled for the same day. “I checked in with New Haven PD and received the same information and will be on the scene,” his email reads. “The concern is that Yale University is pro Hamas,” the inspector wrote before also adding “at this time there is no credible threat. As more information comes in I will advise.” It is not clear if the FPS inspector was citing his own concerns, those of local authorities, or those of the protesters. The FPS monitored a number of different protests for and against Israel. A series of communications show that federal agents were worried that demonstrations could attract racially motivated violent extremists and become violent. On one occasion, agents warned a Biden administration official of demonstrations set to take place in October from “the same two groups that led to the ~50 arrests (and 500+ not arrested) at the WH yesterday and shutdown several entrances.” “These organizers keep rotating between USG locations, and the missile incident at the Gaza hospital has started inflaming tensions obviously,” the email read. CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP The communications came months before protests at universities across the country descended into violence. Students at Columbia University occupied a building on the campus and barricaded themselves inside and had to be removed from the premises by the New York Police Department. Mass arrests at Columbia as the NYPD physically removes and flushes out protesters from Hamilton Hall. pic.twitter.com/sXsH32XCQ5 — Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) May 1, 2024 Protests also turned violent at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) as pro- and anti-Israel protesters clashed on campus before police arrived at the scene. Protesters also attempted to hold off police who attempted to enter and break up their encampment on the UCLA campus.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — A Jewish university student needed a police escort to enter the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s anti-Israel encampment on Friday. Shabbos Kestenbaum, a student at Harvard Divinity School, spoke at a pro-Israel rally across the street from the encampment hosted by the Israeli American Council before deciding to cross the street and enter the encampment. Kestenbaum walked up to the encampment and was denied entry by a keffiyeh-wearing man blocking the perimeter of the protest. Police eventually agreed to escort him into the encampment, according to video taken by The Daily Wire.  “I want to let all of you know that you’re not going to intimidate Jewish people,” he told the campers. “You can hide behind your masks as long as you want, we will not be scared.” Anti-Israel protester at MIT: "Respectfully, we do not trust your intentions." Jewish student: "Respectfully, f*** off!" Watch a Jewish student fight to enter MIT's anti-Israel encampment. Police eventually agree to give him an escort. pic.twitter.com/lKeXr829TW — Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) May 3, 2024 “All of you should be ashamed of yourselves,” he added. “This is the state of being Jewish in America, I need police to exercise my First Amendment right.” Kestenbaum is a student at Harvard University, but spoke at the MIT counter-demonstration in support of Jewish students there. “After delivering a speech imploring Jewish students not to be afraid of their antisemitic classmates, I crossed the road to exercise my First Amendment rights and enter the pro-Hamas encampments,” Kestenbaum told The Daily Wire.  “Protestors formed a human chain to keep me out, and initially refused to allow me in even after police asked them to,” he added. “Eventually, I required a personal police escort to walk through the encampment, all the while being followed by pro-Hamas terrorist students.” Kestenbaum, along with other Harvard University students filed a lawsuit against the Ivy League in January, accusing it of selectively enforcing its policies to avoid protecting Jewish students from harassment and enabling anti-Semitism. “Whether it’s Harvard, MIT, Columbia, or anywhere else, antisemitic thugs have taken over college campuses,” Kestenbaum said. “They have no respect for the First Amendment or religious freedom and should be immediately thrown out of any university they currently illegally occupy.” MIT erected fences around the encampment ahead of the pro-Israel rally across the street and had a heavy police presence on Friday afternoon near the encampment. Outside of the encampment, Jewish demonstrators sang songs, and waved American and Israeli flags. Many pro-Israel and pro-America flags were hung on the new fences around the encampment, as well as signs mocking the encampment. One such sign read, “In this camp they believe: Propaganda is truth, resistance is justified, rape is resistance, harassment is free speech, Israelis are not human, martydom is glorious.” Inside the encampment, students had many of their own signs, including labels on tents with locations in Israel including Tzfat, Jaffa, and Haifa. 

