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Pelosi university speech interrupted by anti-Israel agitators: ‘Warmonger’

Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., was interrupted by anti-Israel students during a speech she gave in the United Kingdom on Thursday. A protest group also called her a “warmonger.” As Pelosi, former House speaker, was beginning her remarks to the Oxford Union at the University of Oxford, a student quietly stood up and walked to the front of the room. He then presented a Palestinian flag and turned to the audience, blocking their view of the 84-year-old California congresswoman. “Warmongers like Nancy Pelosi are not welcome on University campuses,” Youth Demand, who took credit for the protest, wrote later on X, sharing a video of the protest. The post also warned that the group’s protesters “aren’t f—ing around anymore.” HEZBOLLAH TERROR FLAG FOUND AT PRINCETON’S ANTI-ISRAEL ENCAMPMENT, CRUZ TORCHES THE PROTESTERS The student, who was joined by an apparent colleague, was met with boos and was told by people in the crowd to sit down after they realized it was a protest. Despite the disruption, Pelosi continued her remarks, when she called for peace in Gaza. IRAN PICKS SIDES AS ANTI-ISRAEL PROTESTS RAGE ACROSS US UNIVERSITIES: ‘DEEPLY WORRIED AND DISGUSTED’ “The suffering of Gaza must stop,” the Democratic lawmaker said, per the Telegraph. “We want peace on both sides. Both sides must agree to it.” According to the Telegraph, the duo stood awkwardly in front of the podium but were later removed by police. Those in attendance appeared to applaud their removal. “When children are being murdered, and hospitals are being bombed, we will not sit down and be quiet while these people are given platforms,” Youth Demand added in the post. On Monday, Pelosi visited University College Dublin in Dublin, where she was presented the Sutherland Leadership Award. During her visit, students protest outside the university. The interruption comes as hundreds of students at elite U.S. colleges and universities have formed anti-Israel encampments on their campuses. The demonstrations, some violent and antisemitic in nature, have called for a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza as their war has resulted in the deaths of tens of thousands of Palestinians.

