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2024-05-01 Fifth Column
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'Screaming and cursing' anti-Israel agitators descend on senator's home more than a dozen times
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[FoxNews] Sen Ted Cruz's office says the Texas Republican remains committed to Israel no matter the 'harassment or intimidation' he faces at home.
Anti-Israel radicals have protested outside of Republican Sen. Ted Cruz’s Texas home more than a dozen times in recent weeks, with the agitators reportedly tied to the Students for Justice in Palestine group occupying college campuses nationwide, Fox News Digital exclusively learned.
Cruz’s home in Houston has been the target of 14 protests since February, including a protest on Friday when one suspect was arrested. Cruz’s office said that the senator remains resolute in his support of Israel, while brushing off the protesters' tactics of "harassment or intimidation."
"Senator Cruz will continue to stand with Israel and support Israel's right to defend itself and utterly eradicate Hamas. No amount of harassment or intimidation by terrorist supporters will change that," a spokesman for the senator said.
Student agitators have infiltrated college campuses nationwide in recent weeks, including radicals on Columbia University’s campus taking over the campus’ Hamilton Hall building, while schools such as UCLA, Harvard and Yale are working to clear student encampments where protesters demand their elite schools completely divest from Israel.
The protests are associated with groups tied to far-left organizations backed by dark money and liberal mega-donor George Soros, Fox News Digital previously reported. Namely, the National Students for Justice in Palestine (NSJP) has had a large presence amid the protests on Columbia University’s campus, as well as on the campuses of UCLA, Tufts and the University of Texas at Austin in Cruz’s home state.
The NSJP is a national group with at least 200 chapters across the U.S. and regularly compares Israel’s treatment of Palestinians to Nazi Germany and the Jim Crow era in the U.S. and accuses Israel of genocide, Influence Watch reported. NSJP's origins stretch back to 1993 on UC Berkeley's campus, according to NGO Monitor.
The national chapter celebrated Hamas' initial attack on Israel in October, describing it as an "historic win for the Palestinian resistance," The New York Times reported in October.
"This is what it means to Free Palestine: not just slogans and rallies, but armed confrontation with the oppressors," the group continued at the time.
The NSJP operates under a fiscal sponsor called Westchester Peace Action Committee Foundation, which previously received a six-figure donation from a nonprofit bankrolled by the Soros network, Fox News Digital previously reported.
The group and its affiliates have been banned or censured by universities for their support of Hamas, including Brandeis banning the group following calls "for violence against Jews," while Rutgers University suspended the group in December, as did Case Western in March.
The protesters outside of Cruz’s home in recent months are tied to Students for Justice in Palestine, law enforcement told the senator, Fox News Digital has learned.
The Houston Police Department confirmed to Fox News Digital that law enforcement have repeatedly responded to Cruz’s home over the protests this year but outlined that the police department can only publicly confirm there have been assemblies outside the residence, not identify specific groups the protesters are affiliated with.
One protester was arrested on Friday evening, according to law enforcement. Cruz posted on X that evening that protesters were clanging cowbells and yelling for two hours on his street. Fox News Digital reached out to the Harris County Constable's office for additional details on the arrest but did not immediately receive a reply.
"This is America in 2024, and this is a result of the sickness that has taken over our universities. This is a result of cultural Marxism that has infiltrated and seized control of the faculty and the administration."
"So, this is going on right now. It’s nearly 11 pm. Pro-Hamas protestors have been screaming and cursing for 2 hours. Banging cowbells & blowing whistles," Cruz posted on Friday.
"When a neighbor who has small kids asked an officer to do something, the protesters screamed that she was a "f---ing b----!"
Cruz has previously been the ire of liberal protesters working to stage demonstrations outside his house in Houston’s Royal Oaks neighborhood, including in 2021 when 60 to 70 climate activists gathered. This year, the protesters have assembled on a near-weekly basis, condemning Cruz for supporting Israel, Axios reported.
"The point is to show that he does have constituents that don't align with his very bigoted views. … We don't support him being AIPAC-funded and his allegiance to a foreign government," one regular protester told Axios Houston in March.
| They would be the constituents who’ve failed to keep him from being elected and reelected to various things since 2008? Scarey. |
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