Campuses Brace for Pro-Hamas Protests on Anniversary of Oct. 7
Plus, CBS staffers melt down over new boss Bari Weiss
Two years out from the Oct. 7 massacre, Israel recovered its geopolitical stature—and then some—through a series of stunning military victories. University administrators have been less courageous when it comes to confronting the forces of evil, and students on elite college campuses are planning to commemorate the anniversary of the largest slaughter of Jews since the Holocaust with protests against Israel.
Student radicals on campuses from the University of Pennsylvania to UCLA plan to commemorate the “martyrs,” known in the reality-based world as terrorists.
The demonstrations have the potential to upend what has largely been a quiet start to the 2025-26 school year under President Donald Trump, whose administration will no doubt be paying close attention as it works to crack down on campus anti-Semitism. Should they turn destructive, the response will provide a window into just how much that crackdown has affected the conduct of college administrators.
READ MORE: ‘RALLY, RAGE, & RESIST’: Pro-Hamas Student Groups Plan Nationwide Protests on Oct. 7 Anniversary
Bari Weiss is now the editor in chief of CBS News, and staffers at the perennially third-place network are not coping well.
CBS News employees anonymously leaked incensed reactions to left-wing outlets like the Guardian and Mehdi Hasan’s Zeteo. Some insisted Weiss not “mess with” 60 Minutes and CBS News Sunday Morning, which is literally her job. Remember when Lesley Stahl asked a recently released Israeli hostage how he knew his Hamas captors weren’t starving right alongside him? Yeah, don’t touch that!
Others said Weiss’s hiring is “offensive” because—unlike the network’s existing staffers who “have dedicated their entire careers to understanding and developing the skills that are needed”—she “has zero experience in television.” (CBS is reportedly losing $50 million a year.)
Some of our favorite reactions to Weiss’s arrival:
“A throwing up emoji is not enough of a reflection of the feelings in here.” — CBS “employee”
“People are using words like depressing and doomsday—feels like some sort of doomsday.” — CBS “reporter”
“I think the ombudsman, Bari Weiss, and the impending massive layoffs that are coming in a couple weeks have everyone just kind of freaking out, like, literally freaking out.” — CBS “journalist”
“What the fuck?” — CBS “source”
READ MORE: ‘What the F—?’: CBS News Staffers Melt Down Over New Boss Bari Weiss
Everytown for Gun Safety, the nation’s largest gun control group, contributed $200,000 to Jay Jones’s campaign for Virginia attorney general and named Jones one of its “Gun Sense Candidates.” Jones is the guy who fantasized about putting a couple of bullets in his GOP adversary’s head.
The Free Beacon’s Chuck Ross asked Everytown whether it wanted its money back or whether it had any comment on the fracas, but the group didn’t get back to him.
Elsewhere:
When a South Carolina judge’s house burned down on Sunday, many on the left—including the former Biden administration official Neera Tanden, the Democratic congressman Daniel Goldman, the Lincoln Project’s Rick Wilson, and Time magazine—pointed the finger at Trump administration officials who had criticized the judge. Authorities say there’s “no evidence to indicate the fire was intentionally set.” The Left stood up an entire cottage industry of dis- and misinformation police. We await their fact checks.
Shocked to find that gambling is going on in here: The Washington Post reports that some D.C. police officers “have complained for months—in some cases, years—that managers were recording serious crimes as more minor ones to make their police districts appear safer.” Free Beacon readers are already familiar with the issue.
It’s official: Amy McGrath, the perennial loser who raised $100 million trying to unseat Mitch McConnell only to lose by 20 points, launched her campaign for Kentucky’s open Senate seat, describing herself as “battle tested” in a local interview. That’s one way to put it.
Al Jazeera is reportedly working to reduce “incitement” to terrorism following Trump-induced pressure from Qatar. It’s almost as if it’s a propaganda outlet controlled by the Gulf state.
Check out our full Tuesday lineup below.
‘RALLY, RAGE, & RESIST’: Pro-Hamas Student Groups Plan Nationwide Protests on Oct. 7 Anniversary
‘What the F—?’: CBS News Staffers Melt Down Over New Boss Bari Weiss
NBC’s Divorce From MSNBC Is Almost Final. Who Gets Custody of the Kids?
Qatar, Under Pressure From Trump, Pushes Al Jazeera To Curb ‘Incitement’ to Terror: Report