Philadelphia Eagles QB Jalen Hurts made a huge donation to local schools in the Philadelphia area that will definitely go to benefit thousands of kids. The 25-year-old NFL star donated $200,000 that will go to installing 300 new air conditioning units in schools in Philadelphia by the start of next school year, Good Morning America reported. “I think back to my time as a student, not being able to imagine some of the things that you guys have to go through,” Hurts reportedly said during his visit to one of the area’s schools. “I just want to serve you guys and help in any way I can,” he added. Philadelphia School District Superintendent Dr. Tony B. Watlington Sr. said the donation will help 5,000 students in the area and benefit 10 local schools, the outlet noted. Philadelphia Eagles star quarterback Jalen Hurts is giving back to the community in a big way. Hurts has donated $200,000 for air conditioners in Philadelphia-area schools to keep students cool during warmer months. Learn more: https://t.co/4egaIBpwp5 pic.twitter.com/HCQrGKdXV9 — ABC News (@ABC) April 30, 2024 “More than half [of the schools] lack appropriate air-conditioning” to accommodate the environment when the “temperature climbs higher than 86 to 90 degrees,” Watlington Sr. said. “We too often have to let our kids go home early,” he added. “And that really impacts student achievement.” “It benefits teachers, as well, because when teachers have optimal teaching conditions, they’re more likely to return as teachers,” he added. Hurts joined the team in the second round of the 2020 NFL draft. In 2022, he earned the Second Team All-Pro honors and was named the NFL MVP runner-up, CBS Sports noted. CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP The 2023 season was a rollercoaster for the Eagles, who failed to return to the Super Bowl after falling to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the playoffs, after starting 10-1 to lose six of the next seven games. Speaking to the press earlier this year, Hurts said the 2023 season “has taught me so much in terms of the many blessings and lessons that have come with it.” “First thing that you do, you look yourself in the mirror and you look at what you could have been better at, how you could have led better, how you could have executed better, and those are all of the things that internally light a fire in me,” he added. “You have challenges in front of you,” Hurts continued. “You do everything in your power to self-reflect and control what you can and learn from it. That’s my No. 1 desire, to learn from everything and be the best I can be moving forward for everyone in this locker room and in this building.”

Britney Spears posted images of her “twisted ankle” and said “paramedics” showed up following news she was allegedly involved in an altercation at a West Hollywood hotel with her boyfriend. In a post on Thursday on Instagram, the 42-year-old singer shared two clips showing an injury she said she got at the Chateau Marmont on Wednesday night with Paul Soliz, who she has been linked up with following her divorce from Sam Asghari. “I really twisted my ankle last night like an idiot. This is to show proof,” Spears said as she showed in the video her very swollen and bruised foot. “F***ing idiot here tries to do a leap in the living room at the Cheateau, and I fell, embarrassed myself, and that’s it,” she added. Britney Spears has broken her silence https://t.co/zbkQhqsXSq — iHeartRadio (@iHeartRadio) May 3, 2024 “Paramedics came to my door, caused this huge scene,” the “Womanizer” hitmaker continued. “But yeah, it is actually pretty bad … but s*** happens.” In a second clip, Spears showed a different angle of the injury, but this time sounded like she was starting to become emotional about it. She captioned the post calling out her mom Lynne Spears for being involved in what she called “fake” news of the hotel altercation. “I know my mom was involved!” Spears wrote. “I haven’t talked to her in 6 months and she called right after it happened before the news [came] out! I was set up just like she did way back when. … I can’t stand her! I honestly don’t care, I