Ecuador spat: Trotsky to the shah, Mexico’s long history as home to exiles

With rifles, riot shields and helmets, the Ecuadorian police scaled the white concrete gate, burst through the embassy doors and arrested Jorge Glas, a former vice president accused of corruption. The April 5 raid on Mexico’s embassy in Quito sparked a diplomatic firestorm. Experts warned the police raid was a clear violation of international laws protecting embassies. But in the lead-up to the raid, Mexico tried to invoke another safeguard enshrined in international law: the right to asylum. Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, known by the initials AMLO, had announced on the same day that Glas would be granted political asylum in his country after more than three months of sheltering in its embassy. But Glas was hardly the first politician Lopez Obrador had offered asylum to. In fact, experts say Mexico has a long and cherished history of granting asylum to figures fleeing persecution – from communist leaders to embattled presidents. Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has offered asylum to several embattled leftist leaders [Marco Ugarte/AP Photo] Why did Lopez Obrador offer Glas asylum? Throughout his tenure as Mexico’s president, Lopez Obrador has championed that tradition, offering asylum to fellow left-leaning politicians who face prosecution or turmoil at home. In most cases, he portrays them as victims of political persecution and Mexico as a safe haven. Experts and historians say Lopez Obrador uses asylum as a tool to express affinity for politicians who share a similar worldview – and to bolster his credentials as a standard-bearer for Latin America’s political left. “Lopez Obrador has a very simple framework for understanding the political divide in Latin America with conservatives on one side and then those who are closer to what he sees as the historical mission of his government on the other,” Pablo Piccato, a professor of Mexican history at Columbia University in New York, tells Al Jazeera. “He sees things in this way with the conservative forces of reaction against the progressive forces of the people.” What is political asylum anyway? Political asylum, however, is a very specific legal category. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted in 1948, lays out a right “to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution”. Political views are one of only a handful of protected categories under international asylum law alongside race, religion, nationality and membership in a specific social group. Applicants for asylum must make the case that their involvement in one of those categories has put them at risk of persecution or some other human rights violation – and that there is no protection to be had in their home country. Former Vice President Jorge Glas of Ecuador sought refuge in Mexico’s embassy in Quito [File: Dolores Ochoa/AP Photo] Who else has Lopez Obrador offered asylum to? Glas is only the latest high-profile asylum case that Lopez Obrador has waded into. For instance, in 2019, Lopez Obrador extended asylum to former Bolivian President Evo Morales after he was removed from office by right-wing forces. Many characterised Morales’s exit from office as a coup, and Morales himself said his life was at risk. The Mexican leader also rallied behind former Peruvian President Pedro Castillo after he was impeached and arrested in December 2022. In the face of a third impeachment attempt against his presidency, Castillo appeared on TV and announced he would dissolve Congress. The move was widely denounced as illegal, and as Castillo tried to flee, he was detained on charges of rebellion. Lopez Obrador, however, repeatedly tried to offer the jailed Castillo and his family political asylum, spurring tensions with Peru’s current government. How have other leaders reacted? The Mexican president’s use of asylum as a political tool has irked conservative leaders across Latin America, including his Ecuadorian counterpart, Daniel Noboa. In Glas’s case, tensions between Ecuador and Mexico had been simmering for months. Glas had been holed up in the Mexican embassy since December after receiving two lengthy prison sentences for his participation in a bribery scandal. Noboa, a right-leaning politician, had embraced a law and order image amid an increase in violent crime at home. He insisted that he would not permit “any criminal to stay free” – not even Glas. As Mexico announced political asylum for Glas, police started to surround the embassy. Noboa has since insisted that his government did nothing wrong and he was simply exercising Ecuador’s sovereignty. He has also disputed whether Glas was eligible for political asylum under international law. Ecuadorean President Daniel Noboa, centre, has denied wrongdoing in the embassy raid [Dolores Ochoa/AP Photo] What is Mexico’s history with asylum? Mexico’s reputation as a place of refuge for those fleeing political persecution stretches back decades, well beyond the current spat with Ecuador. It has even become a point of pride in the history of the country’s foreign policy: Those seeking shelter in Mexico have often come out of the Western Hemisphere’s revolutionary or leftist traditions. Jose Marti, the foremost figure in Cuba’s struggle for independence, spent several years in Mexico in the 1870s after being expelled from Cuba, then under Spanish rule. The exiled Indian revolutionary Manabendra Nath Roy fled to Mexico to evade authorities in the United States after being arrested for his anti-colonial activities in India, where he helped found the Communist Party. He would go on to play a role in the founding of Mexico’s own Communist Party in 1917. During the 1930s, leftist President Lazaro Cardenas offered asylum to Leon Trotsky, a central figure in the Russian Revolution who later fled threats under the government of Joseph Stalin. He was eventually assassinated in Mexico City in 1940. Cardenas also opened Mexico’s doors to people fleeing the Spanish Civil War. Mexico was one of the only countries at the time to send assistance to Spain’s democratically elected and left-leaning Republican government, which was locked in battle against the forces of the far-right General Francisco Franco. That put Mexico at odds with fascist leaders like Benito Mussolini in Italy and Adolf Hitler in Germany,

