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WATCH: Anti-Israel Students Host DC Vigil for Hamas ‘Martyrs’
WASHINGTON — George Washington University students held a “Vigil for the Martyrs of Palestine” on Tuesday evening where they mourned the Hamas terrorists killed attacking Israel. The Students for Justice in Palestine chapter gathered in Kogan Plaza as dusk fell on Washington, D.C., “for a vigil in honor of our martyrs.” Organizers encouraged the students… -
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‘THERE WILL BE BLOOD’: Hamas Issues ‘Unambiguous Call to Arms’ in ‘Support of Jihad-Waging Gaza’
Hamas issued a “Declaration of General Mobilization” Tuesday in what an expert warned was an “unambiguous call to arms” after Israel declared war following the Hamas’ terrorist incursion Saturday that killed more than 900 Israelis, including beheading babies. “A call to our Palestinian people, the masses of the Arab and Islamic world, and free people… -
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House Oversight Panel Investigates Biden’s Iran Negotiations
In light of Hamas' terrorist attack on Israel, House Republicans are stepping up their investigation into the Biden administration’s use of officials who have sympathetic ties to Iran's Islamist regime. The House Oversight and Accountability Committee on Wednesday sought documents, other information, and a briefing from the State Department about nuclear negotiations with Iran. Of… -
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Outrage Over Harvard Student Groups Blaming Israel for Hamas Attack
Over 30 Harvard University student groups publicly blamed Israel for the Islamist militant Hamas movement’s terrorist attack on the Jewish state Saturday. “We, the undersigned student organizations, hold the Israeli regime entirely responsible for all unfolding violence,” they said in a joint statement. In Israel, at least 1,000 have died, many of whom were killed… -
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Historical Ignorance Animates Hatred of Israel, Jews
Gun violence, kids in cages, sexual assault, religious extremism—Hamas’ historic terror strike on innocent Israeli civilians hits all the left-wing triggers. But where is the left-wing outrage? Anti-Israel protesters even displayed the Nazi swastika in New York City’s Times Square, demonstrating the historical amnesia and philosophical inconsistency of anti-Israel hatred. In street protests across America, the fringe… -
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BLM Backs Hamas: ‘A Terrorist Organization Supports a Terrorist Organization’
Black Lives Matter chapters in Indianapolis and Chicago are drawing sharp bipartisan criticism for praising the heinous actions of Hamas in its brutal invasion of Israel. On Tuesday, the Black Lives Matter Indy organization retweeted a post from the U.S. Palestinian Community Network, praising “[t]he heroic Palestinian people” and their “right to resist their racist,… -
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Jordan vs. Scalise: House Republicans Set to Nominate McCarthy Successor
Rep. Kevin Hern of Oklahoma took himself out of the running for speaker of the House over the weekend, leaving fellow Republican Reps. Jim Jordan of Ohio and Steve Scalise of Louisiana to battle it out for the speaker’s gavel. “I’m going to step aside and let them give their best case why they should… -
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4 Indisputable Facts About Hamas’ Terrorist War Against Israel
I spent the weekend and most of Monday engaging in back-and-forth with fellow progressive Democrats who were trying to change the subject on the clear black-and-white facts about Hamas’ terrorist war against Israel. I kept reminding them of four indisputable facts. Fact one: Hamas openly declares it hates Jews. It is an openly bigoted, anti-Semitic organization…. -
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Planned Parenthood Turns Its Attention to Confused Adolescents Who Think They’re Trans
For Planned Parenthood, June is the cruelest month. Last year, on June 24, at the end of a blockbuster Supreme Court term, the high court issued its landmark decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. That ruling overturned Roe v. Wade and clarified once and for all that the Constitution did not, in fact,… -
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How and Why Hamas Carried Out ‘Savage Rampage’ Against Israel
The attack Hamas launched on Israel Saturday was “a genocidal savage rampage by uncontrollable militants who were simply trying to destroy Jews,” says Victoria Coates, who formerly served as a deputy national security advisor to President Donald Trump. Hundreds of Israelis were killed in the initial attack and the death toll, which includes at least… -
