[FoxNews] Two Mexican nationals in the U.S. on nonimmigrant visas were arrested during a traffic stop in Colorado last month while transporting 180,000 rounds of ammunition, authorities said Wednesday.
Caesar Ramon Martinez Solis, 41, and Humberto Ivan Amador Gavira, 24, both of Mexico, were pulled over in Canon City on March 26, the U.S. Attorney’s Office – District of Colorado said in a news release.
Two Fremont County detectives had spotted a white Chevrolet van passing them without dimming its headlights, in violation of state law, according to an arrest affidavit obtained by the Canon City Daily Record. The detectives said the van also failed to signal when turning into a gas station and had a defective license plate lamp.
During the traffic stop, the detectives discovered approximately 150 boxes of .308 ammunition and approximately 30 boxes of 7.62 ammunition, officials said. Each box was labeled as containing 1,000 rounds.
Martinez Solis agreed to speak with U.S. Department of Homeland Security special agents and waive his right to an attorney, according to the affidavit.
Martinez Solis told authorities that he and Amador Garcia, whom he claimed was his brother-in-law, had traveled from Mexico to Denver a day earlier to purchase a vehicle before driving to Salt Lake City to look at another vehicle he was interested in buying.
In Salt Lake City, the men stopped at a firearms and ammunition store, where Amador Garcia bought the ammunition, according to the affidavit.
"[Martinez Solis] further explained that he did not know the intent with the ammunition but that he believed it was destined for Pueblo," the affidavit stated. Pueblo is a city in Colorado located about 113 miles south of Denver.
Martinez Solis added that the intended destination was on Amador Garcia’s phone, according to the affidavit. Authorities did not specify the destination.
Martinez Solis and Amador Garcia were both charged with Unlawful Possession of Ammunition by Alien Admitted Under a Nonimmigrant Visa.
The Denver Field Office of Homeland Security Investigations and the Fremont County Sheriff’s Office are investigating the case with help from the Denver Field Office of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives.
Officials said the case is part of Operation Take Back America, a federal initiative designed "to repel the invasion of illegal immigration, achieve the total elimination of cartels and transnational criminal organizations."
These guys had been on somebody's radar for a while. Wonder why LE didn't wait for the delivery and pickup the whole crew. Poss someone they didn't want to compromise.
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Fun with math. At 60 cents a round that’s over $100,000 of ammo. Unlikely they paid by credit card. And taking a check for that amount from 2 strangers? No gun store I know of would do that. So cash - and wouldn’t you wonder about a cash deal like that? Further, I’ve been to some big gun shops - who keeps.that much 308 ammo on hand (money tied up in inventory). Many online ammo dealers list what they have in stock and that amount exceeds the standard by far. Finally - weight. You are talking 2 1/2 tons of ammo here. The boxes were bulk loaded into the truck, not on a skid with a forklift. Somebody busted a sweat to make this happen. Frankly this is completely off the charts for “just another day at the shop.”
The miscreant’s mugshot can be seen at the link, revealing long, matted, sunbleached hair and a decidedly vacant look around the eyes in a face that appears to me considerably less than the claimed 34 years.
[FoxNews] One semi-automatic rifle found was described as "booby-trapped" and fired during the New Jersey arrest
A Florida man has been indicted in Trenton, New Jersey, after allegedly boarding an Amtrak train with what authorities described as a "small arsenal" of weapons.
Jeffrey O. Kennerk, 34, of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, was caught on a train on Jan. 3 with assault weapons, large-capacity ammunition magazines, handguns, silencers and a booby-trapped rifle that fired during his arrest at the Trenton Transit Center, New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin's office said on April 16.
"This defendant allegedly hauled a small arsenal of deadly weapons and ammunition through busy transit stations, and on a train filled with passengers," Platkin said in a statement. "He allegedly left a suitcase containing assorted weapons and ammunition – including an assault rifle – in the concourse of Newark Penn Station, where anyone could have been harmed by them. If not for the outstanding police work done in this matter, we can only imagine where this defendant and these weapons would have ended up."
A New Jersey Transit Police officer was tipped off to an unaccompanied black and white zebra-print suitcase near the entrance to the Newark subway.
When authorities investigated the bag, they found a handgun with a fully loaded 18-round magazine. Further investigation revealed an AR-style magazine fully loaded with .223 ammunition, and a plastic bag with two boxes of 9mm ammunition and four boxes of .223 ammunition, officials said.
A secondary compartment in the bag allegedly contained a loaded Zastava Arms AK-47-style rifle and several more fully loaded magazines.
According to Platkin's office, Kennerk briefly abandoned the bag to purchase an Amtrak train ticket to Virginia. He then boarded the train in Newark but was intercepted by law enforcement at the train's next stop in Trenton.
Authorities said they found more weapons and ammunition upon Kennerk's arrest, including an "AR-15-style rifle that was separated into the lower and upper receiver, multiple caches of ammunition, multiple extended magazines, and multiple handguns."