will say it!” News of the injury followed a TMZ report that Spears “got into a huge fight” with her boyfriend Soliz, “and she ended up out of control, crying, possibly cut, and almost driven away in an ambulance.” CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP At the hotel, “there was some sort of disturbance and someone called police, claiming a woman matching Britney’s description was harassing and threatening hotel employees and guests,” the report said. “Officers showed up shortly after 10:30 PM, but they saw no signs of trouble and left.” The report said that Spears and her boyfriend had escaped back to their hotel room where they continued partying until “they ended up getting into a huge altercation that we’re told turned physical” with a possible injury to Britney’s leg. People magazine said it has confirmed the singer and Soliz had a fight, but no other details were released. Daily Wire News contributed to this piece.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — A Jewish university student needed a police escort to enter the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s anti-Israel encampment on Friday. Shabbos Kestenbaum, a student at Harvard Divinity School, spoke at a pro-Israel rally across the street from the encampment hosted by the Israeli American Council before deciding to cross the street and enter the encampment. Kestenbaum walked up to the encampment and was denied entry by a keffiyeh-wearing man blocking the perimeter of the protest. Police eventually agreed to escort him into the encampment, according to video taken by The Daily Wire.  “I want to let all of you know that you’re not going to intimidate Jewish people,” he told the campers. “You can hide behind your masks as long as you want, we will not be scared.” Anti-Israel protester at MIT: "Respectfully, we do not trust your intentions." Jewish student: "Respectfully, f*** off!" Watch a Jewish student fight to enter MIT's anti-Israel encampment. Police eventually agree to give him an escort. pic.twitter.com/lKeXr829TW — Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) May 3, 2024 “All of you should be ashamed of yourselves,” he added. “This is the state of being Jewish in America, I need police to exercise my First Amendment right.” Kestenbaum is a student at Harvard University, but spoke at the MIT counter-demonstration in support of Jewish students there. “After delivering a speech imploring Jewish students not to be afraid of their antisemitic classmates, I crossed the road to exercise my First Amendment rights and enter the pro-Hamas encampments,” Kestenbaum told The Daily Wire.  “Protestors formed a human chain to keep me out, and initially refused to allow me in even after police asked them to,” he added. “Eventually, I required a personal police escort to walk through the encampment, all the while being followed by pro-Hamas terrorist students.” Kestenbaum, along with other Harvard University students filed a lawsuit against the Ivy League in January, accusing it of selectively enforcing its policies to avoid protecting Jewish students from harassment and enabling anti-Semitism. “Whether it’s Harvard, MIT, Columbia, or anywhere else, antisemitic thugs have taken over college campuses,” Kestenbaum said. “They have no respect for the First Amendment or religious freedom and should be immediately thrown out of any university they currently illegally occupy.” MIT erected fences around the encampment ahead of the pro-Israel rally across the street and had a heavy police presence on Friday afternoon near the encampment. Outside of the encampment, Jewish demonstrators sang songs, and waved American and Israeli flags. Many pro-Israel and pro-America flags were hung on the new fences around the encampment, as well as signs mocking the encampment. One such sign read, “In this camp they believe: Propaganda is truth, resistance is justified, rape is resistance, harassment is free speech, Israelis are not human, martydom is glorious.” Inside the encampment, students had many of their own signs, including labels on tents with locations in Israel including Tzfat, Jaffa, and Haifa. 

