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Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos announced Wednesday that the paper’s opinion section will now defend “personal liberties and free markets” and ousted the section’s editor, David Shipley.

“We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets,” Bezos wrote in an email to the Post staffers. “We’ll cover other topics too, of course, but viewpoints opposing those pillars will be left to be published by others.”

Bezos said that he offered Shipley the opportunity to “lead this new chapter” but that the editor’s answer had to be either “hell yes” or “no.” Shipley decided to step away.

Shipley, who had committed to bringing “diverse voices” to the Post, caved to left-wing pressure in November 2023 and removed a cartoon that lampooned Hamas.

Bezos’s announcement comes after he caused an internal uproar last year by blocking the editorial board’s planned endorsement of Kamala Harris. A number of high-profile staffers quit in protest, and over 250,000 readers canceled their subscriptions. The beleaguered paper has announced dozens of layoffs amid the exodus of top talent and mounting financial troubles.

Bezos told staffers on Wednesday that he is “of America and for America, and proud to be so.”

“A big part of America’s success has been freedom in the economic realm and everywhere else,” the email reads. “Freedom is ethical—it minimizes coercion—and practical—it drives creativity, invention, and prosperity.”

Jeff Stein, the Post‘s chief economics reporter, slammed Bezos’s “massive encroachment” into the paper’s opinion section, saying the announcement “makes clear dissenting views will not be published or tolerated there.”

Bezos in his announcement defended the shift, saying, “I’m confident that free markets and personal liberties are right for America. I also believe these viewpoints are underserved in the current market of ideas and news opinion. I’m excited for us together to fill that void.”

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The International Committee of the Red Cross doesn’t do much advertising. The organization, to which American taxpayers are the largest donors, ran just five Facebook ads between 2019 and 2023, and its more recent digital spots ran exclusively in Europe, a Free Beacon review of Meta’s ad spending database found. That’s all changing now as the committee faces intense criticism over its participation in a series of shocking Hamas hostage release ceremonies.

On Monday, just five days after we reported on talks among Senate Republicans to reassess U.S. funding to the ICRC, the committee’s head of communications and public affairs, Steve Dorsey, wrote the Free Beacon asking for “more info on newsletter sponsorship or online ads.” The committee, Dorsey said, hoped to boost “generic ICRC visibility” through ads that would link to its website, which touts its status as a “neutral, impartial, and independent organization” that takes “action, not sides.”

The request, our Adam Kredo reports, suggests the ICRC is scrambling to shore up support on Capitol Hill as GOP lawmakers blast its Hamas propaganda platforming. Roughly two weeks ago, ICRC officials Nour Khadam and Stephanie Eller joined Hamas terrorists on stage to sign documents and shake hands. Last week, the committee again dispatched a staffer to appear alongside a Hamas terrorist on a stage that included an anti-Semitic sign depicting Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a bloodthirsty vampire.

Dorsey did not answer questions about the ICRC’s broader ad campaign, the motivations behind it, or its annual advertising budget. He did, however, “encourage Free Beacon readers to review” an ICRC op-ed published Monday in the Washington Examiner. In it, Dorsey called the Hamas hostage transfers “disturbing and dehumanizing.” He did not address the group’s failure to visit the Israeli hostages in captivity, as the ICRC has routinely done during other armed conflicts.

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Joy Reid hosted her final MSNBC show on Monday, but it was her exorbitantly paid colleague, Rachel Maddow, who drove the headlines. Maddow, who is white, lambasted her bosses at MSNBC for firing Reid, who is black. The liberal network gave Alex Wagner, the half-Asian MSNBC personality, the boot. Maddow called the moves “unnerving” and “indefensible.”

Maddow did not disclose the terms of her contract during her anti-racist rant. Until very recently, she earned $30 million a year to host The Rachel Maddow show one night a week. “That’s roughly 10 times what the network was paying Reid, a proud black woman, to host significantly more hours,” our Andrew Stiles observes. “MSNBC hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, who are white, are also believed to have negotiated a ‘Maddow-esque’ compensation package, while Maddow look-a-like Chris Hayes is believed to earn a salary in the $4-5 million range. These highly paid network personalities are often eager to discuss topics such as income inequality and the ‘racial wealth gap,’ but they have yet to express public outrage about the alarming racial disparities within MSNBC.”

