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A Jewish Columbia professor has been blocked from campus after he created a pro-Israel demonstration to counter the student-led Gaza encampment. Shai Davidai, an assistant professor at the Business School was shown on camera in a fiery face-off with pro-Palestine students on Monday morning. A source told DailyMail.com Davidai's employee card was deactivated after he refused to hold his counter-protest in the designated area and instead staged it beside the pro-Gaza demonstration.

Six men at a Cheesecake Factory and four people at an Applebee's in a mall in Queens were arrested Tuesday evening during a "sit-in" to protest against indoor dining coronavirus vaccine mandates in New York City, according to multiple reports. A group of protesters entered the Cheesecake Factory and refused to show proof of vaccination when a restaurant employee asked them to do so, as mandated by the city, reported the local outlet The Queen's Eagle. The men breezed past the host stand and seated themselves in violation of the mandate. They were asked to leave, and when they refused,...

Diehard supporters of Sen. Bernard Sanders stormed media tents and staged a sit-in Tuesday night minutes after Hillary Clinton officially claimed the party’s presidential nomination, injecting another round of drama into the convention and pouring cold water on claims Democrats are fully uniting behind their White House nominee. Hundreds of Sanders backers, most carrying signs backing their candidate, conducted what seemed to be a well-coordinated march from the Wells Fargo Center to the media tents just outside the arena. They said that party officials were trying to confiscate Sanders signs inside Wells Fargo

Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) called it "outrageous" that House Democrats would grab microphones and prevent fellow lawmakers from conducting business in violation of House rules, all to make a point about gun control, which is really beside the point, he said: "And when people go on for 12 hours, saying things, 'It's about guns,' then that means Boston was about a pressure cooker. It wasn't. Both of them were about radical Islam," Gohmert told Fox News's Charles Payne. "And the reason people died unnecessarily is because this FBI, this Justice Department, this Homeland Security has purged their training materials, so...

Pelosi: Democrats Wore Sweaters to Deal With ‘Freezing’ Conditions During Sit-In Chandler Gill BY: June 23, 2016 3:38 pm House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) said Thursday that Democrats had to wear sweaters to endure freezing conditions on the House floor during the Democratic sit-in on gun control, but she said those conditions could not deter her. A reporter brought up the live periscope feed that showed the sit-in since CSPAN cameras were not allowed to film because the floor was in recess. The reporter asked, since there was a constant periscope feed of the sit-in, if the rule...

House Democrats ended their 25-hour sit-in over gun control legislation on Thursday, a protest Speaker Paul D. Ryan labeled a high-profile stunt that undermined the basic institutions of government. Mr. Ryan said he was “not going to allow stunts like this to stop us from carrying out the people’s business.” He added, “This is about a publicity stunt and now a fund-raising scheme.” But on legislative business, it was Mr. Ryan who prevailed. He personally reclaimed control of the House, pounding his gavel and muscling through a major appropriations bill that included funding for combating the Zika virus, without debate.

Democrats ended their sit-in on the House floor shortly after 1 p.m. on Thursday afternoon, after more than 24 hours of stalling proceedings to call for action on gun-control legislation. Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) spoke while surrounded by his Democratic colleagues to close the protest, which lasted through the night after beginning shortly after 11:30 a.m. Wednesday. "We must come back on July 5 more determined than ever before," Lewis declared in anticipation of the House's return date after the Independence Day recess. Democrats planned to hold a rally on the Capitol steps after ending the sit-in, but what their...

THE BIG IDEA: Paul Ryan calls it “a publicly stunt.” That may be true. But it is proving to be a darn effective one. Republicans, unsure about how to deal with a sit-in that started on the House floor yesterday at 11:30 a.m., tried to talk over Democrats and hold routine votes. Then, around 3:30 a.m., they adjourned the chamber until after July Fourth – two days earlier than planned. In so doing, they’ve guaranteed that the debate about gun control will roil the congressional recess and remain a dominant storyline for the next two weeks. Democrats continue to occupy...

God bless Louis Gohmert! He tries to confront the mindless, juvenile Democrats staging a sit-in on the House Floor to push Gun Control. You can’t hear much of what he says, but you can see him pointing and you can hear him saying “Radical Islam killed these people" . . .

Members of the House Republican Conference are furious at Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R.-Wis.) after they were forced to sidelines for more than nine hours while House Democrats staged a college-style sit-in in the House chamber to demand restrictions on gun rights. “Ryan was so weak, he just let them take over,” a Capitol Hill source told Breitbart News.