They also found another rifle with .300 AAC Blackout ammunition, according to Platkin's office.
"The officer placed the muzzle into the suitcase pointed at the ground and attempted to remove one of the handkerchiefs to render it safe, at which time the firearm discharged without the officer engaging the trigger, indicating that the gun was allegedly booby-trapped," the AG's office said.
Authorities said they also found four silencers and hollow point ammunition in both 9mm and .22 long rifle calibers.
Kennerk was indicted for possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose, four counts of unlawful possession of a weapon, three counts of unlawful possession of an assault firearm, one count of aggravated assault and one count of certain persons not to have weapons, which are all second-degree crimes.
He was also charged with several fourth-degree crimes, including two counts of unlawful possession of a large-capacity ammunition magazine, and one count each of unlawful possession of hollow nose ammunition, unlawful possession of a silencer, endangering another person and causing or risking widespread injury or damage.
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If he were a typical, normal FLA. voter, visiting NY/NJ, I'd say he was traveling like.
But given his Mug Photo..... I'd say he was just another peaceful, and understanding Liberal Democrat planning to murder people that disagree with his political views.
[Garowe] Security forces drawn from the Puntland Defense Forces entered phase III of the fight against ISIS militants, conquering critical bases in the process, with the ultimate goal being ejecting the militants from strategic areas within the Calmiskaad mountains.
According to reports, the Puntland forces, with assistance from the US Africa Command over overran key Daacish positions in the Al-Miskaad mountains—including Dallaas, Shilin-Cas, Buur-Gaal, and Dhanan—areas long used as terrorist hideouts.
The bases had provided the militants shelter from sustained aerial surveillance by the US Africa Command, the United Arab Emirates forces, and the local troops, who have managed to make tremendous gains on all frontlines.
"Puntland Counter-Terrorism Forces today conducted an operation in Mirale valley, killing ISIS terrorists hiding in the area and clearing them from their caves. The third phase of the operation is underway. Further details to follow shortly," security forces said.
Fighting is still ongoing in pockets. Troops reached these remote zones using camels and donkeys, as normal vehicles couldn’t access the terrain. U.S. airstrikes continue in support, and diplomatic sources say Washington is impressed by Puntland’s battlefield readiness.
Before the 3rd phase of operations kicked off, Puntland warned Nomad communities against making movements within certain areas of interest, noting that they may be taken as terrorists and possibly suffer from the ongoing bombings.
Regional leader Said Abdullahi Deni has previously visited various frontlines while encouraging troops to fight for peace and stability in the state. Puntland has yet to get substantial support from the Somali National Army (SNA) due to an unresolved federal governance conflict.
But there is still hope that with the support from the international partners, the state shall effectively defeat the ISIS militants who were trying to make inroads within northern Somalia. ISIS militants have lost significant territories within the last four months.
[ShabelleMedia] Somalia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ahmed Moallim Fiqi, has issued a strong statement against the Acting Head of the African Union Transition Mission in Somalia (ATMIS), Amb. Sivuyile Thandikhaya Bam, accused him of sympathizing with the terrorist group Al-Shabaab.
Minister Fiqi alleged that the South African diplomat—who also serves as the Deputy and Acting Special Representative of the African Union for Somalia—has submitted misleading reports to international bodies, including the UN Security Council, portraying Al-Shabaab as a group seeking statehood and reducing civilian harm, which he called a blatant distortion of reality.
“For a long time, there have been whispers about his bias, but now it’s evident—he can no longer hide it,” said Minister Fiqi. “He has shown himself to be a supporter of Al-Shabaab and an enemy of Somalia’s progress.”
The Minister expressed deep concern over Bam’s alleged activities, asserting that such conduct undermines the Somali government’s efforts to combat terrorism and achieve national stability.
Sources close to Somalia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs indicate that the federal government is considering expelling Ambassador Bam from the country due to what they describe as a breach of trust and alignment with forces working against Somalia’s development.
This move marks a significant escalation in tensions between Somalia and the African Union over the mandate and direction of the ATMIS mission, which was launched to replace the former AMISOM peacekeeping operation and support Somalia’s security transition.
The government has not yet made a formal decision, but insiders suggest the expulsion process is actively planned.
[Garowe] Mortar shells struck several districts of Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, on Saturday morning, killing two people, including a 12-year-old girl, and injuring three other civilians, residents and security sources said.
The mortar shells hit neighborhoods in the Hamarweyne, Hamar Jajab, and Shibis districts, close to the presidential palace. Explosions were heard across much of the city.
The reports indicated that the casualties were all civilians caught in the bombardment near their homes. There was no immediate claim of responsibility.
Militant group Al Shabaab, which frequently targets government and security installations, has carried out similar mortar attacks in the area in recent weeks, including strikes near Villa Somalia — the presidential compound — and the Halane camp, which hosts an AU military mission and western embassies, located near Aden Adde International Airport.
Somali federal security authorities have not yet commented on Saturday’s attack, which comes as Al-Shabaab intensified raids against military bases in Middle Shabelle region, which borders the capital.