Reid and Wagner, meanwhile, weren’t the only non-white employees who lost their hosting gigs. MSNBC also “announced plans to cancel the weekend shows hosted by Ayman Mohyeldin, Jonathan Capehart, Jose Diaz-Balart, and Katie Phang. Mohyeldin, the Egyptian-born commentator best known for defending Hamas terrorists, is believed to earn a salary in the range of $500-750K per year.” Phang’s salary is unclear, given that no one has heard of her.

“These are precisely the sorts of changes MSNBC will be required to make if the network’s ultra-wealthy (and white-priveleged) hosts are unwilling to sacrifice a ‘fair share’ of their massive salaries,” Stiles warns. “Think of all the non-white jobs Maddow, Scarborough, and Brzezinski could save by agreeing to earn just $1 million per year. Better yet, they could channel the wise words of Barack Obama (net worth: $70 million), who once said, ‘At a certain point, you’ve made enough money,’ by forgoing their entire salaries or agreeing to donate 100 percent of their earnings to anti-racist charities dedicated to the eradication of white supremacy.”

READ MORE: Rachel Maddow Is the Boyish Face of White Supremacy at MSNBC

Last spring, Charlotte Kates, a leader of the sanctioned Palestinian advocacy group Samidoun, was teaching Columbia students the tactics of the “Palestinian resistance.” On Sunday, she was in Lebanon to mourn one of the foremost purveyors of those terroristic tactics, the late Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah.

Kates, our Jessica Costescu reports, attended Nasrallah’s funeral at Camille Chamoun Sports City Stadium, Lebanon’s largest sports arena. She posted a photo that showed her smiling and holding a Samidoun flag as mourners donning Hezbollah armbands and flags watched on.

“It is such an honor to be here in Beirut today, one among a sea of over a million people in collective tribute, mourning, love and commitment to the road of resistance and liberation exemplified by Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah,” she wrote. “The masses are truly out in the streets, affirming the indelible living legacy of the greatest anti-imperialist leader of our day, the great Arab and international revolutionary, the beloved speaker of truth and warrior of justice.”

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Just days after the Washington Free Beacon detailed mounting congressional concerns over the International Committee of the Red Cross’s (ICRC) participation in a series of shocking Hamas hostage release ceremonies, an official from the aid agency approached the publication about advertising with the Free Beacon and sponsoring our daily newsletter, the Morning Beacon.

“Looking to see if I can get more info on newsletter sponsorship or online ads,” the ICRC’s head of communications and public affairs, Steve Dorsey, wrote the Free Beacon on Monday. Five days earlier, the Free Beacon reported on Senate Republicans’ outrage over the participation of ICRC officials in Hamas propaganda rituals and their desire to reassess U.S. funding to the organization.

The ICRC’s advertisement inquiry suggests it may be spooked by those talks and looking to shore up support on Capitol Hill. Dorsey told the Free Beacon that the ICRC has not “traditionally done much advertising” and hoped to run spots that would link to its website and boost “generic ICRC visibility.”

A Free Beacon review of Meta’s ad spending database found that the ICRC ran just five Facebook ads between 2019 and 2023. It did ramp up ad spending at the end of 2024 and beginning of 2025, running a series of Facebook and Instagram spots on the “rules of war” that call for the protection of “detainees,” “families,” and “civilians.” The committee failed to do that job when it did not follow through on its obligation to visit hostages in Hamas captivity or to lodge complaints if and when they were denied that right. None of those ads remain active, and all of them ran in Europe, according to the database.

The United States is the ICRC’s top patron, meaning the committee is tapping into a budget that includes U.S. taxpayer funds to advertise at a time when those funds are under threat. Dorsey did not answer questions on the committee’s broader ad campaign and the motivations behind it. Instead, he encouraged “Free Beacon readers to review” a Monday ICRC op-ed published in the Washington Examiner, which called the Hamas hostage transfers “disturbing and dehumanizing” but did not address the group’s failure to visit Israeli hostages in captivity.