Different universities are dealing with pro-Hamas demonstrations in different ways. At Chicago’s Northwestern University, the administration negotiated a deal with the protestors. The university agreed to hire two Palestinian faculty members and supply them each with five co-eds as wives, along with two alternate wives to replace any wives who turn out not to be virgins, and then three more alternate wives to replace the other wives who turn out not to be virgins, and then just more and more alternate wives because, after all, these girls are from Northwestern. In return for these concessions, the protestors agreed to leave campus long enough for the university’s Jewish students to make an escape attempt, whereupon the protestors will suddenly come back. Other universities dealt with the demonstrations in ways that were more controversial. For instance, at the University of Florida, the administration called in the police to spray the protestors with tear gas and then mow them down with machine gun bullets, which many felt was a flagrant waste of tear gas. At Columbia University in New York, school president Minouche Shafik hit on a hybrid method of de-escalation after protestors occupied a building, and refused to leave until Israel stopped the genocide so Hamas could murder all the Jews. Ms. Shafik began by begging the protestors to please, please go away so the other students could enjoy their graduation until they realized they had plunged themselves into crippling debt for no reason. When that didn’t work, Ms. Shafik threatened the protestors with suspension, then asked them to please, please forgive her for threatening them with suspension, then said she would never call in the police, then called in the police, then regretted calling the police, then attempted to make amends by offering an all-expenses paid fact-finding trip to Gaza but only to Queers for Palestine since that would save money on return trip tickets. In the aftermath, Columbia has ordered an investigation into the root causes of the disturbances. The investigation will be led by Columbia Professor Mufassa Intifada Jihad who teaches a course on Decolonization in which students are taught how to video themselves committing rape and murder, then how to brag about committing rape and murder, then how to declare they never committed rape and murder, but if they had it would have been justified because hey, that’s Decolonization. WATCH: The Andrew Klavan Show In an interview with the New York Times, a former newspaper, Professor Mufassa Intifada Jihad told Times reporter Jihad Intifada Mohammed, “It’s a mystery why so many students majoring in Critical Jew Hatred should behave in such an unseemly manner. I suspect many of them are actually outside agitators or will be until we offer them faculty positions. Then they can join me in investigating why these protests were handled so badly that many Jewish students were able to get out alive.” The protests are also causing headaches for the White House. President and Venal Houseplant Joe Biden reacted to the unrest by issuing a strong statement to the woman assigned to help him walk without falling over. The statement reads “Throughout my life I have always upheld those moral principles that would keep the money rolling in from the family influence peddling business. And today I stand firmly against antisemitism unless that’s all right now, in which case I’m for it. I condemn Hamas for wanting to commit genocide on the Jews, and I condemn the Jews for fighting back, which is also genocide if that word means something entirely different than it used to mean back in the days when words meant things. In conclusion, I will be sending Vice President Kamala Harris to New York because I just can’t stand that cackling laugh of hers for even another minute. Once she’s there, I will ask her to resolve this unrest just as she helped close the border. Then I’ll send her to pretend to do some other thing because really that noise is driving me crazy.” In Israel, Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu also issued a statement, saying “All Israelis know we can rely on the gentile nations to treat us with their customary level of kindness, and that’s why we’ll be killing anything that even looks at us crosswise for the foreseeable future.” * * * Andrew Klavan is the host of “The Andrew Klavan Show” at The Daily Wire. He is the bestselling author of the Cameron Winter Mystery series. The third installment, “The House of Love and Death,” is now available. Follow him on X: @andrewklavan This excerpt is taken from the opening satirical monologue of “The Andrew Klavan Show.” The views expressed in this satirical article are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

Britney Spears posted images of her “twisted ankle” and said “paramedics” showed up following news she was allegedly involved in an altercation at a West Hollywood hotel with her boyfriend. In a post on Thursday on Instagram, the 42-year-old singer shared two clips showing an injury she said she got at the Chateau Marmont on Wednesday night with Paul Soliz, who she has been linked up with following her divorce from Sam Asghari. “I really twisted my ankle last night like an idiot. This is to show proof,” Spears said as she showed in the video her very swollen and bruised foot. “F***ing idiot here tries to do a leap in the living room at the Cheateau, and I fell, embarrassed myself, and that’s it,” she added. Britney Spears has broken her silence https://t.co/zbkQhqsXSq — iHeartRadio (@iHeartRadio) May 3, 2024 “Paramedics came to my door, caused this huge scene,” the “Womanizer” hitmaker continued. “But yeah, it is actually pretty bad … but s*** happens.” In a second clip, Spears showed a different angle of the injury, but this time sounded like she was starting to become emotional about it. She captioned the post calling out her mom Lynne Spears for being involved in what she called “fake” news of the hotel altercation. “I know my mom was involved!” Spears wrote. “I haven’t talked to her in 6 months and she called right after it happened before the news [came] out! I was set up just like she did way back when. … I can’t stand her! I honestly don’t care, I will say it!” News of the injury followed a TMZ report that Spears “got into a huge fight” with her boyfriend Soliz, “and she ended up out of control, crying, possibly cut, and almost driven away in an ambulance.” CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP At the hotel, “there was some sort of disturbance and someone called police, claiming a woman matching Britney’s description was harassing and threatening hotel employees and guests,” the report said. “Officers showed up shortly after 10:30 PM, but they saw no signs of trouble and left.” The report said that Spears and her boyfriend had escaped back to their hotel room where they continued partying until “they ended up getting into a huge altercation that we’re told turned physical” with a possible injury to Britney’s leg. People magazine said it has confirmed the singer and Soliz had a fight, but no other details were released. Daily Wire News contributed to this piece.