[ShabelleMedia] Armed clashes are feared between Somali government forces and Al-Shabaab militants following reports of insurgents entering areas near the towns of Ceel Dheer and Masagawaa in the central Galgaduud region, local sources said Saturday.
The presence of Al-Shabaab fighters — an al-Qaeda-affiliated group — near key settlements has heightened concerns of an imminent confrontation, as government troops mobilize to reinforce security.
Military officials have reportedly deployed a large number of Somali National Army (SNA) troops to the two towns to secure the region and counter possible attacks by the group, which has intensified operations in recent weeks.
Senior government officials and members of parliament recently visited both Ceel Dheer and Masagawaa to boost the morale of the troops and lend support to ongoing military operations aimed at reclaiming territory from Al-Shabaab across several regions.
The escalation comes amid a surge in attacks by the group, which recently captured the strategic town of Aadan Yabaal in Middle Shabelle, as well as several areas in the Hiiraan region.
Despite sustained military campaigns backed by international partners, Al-Shabaab continues to pose a significant threat to Somalia’s stability, frequently targeting military bases and government-held towns.
[ShabelleMedia] The death toll from a recent Al-Shabaab assault on the central Somali town of Aadan Yabaal has risen significantly, with a former senior official claiming that at least 200 government soldiers were killed in the fighting.
Ibrahim Mahad-Alle, former deputy mayor of Mogadishu, said the attack by the militant group resulted in heavy casualties among Somali National Army (SNA) forces, including the death of a senior commander, Ismail Tuuryare, who had been leading a contingent of nearly 800 troops.
“Aadan Yabaal became a flashpoint after Al-Shabaab massed forces there. The commander and his men fought bravely, but they died confronting the enemy,” Mahad-Alle told local media.
He revealed that the mission initially aimed to secure control of key districts in the Galgaduud region — specifically Ceel Buur and Galhareeri — as part of a broader offensive against Al-Shabaab strongholds. However, the troops had positioned themselves in Aadan Yabaal, approximately 245 kilometres north of Mogadishu, when they came under heavy attack.
The Somali federal government has not yet issued an official statement regarding the battle, despite the strategic importance of Aadan Yabaal, which has long served as a major military hub in the Middle Shabelle region.
The assault marks another setback for government forces, who have been engaged in a drawn-out campaign to reclaim territory from the al-Qaeda-linked group.
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[RIA] An attack by militants in the state of Benue in central Nigeria has left at least 56 people dead, the France Presse agency reported on Sunday night.
On Saturday, Punch reported that 17 people were killed in Nigeria in an attack it said was carried out by armed herdsmen.
"According to the latest count, the death toll from the attacks has risen to 56 people," the governor's media adviser, Solomon Iorpev, told the agency.
The attack on Thursday night prompted the deployment of security forces. The local governor blamed the attack on previous attacks in the region on ethnic herders, including religious ones.
The death toll could rise as search operations progress, officials said.
On Monday, the Daily Post reported that about 50 people were killed in an armed attack by unknown assailants on two villages in the Nigerian state of Plato.
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] The US aggression aircraft launched on Saturday evening a series of airstrikes on the port and airport of Hodeidah, western Yemen.
Security sources in the province reported that the US aircraft targeted the airport and port of Hodeidah with 13 airstrikes.
Inshallah, guys. This is what losing a war looks like. Next time don’t sign up for Iran’s Axis of Evil. And definitely don’t go after the Great Satan — President Trump don’t play nice.
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] The Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries in Sana’a warned of marine pollution resulting from the American attacks on the Ras Issa oil port in Hodeidah province, which led to the leakage of large quantities of oil to the sea water.
The Ministry explained in a statement that the bombing led to the destruction of port facilities and tanks, causing the leakage of toxic oil and industrial materials into the sea, which portends an imminent environmental disaster in the Red Sea, which may lead to the destruction of the marine ecosystem, the death of a large number of marine life, and the threat to fish wealth, which is a source of livelihood for hundreds of thousands of Yemeni families.
The statement warned that the spread of oil pollution spots in Yemeni territorial waters could lead to the closure of large fishing areas and hinder maritime activity, greatly affecting food security in the country in light of the difficult humanitarian and economic conditions that Yemen faces.
The ministry also called on international environmental organizations to condemn this crime and assist in containing the oil spill resulting from the targeting of the port to mitigate its disastrous effects on the marine environment.
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[KavkazUzel] The court sentenced a resident of the Kizilyurt district to six years in prison, recognizing her as a member of the Islamic State* militant group.
As the "Caucasian Knot" reported , in March 2022, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Dagestan reported that in 2021, 217 criminal cases were opened against residents of the republic who went to Syria to participate in illegal armed groups. 114 people were put on the international wanted list, 23 were detained after returning. Among those wanted were those who went to Syria back in 2013-2016.
The Kizilyurt District Court found a local resident guilty of participating in an illegal armed group, the united press service of the courts of general jurisdiction of Dagestan reported today on its Telegram channel.