The ICRC sparked outrage when, roughly two weeks ago, officials Nour Khadam and Stephanie Eller joined uniformed Hamas terrorists on stage to participate in a propaganda ceremony surrounding the release of Israeli hostages. The pair signed documents and shook hands with masked Hamas terrorists. Last week, the ICRC again dispatched a staffer to sign documents alongside a Hamas terrorist on a stage that included an anti-Semitic sign depicting Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a bloodthirsty vampire. The sign also accused Netanyahu of killing the Bibas children, Ariel and Kfir, in an airstrike. An Israeli forensic review found that Hamas terrorists murdered four-year-old Ariel and nine-month-old Kfir “with their bare hands.”

While the Red Cross agreed to participate in those hostage release ceremonies, it did not visit the hostages during their time in captivity to assess their health, as the group routinely does during traditional conflicts. “We continue to request information on the hostages and for access to them. We also continue to insist that they be able to share a message with their families,” the organization says on its website. “Years of experience speaking with parties to conflicts and non-state armed groups have proven that our bilateral approach and confidential dialogue to raise issues of concern is important to achieve results, rather than public denunciations.”

The ICRC’s website, which the committee intended to promote in its ads with the Free Beacon, nonetheless touts its status as a “neutral, impartial, and independent” organization that takes “action, not sides.” It also includes an “Israel-Gaza Emergency Appeal” that includes a photo of Gazan rubble and no photos of the Israeli hostages.

“The ICRC continues to do everything within our power to support people affected by the conflict, including trying all possible means to get aid, including critical health care, into Gaza, and persistently advocating on behalf of hostages being held in Gaza,” the appeal states.

The ICRC has released public statements on the hostage ceremonies that refer to “Israel and the occupied territories” and do not mention Hamas by name. In one February 19 statement, the organization urged “dignity and privacy ahead of next release operation.” The next day, Hamas terrorists carried caskets holding the bodies of the Bibas children through the streets of Gaza as Palestinian onlookers cheered and enjoyed upbeat music.

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Eugene Daniels, the Politico White House correspondent who was supposed to be the “breakout star” of the 2024 election but ended up being one of the biggest losers, is leaving the mid-tier news website to join MSNBC. Daniels, an alleged “expert in all things Kamala Harris” with a “fashion sense that mirrors his bold style of reporting,” will cohost a weekend roundtable show as part of the left-wing network’s ongoing reorganization efforts. It is unclear whether the self-described “walking Beyoncé encyclopedia” will face any wardrobe restrictions at MSNBC, but a Washington Free Beacon photographic analysis confirmed that Daniels has a bold sense of fashion, and certainly appears to admire Beyoncé, the former Destiny’s Child singer best known for being married to Jay-Z.

Bold.

Brave.

Beguiling.

Fierce.

Friendly.

Fabulous.

Joyful.

Masked.

Hired.

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The Trump administration on Tuesday stripped the White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA) of the power to determine which outlets can participate in the White House press pool. The association’s leader, Eugene Daniels, Politico correspondent and soon-to-be MSNBC host, is known as a “Kamala Harris expert” who once asked the former vice president whether Donald Trump and J.D. Vance’s campaign rhetoric stemmed from “irredeemable racism.”

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said the WHCA “should no longer have a monopoly” on which outlets can include a reporter in the 13-member White House press pool, which is allowed into the Oval Office, on Air Force One, and at any event that cannot accommodate the entire White House press corps, Politico reported Tuesday.

“All journalists, outlets and voices deserve a seat at this highly coveted table,” Leavitt said. Going forward, the White House will include additional outlets as part of the press pool, without consulting the WHCA.

Former White House press secretary Sean Spicer described the change as “amazing news,” saying it will allow “new voices” from “media outlets from outside of the DC Beltway bubble.” Spicer said that WHCA members angry over the change should “direct blame” toward Daniels, who repeatedly expressed sympathies with Harris while covering her failed 2024 campaign.

Daniels, whom the liberal Poynter Institute described as “the Kamala Harris expert,” gave favorable coverage to Harris throughout the campaign. In one Mediaite interview in July, he said that “the excitement” for Harris is “insane” and insisted that Harris, whom former president Joe Biden tasked with leading the administration’s efforts on “stemming the migration to our southern border,” was not Biden’s border czar.