Gaza baby girl saved from dead mother’s womb dies in incubator

Sabreen al-Rouh Jouda dies just days after her mother, father and sister were killed in Israel attack on Rafah. A premature Palestinian baby, who was saved from her mother’s womb after she was killed in an Israeli attack in the Gaza Strip, has died after days in an incubator. Sabreen al-Rouh Jouda died in a Gaza hospital on Thursday after her health deteriorated and medical teams were unable to save her, said her uncle, Rami al-Sheikh Jouda. Dr Mohammad Salama, head of the emergency neonatal unit at Emirati Hospital in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, who was caring for the baby girl, also confirmed her death on Friday. “I and other doctors tried to save her, but she died. For me personally, it was a very difficult and painful day,” Salama told the Reuters news agency. The girl’s mother, Sabreen al-Sakani, was rushed to hospital after an Israeli air strike hit the family’s home in Rafah on Saturday. The girl, who was named Sabreen after her mother, was rescued through a Caesarean section after her mother succumbed to her injuries. Al-Sakani, who was 30 weeks pregnant, was killed along with her husband and a young daughter. The Israeli military said it was targeting Hamas fighters and infrastructure in the attack, which predominantly killed women and children. Weighing just 1.4kg (3.1 pounds), the baby was in severe respiratory distress because she was born prematurely. She was being cared for in an incubator in a neonatal intensive care unit. “She was born while her respiratory system wasn’t mature, and her immune system was very weak and that is what led to her death. She joined her family as a martyr,” said Salama, the doctor. The baby girl’s uncle told The Associated Press that she was buried next to her father on Thursday. “We were attached to this baby in a crazy way,” he said, speaking near her grave in a cemetery in Rafah. “God had taken something from us but given us something in return”, said the uncle, with the baby surviving after her family died. “But [now] he has taken them all. My brother’s family is completely wiped out. It’s been deleted from the civil registry. There is no trace of him left behind.” The baby girl’s uncle crouches next to her grave in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, April 26 [Mohammed Salem/Reuters] The baby is among more than 14,000 children who have been killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza since the war began on October 7. More than 34,300 Palestinians across the besieged Palestinian enclave have been killed. Despite international calls to end the conflict, Israeli leaders have said they plan to move ahead with a ground assault on Rafah. About 1.5 million Palestinians are sheltering in the southern city, which was previously designated as a “safe zone”. Adblock test (Why?)

Are US campus protests against Israel’s war on Gaza going global?

EXPLAINER From France to Australia, university students are part of pro-Palestine protests as Columbia students continue encampments. Clashes between students and police officers have been reported all over the United States during intensifying university protests. What started as the Gaza solidarity encampment at Columbia University, where students are camping inside campus to push their institute to divest from companies linked to Israel, has since spread to campuses in California, Texas and other states. Now, more than 20 universities in the US are protesting against Israel’s war on Gaza, where Israel’s military offensive has killed more than 34,000 people and its blockade has caused starvation. But the protests are not limited to the US, students worldwide have been demonstrating in support of Gaza since the outbreak of the war on October 7. Following the Columbia encampments, the protests have further spread to universities from France to Australia. Here is all you need to know about student protests for Gaza outside of the US: Which global universities are holding pro-Palestine protests? In Paris, France, Sorbonne University students have taken to the streets. Additionally, the Palestine Committee from Sciences Po, is organising a protest where students set up about 10 tents on Wednesday. Despite a police crackdown, the protesters regathered on Thursday. In Australia, students from the University of Sydney set up pro-Palestine encampments on Tuesday, and they were continuing to protest on Friday. Also, University of Melbourne students pitched tents on the south lawn of their main campus on Thursday. In Italy, Rome, students from Sapienza University organised demonstrations, sit-ins and hunger strikes on April 17 and April 18. Since April 19 night, students from the University of Warwick’s group Warwick Stands With Palestine have occupied the campus piazza located in England, United Kingdom. In Leicester, England, a protest broke out on Monday in which students from the University of Leicester Palestine Society also participated. Last month, students from the University of Leeds occupied a campus building in protest against the university’s involvement with Israel. What are the demands of student protesters outside the US? Hicham, a student protesting at Sciences Po, which is also called the Paris Institute of Political Studies, told Al Jazeera, “We have a few demands but one of them is to start investigating all of the ties they [Sciences Po] have with the state of Israel, which [are] academic and financial”. He added that it has become “extremely hard” to talk about Palestine in France due to the way police respond. The organisers additionally want Sciences Po to condemn Israel’s actions. Sorbonne students are calling on the French government to help Palestinians. The University of Sydney students are demanding that their institute cut ties with Israeli universities and arms manufacturers, the Sydney Morning Herald reported. The Warwick students have demanded that the university divest from companies that they have identified are funding “genocide” perpetrated by Israel, Warwick’s student-run newspaper, The Boar, reported. The Boar quoted an unnamed student protester saying that, while the US protests had invigorated them, they were planning to take action regardless. The protest in Leicester on Monday was outside the Elbit Systems UK drone factory, calling for the factory’s shutdown. The student protesters at Leeds last month demanded the suspension of Jewish chaplain Zecharia Deutsch who served in the Israeli army during the war on Gaza. Is there a police crackdown on pro-Palestine protesters outside the US? On Wednesday, police broke up the Sciences Po demonstration after the institute made “numerous attempts” to evacuate the students peacefully, AFP reported. The institute’s Palestine Committee released a statement on Thursday saying the protesters were “carried out of the school by more than 50 members of the security forces,” adding that “around 100” police officers were “also waiting for them outside”. Hicham said that he and his fellow students had been occupying their school for three days. “We went to one building, they [the university] called the cops on us, we had to get out, so we went to the main historical building,” he said. “But I think the more repression happens, the more people are mobilising,” he said. “We were maybe 300 people before, [but] now we’re 600.” The students at Sorbonne were also surrounded by riot police, as shown in an Al Jazeera video from Thursday. “This will continue as long as we don’t have an open and serious conversation about the issue,” a student from Sorbonne University told Al Jazeera. Adblock test (Why?)

