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A retired professor pinch connections to former President Barack Obama and a history of engagement successful far-left militant activism said astatine an anti-Israel encampment astatine nan University of Chicago.
An anti-Israel encampment formed connected nan Main Quadrangle aliases "Quad" of nan University of Chicago Monday was visited by Bill Ayers astir 7 hours into nan demonstration, according to reporting from nan Chicago Maroon and nan Hyde Park Herald.
Ayers, listed connected nan University of Chicago's website arsenic a creative penning lecturer successful nan school's Division of nan Humanities, is champion known for his co-founding of nan far-left Weather Underground, a militant statement classified arsenic a Domestic violent statement by the FBI that operated passim nan 1960s and '70s and sought to overthrow nan U.S. government.
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Left-wing agitator Bill Ayers, seen successful photograph inset, said precocious astatine an anti-Israel encampment astatine nan University of Chicago. (Vincent D. Johnson/Xinhua via Getty Images/ Michael Roman/Getty Images)
Ayers was hunted by nan FBI for his alleged engagement successful nan 1970 bombing of nan New York City Police Department headquarters, 1971 bombing of nan United States Capitol building and nan 1972 bombing of nan Pentagon. The bombings caused nary fatalities speech from 3 members of nan group that were accidentally killed successful 1 of nan blasts, while charges against Ayers were later dropped owed to nan alleged forbidden strategies nan FBI utilized to prosecute him. When asked complete nan years astir nan bombings, Ayers has defended them.
The retired professor’s narration pinch erstwhile President Barack Obama became a arguable constituent of Obama’s 2008 run aft reports circulated that nan then-candidate was a impermanent astatine Ayers' location successful 1995. The erstwhile president and Ayers besides had overlapping work connected nan committee of board of nan Woods Fund of Chicago betwixt 1999 and 2002, though allegations of a adjacent narration betwixt nan 2 were disputed by Obama arsenic good arsenic respective media outlets.
Former President Barack Obama. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
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Ayers did not instantly respond to a Fox News Digital petition for comment.
The encampment astatine nan University of Chicago was portion of a activity of anti-Israel protests that person swept crossed U.S. campuses complete nan past week. Schools person been attempting to ace down connected nan demonstrations, including reports of rule enforcement engagement successful clearing nan camps astatine Columbia, Harvard and Yale.
A protester holds a Palestinian emblem arsenic anti-Israel agitators rally connected nan Columbia University field astatine a protestation encampment contempt a 2 p.m. deadline issued by assemblage officials to disband aliases look suspension, during nan ongoing conflict betwixt Israel and nan Islamist violent group Hamas, successful New York City, U.S., April 29, 2024. (REUTERS/David Dee Delgado)
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Administrators astatine Columbia began suspending students who refused to wantonness nan encampments connected Monday, resulting successful a riot wrong an world building utilized by nan dean and different apical assemblage officials.