Former President Donald Trump said during an interview this week that he no longer supports a two-state solution between Israel and the Palestinians following the October 7 massacre. Trump made the remarks during an interview with TIME Magazine while discussing Israel’s military operation against the Hamas terrorist organization. “I’m not sure a two-state solution anymore is gonna work,” Trump said. “Everybody was talking about two states, even when I was there.” “There was a time when I thought two states could work,” he continued. “Now I think two states is going to be very, very tough. I think it’s going to be much tougher to get. I also think you have fewer people that liked the idea. You had a lot of people that liked the idea four years ago. Today, you have far fewer people that like that idea. There may not be another idea.” Trump noted that Palestinian children are taught to hate Israel from the day that they are born, which makes achieving peace nearly impossible. He also made clear that if Iran were to attack Israel, there is no question that he would defend and protect Israel. Trump’s remarks about a Palestinian state come as Israeli leaders have also shut down the idea because of the obvious security risk that it would create for Israel. CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP “For 30 years, I am very consistent and I’m saying something very simple, this conflict is not on the lack of a state of Palestine, but the existence of a state, the Jewish State,” said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu earlier this year. “In the future, the state of Israel has to control the entire area from the river to the sea,” he said. “This truth I say to our American friends, and I also stopped the attempt to impose on us a reality that will jeopardize us.” “A prime minister in Israel has to be able to say ‘no’ even to the best of friends, to say ‘no’ when you need to and to say ‘yes’ when you can,” he continued.

Different universities are dealing with pro-Hamas demonstrations in different ways. At Chicago’s Northwestern University, the administration negotiated a deal with the protestors. The university agreed to hire two Palestinian faculty members and supply them each with five co-eds as wives, along with two alternate wives to replace any wives who turn out not to be virgins, and then three more alternate wives to replace the other wives who turn out not to be virgins, and then just more and more alternate wives because, after all, these girls are from Northwestern. In return for these concessions, the protestors agreed to leave campus long enough for the university’s Jewish students to make an escape attempt, whereupon the protestors will suddenly come back. Other universities dealt with the demonstrations in ways that were more controversial. For instance, at the University of Florida, the administration called in the police to spray the protestors with tear gas and then mow them down with machine gun bullets, which many felt was a flagrant waste of tear gas. At Columbia University in New York, school president Minouche Shafik hit on a hybrid method of de-escalation after protestors occupied a building, and refused to leave until Israel stopped the genocide so Hamas could murder all the Jews. Ms. Shafik began by begging the protestors to please, please go away so the other students could enjoy their graduation until they realized they had plunged themselves into crippling debt for no reason. When that didn’t work, Ms. Shafik threatened the protestors with suspension, then asked them to please, please forgive her for threatening them with suspension, then said she would never call in the police, then called in the police, then regretted calling the police, then attempted to make amends by offering an all-expenses paid fact-finding trip to Gaza but only to Queers for Palestine since that would save money on return trip tickets. In the aftermath, Columbia has ordered an investigation into the root causes of the disturbances. The investigation will be led by Columbia Professor Mufassa Intifada Jihad who teaches a course on Decolonization in which students are taught how to video themselves committing rape and murder, then how to brag about committing rape and murder, then how to declare they never committed rape and murder, but if they had it would have been justified because hey, that’s