Arrested anti-Israel agitators claim ‘discrimination’ and ‘harassment’ in civil rights complaint

Anti-Israel agitators at Columbia University filed a civil rights complaint with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) on Thursday demanding an investigation of “discriminatory treatment of Palestinian students and their allies” after NYPD officers arrested over a hundred demonstrators this week. The group said the students had been “peacefully protesting Israel’s genocide.” “Columbia’s vicious crackdown on student protests calling for Palestinian freedom amidst an ongoing genocide should alarm us all. Students have always been at the forefront of the most pressing social issues of the day,” Palestine Legal attorney Sabiya Ahamed said in a statement. “We urge federal civil rights officials to do what Columbia has disgracefully failed to: ensure the rights of Palestinian and allied students are protected at a moment when their voices are most essential.”  The complaint alleges “discrimination, intimidation, harassment, stereotyping, disparate treatment, and racial profiling” against “Palestinian students, Arabs, Muslims, students perceived to be Palestinian, and students associated with or advocating for Palestinians” over the course of six months. NYPD RESPONDS TO AOC, SAYS OFFICERS ‘HAVE TO TEACH’ ANTI-ISRAEL MOBS THE ‘CONSEQUENCES OF THEIR ACTIONS’ Palestine Legal – a nonprofit legal group defending people who advocate for the “Palestine solidarity movement”— filed the complaint on behalf of four students and the student activist group Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP).  “Columbia has actively contributed to pervasive racism and discrimination against Palestinian students on campus, causing both mental and physical harm,” the legal group said. “For example, students have been arrested, assaulted, suspended, locked out of campus and their classes, forced to seek medical attention, and forced to drop classes and delay their own graduation.” The complaint comes as students at a growing number of U.S. colleges and universities are forming anti-Israel protest encampments with a unified demand that their schools stop doing business with Israel. Negotiations between Columbia administrators and demonstrators to clear the “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” are ongoing as of Friday morning. Since the attacks after October 7, the legal group claimed it “has received reports of over 1,800 incidents, over five times the number we received in all of 2022, reflecting an exponential rise in anti-Palestinian repression across the U.S.” USC CLOSES CAMPUS ‘UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE’ FOLLOWING ANTI-ISRAEL PROTEST, 93 ARRESTED FOR TRESPASSING Inspired by ongoing protests and the arrests last week of more than 100 students at Columbia University in New York City, seen at the epicenter of the ongoing demonstrations, students from Massachusetts to California, and Tennessee to Texas, are now gathering by the hundreds and are pledging to stay put on campus until their demand is met. The so-called protests have devolved into unrest across university campuses as anti-Israel agitators have been heard chanting, “We are Hamas,” the Islamic militant terrorist group that attacks innocent Israelis on October 7, and the school’s president moved all classes to virtual learning on Monday amid safety concerns.  COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY MOVES TO HYBRID LEARNING ON MAIN CAMPUS AMID ANTISEMITIC PROTESTS University of Michigan students were also given pamphlets by demonstrators titled “10 anarchist theses on Palestine solidarity in the United States,” which included a page that stated, “Freedom for Palestine means Death to America.” The Israel-Hamas war also surpassed the six-month milestone earlier this month, which has resulted in tens of thousands of civilian Palestinian deaths. Yale, MIT, UC Berkeley, the University of Southern California, Princeton, Harvard, Stanford, Northwestern University, Vanderbilt University, the University of Michigan, the University of North Carolina and the University of Virginia are some of the campuses where major demonstrations broke out this week. Fox News’ Lawrence Richard and Michael Ruiz contributed to this report. 