House Democrats seized the House Floor as Speaker Paul D. Ryan addressed the American Enterprise Institute about his plans to amend President Barack Obama’s healthcare reform in 2017. As the Speaker discussed his plans for the next session of Congress to the private gathering, he ordered the cameras on the House floor turned off. Six dozen of the Democratic legislators gathered in the well of the chamber in front of the rostrum and announced they would not leave until Ryan promised to bring bills restricting gun rights to the House floor.

Obama bundler Jodie Evans, far left, protests in Yemen with al Qaeda tied group al Karama, June 17, 2013. Photo via al Karama. Obama bundler Jodie Evans and Code Pink, the leftist group she co-leads, have been found to be working with a group whose leaders have recently been declared terrorists and al Qaeda supporters by the Treasury Department. This is not the first time the Democratic Party allied group has been caught in bed with terrorists. As this writer has reported over the years, Code Pink works with terrorists, state sponsors of terrorists, the Democratic Party and President Barack...

A Civil Rights pioneer has died. Franklin McCain was one of four teenagers who sat down at an all-white lunch counter in Greensboro on February 1, 1960... The freshmen from North Carolina A&T ignited a sit-in movement in the Jim Crow south that led to other key chapters in the Civil Rights era... Initially McCain and the other men were known as the A&T Four, because what they did was viewed as so controversial. In time, the city adopted them as their own, and today they're more commonly known as the Greensboro Four...

won't make attendance goal (even after spending more than 9 million dollars to open) (snip) The museum's annual budget is about $3 million with the money coming from ticket sales, special programs and corporate contributions. The museum also hosts three fundraising events to help with operating funds. No public money is used for daily operations.

GREENSBORO, N.C. - An estimated 3,000 people from Greensboro and beyond braved frigid temperatures Monday morning to attend the International Civil Rights Center and Museum's grand opening exactly 50 years after the sit-in at the Elm St. Woolworth's, which now houses the museum. Museum cofounders Skip Alston and Rep. Earl Jones were joined by Rev. Jesse Jackson, Gov. Bev Perdue and other North Carolina legislators for a brief ceremony followed by an official ribbon cutting along the street just outside the building on South Elm St. Franklin McCain, Jibreel Khazan (formerly Ezell Blair Jr.) and Joseph McNeil -- the three...

A south Minneapolis woman who had refused to leave her foreclosed home after being evicted last month has been removed from the house again. More than 40 supporters of Rosemary Williams on Friday afternoon lined the yellow tape that police used to cordon off the property, chanting and yelling as workers boarded up the house with metal sheeting and friends helped Williams carry out boxes of personal items. "It's not over yet," Williams told the crowd when she emerged from the house, smiling through tears as she held high a bouquet of flowers. The largely peaceful rally briefly turned physical...

The great strategists of all-time - military commanders, entrepreneurs, inventors, kings, super bowl champion head coaches, campaign-season Obamacrats - whoever they happen to be, have nothing on a group of laid-off-workers-turned-protestors (nearing two hundred) who are refusing to vacate a factory that closed its doors on December 5th. Needless to say, the situation has ripened into yet another "Union versus the Evil Ones" cage match.Ever since All Republic Windows and Doors in Chicago closed up shop five days ago, the band of disgruntled employees have decided to employ a "stay put and wait" strategy, resisting the shut down -...

   China crisis    Published: 15 Jun 2005    By: Channel 4 News   In China, six villagers have been killed and 50 injured in a dispute over land. Channel 4 News's Asia correspondent Ian Williams reports. The attack came at dawn, hundreds of men armed with shotguns and clubs, rampaging through tents erected by the protesting farmers. Although rural unrest has been growing in China, this was one of the deadliest incidents seen in years and one of the first to be captured on video. It left at least six dead and a hundred wounded. The farmers, who...

Radical Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr, wanted by coalition forces in Iraq, ended his sit in at a mosque in Kufa Tuesday and traveled to the holy city of Najaf to prevent more bloodshed.'I have taken it upon myself to prevent more bloodshed except mine,' he said in a statement, expressing his concern that US troops may violate the sacred Al Kufa mosque.Sadr said he took his decision to 'observe a peaceful sit in' at the mosque of Al Kufa to protest against 'the aggressions committed by the infidel occupier against civilans.'An arrest warrant had been issued last year for Sadr...

Angry Over China's Stance on Political Reforms, Hong Kong Students Defy Police With Sit-in on Government Grounds Apr 1, 2004 By Helen Luk/ Associated Press Writer/ HONG KONG (AP) - Security guards broke up a student sit-in on government property early Friday, carrying away activists who were protesting Beijing's plan to dictate policy on political reforms here. The protest began Thursday night when about 20 students barged onto the grounds of the government headquarters. Tempers later flared and 12 people were injured in a scuffle with officers, police spokesman Mackenzie Mak said. Police arrested two men, one for allegedly biting...