California police confirm more than 130 anti-Israel agitators arrested at UCLA

More than 130 anti-Israel agitators were arrested after police raided the encampment on UCLA's campus.

The California Highway Patrol said in a statement that multiple law enforcement agencies responded to a mutual aid request from the UCLA Police Department. Wearing face shields and protective vests, they stood with their batons protruding out to separate them from demonstrators, who wore helmets and gas masks and chanted, "You want peace. We want justice."

Law enforcement removed barricades after hundreds of protesters defied orders to leave. Some people were detained, their hands bound with zip ties.

"In response to a mutual aid request from UCLA, the California Highway Patrol (CHP) deployed to assist the UCLA Police Department," Sergeant Alejandro Rubio told Fox News Digital. "The CHP was one of several law enforcement agencies who responded to the campus’ request for assistance.  CHP assisted with arresting more than 130 protesters whom will be processed by the UCLA Police Department."

Fox News Digital's Danielle Wallace contributed to this update.
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Sen Mike Lee targets university grants, cites 'woke DEI programs,' anti-Israel riots

Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, is taking on university subsidies from the federal government as diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs expand and schools lose control over antisemitic protests and riots across the country.

The Utah Republican introduced the No Subsidies for Wealthy Universities Act in the Senate on Thursday, with Freedom Caucus member Rep. Ben Cline, R-Va., introducing a companion version in the House. The measure is also co-sponsored by Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan.

"The tax dollars of hardworking American families are going to ultra-wealthy universities, like Columbia and Harvard, supporting woke DEI programs while churning out graduates who despise our country and riot for the destruction of Israel," Lee said in a statement to Fox News Digital.

The senator's bill would address the issue of subsidies and grants being used to bolster DEI and facilitate them by scrutinizing what are referred to as indirect cost reimbursements. While direct costs are easily tracked and are used for items such as lab equipment, indirect costs are more difficult to predict and include the carrying out of such grants.

Lee's measure looks to eliminate the indirect cost reimbursements on these federal subsidies for research for any universities that boast endowments greater than $5 billion. For those with endowments less than $5 billion but still more than $2 billion, they would be capped at 8%. All other institutions would face a 15% cap for the indirect costs.

He said that the emphasis being placed on DEI at U.S. universities, as well as the current anti-Israel protests and riots, prompted the legislation, slamming both as "a disgrace."

"If they want to trash their reputations as academic institutions, they can do so on their own dime," Lee said.

Fox News Digital's Julia Johnson contributed to this update.
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https://www.foxnews.com/live-news/may-2-antisemitism-surges-campus-protests

I love watching this....


Anti-Israel agitators at Portland State University attempted to charge at police officers and were swiftly put down.

Police officers in riot gear were sent to clear out an encampment at the university library on Thursday, leading to a confrontation between the officers and several agitators wielding makeshift shields. Video shows the moment a group of protesters running from the library and charging at officers who set up a police line.

One of the agitators crashes at full speed into an officer and is knocked to the ground. Two more police officers assist in apprehending the assailant.

The Portland Police Bureau said "several arrests" were made at the library as officers work to clear the encampment.

Dozens of protesters who appeared to be a mix of PSU students and outside agitators occupied the library on Monday night and demanded that the university divest from Israel before they would move, according to Oregon Public Broadcasting.

On Wednesday, Portland State University President Ann Cudd announced that the library is closed and said all unauthorized personnel found there were committing criminal trespass "and must leave immediately." The announcement came after negotiations between university officials and the anti-Israel groups broke down on Wednesday.

Posted by Chris Pandolfo

https://www.foxnews.com/live-news/may-2-antisemitism-surges-campus-protests

We're in poo. Deep poo.

What the Japanese failed to eliminate in Pearl Harbor was the maintenance and refitting spaces. By failing to do that, they enabled the US to repair ships and return them to the fray (albeit the really serious cases went back to the states).

Since then, our maintenance facilities have suffered, and now we're retiring some serious offensive capability? All that gee whiz stuff is nice, but (as I have repeatedly said), quantity has a quality of its own.

Those lost tubes were for fleet defense and offensive operations. In the days of kamikaze drones (and even kamikazes, back when) the more tubes that can be devoted to fleet defense, the fewer vessels will be lost or damaged. Without the ability to repair, without the ability to defend, we will be in serious trouble in any protracted peer to peer naval conflict. Retirement should be limited to what capabilities have been replaced, hull for hull.

In the meantime, pilots in the USAF are flying grandpa's planes....

Had a dog down the street who attacked a neighbor once, but the cops only gave the owners a warning.

Last summer, same dog got out and attacked two little girls on the sidewalk, sending one to the hospital.  Dog then saw a neighbor and her daughter coming into my house across the street, and came running up our driveway heading straight for that little girl.  I heard them screaming.

My boy Forest, a half lab/half-husky, pushed his way out the door and intercepted that dog before it got to that little girl.  Chased it across the street, but was hit by a car and flung into the air.  Not the driver's fault because those dogs were moving fast.  He was 12 years old, and the best dog I ever had.

A few days later the little girl and her sister came over to our house with flowers and sympathy card for our boy, and said he was their hero.

So yeah, I have zero problems with Noem not giving that dog a second chance.

You made me cry..Mag.