GOP rebels pushing to boot Speaker Johnson mum after Trump defends him

The three House Republican rebels pushing to oust Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., are silent on former President Donald Trump’s support for the embattled congressional leader. Roughly just six months after winning the speaker’s gavel following three weeks of chaos over the ouster of ex-Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., Johnson is already under threat of losing it after Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., filed a resolution for a House-wide vote on his leadership, known as a motion to vacate the chair. Two more lawmakers, Reps. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., and Paul Gosar, R-Ariz., signed onto her resolution in protest of Johnson’s $95 billion foreign aid plan, which included funds for Ukraine, Israel and the Indo-Pacific but nothing on the U.S. border, much to some conservatives’ chagrin. Johnson got some key backup earlier this week when Trump came to his defense, arguing Johnson is doing the best he can with a razor-thin House GOP majority. MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE CALLS JOHNSON’S FOREIGN AID PACKAGE HIS ‘3RD BETRAYAL’ OF AMERICAN PEOPLE “It’s not like he can go and do whatever he wants to do. I think he’s a very good person. You know, he stood very strongly with me on NATO when I said NATO has to pay up,” Trump told radio host John Fredericks after his Monday court appearance. “It’s a tough situation when you have what, I think, is a very good man. I think he’s trying very hard. And again, we’ve got to have a big election.” Gosar’s office told Fox News Digital he had “no comment” on Trump’s defense of Johnson. Gosar has been one of Trump’s most ardent supporters in Congress. Spokespeople for Greene and Massie similarly had nothing to share — Fox News Digital attempted to reach both offices multiple times for comment on Trump’s remarks but did not get responses. 3RD REPUBLICAN CALLS FOR SPEAKER JOHNSON’S OUSTER OVER $95B FOREIGN AID PLAN Like Gosar, Greene has been a top Trump ally in Congress and a popular surrogate for him on the campaign trail. She’s also been one of Johnson’s fiercest critics over his bipartisan work on issues like government spending and foreign aid. Massie has had a significantly frostier relationship with the former president, having supported his GOP primary rival, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, before DeSantis dropped out of the race earlier this year. The Kentucky Republican has most recently accused Trump of “bullying” fellow Rep. Laurel Lee, R-Fla., when he called for a primary challenger to take her down. TENSIONS ERUPT ON HOUSE FLOOR AS CONSERVATIVES CONFRONT JOHNSON ON $95B FOREIGN AID PLAN Both Greene and Massie, however, have signaled that they’re unrepentant about their threats against Johnson in the days since Trump’s defense. “It’s baffling hearing the establishment complain that it’s too much drama, too hard, and too risky to go through another Speaker race. Meanwhile, Americans are getting kicked in the teeth from the ridiculous drama inflicted on them from pathetic politicians in Washington,” Greene wrote Tuesday on X. “You know what Americans think is hard? Paying their bills. You know what Americans think is risky? Doing absolutely nothing but pass messaging bills about the daily deadly border invasion.” Massie wrote on X that same day, “The weakest argument in defense of Speaker Johnson is ‘It’s a razor thin majority; you can’t get everything you want.’ We don’t expect to get everything, but we also won’t tolerate complete & total surrender.” All eyes are on Greene; for now, there’s nothing compelling House leaders to bring her motion up for a vote. If she declares it a “privileged resolution,” lawmakers would be forced to take it up within two legislative days. A majority of House Republican lawmakers have already signaled that they don’t have the appetite for another period of upheaval like what followed McCarthy’s ouster. Fox News Digital reached out to Johnson’s office and the Trump campaign for comment.

