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Harvard Student Group Attends Frenzied Pro-Hamas Protest at White House

An anti-Israel protester burns an Israeli flag in front of the White House in Washington, DC, USA, on June 8, 2024. Photo: Aashish Kiphayet/NurPhoto via Reuters Connect

Members of a prominent Harvard University student group attended a virulently anti-Israel protest in Washington, DC that converged on the White House over the weekend. 

Harvard’s African and African American Resistance Organization (AFRO) sent a cohort of members to attend a Saturday demonstration outside the White House to protest Israel’s military operations against the Hamas terror group in the southern Gaza city of Rafah. The group claimed it attended the mass protest to demand an end to what it called a “genocide” of Palestinians.

“AFRO participated in another national mobilization of over 100,000 people against the genocide of the Palestinian people. The Biden administration’s red line was a fiction, and Israel continues to lay siege on Rafah,” the group wrote on Instagram. 

“If the White House will not drawn a red line, the people will continue to draw their’s [sic] until the complete and total liberation of Palestine,” AFRO continued.

Saturday’s anti-Israel protest in the US capital drew roughly 100,000 people from cities across the country. The protest, organized by the terrorist-connected Palestinian Youth Movement, attracted many demonstrators who explicitly expressed support for violence against Israel and the United States.

Warning: The below tweet contains explicit language.

Protester holding a “Stand with Hamas” outside the White House @FreeBeacon pic.twitter.com/Vqpb7gFexH

— Tanner Nau (@tannernau15) June 8, 2024

Several attendants hoisted signs urging Americans to support Hamas, the Palestinian terrorist group that launched the ongoing war in Gaza by slaughtering roughly 1,200 people in southern Israel on Oct. 7. Other protesters called for Hezbollah, a Shia Muslim terrorist group based in Lebanon, to “kill another Zionist.”

A protester named Michael from Colorado praised the Oct. 7th terrorist attacks as a “brilliant raid” and referred to Hamas as “armed resistance.”

“I support by any means necessary what Hamas can do to resist the genocide that Israel and the Jews who do it. Yeah, the Jews,” Michael said. 

Harvard AFRO, a self-described “militant” activist group which advocates on behalf of black students, has faced an onslaught of allegations of antisemitism since the Oct. 7 attacks on Israel. Three days after the massacre, AFRO signed onto a letter condemning Israel and holding the Jewish state “entirely responsible for all the unfolding violence.” AFRO has helped spearhead many of the anti-Israel campus protests at Harvard in the eight months following the terrorist attacks on Israel. The group has also demanded that the university divest from companies tied to Israel and terminate partnerships with Israeli academic institutions. In an interview with Hamas-supporting journalist Rania Khalek, leaders of the group dismissed criticism of their conduct as “racist” and “anti-black.”

Harvard University has received widespread criticism over its soft-handed approach to antisemitic incidents on campus. Critics skewered the administration for allowing students to repeat chants calling for the elimination of the Jewish state. University donors, some of whom are Jewish, vowed to stop giving money to the school in response. The controversy over the university’s campus climate intensified when former Harvard President Claudine Gay told a US congressional committee that calling for a genocide of Jews living in Israel would only violate school rules “depending on the context.” Gay was subsequently removed from the presidency after conservative news outlets surfaced her long history of repeated plagiarism. 

Alan Garber took the helm from Gay and assembled an antisemitism task force in January to address the concerns of Jewish students and alumni. One of the task force co-chairs Derek Penslar, signed a letter accusing Israel of being an apartheid state. Another co-chair, business school professor Raffaella Sadun, immediately resigned for undisclosed reasons a month later.

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Israeli Strike on Tehran Kills Bodyguard of Slain Hezbollah Chief

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi lays a wreath as he visits the burial site of former Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, on the outskirts of Beirut, Lebanon, June 3, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir

A member of Lebanese armed group Hezbollah was killed in an Israeli air strike on Tehran alongside a member of an Iran-aligned Iraqi armed group, a senior Lebanese security source told Reuters and the Iraqi group said on Saturday.

The source identified the Hezbollah member as Abu Ali Khalil, who had served as a bodyguard for Hezbollah’s slain chief Hassan Nasrallah. The source said Khalil had been on a religious pilgrimage to Iraq when he met up with a member of the Kataeb Sayyed Al-Shuhada group.

They traveled together to Tehran and were both killed in an Israeli strike there, along with Khalil’s son, the senior security source said. Hezbollah has not joined in Iran’s air strikes against Israel from Lebanon.

Kataeb Sayyed Al-Shuhada published a statement confirming that both the head of its security unit and Khalil had been killed in an Israeli strike.

Nasrallah was killed in an Israeli aerial attack on Beirut’s southern suburbs in September.

Israel and Iran have been trading strikes for nine consecutive days since Israel launched attacks on Iran, saying Tehran was on the verge of developing nuclear weapons. Iran has said it does not seek nuclear weapons.

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Hamas Financial Officer and Commander Eliminated by IDF in the Gaza Strip

Israeli soldiers operate during a ground operation in the southern Gaza Strip, amid the Israel-Hamas conflict, July 3, 2024. Photo: Ohad Zwigenberg/Pool via REUTERS

i24 News – The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), in cooperation with the General Security Service (Shin Bet), announced on Friday the killing of Ibrahim Abu Shamala, a senior financial official in Hamas’ military wing.

The operation took place on June 17th in the central Gaza Strip.

Abu Shamala held several key positions, including financial officer for Hamas’ military wing and assistant to Marwan Issa, the deputy commander of Hamas’ military wing until his elimination in March 2024.

He was responsible for managing all the financial resources of Hamas’ military wing in Gaza, overseeing the planning and execution of the group’s war budget. This involved handling and smuggling millions of dollars into the Gaza Strip to fund Hamas’ military operations.

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Report: Wary of Assassination by Israel, Khamenei Names 3 Potential Successors

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei waves during a meeting in Tehran, Iran, May 20, 2025. Photo: Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader/WANA (West Asia News Agency)/Handout via REUTERS

i24 News – Iran’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei named three senior clerics as candidates to succeed him should he be killed, the New York Times reported on Saturday citing unnamed Iranian officials. It is understood the Ayatollah fears he could be assassinated in the coming days.

Khamenei reportedly mostly speaks with his commanders through a trusted aide now, suspending electronic communications.

Khamenei has designated three senior religious figures as candidates to replace him as well as choosing successors in the military chain of command in the likely event that additional senior officials be eliminated.

Earlier on Saturday Israel confirmed the elimination of Saeed Izadi and Bhanam Shahriari.

Shahriari, head of Iran’s Quds Force Weapons Transfer Unit, responsible for arming Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis, was killed in an Israeli airstrike over 1,000 km from Israel in western Iran.

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