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Anti-Israel agitators continue nationwide disruptions with escalations at USC, Harvard and Columbia
Multiple U.S. universities were flooded with anti-Israel agitators on Wednesday, with four schools hosting notably chaotic scenes in California, Massachusetts, Texas and New York.
The University of Southern California (USC), Harvard University, the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) and Columbia University in New York City were all backdrops with varying degrees of hostility and unruliness amid fierce campus opposition to the Israeli military’s actions in the Middle East.
At USC on Wednesday, mayhem ensued when authorities began cracking down on unlawful activity and arrested protesters. Hundreds of students clashed with USC Department of Public Safety officers as the confrontations escalated.
Some USC protesters were seen falling on the cement sidewalk amid the chaos. A few called for help, while others berated police officers.
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See the chaos that erupted at USC below:
At UT Austin on Wednesday, demonstrators flooded the school’s South Lawn and attempted to set up several tents before being confronted by police. More than 100 protesters participated in the anti-Israel demonstration.
The Austin Police Department (APD) and Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) told Fox News Digital that more than 20 people were arrested in total. The agitators chanted incendiary statements like “Pigs go home!” and “APD, KKK, IDF / they’re all the same.”
See UT Austin protesters confronting police below:
Republican Gov. Greg Abbott condemned the protest activity on X, writing that the offending individuals “belong in jail.”
“Antisemitism will not be tolerated in Texas. Period,” he wrote. “Students joining in hate-filled, antisemitic protests at any public college or university in Texas should be expelled.”
See the rowdy UT Austin protests below:
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At Harvard on Wednesday, anti-Israel protesters set up a “Gaza solidarity encampment” at Harvard Yard. It began at around 12:49 p.m., according to the Harvard Crimson.
Social media video showed protesters swarming the quadrangle and rapidly setting up tents in a frenetic manner. As of Wednesday night, at least 20 tents were still on Harvard’s campus, but the initial crowd of students had “dispersed,” the Crimson reported.
Demonstrators planned to stay the night and solicited water, food, sleeping bags and tent donations through the Harvard College Palestine Solidarity Committee. The weather in Cambridge was cold and rainy at the time.
Pro-Palestinian protesters set up tents in Harvard Yard, Boston, MA Wednesday, April 24, 2024. The Ivy League campus is host to a rising tide of protests across the country against the war in Gaza. (David McGlynn for Fox News Digital)
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Columbia University, the hotbed of anti-Israel protests over the past week, was also flooded with protesters on Wednesday.
USC Safety officers try to disperse anti-Israel agitators on Wednesday at the University of Southern California’s Alumni Park, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas. (Reuters/Zaydee Sanchez)
U.S. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson arrived at the NYC campus to discuss the ongoing Israel-Hamas war and crisis in Gaza. In his speech, Johnson took aim at school administrators for allowing “threats, the fear and the intimidation of the mob rule to overtake American principles like free speech and the free exchange of ideas and the free exercise of religion.”
“We just can’t allow this kind of hatred and enemy antisemitism to flourish on our campuses, and it must be stopped in its tracks,” Johnson argued.
The Republican leader also said that he planned to speak with President Biden about having the National Guard intervene.
U.S. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, center, leaves Columbia University in New York City on Wednesday. (Fox News Digital)
“If this is not contained quickly and if these threats and intimidation are not stopped, there is an appropriate time for the National Guard. We have to bring order to these campuses,” he said. “We cannot allow this to happen around the country.”
In the last few days, the five highest-ranked universities – Princeton, MIT, Harvard, Stanford, and Yale – have all been hotbeds of anti-Israel sentiment.
More than half of the top 50 U.S. universities have had active anti-Israel protests in the past week.
Fox News Digital’s Bryan Preston and Bradford Betz contributed to this report.
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Verses fom the Acts of the Apostles, the fifth book of the New Testament, are particularly noteworthy today.