According to the court, in October 2014, the woman and her young children traveled to Syria via Turkey and arrived with her husband in the city of Raqqa, where she “joined an illegal armed group that is a structural division of the Islamic State organization."
"Her participation in the organization consisted of ensuring the activities of the formation by performing the household duties assigned to her such as cooking, repairing clothes, etc.," the publication says.
The court sentenced the woman to six years of imprisonment with a year of restricted freedom. "The defendant's actual sentence has been suspended until her youngest child reaches the age of fourteen," the statement said.
Let us recall that in 2020, 63-year-old Patimat Ramazanova from Kizilyurt was accused of participating in the activities of a terrorist organization and placed in a pretrial detention center, despite health problems. The woman went to Syria to help her daughter and three granddaughters return to Dagestan. "She considers herself innocent, this elderly woman did not take part in any terrorist organizations," her lawyer told the "Caucasian Knot" at the time.
In June 2021, participants in a seminar in Moscow noted that, although the authorities recognize the need to return the wives and children of militants from Syria, including those from the North Caucasus, the problems of their rehabilitation and social adaptation remain pressing.
Indeed. So what is Russia doing about it? I would truly love to know.
In 2021, Russian human rights activists released an analytical report on the problems of human rights and violations of humanitarian norms in Syria over the past 10 years of the conflict. The "Caucasian Knot" published a background report on this report.
[IsraelTimes] ‘We already have a bloody history here, but I’m not afraid,’ says mother of Lahav Shapira after his fellow student at Free University of Berlin receives 3-year prison sentence
A 24-year-old man who was convicted of attacking the grandson of a Munich massacre victim over a year ago in Berlin was sentenced to three years in prison on Thursday.
The sentence, which was higher than what prosecutors sought, came after the judge determined that the assault was motivated by antisemitism, according to the German news agency DPA.
The case drew close attention in Israel because the victim, Lahav Shapira, 30, is the grandson of Amitzur Shapira, an Israeli athletics coach who was murdered by Palestinian terrorists in the Munich Olympics terror attack in 1972. Shapira moved to Germany from Israel with his mother and brother Shahak Shapira, a prominent comedian and writer, as a child.
“He was full of hate,” Shapira’s mother, Tzipi Lev, told Ynet about her son’s attacker, whom German police identified as Mustafa S. “We won’t be silent about this. We already have a bloody history here, but I’m not afraid. I raised my sons to be proud of their Judaism and their Israeli identity. If we start to fear, we lose our right to exist.”
The attack occurred in February 2024, amid heightened tensions at the Free University of Berlin, where both men were students, over the Israel-Hamas war. Police reports at the time said that the younger man assaulted Shapira after the pair argued, while Shapira said there had been no precipitating incident. He suffered severe facial fractures, a brain hemorrhage and significant eye damage in the assault.
Testimony during the trial showed that Mustafa confronted Shapira outside of a bar for allegedly tearing down pro-Palestinian posters, according to Ynet’s report, which said the two had known each other from a teacher training program, and Mustafa had previously accused Shapira of treating him unfairly for removing members of a WhatsApp group who shared antisemitic content.
Key evidence determining the antisemitic nature of the attack was found in a video on Mustafa’s phone where a friend is heard saying, “Mosti beat the shit out of that Jewish son of a bitch,” according to Ynet’s report.
Mustafa apologized to Shapira shortly before the verdict, saying, “I am sorry to have caused you pain,” according to DPA.
Oh? Have you offered to pay for his surgery costs and expenses related to his recovery? Anything for his pain and suffering? Replacing his lost wages? Stood up to publicly announce that you were wrong and now you will protect Israel and Jews from people like your former self? No? Then you are a liar with no honour. Saying sorry doesn’t cut it — enjoy your imprisonment.
Shahak Shapira suffered an assault in 2015 when several Arab men beat him on a Berlin train after he objected to them singing anti-Israel and antisemitic chants. He has championed for justice for his younger brother on social media, and called on the Free University in Berlin to be held to account.
“The court declared the antisemitic motive proven beyond doubt. It’s a huge relief for us,” Shahak Shapira wrote on Instagram.” We’re not done yet. The university that put Jewish students in danger, hateful organizations like Jewish Voice for Peace and Young Struggle who dehumanize and put a target on Jewish individuals, all the students who doxed their fellow students and called for violence upon them — I hope they will all get what they deserve. We will try.”
‘Death to Israel’ graffitied on Northwestern University building during Passover
[IsraelTimes] School’s Jewish president says vandalism took place hours after his own Passover seder and that those responsible will face discipline from the university as well as criminal charges. Also spray-painted on a university building was an inverted triangle, a symbol that has been used by Hamas to signify Israeli targets and has also been adopted by some pro-Palestinian protestors.
Earlier this month, Northwestern became one of seven universities that saw steep funding cuts from the Trump administration over its response to campus antisemitism. It was the first non-Ivy League school to face the funding cuts and has $790 million on the line. Schill received widespread criticism last year when he became one of the first university presidents to come to a deal with pro-Palestinian protestors, with some Jewish organizations at the time calling for his resignation.