Decolonization. WATCH: The Andrew Klavan Show In an interview with the New York Times, a former newspaper, Professor Mufassa Intifada Jihad told Times reporter Jihad Intifada Mohammed, “It’s a mystery why so many students majoring in Critical Jew Hatred should behave in such an unseemly manner. I suspect many of them are actually outside agitators or will be until we offer them faculty positions. Then they can join me in investigating why these protests were handled so badly that many Jewish students were able to get out alive.” The protests are also causing headaches for the White House. President and Venal Houseplant Joe Biden reacted to the unrest by issuing a strong statement to the woman assigned to help him walk without falling over. The statement reads “Throughout my life I have always upheld those moral principles that would keep the money rolling in from the family influence peddling business. And today I stand firmly against antisemitism unless that’s all right now, in which case I’m for it. I condemn Hamas for wanting to commit genocide on the Jews, and I condemn the Jews for fighting back, which is also genocide if that word means something entirely different than it used to mean back in the days when words meant things. In conclusion, I will be sending Vice President Kamala Harris to New York because I just can’t stand that cackling laugh of hers for even another minute. Once she’s there, I will ask her to resolve this unrest just as she helped close the border. Then I’ll send her to pretend to do some other thing because really that noise is driving me crazy.” In Israel, Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu also issued a statement, saying “All Israelis know we can rely on the gentile nations to treat us with their customary level of kindness, and that’s why we’ll be killing anything that even looks at us crosswise for the foreseeable future.” * * * Andrew Klavan is the host of “The Andrew Klavan Show” at The Daily Wire. He is the bestselling author of the Cameron Winter Mystery series. The third installment, “The House of Love and Death,” is now available. Follow him on X: @andrewklavan This excerpt is taken from the opening satirical monologue of “The Andrew Klavan Show.” The views expressed in this satirical article are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

The Biden administration has told Qatar to expel the Hamas’ leaders from its country if the terrorist organization continues to reject a generous deal offered by Israel. The Washington Post reported that Secretary of State Antony Blinken delivered the message to Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani last month. Qatar has advised Hamas’ leaders, including its top leader, Ismail Haniyeh, that they should start thinking about living somewhere else because of mounting U.S. pressure as the group has continually stalled and rejected negotiations. “We are determined to get a cease-fire that brings the hostages home and to get it now, and the only reason that wouldn’t be achieved is because of Hamas,” Blinken said in Israel this week. “There is a proposal on the table, and as we’ve said: no delays, no excuses. The time is now.” Israel has signaled that its military operation against the terrorist group inside Gaza will not stop until the group is thoroughly destroyed. While President Joe Biden has tried to appease the anti-Semites in his party by at times appearing to blame Israel for the hostages being released, he has “grown more impatient with Hamas,” the report said. There is strong bipartisan support in the U.S. Congress to force the U.S. to reevaluate its relationship with Qatar if it does not apply serious pressure on the terrorist group. CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP The shift by the Biden administration comes as the U.S. also is moving fighter jets, armed drones, and other military assets out of the U.A.E. and to Qatar to get around restrictions that the U.A.E. placed on the U.S. earlier this year. The U.A.E. told the U.S. that it had to notify the country of military operations that it was conducting in the region in Iraq and Yemen if operations involved U.S. forces stationed in the U.A.E. “Restrictions have been imposed on strike missions against targets in Iraq and Yemen,” a U.A.E. official told The Wall Street Journal. “Those restrictions are coming from a place of self-protection.”