Republican Texas Senator Ted Cruz is remaining supportive of Israel despite nearly 20 anti-Israel protests taking place outside the Houston-area home where he lives with his wife and two children, Fox News Digital has learned.
Protesters have been gathering outside Cruz’s home and shouting slogans since February amid growing protests over the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel. The demonstrations came in response to Cruz’s staunch support for Israel during the war and the Texas senator’s denunciation of the “cultural Marxism” promoted in classes at the nation’s top universities.
“No matter how long this anti-Israel, pro-terror harassment continues, Senator Ted Cruz will continue to fight anti-Semitism and defend Texas values. No matter how long Israel fights to eradicate Hamas, Senator Cruz is proud to stand with Israel,” a spokesperson for Cruz told Fox News Digital.
The latest incident occurred on Friday evening, when anti-Israel protesters gathered outside Cruz’s Texas home for the 23rd time since February 10th.
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Anti-Israel activists have held 23 protests outside the home of Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz since February. (Senator Cruz’s office)
Photos and video showed about a dozen protesters chanting and clapping outside Cruz’s home on Friday, holding signs that read “Ceasefire Now,” “No Rest for Evil Men, Ted,” and “Israel Bombs Playgrounds.” The protesters were seen ringing bells as they chanted and some were wearing masks.
Cruz wrote to X on Friday night about the agitators, saying they’ve been showing up to his house almost every weekend this year “yelling, disturbing the peace and waking up the neighbors.”
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) attends a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in Hartville 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 7am and most Friday nights until 10 or 11pm. They shout, disturb the peace and wake up my neighbors,” he posted. “No matter how much these anti-Semites support Hamas, I will continue to stand with Israel.”
During the college semester, agitators and student demonstrators descended on college campuses across the country to protest the war against Israel, and incidents of anti-Semitism soared, with Jewish students publicly stating that they did not feel safe on some campuses.
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On Columbia University’s campus, for example, extremists occupied the school’s Hamilton Hall, while UCLA, Harvard, Yale and other universities sought to remove student camps filled with protesters demanding that the elite schools divest from Israel altogether.
Student protesters gather at an encampment on the Columbia University campus in New York on April 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Stephen Jeremiah)
The terrorist group Hamas launched its war on Israel on October 7, initially fanning the flames of anti-Semitism on university campuses with protests, threatening graffiti and students saying they felt “the season for anti-Semitism had arrived.” Jews on CampusProtests then escalated, with Jewish students at several universities, including Columbia, being warned to leave campus for their own safety.
A raucous anti-Israel group gathers outside Ted Cruz’s home for an early morning protest: “They’re harassing my family.”
Anti-Israel activists are protesting outside Senator Ted Cruz’s home for the 23rd time since February. (Senator Cruz’s office)
University protests are linked to far-left organisations backed by dark money. Liberal megadonor George SorosFox News Digital previously reported that National Students for Justice for Palestine (NSJP) had a large presence at protests on Cruz’s home campus at Columbia University, as well as on the campuses of University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Tufts University and the University of Texas at Austin.
A pro-Palestinian demonstrator holds a flag on the roof of Hamilton Hall at Columbia University in New York on April 30, 2024. (Yuki Iwamura/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
The national chapter celebrated Hamas’ first attack on Israel in October, describing it as “a historic victory for the Palestinian resistance,” The New York Times reported in October.
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People have been protesting outside Cruz’s home in recent months. Students for Justice in PalestineLaw enforcement told senators that earlier this year, Fox News Digital reported last month.
Anti-Israel protesters hold signs outside the home of Senator Ted Cruz in Texas. (Senator Cruz’s office)
Cruz has previously been a target of liberal protesters trying to demonstrate outside his Houston-area home, including one in 2021 that drew a group of 60 to 70 environmental activists.
As protests continued at his home and on college campuses, Cruz reiterated his support for Israel and denounced the protesters, saying they were people whose “minds have been poisoned to hate America.”
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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) leaves former President Trump’s lawyers’ conference room and walks through the Senate reception room back into the Senate chamber during the fourth day of President Trump’s impeachment trial on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on February 12, 2021. (Javin Botsford/Pool/Getty Images)
“Protests“The anti-Semitic protests that we’re seeing, the anti-Israel protests, are sickening,” Cruz told Fox News host Brian Kilmeade last month on “The Brian Kilmeade Show.” “They’re disgusting. These are extremists whose minds are poisoned. They’ve been taught to hate Israel, they’ve been taught to hate America.”
“And they are shouting slogans in support of Hamas and violent terrorists. An Orthodox rabbi at Columbia University is advising them to stay home because Columbia cannot and will not keep you safe. This is completely unacceptable, and the university administration is siding with the extremists.”
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“We’re seeing this horrific anti-Semitism erupt on college campuses across the country, and Joe Biden and the entire Democratic leadership are absent without warning.”