Weather update: Delhi NCR likely to witness rainfall amid scorching heatwave, check IMD prediction

The majority of Delhi and the National Capital Region (NCR) are expected to experience a duststorm or thunderstorm on Friday, April 26

30 House Republicans take action to overturn Biden’s gas car crackdown

FIRST ON FOX: A group of more than 30 House Republicans is introducing a resolution Friday that would overturn President Biden’s actions targeting gas-powered vehicles as part of his climate push. The nearly three dozen GOP lawmakers, led by Rep. Andrew Clyde, R-Ga., are introducing the bill under the Congressional Review Act, a law dating back nearly three decades that allows Congress to revoke federal regulations. The resolution would block the stringent, multipollutant emission standards governing gas cars finalized last month by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). “Despite persistent pleas to keep his hands off our car keys, President Biden is doubling down on his radical EPA rule to institute a de facto EV mandate on our country,” Clyde said in a statement to Fox News Digital. “Hardworking Americans already battling inflation simply cannot afford the President’s illegitimate power grab – nor should they be forced to bear this burden.” “American consumers always deserve the freedom to decide what car they purchase and drive,” he continued. “Congress must prevent the Biden administration’s dangerous overreach from encumbering auto manufacturers, enriching Communist China, and crushing the American people.” FEWER AMERICANS WANT TO BUY AN EV — EVEN AS BIDEN PUSHES FOR STRONGEST-EVER CLIMATE CHANGE RULES Clyde’s resolution earned endorsements from various pro-energy and conservative groups, including the American Energy Alliance, Americans for Prosperity, Eagle Forum and Heritage Action for America. Additionally, it represents the first formal congressional action taken in response to Biden’s finalized emissions standards. Under EPA’s regulations, automakers will be forced to rapidly curb the emissions of greenhouse gases, hydrocarbons, nitrogen oxides and particulate matter from new passenger cars, light trucks, and larger pickups and vans beginning with model year 2027 vehicles. Overall, the rules are by far the most stringent of their kind ever finalized at the federal level. MAINE REJECTS SWEEPING ELECTRIC VEHICLE MANDATE IN BLOW TO GOVERNOR’S CLIMATE AGENDA According to the EPA, the regulations will broadly help “tackle the climate crisis” by reducing the transportation sector’s carbon dioxide emissions by a staggering 7.2 billion metric tons over the course of the program, which will be in effect through 2032. The rules will also force automakers to increase production and sales of electric vehicles, plug-in hybrids, traditional hybrids and fuel cell vehicles. Under one so-called “low cost” model the EPA outlined in the rule, officials said automakers would be forced to ensure 56% of light-duty car sales are battery electric and another 13% are hybrid by 2032. “Three years ago, I set an ambitious target: that half of all new cars and trucks sold in 2030 would be zero-emission,” Biden said in a statement after the regulations were finalized on March 20.  “I brought together American automakers. I brought together American autoworkers,” he added. “Together, we’ve made historic progress. Hundreds of new, expanded factories across the country. Hundreds of billions in private investment and thousands of good-paying, union jobs. And we’ll meet my goal for 2030 and race forward in the years ahead.” 17 RETIRED MILITARY OFFICIALS RAISE ALARM ON BIDEN’S ELECTRIC VEHICLE PUSH The EPA’s regulations have been heavily criticized by some state officials, Republican and Democratic lawmakers, agriculture industry groups like the National Corn Growers Association and energy associations, such as the American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers and the American Petroleum Institute. In 2023, 9.5% of new, light-duty vehicle sales were EVs, up from 7% in 2022 and 4.3% in 2021, according to data from the Alliance for Automotive Innovation, an industry group that represents major automakers. At the same time, EVs remain more expensive than traditional, gas-powered cars. The share of Americans who said they are considering an EV purchase has declined from 55% to 44% year-over-year, according to a Gallup poll conducted in March. When asked about the GOP resolution, the EPA did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Hezbollah terror flag found at Princeton’s anti-Israel encampment, Cruz torches the protesters