Bharmal's criminal case could also impact that future. Along with Harvard divinity school graduate student Elom-Tettey Tamaklo, Bharmal was charged last May with misdemeanor assault in connection with his behavior at a "die-in" protest that took place shortly after Hamas's Oct. 7 attack. Bharmal and Tettey-Tamaklo were captured on camera accosting an Israeli business school student, surrounding him and making it difficult for him to walk freely as keffiyeh-clad onlookers shouted, "SHAME!"
Footage of the ordeal, first reported in the Washington Free Beacon, prompted outrage from prominent Harvard Business School alumni, including former Sen. Mitt Romney (R.), who cited the school in an October 2023 letter as proof that university leaders were "paralyzed" in the face of "expressions of hate and vitriol against Jews." Reps. Virginia Foxx (R., N.C.) and Elise Stefanik (R., N.Y.) similarly savaged Harvard after the Suffolk County District Attorney's Office accused the university of stonewalling an investigation into the protest.
Harvard nonetheless published Bharmal's blog as the Trump administration reviewed its $9 billion in federal grants and contracts. On Friday—one day after Harvard published Bharmal's blog—the administration demanded from the school a series of policy changes and reforms, including the expulsion of Bharmal and Tettey-Tamaklo, both of whom remained in good standing at Harvard in the months following the "die-in." Harvard rejected those demands on Monday, and the Trump administration froze $2.2 billion in Harvard grants hours later.
Bharmal was supposed to be arraigned last June, a month after he was charged. But local prosecutors twice postponed the arraignment because Harvard police declined to perform a "follow up investigation" into the "die-in," the Suffolk County District Attorney's office told the Free Beacon in September. The investigation would have helped "identify any additional perpetrators" and generate "inculpatory/exculpatory evidence." Attorneys told the Free Beacon at the time that they had never heard of police refusing an investigation request from prosecutors.
A top official at the Berklee College of Music has a years-long history of posting anti-Semitic and historically inaccurate claims about Jews, accusing them of oppressing black people and blaming them for slavery, a Washington Free Beacon review found. In September 2024, the Massachusetts music school made a splashy announcement that Nicholas Payton would become chair of their brass department.
Though Payton expressed his animosity toward Jews more aggressively during the summer of 2020, his anti-Semitism predates the emergence of Black Lives Matter. In 2010, he spewed invectives at the Jewish owner of Preservation Hall in New Orleans. Owner Ben Jaffe's family created the institution to preserve and celebrate traditional New Orleans jazz music, but in a 2010 blog post, Payton griped that Jaffe had made too much money off the hall's success and that his behavior was "endemic of those who have controlled things in the music industry since its inception," the New York Times reported in 2022.
ICE Arrests Columbia Student Activist Who Endorsed Oct. 7 Attack
[WFB] ICE officials detained a Columbia University graduate student who led a coalition of anti-Israel groups and endorsed the Oct. 7 Hamas terrorist attack. Jordan-born Mohsen Mahdawi had his green card revoked by the Trump administration and was taken into custody on Monday in Burlington, Vt., where he was scheduled to take a citizenship test. Mahdawi is facing a deportation order that would send him to the West Bank.
But Mahdawi, a graduate philosophy student in Columbia’s School of General Studies, has also said he "can empathize" with Hamas over the terrorist group’s Oct. 7 slaughter and has publicly called for the destruction of Israel. Last year, he honored his cousin Maysara Masharqa, who served as a prominent field commander in the military wing of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, a U.S.-designated terror group that participated in the attack alongside Hamas.
Most recently, Mahdawi served as co-president of Columbia’s Palestinian Students Union, a coalition of anti-Israel student groups, including Columbia’s suspended Students for Justice in Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace chapters. The union has organized protests calling for Columbia’s divestment from Israel alongside Columbia University Apartheid Divest, the student organization behind the illegal encampments that plagued the school last spring and led to the violent storming of a campus building, Hamilton Hall.
Mahdawi’s detention is the Trump administration’s latest move in its effort to deport pro-Hamas green card and visa holders, fulfilling one of President Donald Trump’s campaign promises. Mahdawi joins two other Columbia students who have faced removal proceedings. On Friday, a federal immigration judge ruled that Mahmoud Khalil, a fellow protest leader and encampment negotiator who has been detained since March 9, can be deported.
Mahdawi has served as a leader in anti-Israel campus groups since first moving to the United States more than a decade ago. In another interview, he recalled throwing rocks at an Israeli military tank when he was a child. In addition to serving as the co-president of Columbia’s Palestinian Student Union, Mahdawi is also a Visionary Advisor for the Columbia Buddhist Association and a member of Columbia’s Students for Justice in Palestine chapter.