Two months later, Daniels, who had told the Poynter Institute that he was “tough” on Harris, interviewed the then-vice president during a National Association of Black Journalists panel, asking her whether Trump and Vance’s comments on Haitian migrants in Ohio were “a case of irredeemable racism that can’t be mitigated by any rational action.”

Daniels said in a statement Tuesday that the administration’s decision to include more outlets in the pool “tears at the independence of a free press.”

Daniels is reportedly expected to leave Politico and cohost a weekend show on MSNBC, according to Puck News.

As president of the WHCA, Daniels picked comedian Amber Ruffin to host the annual White House Correspondents’ Dinner, praising her as the “perfect fit for the dinner this year.” Ruffin has long expressed her dislike for the president, from mocking him in 2020 to saying that “no one wants” Trump to attend this year’s dinner.

This month, Ruffin told CNN that she disagrees with former hosts who told her that “you have to make fun of everybody,” rather than just “the people you disagree with.”

“I am not going to do that,” she said. “Maybe I’ll do it a little bit, but probably not.”

Trump did not attend the correspondents’ dinners during his first term.

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Joy Reid hosted the final episode of her MSNBC show on Monday, but it was her exorbitantly paid white colleague, Rachel Maddow, who made headlines later that evening by accusing her bosses of racism. “I will tell you it is also unnerving to see that on a network two, count ’em, two non-white hosts in primetime, both of our non-white hosts in primetime are losing their shows,” Maddow said. “That feels worse than bad no matter who replaces them. That feels indefensible, and I do not defend it.” She was referring to Reid and Alex Wagner, the half-Asian MSNBC personality who was expected to begin hosting the 9 p.m. hour in April, but that plan was scrapped. Jen Psaki, a white woman and former White House press secretary under President Joe Biden, will take over instead.

Watch: Joy Reid Concludes Lackluster Career at MSNBC

Reports suggest MSNBC fired Reid for perfectly legitimate reasons. The host was constantly inviting “external scrutiny” with her vitriolic and racially charged diatribes, according to former CNN media expert Oliver Darcy. Also, her ratings were terrible. Last Thursday’s episode of The ReidOut drew just 59,000 viewers between the ages of 25 and 54, the only demographic advertisers care about. That was the lowest figure among all MSNBC hosts between 4 p.m. and 11 p.m. MSNBC is in the process of being spun off from parent company Comcast, which viewed the left-wing network as a “declining asset” whose elderly viewing audience is literally dying off. To survive as a separate entity, MSNBC will have to massively curtail its payroll costs. Getting rid of Reid, a low-performing loose cannon with an annual salary believed to be in the range of $3 million, was probably an easy call.

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Maddow’s rant against MSNBC’s white supremacy was rich with irony, given the fact that until recently, Maddow was earning $30 million a year to host The Rachel Maddow Show just one night per week. That’s roughly 10 times what the network was paying Reid, a proud black woman, to work significantly more hours. MSNBC hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, who are white, are also believed to have negotiated a “Maddow-esque” compensation package, while Maddow look-a-like Chris Hayes is believed to earn a salary in the $4-5 million range. These highly paid network personalities are often eager to discuss topics such as income inequality and the “racial wealth gap,” but they have yet to express public outrage about the alarming racial disparities within MSNBC.

Related: MSNBC Host Claims ‘There Isn’t a Strain of Racism on the Left’

Reid and Wagner weren’t the only non-white employees who lost their hosting gigs. As a result of the network’s ongoing reorganization, MSNBC announced plans to cancel the weekend shows hosted by Ayman Mohyeldin, Jonathan Capehart, Jose Diaz-Balart, and Katie Phang. Mohyeldin, the Egyptian-born commentator best known for defending Hamas terrorists, is believed to earn a salary in the range of $500-750K per year. Al Sharpton, the scandal-plagued charlatan and notorious anti-Semite who appears to have survived what former MSNBC host Keith Olbermann described as a “racist purge,” is believed to earn a similar salary.