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Here’s How Many Illegal Aliens From Terrorist or Suspect Nations Were Encountered at Border
The U.S. Border Patrol has encountered 72,823 “special interest aliens” on America’s borders over the past two years—many from the Middle East—according to an exclusive Fox News report. A special interest alien is a government term used to refer to an illegal alien from a nation that either promotes terrorist activity, harbors terrorists, or poses a… -
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Biden Blasts ‘Bloody Hand’ of Hamas, Compares Terrorist Group to ISIS
President Joe Biden condemned the “bloody hand” of Hamas on Tuesday even as some congressional Democrats expressed ambiguity about the Islamist terrorist group’s bloody incursion Saturday into Israel. “This is an act of sheer evil, more than 1,000 civilians slaughtered in Israel, along with them at least 14 American citizens killed,” Biden said at the… -
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Pro-Palestine Student Org Calls for National ‘Day of Resistance’ Backing Attacks on Israel
A national pro-Palestine student organization is calling for a "day of resistance" on college campuses Thursday in support of brutal terrorist attacks on Israel, emphasizing that they are not only in solidarity with Palestine, they are "PART of this movement." A toolkit released by the national Students for Justice in Palestine calls for the student… -
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New Data Reveals Number of Illegal Aliens Who Entered US Under Biden Exceeds Population of These 22 States
The number of illegal aliens who have entered the interior of the U.S. under the Biden administration now is greater than the population of at least 22 states as well as the District of Columbia. Data released Monday by the House Judiciary Committee reveals that at least 3.8 million illegal aliens either have been released into… -
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‘IT’S NOT A WAR… IT’S A MASSACRE’: Israeli Soldiers Show Journalists Aftermath of Hamas Terror
Israeli soldiers report finding the bodies of babies, some of them decapitated, in the ruins of a town ravaged by Hamas terrorists in their surprise attack on Saturday. Israeli Defense Force soldiers took dozens of foreign journalists Tuesday to Kfar Aza, a town about 1.5 miles southeast of the Gaza border. Journalists surveyed the devastation,… -
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Hollywood’s Oppenheimer Biopic a Historical Travesty
Writer-director Christopher Nolan’s summer blockbuster, the biopic “Oppenheimer,” has grossed nearly $1 billion in global ticket sales, a staggering number including over $320 million from North American theaters and over $600 million internationally. That’s far better box office than other films Hollywood had counted on to offset the devastating, five-month strike by the Writers Guild… -
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What History Teaches Us About Civility
Alexandra Hudson adapted the following excerpt from her new book, “The Soul of Civility: Timeless Principles to Heal Society and Ourselves,” which was released today. The ousting of the House speaker last week has the commentariat in Washington using a word we hear a lot of these days: “unprecedented.” We hear this all the time,… -
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Survey Shows How Americans Would Make the ‘American Dream’ Great Again
The United States in 2023 feels a lot like the "malaise" of the latter years of Jimmy Carter's presidency in the late 1970s. Amid persistent inflation and stagnating wages, Americans struggle to claw themselves out of the muck while the cost of everything from milk and eggs to cars and mortgages seems to bury them… -
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Alexandra Hudson’s Cure for Incivility
At a time when America faces innumerable challenges, Alexandra Hudson wants her fellow citizens to focus on something only they can control: civility toward others. Hudson’s new book, “The Soul of Civility: Timeless Principles to Heal Society and Ourselves,” is on sale today. She joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to talk about something why civility… -
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Iran’s Role in Hamas’ Attack on Israel
“For Zion’s sake I will not keep silent, for Jerusalem’s sake I will not keep still.”—Isaiah 62:1 On Saturday, Israel suffered the worst attack on its civilian population in 50 years. Iranian-backed Hamas terrorists in Gaza launched thousands of rockets at Israeli population centers and stormed through the security barrier into Israel where they massacred…