At Harvard-Hosted 'Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon,' Law Students Target the Pages of Firms That Criticized School's Response to Anti-Semitism
[WFB] Anti-Israel Harvard Law School students organized a workshop on the Ivy League campus earlier this month to edit the Wikipedia pages of more than a dozen prominent law firms, singling out some that threatened to stop recruiting at the school over its failure to rein in anti-Semitic activity. Harvard’s National Lawyers Guild chapter, a left-wing legal advocacy group, hosted the "Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon" on April 2 at Harvard Law’s WCC student center, according to an announcement on Harvard Law’s website.
Third-year Harvard Law student Corinne Shanahan, an organizer with Harvard Out of Occupied Palestine, organized the clinic for students to "gather data to edit the Wikipedia pages of Big Law firms to reflect cases they have recently argued." Two days later, Harvard Law student Aashna Avachat edited the Wikipedia pages of 14 law firms, mostly to add details of their representation of clients that the activist students deemed to be unsavory, according to a Washington Free Beacon review of Wikipedia edit logs.
Avachat edited the pages for the firms Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, and Simpson Thacher & Bartlett to soften the language about anti-Semitic activity on college campuses. Amid a wave of anti-Semitic protests following the Hamas attack on Israel, the two firms warned Harvard Law and others that they would cut back on recruiting on their campuses for failing to rein in anti-Semitic incidents. The edit logs show Avachat changed the term "antisemitic incidents" to "pro-Palestine protests," and reworded references to "incidents targeting Jewish students" to incidents that the law firms "described … as antisemitic." Avachat herself was involved in one incident at Harvard in which her law school classmate, Ibrahim Bharmal, accosted and shoved a Jewish student during an anti-Israel "die-in." Avachat said she witnessed the incident and claimed Bharmal was protecting "peaceful protesters" against an "aggressive" Jewish student.
[IsraelTimes] Thousands decry president’s hardline policies, from immigration to intended deportation of some foreign students, with turnout lower than in previous ‘Hands Off’ rallies
But not even tens of thousands, despite pay-for-protest funding? It sounds like nobody cares any more, or perhaps they’re afraid of earning FBI attention…
Thousands of protesters rallied Saturday in New York, Washington and other cities across the United States for a second major round of demonstrations against President Donald Trump and his hardline policies.
In New York, people gathered outside the city’s main library carrying signs targeting the US president with slogans like “No Kings in America” and “Resist Tyranny.”
Many took aim at Trump’s deportations of undocumented migrants, chanting “No ICE, no fear, immigrants are welcome here,” a reference to the role of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency in rounding up migrants.
In Washington, DC, protesters voiced concern that Trump was threatening long-respected constitutional norms, including the right to due process.
The administration is carrying out “a direct assault on the idea of the rule of law and the idea that the government should be restrained from abusing the people who live here in the United States,” Benjamin Douglas, 41, told AFP outside the White House.
Wearing a keffiyeh and carrying a sign calling for the freeing of Mahmoud Khalil, a pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel student protester arrested last month, Douglas claimed individuals were being singled out as “test cases to rile up xenophobia and erode long-standing legal protections.”
“We are in a great danger,” said 73-year-old New York protester Kathy Valy, the daughter of Holocaust survivors, adding that their stories of how Nazi leader Adolf Hitler rose to power “are what’s happening here.”
“The one thing is that Trump is a lot more stupid than Hitler or than the other fascists,” she said. “He’s being played… and his own team is divided.”
‘SCIENCE IGNORED’
Daniella Butler, 26, said she wanted to “call attention specifically to the defunding of science and health work” by the government.
Studying for a PhD in immunology at Johns Hopkins University, she was carrying a map of Texas covered with spots in reference to the ongoing measles outbreak there.
Trump’s health chief Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a noted vaccine skeptic, spent decades falsely linking the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) shot to autism.
“When science is ignored, people die,” Butler said.
In deeply conservative Texas, the coastal city of Galveston saw a small gathering of anti-Trump demonstrators.
“This is my fourth protest and typically I would sit back and wait for the next election,” said 63-year-old writer Patsy Oliver. “We cannot do that right now. We’ve lost too much already.”
On the West Coast, several hundred people gathered on a beach in San Francisco to spell out the words “IMPEACH + REMOVE,” the San Francisco Chronicle reported. Others nearby held an upside-down US flag, traditionally a symbol of distress.
Organizers hope to use building resentment over Trump’s immigration crackdown, his drastic cuts to government agencies and his pressuring of universities, news media and law firms, to forge a lasting movement.
A lot of people voted for him to get all that, so we’re happy.
The chief organizer of Saturday’s protests — the group 50501, a number representing 50 protests in 50 states and one movement — said some 400 demonstrations were planned.
Four hundred, half a dozen — whatever.
Its website said the protests are “a decentralized rapid response to the anti-democratic and illegal actions of the Trump administration and its plutocratic allies” — and it insisted on all protests being non-violent.
The group called for millions to take part Saturday, though turnout appeared smaller than the “Hands Off” protests across the country on April 5.
Recall that former Wall Street Journal reporter Asra Nomani tracked down the organizers and some of their funders here.
