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Anti-Israel riots have spread to the Netherlands.In the early Tuesday morning hours, police arrested more than 120 people at an encampment erected at the University of Amsterdam. The sweeping arrest comes as demonstrations calling for the death of America and Israel have roiled campuses in the U.S. and now Europe.Police in the Dutch capital said the protests turned violent and that their action was “necessary to restore order” in a statement on X, formerly Twitter.Officers used batons and shields as they moved into the demonstration, beating some of the protesters and pulling down tents, video from the scene aired by national broadcaster NOS showed. Police also used a mechanical digger to rip down barricades.BIDEN DONORS FUNDING GROUPS BEHIND ANTI-ISRAEL PROTESTS ON COLLEGE CAMPUSES: REPORTThere were no reported injuries.On Monday, the European agitators copied the template of those at elite U.S. colleges and universities as they formed barricades from wooden pallets and bicycles, NOS reported.Photos from the Amsterdam campus showed the agitators had erected tents, displayed anti-Israel banners and had gathered containers of food.More and more people joined the demonstrators, who ultimately occupied a section of the university. They urged Amsterdam universities to break academic ties with Israel over its war with Hamas in Gaza and the rising civilian death toll.ALLEGED VIOLENT COLUMBIA ANTI-ISRAEL AGITATOR IS PRIVILEGED HEIR TO MULTIMILLION-DOLLAR AD EMPIRE: REPORTPolice intervened after scuffles broke out on the campus Monday night between two rival groups.Officers gave repeated orders for the protesters to leave, which they said went ignored, so they cleared the makeshift camp.”The protest in this form created a very unsafe situation, partly due to the barricades that prevented emergency services from entering the site. In the event of a disaster, the activists themselves could possibly become stuck on the site,” police said.Police said the campus remained calm on Tuesday after the crowd was dispersed.Campuses in France and the United Kingdom have also seen demonstrations in recent days.The Associated Press contributed to this report.



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Columbia University canceled graduation ceremonies thanks to the anti-Israel encampments that keep popping up like post-spring break UTIs. Now, protesters won’t get to throw their keffiyeh’s in the air and make the whole campus look like a Pizza Hut tablecloth. This after students demanded the school cancel finals and hand out passing grades so they wouldn’t be traumatized by the damage they themselves inflicted. Some revolutionaries. That’s like Che Guevara handing you the bill to have his beret dry-cleaned. But last week, somebody we’ve all been waiting for finally showed up. The adults. Remember them? They used to run things, not just pay for them. And what we saw was the battle between two forces – dad brain and internet brain. The internet brain is the kind that’s easily susceptible to crap on the internet. It’s kind of like wet brain but without the joy of earning it with Jack Daniel’s. Internet brain is campus brain, social media brain, and Karen brain all held together by outrage and sob snots. The dad brain is a response to that and says, “Fine, we’ve heard enough, now go do your homework.” And over the last few years, kids have been infected with internet brain, and now they’re unleashing it on us. Internet brain tells you you’re entitled to a world that matches your every desire. Internet brain tells you that abstract issues out there matter more than your responsibilities here. Internet brain tells you that instead of studying for finals, you should pitch a tent on your campus lawn, chant slogans about an ancient conflict you know less about than your actual major, then demand a passing grade anyway. And that if you do it loud enough, a nation of 9 million on the other side of the world will cease to exist. But, like, what happens when the babysitter lets you stay way past your bedtime, the fun and games are over when dad gets home, and he’s patient but not that patient. So it’s dad brain versus internet brain. And as everyone knows, after all the crying, screaming threats and demands, Dad’s going to win, kiddies. So save yourselves a spanking.BIDEN DONORS FUNDING GROUPS BEHIND ANTI-ISRAEL PROTESTS ON COLLEGE CAMPUSES: REPORTLet’s compare internet brain and dad brain. Dad brain lays down the law when nonsense gets out of hand. No mom’s ever gotten the kids in line by saying, “Wait till your non-binary community organizer gets home.” Dad’s brain lives in the world of paid bills, changed tires, mowed lawns; of vital things getting done. Meanwhile, internet brain has strong opinions on building a carbon-neutral tree fort written by people too weak to lift a hammer. Internet brain doesn’t focus your problems, it expands them by saying the world’s problems are yours. Dad brain says no, Hamas is not your beef, Mother’s Day is– get your mom a card and some flowers. The internet brain offers a big problem she can’t handle: climate change, the Middle East, global inequality. Dad brain knows that such obsessions create anxiety and says, save us the lecture on Marxism in Peru. Have you paid your phone bill? Internet brain also forces kids to compare their lives to others, generating envy that leads to mental anguish. Dad brain says I know Kelly and Ashley went to Aspen on spring break, but we’re going to your grandmothers. You know, that kind old lady who might not be here in a few years? Dad brain sees what the inner brain does to you. It makes you crazy, like a bad boyfriend. And dad brain is not so much enforcing discipline as calling ***. Most of these kids know their causes and commitment are all a show. It’s the equivalent of a school play in that it’s badly produced, it becomes boring and the parents aren’t so much enjoying it as they are tolerating it. In fact, many of them want dad brain to knock them into line. And so, after weeks of Hamas cosplay, who shows up? Yep, the adults. College officials like the president of USC who told the kidiess: fun’s over. As a result, USC has been cleared out twice with no injuries or riots, disappointing most of the media of course. ANTI-ISRAEL AGITATORS IN NYC SHOUT DOWN MAN WAIVING ISRAELI FLAG: ‘SHAME ON YOU!’Florida has a healthy supply of adults in charge too– where students were told their schools are “not a daycare.” That’s a dad brain. I’m surprised they also didn’t yell at them for touching the thermostat or threatened to turn this car around. Of course the cops were massive dad brain here. No shootings, no real injuries and the sort of patience only a dad could have with brats. So, looking out over the campus landscape now, it feels like dad brain is returning. Even SNL, a show that adapts as quickly as the Dodo, had to admit, dads are right to call BS on the protests.SNL SKITNot bad. At least the show’s heading in the unfamiliar direction of humor. So, as the internet brain condemns fossil fuels, we need dad to tell them to buy a car that’s good on gas. As internet brain tells them to eat bugs to save the Earth, dad brain has to tell them to finish their peas. And when internet brain says trans females should play in women’s sports, dad brain says cool, let’s arm wrestle for the keys to your car. See, dad brain’s not just a party pooper obsessed with consequences. That dad loves his kids enough to make sure they stop embarrassing themselves in public because the choice is between dad brains or no brains at all.