“While Peter was still speaking these things, the Holy Spirit fell upon all who were listening to the word. The circumcised believers who had accompanied Peter were astounded that the gift of the Holy Spirit should have been poured out on the Gentiles also, for they could hear them speaking in tongues and glorifying God,” the passage says.
It continues, “Then Peter responded, ‘Can anyone withhold the water for baptizing these people, who have received the Holy Spirit even as we have?’ He ordered them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ” (Acts 10:44-48).
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The Acts of the Apostles is traditionally attributed to St. Luke the Evangelist, according to the website BibleGateway.
In the book, “Luke has provided a broad survey of the church’s development from the resurrection of Jesus to Paul’s first Roman imprisonment, the point at which the book ends,” said the same source.
“In telling this story, Luke describes the emergence of Christianity from its origins in Judaism to its position as a religion of worldwide status and appeal,” the site added.
Rev. Jeremiah Johnston of Prestonwood Baptist Church in Texas reflects on Acts 10:44-48, when the Holy Spirit falls upon the Gentiles. (Cameron Bertuzzi/iStock)
These specific verses demonstrate the power of the Holy Spirit, the “forgotten” person of the Holy Trinity, Rev. Jeremiah Johnston told Fox News Digital.
Johnston is pastor of apologetics at Prestonwood Baptist Church in Dallas, Texas, and president of the Christian Thinkers Society.
An outpouring of the Holy Spirit is particularly needed today, said Johnston, as evidenced by the increasingly polarized society that is stricken with crime, protests, and anger.
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“Before Peter could even finish his powerful sermon, the ‘Pentecost of the Gentile world’ took place in the coastal city of Caesarea, some 70 miles northwest of Jerusalem,” said Johnston.
This message — that “the good news of peace through Jesus Christ” was available to both the Gentiles and Jewish people — “left the Jewish-believers traveling with Peter from Joppa stunned, yes, even shocked,” he said.
Peter was preaching at Caesaria, a city on the coast of Israel that is now a national park. (Jon G. Fuller/Eye Ubiquitous/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
“It only took 118 words of Peter’s sermon to transform the hearts of everyone,” said Johnston, with the help of the Holy Spirit’s descent upon those who were listening.
This, he said, changed everything.
“The Gentiles responded to Peter’s message with faith in Christ and God immediately accepted them and sealed their faith with the Holy Spirit — the same grace is available for all today,” said Johnston.
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These new Christian believers were then baptized, a “fitting response to God’s grace in their lives with the Holy Spirit,” he said.
In the modern world, “we hear echoes and see signposts of the Holy Spirit’s handiwork today with mass-spontaneous baptisms occurring at universities all over America,” said Johnston.
A mass baptism took place on the campus of Auburn University in Sept. 2023 – something Johnston called an “echo” of the Holy Spirit’s handiwork. (Mateo Arenas)
This, he said, is further proof that “the way God acted in the past is the way He is acting in the present,” a theological principle known as “typology.”
“Even when our country betrays a growing divide, more grace is available through the Holy Spirit working in your life,” he said.
A Christian’s life is only effective, however, with the “correct understanding of the Holy Spirit.”
And while many Christians have less of an understanding of the Holy Spirit compared to the other persons in the Holy Trinity, the Bible “reminds us it is impossible to live a transformational Christian life without the filling of the Holy Spirit,” said Johnston.
“As a follower of Jesus,” he said, “I have all the Holy Spirit, but the more important question we must contemplatively and prayerfully ponder is: Does the Holy Spirit have all of me?”
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The owners of the Brentwood home where Marilyn Monroe lived and ultimately died are suing the City of Los Angeles for the right to demolish the property.
Brinah Milstein, of the Milstein real estate dynasty, and her reality television producer husband, Roy Bank, filed a Los Angeles Superior Court lawsuit on Monday, alleging “illegal and unconstitutional conduct and abuse of power” by the city regarding the property they bought in July 2023.
