Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz remains steadfast in his support for Israel despite nearly two dozen anti-Israel protests staged outside the Houston-area home he shares with his wife and two children, Fox News Digital has learned. .
Protesters have gathered to shout slogans in front of Cruz's home since February as protests grew over Hamas's attack on Israel on October 7. The demonstrations came in response to Cruz's strong support for Israel during the war and when the Texas senator criticized the “cultural Marxism” promoted in the classrooms of the country's elite universities.
“No matter how long this anti-Israel and pro-terrorist bullying continues. Senator Ted Cruz will continue to fight anti-Semitism and defend Texas values. He is proud to stand with Israel as the country fights to completely eradicate Hamas for as long as possible. as long as necessary,” a Cruz spokesperson told Fox News Digital.
The latest incident occurred on Friday night, when anti-Israel protesters gathered outside Cruz's Texas home for the 23rd time since February 10.
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Anti-Israel agitators have held 23 protests outside the home of Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz since February. (Senator Cruz's Office)
Photos and videos show about a dozen protesters outside Cruz's home on Friday chanting and clapping while holding signs such as “Cease Fire Now,” “No Rest for the Wicked, Ted” and “Israel Bombs the Playgrounds.” “. Protesters were also seen ringing bells while chanting and wearing masks.
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Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, attends a Senate Judiciary Committee markup session in the Hart Building on May 11, 2023. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
“For the past six months, anti-Israel protesters have come to my house almost every Saturday morning at 7 am and most Friday nights until 10 or 11 pm. They shout, disturb the peace and wake up people. the neighbors,” he published. “No matter how much these anti-Semites hail Hamas, I will support Israel.”
During the university school year, agitators and student protesters flooded college campuses across the country to protest the war in Israel, which also included cases of anti-Semitism and Jewish students publicly expressing that they do not feel safe on some campuses.
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Radicals on Columbia University's campus, for example, took over the school's Hamilton Hall building, as schools like UCLA, Harvard and Yale worked to clear growing student encampments where protesters were demanding their elite schools disengage. completely from Israel.
Student protesters gather inside their encampment on the Columbia University campus on April 29, 2024 in New York. (AP Photo/Stefan Jeremías)
The terrorist organization Hamas launched a war on Israel on October 7, which initially fanned the flames of anti-Semitism on campuses in the form of protests, threatening graffiti, and students reporting that they felt like it was “open season for Jews on our campuses.” The protests escalated to the point that Jewish students at some schools, including Columbia, were warned to leave campus for their own safety.
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Anti-Israel agitators protest outside Senator Ted Cruz's home for the 23rd time since February. (Senator Cruz's Office)
The university protests were linked to far-left organizations backed by dark money and liberal megadonor George Soros, Fox News Digital previously reported. The National Students for Justice in Palestine (NSJP) had a large presence amid protests on the Columbia University campus and on the campuses of UCLA, Tufts, and the University of Texas at Austin in Cruz's home state.
A pro-Palestinian protester holds a flag on the rooftop of Hamilton Hall at Columbia University in New York on April 30, 2024. (Yuki Iwamura/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
The national chapter celebrated Hamas' initial attack on Israel in October, calling it a “historic victory for the Palestinian resistance,” The New York Times reported in October.
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The protesters in front of Cruz's house in recent months are linked to Students for justice in Palestinelaw enforcement told the senator earlier this year, Fox News Digital reported last month.
An anti-Israel protester holds a sign in front of Senator Ted Cruz's home in Texas. (Senator Cruz's Office)
Cruz has previously been the target of liberal protesters working to organize demonstrations outside his Houston-area home, including in 2021, when between 60 and 70 climate activists gathered.
Amid protests at his home and on college campuses, Cruz reiterated his support for Israel, criticizing the agitators as people “whose minds have been poisoned” to “hate America.”
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Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, leaves a briefing room for former President Trump's lawyers and returns to the Senate floor through the Senate reception room on the fourth day of Trump's Senate impeachment trial in the Capitol on February 12. 2021, in Washington, DC (Jabin Botsford/Pool/Getty Images)
“The protests, the anti-Semitic protests, the anti-Israel protests that we're seeing have been disgusting,” Cruz told Fox News host Brian Killmeade on the “Brian Kilmeade Show” last month. “They've been repulsive. These are radicals whose minds have been poisoned. They have been taught to hate Israel and they have been taught to hate America.
“And they are chanting in support of Hamas and in support of ruthless terrorists. If you look at a university, the Orthodox rabbi at Columbia is advising them to stay home because they said Columbia cannot and will not protect their safety. That is completely unacceptable. And university administrators side with the radicals.
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“Joe Biden and the entire leadership of the Democratic Party have gone AWOL as we watch this horrible anti-Semitism erupt on college campuses across the country.”