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1st of all, these Protests are costing a previously NGO USAID Funded Group (UFG) a pretty penny. So let's take a deeper look at the protester numbers.
But let's say given the usual broad cited "1000's" was around 5,000 nationwide.
Using the Official Voter numbers for the Harris/Trump 2024 election of 152,320,193 votes cast. WOW!!!! 0.00328% of the total US voters cared enough to show up for whatever reason.
But drilling down to the more likely Protester Political party of Liberal/Socialist/Democrats. HARRIS Voters numbered 75,017,613 in the 2024 election. That's works out to: 0.00666%
Interesting and fitting that it works out to have "666".
[PUBLISH.TWITTER] Far-left Washington University instructor gets "relieved of all teaching responsibilities" after arrest footage leaks
Patrick Mahoney was seen on camera beating up an Indian-American student in a MAGA hat prior to his visit by police.
Tweet of the policeman’s bodycam footage. Almost half an hour, revealing the full breadth and depth of the WU instructor’s vicious idiocy, not to mention an awfully limited vocabulary for an academic, though he has all possible unimaginative variations of f*ck. Background from the Post Millennial:
In February, WSU junior Jay Sani was getting takeout in Pullman, Washington’s historic College Hill district when he was allegedly ambushed and assaulted by Patrick Mahoney and Gerald Hoff.
Sani told The Discovery Institute’s Jonathan Choe that he doesn’t know Hoff but has a history with Mahoney, who is on the opposite end of the political spectrum. Sani is a Republican who volunteers with conservative groups on campus like Turning Point USA. Mahoney is a WSU graduate student and instructor who teaches political science classes.
Mahoney is a notorious far-left activist who hates conservative values and is a regular at pro-Hamas protests in the city. Recently, he was part of a group that was pressuring the Pullman City Council to pass a symbolic ceasefire resolution for the Israel-Hamas War. The proposal went nowhere. Mahoney also has strong ties to the Democratic Socialists of America and progressive labor groups and publicly touts his admiration for the communist party, including wearing a hammer and sickle pin in his official school portrait.
BREAKING: FBI arrests 19-year-old Boston college student Owen McIntire for allegedly throwing a Molotov cocktail at a Tesla facility in Kansas City, MO, during spring break.
Oscar Fayani, 27, was arrested on Friday and then booked into Tooele County Jail after he allegedly ran into a Tesla driver on purpose in an attempt to drive the vehicle off the road, according to KSL News. Fayani faces charges of aggravated assault, reckless driving, driving with a suspended license, as well as drug possession.
[IsraelTimes] Police are clashing with anti-government protesters outside Moshav Mazor, in central Israel, where Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his family are expected to celebrate Mimouna, the festival marking the end of Passover this evening.
It’s a Moroccan thing, not something European/Ashkenazi Jews do. But the majority of Israel’s Jews are not from the West, so a wise Israeli politician would partake.
Among the protesters is Yoram Yehudai, whose son Ron was murdered by Hamas terrorists at the Supernova music festival on October 7, 2023. Yoram sought to meet with Netanyahu, but was blocked by police, Ynet reports.
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] Hamas military spokesman announced that Al-Qassam Brigades fighters were able to retrieve a martyr who was tasked with securing Edan Alexander.
In a statement, Abu Obeida added that Edan's fate and the other fighters securing him remain unknown.
He added, ''We are trying to protect all captives and preserve their lives despite the brutality of the aggression. However, their lives are in danger due to the criminal bombing operations carried out by the enemy army.''
''The occupation lies in its claim of inhumane treatment of its prisoners and fabricates false testimonies from former prisoners, with the aim spreading false propaganda against the Palestinian resistance and covering up the scandal of its killing of a number of its own prisoners, and causing the continued suffering of the rest,'' Abu Obeida stressed.
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] Over the past 48 hours, hospitals in the Gaza Strip received the bodies of 92 martyrs and 219 people suffering from different injuries following Israeli attacks.
Since the Israeli occupation army resumed its genocidal war on Gaza on March 18, 2025, a total of 1,783 people have been killed and 4,683 others have been injured, according to Gaza's health ministry on Saturday.
The new fatalities increased the death toll from the Israeli genocidal war on Gaza, which started on October 7, 2023, to 51,157 martyrs. The number of the wounded also surged to 116,724 people.
Meanwhile, efforts are underway to recover the bodies of more martyrs who are still missing in different areas of the Gaza Strip.
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Sure hope some of the wounded remain crippled for life.
[IsraelTimes] Warrant Officer G’haleb Sliman Alnasasra slain, 5 others hurt in incident near Beit Hanoun, including 3 female troops; IDF: 150 targets hit, 40 operatives killed over weekend
An Israeli soldier was killed and five others were wounded, including three seriously, in a Hamas attack in the northern Gaza Strip on Saturday afternoon, the military announced.
The slain soldier was named as Warrant Officer G’haleb Sliman Alnasasra, 35, a tracker in the Gaza Division’s Northern Brigade, from Rahat.