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Deion Sanders and the rest of the Colorado Buffaloes were in the midst of a social media scrap last week as the head coach faced criticism for handling his roster overhaul.Sanders wrote on X about the critics and the hate people get and clapped back at a fan who told him to tell his son, Shedeur, to stop acting like he’s the “coldest out here” amid a 4-8 season. Sanders said that Shedeur will be a top-five draft and wondered where the fan’s son was going.CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COMCoach Prime then explained away his remarks.”I gotta do better on that and not ride with it, but I was bored,” he said on “Thee Pregame Show.” “I was bored, and I didn’t say nothing hurtful. I don’t attack people.”Sanders also weighed into the waters as Austin Peay defensive back Jaheim Ward got into a spat with Colorado’s Kaleb Mathis. One X user then posted Ward’s stats with the Governors and added, “Man go take a seat.” It sparked a remark from the head coach: “Lawd Jesus.”COLORADO’S SHEDEUR SANDERS SAYS HE DOESN’T ‘EVEN REMEMBER’ FORMER TEAMMATE WHO CRITICIZED DEION SANDERSUSA Today noted that Sanders explained that remark as well.”I try my best to refrain, but like when you posted like stats, I said, `Lawd Jesus,’ like dang, he really went at him, like he really shot him,” Sanders said on the podcast. “That’s really what I meant, and I think that was taken wrong. I think that was taken sideways or something else.”The war of words definitely didn’t shine the program in the most positive of lights.It may have also hurt Shedeur Sanders’ draft odds — at least for the time being.Follow Fox News Digital’s sports coverage on X and subscribe to the Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter.