According to the Los Angeles Times, they purchased the home for $8.35 million.
Their plan was to demolish the home and expand their current residence, which is located next door, according to the lawsuit.
The plaintiffs claim they were issued a demolition permit from the city, which was initially “held” for 30 days to allow for objections.
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An aerial view of a Brentwood home once belonging to iconic actress Marilyn Monroe is seen on Sept. 6, 2023. (KTLA) -
An aerial view of a Brentwood home once belonging to iconic actress Marilyn Monroe is seen on Sept. 6, 2023. (KTLA) -
Marilyn Monroe leaves the home she briefly shared with Joe Di Maggio in a car driven by her attorney, Jerry Giesler. (Getty Images)
In January, the Los Angeles Cultural Heritage Commission recommended landmark status for Marilyn Monroe’s home, which could potentially save the home from being demolished.
An attorney for the homeowners said in a statement to KTLA, “The City invoked an unconstitutional ‘stay’ of city-issued and vested demo and grading permits, secretly worked with third parties (including for-profit tour operators and a local conservancy organization) to assure their desired outcome.”
The homeowners claim that no objections were raised and permits were subsequently issued, which led to them incurring over $30,000 in expenses before receiving actual notice of a “stay” invoked by the city.
KTLA reached out to representatives for the city of Los Angeles and Councilwoman Traci Park, who represents the 11th District, where the home is located, for comment but has not yet heard back.
Milstein and Bank argue in their lawsuit that the home has had 14 owners since Monroe’s death, and at least a dozen permits have been issued for remodels over the past 60 years.
Meantime, fans of Marilyn Monroe, and conservationists claim the residence is a part of Hollywood history.
Monroe died from an overdose in the Brentwood property at the age of 36.
A city water service provider channeled the Backstreet Boys in a recent effort to get people to follow local watering rules, with a viral video that caught the attention of the popular 90s boy band.
The “Splashstreet Boys” and their parody song, “I Water That Way,” is a takeoff on the 1999 smash hit, “I Want it That Way.”
“Tell me why? Don’t water when it’s raining,” the parody’s chorus advises. “Tell me why? Don’t water when it’s windy,” it continues.
The world-famous BSB members were clearly impressed.
“You guys NAILED this,” they responded to the nearly four-minute video released April 29 on Denver Water’s Instagram.
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“Splashstreet Boys,” dressed in all white, similar to how the Backstreet Boys in their music video for the 1999 hit “I Want It That Way.” (Denver Water)
Denver Water’s Jimmy Luthye told KUSA-TV he got the idea a couple of years ago while listening to the radio.
“Sometimes you get an idea, and you have to see it through, no matter how much it sets you up to be ridiculed by everyone in your life,” Luthye said in a news release, adding that he “grew up loving boy band jams.”
The city’s summer watering restrictions began Wednesday, and run through Oct. 1.
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Denver Water says the video was filmed at its headquarters, a water treatment plant, and a lake, “among other places.” (Denver Water)
The song’s lyrics also remind people not to water in the daytime, when sunshine can cause water to evaporate.
It mentions “Coloradoscape,” a climate-friendly type of landscaping that many homes in the southwest utilize to save water.
Luthye said that video editing helped blur some of the not-so-great choreography, but the video’s reception from the public has gone so well the water utility company is already thinking about a possible follow-up video to be released next year.
Denver Water tried to recreate some of the scenes from the Backstreet Boys’ “I Want It That Way” music video. (Denver Water)
“I have never been more obsessed with a music video or municipal infrastructure employees,” one YouTube user commented.
Denver Water’s full summer watering rules can be found here. Summer officially starts June 20.
“It’s been a very fun week and a little overwhelming, wasn’t really expecting quite the reception that we got, so it’s been awesome,” Luthye told KUSA. “For how long it took to concoct the idea, we spent a remarkably little amount of time practicing.”
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