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FIRST ON FOX: Anti-Israel radicals person protested outside of Republican Sen. Ted Cruz’s Texas home much than a twelve times successful caller weeks, pinch nan agitators reportedly tied to nan Students for Justice successful Palestine group occupying assemblage campuses nationwide, Fox News Digital exclusively learned.
Cruz’s location successful Houston has been nan target of 14 protests since February, including a protestation connected Friday erstwhile 1 fishy was arrested. Cruz’s agency said that nan legislator remains resolute successful his support of Israel, while brushing disconnected nan protesters' strategies of "harassment aliases intimidation."
"Senator Cruz will proceed to guidelines pinch Israel and support Israel's correct to take sides itself and utterly eliminate Hamas. No magnitude of harassment aliases intimidation by violent supporters will alteration that," a spokesperson for nan legislator said.
Student agitators person infiltrated assemblage campuses nationwide successful caller weeks, including radicals connected Columbia University’s field taking complete nan campus’ Hamilton Hall building, while schools specified arsenic UCLA, Harvard and Yale are moving to clear student encampments wherever protesters request their elite schools wholly divest from Israel.
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The protests travel violent statement Hamas launching war successful Israel connected Oct. 7, which initially fanned nan flames of antisemitism connected campuses successful nan shape of protests, menacing graffiti and students reporting that they felt arsenic if it was "open play for Jews connected our campuses." The protests person now heightened to nan constituent wherever Jewish students person been warned to time off field for their ain safety.
An anti-Israel demonstrator holds a emblem connected nan rooftop of Hamilton Hall astatine Columbia University successful New York City connected Tuesday, April 30, 2024. Anti-Israel student demonstrators barricaded themselves into nan Hamilton Hall building astatine Columbia connected Tuesday aft nan schoolhouse began suspending students who defied an bid to clear their encampment. (Yuki Iwamura/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
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The protests are associated pinch groups tied to far-left organizations backed by acheronian money and liberal mega-donor George Soros, Fox News Digital antecedently reported. Namely, nan National Students for Justice successful Palestine (NSJP) has had a ample beingness amid nan protests connected Columbia University’s campus, arsenic good arsenic connected nan campuses of UCLA, Tufts and nan University of Texas astatine Austin successful Cruz’s location state.
Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz was confronted by a raucous crowd of anti-Israel protesters extracurricular his Houston location this play for a 2nd time. (Getty Images/Ted Cruz)
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The NSJP is simply a nationalist group pinch astatine slightest 200 chapters crossed nan U.S and regularly compares Israel’s curen of Palestinians to Nazi Germany and nan Jim Crow era successful nan United States and accuses Israel of genocide, Influence Watch reported. NSJP's origins agelong backmost to 1993 connected UC Berkeley's campus, according to NGO Monitor.
Demonstrators stitchery connected nan field of nan University of Texas astatine Austin connected Thursday, April 25, 2024, successful Austin, Texas. Students walked retired of people connected Wednesday arsenic protests complete Gaza proceed to expanse assemblage campuses astir nan country. (Jon Shapley/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images)
The nationalist section celebrated Hamas' first onslaught connected Israel successful October, describing it arsenic an "historic triumph for nan Palestinian resistance," nan New York Times reported successful October.
"This is what it intends to Free Palestine: not conscionable slogans and rallies, but equipped confrontation pinch nan oppressors," nan group continued astatine nan time.
The NSJP operates nether a fiscal sponsor called Westchester Peace Action Committee Foundation, which antecedently received a six-figure aid from a nonprofit bankrolled by nan Soros network, Fox News Digital antecedently reported.
The group and its affiliates person been banned aliases censured by universities for their support of Hamas, including Brandeis banning nan group pursuing calls "for unit against Jews," while Rutgers University suspended nan group successful December, arsenic did Case Western successful March.
The protesters extracurricular of Cruz’s location successful caller months are tied to Students for Justice successful Palestine, rule enforcement told nan senator, Fox News Digital has learned.
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Anti-Israel protesters extracurricular of Sen. Ted Cruz's location successful Houston this month. (Ted Cruz/Twitter )
The Houston Police Department confirmed to Fox News Digital that rule enforcement person many times responded to Cruz’s location complete nan protests this twelvemonth but outlined that nan constabulary section tin only publically corroborate location person been assemblies extracurricular nan residence, not place circumstantial groups nan protesters are affiliated with.
Student protesters stitchery successful protestation wrong their encampment connected nan Columbia University field connected Monday, April 29, 2024, successful New York. Protesters of nan warfare successful Gaza who are encamped astatine Columbia University person defied a deadline to disband pinch chants, clapping and drumming. (AP Photo/Stefan Jeremiah)
One protester was arrested connected Friday evening, according to rule enforcement. Cruz posted connected X that evening that protesters were clanging cowbells and yelling for 2 hours connected his street. Fox News Digital reached retired to nan Harris County Constable's agency for further specifications connected nan apprehension but did not instantly person a reply.
"This is America successful 2024, and this is simply a consequence of nan sickness that has taken complete our universities. This is simply a consequence of taste Marxism that has infiltrated and seized power of nan module and nan administration."
"So, this is going connected correct now. It’s astir 11 pm. Pro-Hamas protestors person been screaming and cursing for 2 hours. Banging cowbells & blowing whistles," Cruz posted connected Friday.
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"When a neighbour who has mini kids asked an serviceman to do something, nan protesters screamed that she was a "f---ing b----!"
Cruz has antecedently been nan ire of wide protesters moving to shape demonstrations extracurricular his location successful Houston’s Royal Oaks neighborhood, including successful 2021 erstwhile 60 to 70 ambiance activists gathered. This year, nan protesters person assembled connected a near-weekly basis, condemning Cruz for supporting Israel, Axios reported.
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"The constituent is to show that he does person constituents that don't align pinch his very bigoted views. … We don't support him being AIPAC-funded and his allegiance to a overseas government," 1 regular protester told Axios Houston successful March.
Protesters person staged 14 demonstrations extracurricular of Sen. Ted Cruz's Texas location since February. (Ted Cruz/Twitter)
Cruz has meantime slammed nan protests raging connected assemblage campuses arsenic nan consequence of "cultural Marxism" that has dispersed wrong universities.
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A student protester pulls up a crate filled pinch nutrient and supplies from a pavilion of Hamilton Hall connected nan field of Columbia University connected Tuesday, April 30, 2024, successful New York. Early connected Tuesday, dozens of protesters took complete Hamilton Hall, locking arms and carrying furnishings and metallic barricades to nan building. Columbia responded by restricting entree to campus. (AP Pool Photo/Mary Altaffer)
"This is America successful 2024, and this is simply a consequence of nan sickness that has taken complete our universities," Cruz said Monday to Fox News’ Sean Hannity. "This is simply a consequence of taste Marxism that has infiltrated and seized power of nan module and nan administration. These are convulsive protesters that are threatening nan lives and nan information of Jewish students. Let maine inquire you something, Sean. Where is Joe Biden tonight? Where is nan lawyer wide tonight? Where is nan FBI tonight? Where is nan politician of New York tonight?"
Fox News Digital's Andrew Mark Miller contributed to this report.