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Salary information for Phang was unavailable due to the fact that no one has heard of her. The Katie Phang Show has apparently been on the air since 2022. She also hosted a 2023 special on MSNBC about female “trailblazers in the [Asian American and Pacific Islander] community.” Phang enjoyed a brief moment of relevance in November 2024 after she criticized Scarborough and Brzezinski for meeting with Donald Trump after the election. “Normalizing Trump is a bad idea,” she wrote. “Period.” It’s not yet known whether the Morning Joe hosts played a role in the cancellation of Phang’s show.

Watch: Media Go on Racist Tirade Against Black Republican Tim Scott

These are precisely the sort of changes MSNBC will be required to make if the network’s ultra-wealthy (and white-privileged) hosts are unwilling to sacrifice a “fair share” of their massive salaries. Maddow has reportedly already taken a modest pay cut and is now believed to earn $25 million a year for part-time work, money that could be used to fund hundreds if not thousands of full-ride university scholarships for marginalized non-white students. Think of all the non-white jobs Maddow, Scarborough, and Brzezinski could save by agreeing to earn just $1 million per year. Better yet, they could channel the wise words of Barack Obama (net worth: $70 million), who once said, “At a certain point, you’ve made enough money,” by forgoing their entire salaries or agreeing to donate 100 percent of their earnings to anti-racist charities dedicated to the eradication of white supremacy.

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In any event, it’s unclear why MSNBC’s alleged concern about minimizing “external scrutiny” due to outbursts of vitriolic insanity did not extend to the Morning Joe duo, whose coverage of Trump during the election was so unhinged the network briefly suspended the show after Trump was nearly assassinated in July. Maddow’s deranged activism has also caused problems for the network, which recently settled a $30 million defamation lawsuit filed after Maddow and several of her white colleagues made “verifiably false” statements about a Georgia doctor they accused of harvesting uteruses at an immigration detention facility.

Watch: Rachel Maddow Says MSNBC Won’t Broadcast ‘Untrue Things’

Olbermann, who did more than anyone to boost Maddow’s career at MSNBC, recently argued that Maddow would never “do anything for principle,” suggesting the network host is motivated by a desire to hoard wealth and power at the expense of vulnerable minorities. She has reportedly amassed considerable influence at the network. Nevertheless, she was apparently unable to stop Reid’s firing, which she claimed was “a bad mistake.” The extent to which Maddow lobbied MSNBC brass behind the scenes to make the network less diverse remains unknown. She might not look like a woman, but she is. Racism experts have repeatedly explained that white women, even the liberal ones, are guilty of “perpetuating the violence of White Supremacy, especially against Black bodies.”

This, ladies and gentlemen, is the smiling, bespectacled, and filthy-rich face of white supremacy.

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A British court determined in a preliminary ruling that Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters defamed John Ware, a veteran journalist who made a documentary critical of Waters’s anti-Semitic history, when he called Ware a “lying, conniving Zionist mouthpiece” who supports the “genocide of the Palestinian people.” The development puts both Waters and the Hamas-friendly network Al Jazeera on the hook for damages.

In the Tuesday ruling, the British High Court of Justice found that Waters’s “statements are defamatory” because they were offered as fact, not opinion. The decision sets the stage for Ware to receive financial compensation not just from Waters but also from Al Jazeera, the Arab network funded in large part by the Hamas-friendly nation of Qatar. Waters’s comments targeting Ware came during a 2024 interview on the Al Jazeera network, which Ware sued in addition to Waters. The case could go to trial to determine damages, though barrister Simon Myerson predicted that Waters and Al Jazeera will settle with Ware.

Ware, a documentarian who produced a 2023 film examining Waters’s vast anti-Israel advocacy, sued the musician and Al Jazeera last year. Waters appeared on Al Jazeera to bash Ware’s film and accused the journalist of “cheerleading the genocide of the Palestinian people like almost more than anyone else on earth.”

Ware’s documentary, The Dark Side of Roger Waters, was produced for the Campaign Against Antisemitism, a British nonprofit that combats Jew-hatred. In it, Ware examined the singer’s long history of anti-Israel activism and embrace of anti-Semitic imagery. Waters, for instance, dressed in Nazi regalia during a 2023 show and displayed an inflatable pig emblazoned with Jewish stars. Ware’s documentary detailed the musician’s plans to add other slogans and symbols to the pig, including “dirty kike,” “follow the money,” and “scum.”