He was the first soldier to be killed in Gaza since the Israel Defense Forces resumed its offensive against Hamas in the Strip on March 18.
The deadly incident took place during operations of the 252nd Division near northern Gaza’s Beit Hanoun. The division had been working to clear the area close to the border of Hamas infrastructure, including tunnels, as part of efforts to expand Israel’s buffer zone — which now comprises over 30 percent of the Strip.
According to an initial IDF probe, at 12:58 p.m., a group of soldiers driving along an IDF logistics road, close to an army encampment inside Gaza, came under fire by Hamas operatives. The operatives, who had come out of a tunnel shaft, launched an RPG at the unarmored army vehicle.
Three servicewomen, of the 414th Combat Intelligence Collection Unit, were wounded in the RPG attack. Two of them, an officer and a combat medic, were listed in serious condition.
A short while later, rescue forces led by the Gaza Division’s Northern Brigade commander, Col. Omri Mashiah, reached the scene, along with trackers from the brigade.
At 1:25 p.m., according to the probe, the Hamas operatives set off an explosive device on the side of a road, near the rescue forces, killing Alnasasra and wounding two other trackers, including one seriously.
The IDF carried out a wave of strikes in the area, in an attempt to eliminate the operatives behind the attack, the military said.
Alnasasra’s death brought Israel’s toll in the ground offensive against Hamas in Gaza and in military operations along the border with the Strip to 411. The toll includes a police officer killed in a hostage rescue mission and two Defense Ministry civilian contractors.
Earlier Saturday, the IDF said that over the weekend, the Israeli Air Force carried out airstrikes on over 150 targets in the Gaza Strip, including cells of terror operatives and Hamas infrastructure.
Since March 18, when Israel resumed its offensive against Hamas, the IDF said it has struck over 1,400 targets in Gaza.
The 282nd Artillery Regiment also struck dozens of targets in recent weeks, in the Morag Corridor area between Rafah and Khan Younis in the Strip’s south. The IDF said the targets hit by the artillery shelling included weapon depots, rocket launching sites and operatives.
Also over the weekend, the IDF said the 188th Armored Brigade, which is currently operating in the Morag Corridor, killed more than 40 terror operatives and destroyed numerous weapons, as well as a Hamas pickup truck.
In Rafah’s Shaboura camp, the military said troops of the Givati Brigade and elite Yahalom combat engineering unit located and demolished a booby-trapped tunnel. The tunnel was hundreds of meters long, according to the IDF.
The Givati troops located numerous other weapons in the area, the IDF added.
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] In a heroic operation that underlines the steadfastness of the Palestinian people and resistance in Gaza, a Kornet missile targeted am Israeli military vehicle in Al-Tuffah neighborhood, eastern Gaza.
The Palestinian resistance fighters targeted the Zionist rescue force with an IED explosion, raising the number of the enemy casualties.
According to the latest toll, one Zionist officer was killed, and five soldiers were critically injured in the attack.
The Israeli media outlets indicated that the Army helicopters carried the injured soldiers into the hospitals in the Zionist settlements.
The Israeli air force started a large scale aggression on Gaza Strip just after the attack, showing again that the enemy assaults the civilians when it fails to defeat the resistance fighters.
Israeli occupation forces have intensified their military campaign across the Gaza Strip, unleashing a series of devastating air and drone strikes that have killed numerous civilians and wounded many others.
[Rudaw] At least 16 suspected Islamic State (ISIS) members have been detained during an ongoing operation in al-Hol camp, northeast Syria (Rojava), Kurdish forces announced on Saturday.
“The security campaign against ISIS mercenary cells in al-Hol camp continues in its second day. 16 mercenaries were arrested during combing operations in al-Hol camp and its surroundings. Three Kalashnikov rifles, two pistols, and various ammunition were also seized,” read a statement from the Asayish, internal security forces.
Local media reported that 28 people were detained and 16 of them were accused of having links to ISIS.
The Asayish on Friday announced a joint operation in al-Hol camp with the Women’s Protection Units (YPJ), supported by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), saying that ISIS has launched several attacks targeting both civilians and security personnel and is ramping up efforts to rebuild its ranks and capabilities.
A focus for the extremist group is al-Hol camp in Hasaka province that holds around 40,000 people from around the world, mostly Iraqis and Syrians, with alleged links to ISIS.
Conditions in the sprawling camp are rough. The situation has worsened with the interruption of international aid, according to the Asayish, which said on Friday that ISIS has tried to smuggle people out of the camp and systematically targeted children and youth to indoctrinate them and spread its ideology. Humanitarian aid centers in the camp have also been attacked.
The Iraqi government is slowly repatriating its citizens, but many nations have resisted taking responsibility for their nationals because of security concerns, despite repeated pleas by the Rojava administration.
ISIS captured vast swathes of Iraqi and Syrian territory in 2014. The group’s so-called caliphate was dismantled in 2019, but the jihadists remain a security threat. ISIS has tried to take advantage of the changing security landscape in Syria after the fall of the regime of Bashar al-Assad.
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