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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan formally opened a former Byzantine church in Istanbul as a mosque on Monday, four years after his government had designated it a Muslim house of prayer, despite criticism from neighboring Greece.Turkey formally converted The Church of St. Saviour in Chora, known as Kariye in Turkish, into a mosque in 2020, soon after it similarly turned Istanbul’s landmark Hagia Sophia into a Muslim house of prayer.Both conversions drew praise from Muslim faithful but criticism from Greece and other countries who had urged Turkey to protect the important Byzantine-era monuments. Both are listed as U.N. World Heritage Sites.TURKEY CARRIES OUT NEW AIRSTRIKES IN NORTHERN IRAQ, KILLING 16 KURDISH MILITANTSLike Hagia Sophia, which was a church for centuries and then a mosque for centuries more, the Chora had operated as a museum for decades before it was ordered turned into a mosque. The Chora’s formal launch as a mosque, however, was delayed as the structure then underwent restoration.Erdoğan on Monday remotely presided over a ceremony marking the opening of the Chora — as well as other recently-restored structures — from a conference hall at his palace complex in Ankara.”May it bring good fortune,” Erdoğan said during the televised event.Musa Tombul was among the first worshippers to pray inside.”I have been waiting for its opening for four years,” he told the state-run Anadolu Agency. “I was honored to pray in such a place.””We thank God for showing us these days,” Anadolu quoted another worshiper, Haydar Senbahar, as saying. “Hopefully, we will come here from time to time and perform our prayers.”The church, situated near Istanbul’s ancient city walls, is famed for its elaborate mosaics and frescoes. It dates to the fourth century, although the edifice took on its current form in the 11th-12th centuries.The structure served as a mosque during Ottoman rule before being transformed into a museum in 1945.Greece had criticized the Turkish government’s decision to turn it back into a mosque, accusing Ankara of “insulting the character” of another World Heritage Site.The decisions to transform Hagia Sophia and the Chora back into mosques were seen as moves geared to consolidate the conservative and religious support base of Erdoğan’s ruling party amid an economic downturn.In 2020, Erdoğan joined hundreds of worshipers for the first Muslim prayers in Hagia Sophia in 86 years, brushing aside international criticism and calls for the monument to be kept as a museum. As many as 350,000 took part in the prayers outside the structure.



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Hamas has agreed to a cease-fire agreement framework put forward by Egypt and Qatar, the terrorist group announced in a Monday statement.The White House and State Department could not confirm the agreement as of press time, but a Hamas spokesman confirmed it to Fox News Digital. Israel has not announced its stance on the framework. If it is approved, however, it would bring an extended pause to the fighting that has raged in Gaza for seven months.”The fighter brother Ismail Haniyeh, head of the political bureau of the Hamas movement, had a phone call with the Qatari Prime Minister, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdul Rahman Al-Thani, and with the Egyptian Minister of Intelligence, Mr. Abbas Kamel, and informed them of the Hamas movement’s approval of their proposal regarding the ceasefire agreement,” the Hamas statement read.News of the agreement comes just as Israel appeared to be preparing for a ground assault on Rafah, the final stronghold of Hamas in Gaza. The city is also playing host to more than 1 million Gazans displaced from the north.HAMAS KINGPIN HOLED UP DEEP BELOW GAZA, SURROUNDED BY HOSTAGES USED AS HUMAN SHIELDS, SAYS EXPERTIsrael urged Palestinians to flee Rafah ahead of the expected operation. Overnight on Sunday, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant told U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin that Israel was left with no choice but to act in Rafah after Hamas terrorists carried out a deadly rocket attack from Rafah earlier in the day that left four Israeli soldiers dead.BIDEN ADMINISTRATION PUTS HOLD ON US AMMUNITION SHIPMENT TO ISRAEL: REPORTPresident Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke on the phone about Rafah on Monday, Fox News has learned. Netanyahu has vowed repeatedly to carry out a military operation in Rafah. According to Israel’s army, forces are beginning with a “limited scope operation.”Lt. Col. Nadav Shoshani, an army spokesman, said some 100,000 people were being ordered to move to a nearby Israel-declared humanitarian zone called Muwasi. He said Israel published a map of the evacuation area.BIDEN ADMIN ACCUSES ISRAELI MILITARY OF HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS IN STUNNING CONDEMNATIONThese orders were issued through air-dropped leaflets, text messages and radio broadcasts so that Palestinians could get the information.”Anyone found near (militant) organizations endangers themselves and their family members. For your safety, the (army) urges you to evacuate immediately to the expanded humanitarian area,” one flyer read.Israel’s army said on the social media platform X that it would act with “extreme force” against Hamas terrorists, and urged the population to evacuate immediately for their safety.Fox News’ Lawrence Richard and Trey Yingst contributed to this report



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