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Columbia University, New York: The sight was jarring—elite college students at one of America’s most prestigious institutions pitching tents and chanting “Globalize the Intifada”. These so-called “Hamas Hipsters,” privileged students at $80,000-per-year universities, have become the face of the post-October 7 anti-Israel campus protests that have swept across the country.
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TENAFLY, NJ — In an emotional and historic homecoming, Edan Alexander, a Tenafly native and Israeli-American soldier, has returned to New Jersey after enduring 584 days of captivity by Hamas. The streets of Tenafly were lined with members of the Jewish and Israeli community, waving flags and holding signs to welcome Alexander home after nearly 20 months of unimaginable hardship.
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Tenafly NJ, the armed wing of Hamas announced Saturday that the fate of Edan Alexander , a 21-year-old Israeli-American soldier from Tenafly, remains unknown following an Israeli airstrike that killed one of his captors. Alexander is believed to be the last known U.S. citizen held alive in Gaza.