Students at elite college campuses across the United States are forming “Gaza Solidarity” encampments and are participating in marches to call on their respective schools to stop supporting Israel. But, some of these protests have become unruly and have taken a turn toward hate and antisemitism. At Columbia University in New York, protesters shouted, “We are Hamas” and “Go back to Poland.” And, on Thursday, a protester at Princeton reportedly held up a Hezbollah terror flag. “Disgraceful,” Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, said in a post on X, sharing a photo of the protester with the terror group’s yellow flag and green insignia. IRAN PICKS SIDES AS ANTI-ISRAEL PROTESTS RAGE ACROSS US UNIVERSITIES: ‘DEEPLY WORRIED AND DISGUSTED’ The U.S. State Department officially designates Hezbollah a foreign terrorist organization. The Hezbollah flag was spotted at the encampment at approximately 5:16 p.m. Thursday, according to The Daily Princetonian. Organizers then promptly asked it be put away. The photo of the flag was initially shared by an X account belonging to Myles McKnight, an 2023 alum who also served as president of an undergraduate student organization dedicated to promoting free speech, per the publication. NYPD RESPONDS TO AOC, SAYS OFFICERS ‘HAVE TO TEACH’ ANTI-ISRAEL MOBS THE ‘CONSEQUENCES OF THEIR ACTIONS’ Hezbollah primarily operates out of southern Lebanon, where it has regularly attacked Israel since the Oct. 7 terror attack in Israel ignited a war in the region. Hezbollah, seeking to capitalize on the fighting between Israel and Hamas, has launched various missile attacks from across Israel’s northern border against its mutual enemy, Israel. Hezbollah has also carried out strikes from neighboring Syria, which has prompted criticism and retaliation from Israel. On Thursday, university police arrested two people at Princeton, a spokesperson tells Fox News Digital. UT-AUSTIN PRESIDENT DEFENDS SHUTTING DOWN ANTI-ISRAEL PROTESTS: ‘OUR RULES MATTER AND THEY WILL BE ENFORCED’ The protests began as a sit-in on McCosh Courtyard and then some began erecting tents, which is a violation of school policy, according to the university spokesperson. Princeton University Public Safety, the Ivy League school’s police force, gave demonstrators several warnings before acting, the university says. All tents were then voluntarily taken down by protesters, the New Jersey university said. Princeton University President Christopher Eisgruber wrote an op-ed in the student newspaper, that any protesters must abide by strict rules.   “That guarantee extends to protests and demonstrations, provided they do not involve genuine threats, harassment, or conduct that impedes the right of others to be heard, violates the law, or disrupts essential operations,” Eisgruber wrote. He added: “Some types of protest actions (including occupying or blocking access to buildings, establishing outdoor encampments and sleeping in any campus outdoor space) are inherently unsafe for both those involved and for bystanders, and they increase the potential for escalation and confrontation.” “Any individual involved in an encampment, occupation, or other unlawful disruptive conduct who refuses to stop after a warning will be arrested and immediately barred from campus,” Eisgruber concluded. Fox News’ Michael Dorgan contributed to this report.

BJP MP Tejasvi Surya booked for seeking votes on religious grounds

The case against Tejasvi Surya has been filed with Jayanagar police station in Bengaluru.