His Nazi cosplay earned a rare rebuke from the Biden administration State Department, which described Waters as having a “long track record of using antisemitic tropes to denigrate Jewish people.”

In the wake of Oct. 7, Waters said Hamas’s terror attack was justified and accused Israel of “making up stories” about widespread rape and torture on that day.

“Was it justified for [Hamas] to resist the occupation? Yeah,” Waters said just a month after the attack. “They are absolutely legally and morally bound to resist the occupation since 1967.”

Referring to reports that Hamas raped women, killed babies, and tortured civilians during its rampage through Israel, Waters downplayed the revelations.

“We don’t yet know what happened,” he said at the time. “Maybe there were some individual cases of civilians getting killed.”

Waters is also a leading supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement, an anti-Semitic global campaign to wage economic warfare on the Jewish state.

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Among a crowd mourning Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah’s death and chanting “Death to Israel, death to America” in Beirut on Sunday was Charlotte Kates, a leader of the Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, which the United States sanctioned for providing financial support to terrorists. Just last spring, she was instructing Columbia University students on “Palestinian resistance” tactics.

Tens of thousands of black-clad mourners flooded the funeral at Camille Chamoun Sports City Stadium, Lebanon’s largest sports arena. They vowed support for Hezbollah, an Iranian-backed terrorist group that began attacking Israel on Oct. 8, 2023, in solidarity with its ally, Hamas, following the latter’s Oct. 7 massacre of Israeli civilians. Israel, in response to Hezbollah’s assaults, invaded Lebanon and killed Nasrallah on Sept. 27, 2024.

“It is such an honor to be here in Beirut today, one among a sea of over a million people in collective tribute, mourning, love and commitment to the road of resistance and liberation exemplified by Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah and Sayyed Hisham Safieddine,” Kates posted to X on Sunday with photos of the crowd.

“The masses are truly out in the streets, affirming the indelible living legacy of the great anti-imperialist leader of our day, the great Arab and international revolutionary, the beloved speaker of truth and warrior of justice,” Kates, Samidoun’s international coordinator, added.

In October, the United States sanctioned Samidoun and Kates’s husband, Khaled Barakat, for providing support to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a terrorist organization that participated in Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack. Less than a year before Nasrallah’s funeral, Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD)—the Ivy League school’s most notorious anti-Semitic student group—invited Kates and Barakat, a PFLP member, to deliver speeches on “the fight for liberation,” as part of a lecture titled “Palestinian Resistance 101.” Shortly after the event, which the Washington Free Beacon attended virtually, Columbia student radicals launched the anti-Israel encampment and eventually stormed a campus building.

In November, a month after the sanctions were issued, CUAD passed out pamphlets just outside Columbia’s Morningside Heights gates encouraging attendees to “get involved” with Samidoun. They included a QR code that sent users to Samidoun’s website, which touts an “Amsterdam free from Zionism” and calls to “globalize the intifada!”

“The fact is that October 7 changed the world … we saw the potential of a future for Palestine liberated from Zionism,” Kates told a group of keffiyeh-clad Columbia students during her March 24 speech.

She also praised Iran—Hezbollah’s backer—as “a nation on the side of the Palestinian people, intervening and building a movement of resistance to free this entire region … from U.S. imperialism.” She advocated for a campaign to eliminate America’s list of designated terror organizations.

“It is important to popularize campaigns to … scrap the U.S. terror list entirely, or at the very least to get Palestinian, Lebanese, Yemeni, Filipino, and other revolutionary organizations off the terror list,” Kates said. “Because that’s a weapon that’s being used against the Palestinian people, against the Arab people, and against the solidarity movement as a whole, and in order to kind of fundamentally deform the politics of the movement.”

In August, Kates traveled to Tehran where Iran awarded her the “Eighth Annual Islamic Human Rights and Human Dignity Award.” Other recipients included Hamas head Ismail Haniyeh and Ziyad al-Nakhalah, the secretary general of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, a U.S.-designated terror group.

