Reid Claims Columbia Hamas Protests Are 'Singing About Peace'
by NewsBusters
NewsBusters— MSNBC’s Joy Reid pulled out the head in the sand strategy for Monday’s edition of The ReidOut when discussing anti-Semitism being prevalent at Columbia University. During an interview with Rev. Mark Thompson and Maryam Alwan of Columbia’s chapter of Students for Justine in Palestine, Reid claimed she simply “didn’t hear it.” Addressing Thompson, Reid claimed that things at Columbia are fine, “I saw, Mark, these students singing and singing about peace and singing salaam, singing words of peace....
Fox Business—Hamas endorsed the Columbia University protesters: Rep. Anthony D'Esposito. Rep. Anthony D'Esposito, R-N.Y., talks to 'The Evening Edit' about his visit to Columbia University with House Speaker Mike Johnson.
The Independent—Jewish students and professors speak out against claims Columbia protests are antisemitic. “There has been this discourse that Columbia is this hotbed of antisemitism, but it’s just a bunch of nerds sitting on the ground playing games, chanting and doing homework,” said one student who has been at the college protest camp.
TheHill—Trump claims ‘paid agitators’ part of Columbia pro-Palestine protests. Former President Trump made unfounded claims Tuesday that pro-Palestine protests at Columbia University contained "paid agitators" as nationwide college campus protests escalate. Hundreds of New York Police Department officers, many with batons and in riot gear, cleared Columbia University’s protest encampments on Tuesday evening, including arresting students who occupied a campus building. Trump claimed in a Fox