Liberal pundits and politicians spent the weekend insisting that the anti-ICE riots across Los Angeles were peaceful, even as split-screen footage showed cars engulfed in flames. “At this point, this has been very peaceful. It has been tense at some points, but we haven’t seen any violence happening here,”…
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Barnard Library Now Features Propaganda From Group That Stormed It. Plus, ‘Fiery But Mostly Peaceful’ Makes a Comeback.
Alternative education: Columbia University Apartheid Divest is the anti-Semitic student group behind last spring’s encampments and last month’s library storming. Now, a number of anti-Israel pamphlets they created line the shelves of the same library they occupied. That’s according to our Jessica Schwalb, who obtained photos of the…
Colorado’s Jewish Community Rallies One Week After Firebombing
BOULDER, Colo.—One week after foreign national Mohamed Soliman firebombed a Jewish group’s weekly march in support of the Israeli hostages, Colorado’s Jewish community gathered at the site of the attack in a show of strength and resilience. Soliman’s attack did not deter the Boulder Jewish Community…
Anti-Israel Pamphlets From Group Behind Columbia Encampments Line Barnard Library Shelves
Barnard College’s library shelves are stocked with anti-Israel pamphlets, including some from Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD), the anti-Semitic student group behind last spring’s encampments. Others direct readers to content praising assassinated Hamas leaders like Yahya Sinwar and Ismail Haniyeh and justifying the Oct. 7 attack, the Washington…
As Rioters Burn Cars and Clash With Cops, CNN Cites ‘Lawful Protests’ and Broadcasts Broadway Play
As anti-ICE rioters torched cars and clashed with police in Los Angeles on Saturday, CNN described the chaos as “lawful protests” with “some unrest.” The comments came after the network cut away from its broadcast coverage of the violent protests to air George Clooney’s journalism-themed Broadway…
Weekend Beacon 6/8/2025
According to a recent study, young people are less able to read books from cover to cover than ever before. Rest assured, the Weekend Beacon stands athwart history yelling Stop, please sign your children up for this newsletter. Speaking of standing athwart history, James Piereson reviews the highly anticipated biography Buckley: The Life…
Iggy Pop: The Last Emperor of Rock
LONDON—Iggy Pop hobbles to the side of the stage at the Alexandra Palace, rocks back and forth on his shorter right leg like a high jumper who left his pole in the changing room, and bounds toward the microphone as the band kicks into “TV Eye.” Shedding the…
Meet the ‘Radical’ Abortion Activist and ‘Defund the Police’ Advocate Behind the Democratic Party’s $20 Million Campaign to ‘Understand Men’
The Democratic Party’s widely ridiculed campaign to spend $20 million on a “strategic plan” to “study young men” was spearheaded by the former president of a left-wing activist group that supported efforts to “defund the police,” denounced the Supreme Court nomination of “frat boy” Brett Kavanaugh, and attacked…
HISTORIC: Karine Jean-Pierre Becomes First Known Democrat To Leave the Party Because They Were Mean to Joe Biden
Karine Jean-Pierre, the former White House press secretary who repeatedly praised Joe Biden’s mental acuity, said in March that she doesn’t want to “rehash the past.” Like many of the things she said from the White House podium, that wasn’t true. Jean-Pierre is more than happy to get…
Jim Acosta Throws Lamest Party Ever (Even By DC Standards)
WASHINGTON—”There are some tickets left,” Jim Acosta told his Substack followers a few hours before taking the stage at the Lincoln Theater in Washington, D.C., to host a live town hall version of the online chat show he started after his “voluntary” exit from CNN earlier this year….