Barakat, meanwhile, explicitly endorsed terrorism against Jews during his own lecture for CUAD and lauded airplane hijackings as “one of the most important tactics that the Palestinian resistance have engaged in.”

Barakat is not the only person to have glorified plane hijackings at Columbia. In October, Joseph Slaughter, a member of Columbia’s top disciplinary body and an English professor who defended the illegal encampment at the Ivy League school, delivered a lecture that lauded a string of terrorist plane hijackings as “spectacular” and “remarkable,” the Free Beacon reported.

CUAD has continued to terrorize campus. Last month, for example, anti-Israel radicals dumped cement into a campus building’s sewage system. A week earlier, pro-Hamas agitators stormed an Israeli history class and targeted Jewish students with anti-Semitic flyers.

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Migrant encounters at the southern border have dropped to the lowest level since 2017 amid President Donald Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigration.

Border authorities recorded around 15,700 encounters in the 30 days since Trump’s inauguration, the lowest 30-day total since April 2017 and a 91 percent decline from the 166,900 monthly average under the Biden administration, according to Washington Post columnist Marc Thiessen.

Encounters have plummeted 94 percent from their December 2023 peak of 263,900 under former president Joe Biden. During Biden’s term, an estimated 8 million migrants entered the United States illegally, with more than 13,000 migrants convicted of murder remaining at large as of late September.

Since his return to the White House, Trump has declared a national border emergency, which allowed him to deploy thousands of active-duty troops to help secure the southern border. Trump also signed an executive order ending what he called Biden’s “catch and release” policy, and he reinstated the “Remain in Mexico” program from his first term.

A total of 42,048 illegal migrants were removed from the United States between January 21 to February 18, Thiessen reported.

On February 16, border agents encountered only 229 migrants at the southern border. “I started as a Border Patrol Agent in 1984 and I don’t remember the numbers ever being that low,” Tom Homan, Trump’s border czar, said in an X post.

The Trump administration has also terminated all taxpayer-funded benefits for illegal migrants and designated Tren de Aragua, the Sinaloa cartel, and six other drug cartels as global terrorist organizations.

Earlier this month, Trump used tariffs to pressure Mexico and Canada into deploying troops and personnel to secure their borders with the United States and curb the flow of drugs and illegal immigrants.

Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigration has widespread public support. Eighty-seven percent of Americans support deporting illegal migrants with criminal records, while 63 percent support removing all who entered illegally in the past four years, according to a New York Times poll.

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Washington Post columnist Karen Attiah said Monday that she has no regrets about retweeting a post supporting Hamas’s October 7, 2023, terrorist attack on Israel and blamed racism for the backlash to her pro-Hamas sympathies.

“I make no apologies for standing on the side of Palestinian liberation, at all,” Attiah said after a woman confronted her over the pro-Hamas post at a book signing, according to footage recorded by Algemeiner‘s Corey Walker.

The post, which Attiah retweeted soon after it was posted on the day of Hamas’s massacre, read, “What did y’all think decolonization meant? vibes? papers? essays? losers.”

Attiah said at the signing that the confrontation is “actually an example of … how violent it is, the response is, to anyone who speaks about, uh, Israel-Palestine and, frankly, I’d say, particularly if you’re black.” She did not mention that the woman who confronted her was also black.

The Post columnist has a long history of condemning the Jewish state and its people for defending themselves. One week after the October 7 attack, the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, Attiah in a column rebuked Israel for fighting back against terrorists. Around the same time, she said she would “never forgive” then-president Joe Biden for supporting Israel.

She has also defended former CNN contributor Marc Lamont Hill, who has used the genocidal phrase “From the river to the sea,” and the anti-Semitic “Squad,” Commentary noted in December 2023.

Attiah was among the loudest critics of Post owner Jeff Bezos’s decision to block the editorial board’s planned endorsement of Kamala Harris. While several Post employees have quit their jobs in protest, Attiah has yet to resign.

The columnist also faced accusations of racism in 2020 for a since-deleted tweet in which she floated the idea of “revenge” against white women, blaming them for everything from “the 1921 Tulsa Massacre” to the election of President Donald Trump.

“White women are lucky that we are just calling them ‘Karen’s’ [sic],” Attiah wrote. “And not calling for revenge.”

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