Cruz defies anti-Israel agitators who descend on his home 'just about' every weekend: 'Wake the neighbors'

Republican Texas Sen. Ted Cruz remains unbowed in his support for Israel despite nearly two dozen anti-Israel protests staged outside the Houston-area home he shares with his wife and their two children, Fox News Digital has learned.

Protesters have gathered to shout slogans outside Cruz's home since February as outcry surrounding Hamas' Oct. 7 attack on Israel mounted. The demonstrations came in response to Cruz's staunch support of Israel during the war and as the Texas senator railed against "cultural Marxism" promoted in the classrooms of the nation's elite universities. 

"It doesn’t matter how long this anti-Israel, pro-terrorist harassment continues. Sen. Ted Cruz will continue to fight antisemitism and stand for Texas values. He’s proud to stand with Israel as the country fights to utterly eradicate Hamas for as long as it takes," a Cruz spokesperson told Fox News Digital. 

The latest incident came Friday evening, when anti-Israel protesters gathered outside Cruz’s Texas home for the 23rd time since Feb. 10. 

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Photos and video show about a dozen protesters outside Cruz’s home Friday chanting and clapping while holding signs such as "Cease Fire Now," "No rest for the wicked, Ted" and "Israel bombs playgrounds." The protesters were also seen ringing bells as they chanted and wore masks.  

Cruz posted to X about the agitators Friday evening, saying they have shown up to his home most weekends this year and "scream, disturb the peace & wake the neighbors."

"For the past 6 months, anti-Israel protestors have come to my home just about every Sat morning at 7 am and most Fri nights until 10 or 11 pm. They scream, disturb the peace & wake the neighbors," he posted. "No matter how much these antisemites cheer Hamas, I will stand with Israel."

During the college school year, agitators and student protesters flooded college campuses nationwide to protest the war in Israel, which also included spiking instances of antisemitism and Jewish students publicly speaking out that they don’t 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, while schools such as UCLA, Harvard and Yale worked to clear spiraling student encampments where protesters demanded their elite schools completely divest from Israel. 

Terrorist organization Hamas launched a war in Israel Oct. 7, which initially fanned the flames of antisemitism on campuses in the form of protests, menacing graffiti and students reporting that they felt as if it was "open season for Jews on our campuses." The protests then heightened to the point Jewish students at some schools, including Columbia, were warned to leave campus for their own safety. 

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The college protests were tied to far-left organizations backed by dark money and liberal mega-donor George Soros, Fox News Digital previously reported. The National Students for Justice in Palestine (NSJP) had a large presence amid the protests on Columbia University’s campus and on the campuses of UCLA, Tufts and the University of Texas at Austin in Cruz’s home state. 

The national chapter celebrated Hamas' initial attack on Israel in October, describing it as a "historic win for the Palestinian resistance," The New York Times reported in October. 

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The protesters outside Cruz’s home in recent months are tied to Students for Justice in Palestine, law enforcement told the senator earlier this year, Fox News Digital reported last month. 

Cruz has previously been the target of liberal protesters working to stage demonstrations outside his house in the Houston area, including in 2021, when 60 to 70 climate activists gathered. 

Amid the protests at his home and on college campuses, Cruz has reiterated his support for Israel, slamming the agitators as people "whose minds have been poisoned" to "hate America." 

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"The protests, the antisemitic protests, the anti-Israel protests we're seeing have been disgusting," Cruz told Fox News host Brian Killmeade on the "Brian Kilmeade Show" last month. "They have been repulsive. These are radicals whose minds have been poisoned. They have been taught to hate Israel, and they've been taught to hate America. 

"And they are chanting in support of Hamas and in support of vicious terrorists. You look at a university, the Orthodox rabbi at Columbia advising them to stay home because they said Columbia cannot and will not protect your safety. That is utterly unacceptable. And the university administrators side with the radicals.

"Joe Biden and the entire Democrat Party leadership has been AWOL as we are seeing this horrific antisemitism erupting on college campuses across the country."

Benjamin Hall warns antisemitism is morphing into 'anti-Americanism': 'Real concern'

The Israel-Hamas war spurred a shocking rise of antisemitism throughout the world, but, as explored by Fox News' Benjamin Hall in his latest Fox Nation special, the impact it is having on the United States is especially chilling.

During an appearance on "Fox & Friends," Thursday, Hall previewed his new special entitled "Antisemitism in America," warning that the dangerous trend is headed in a bad direction.

"We've all been watching the protests that have been happening around the U.S. Just Cal State in the last couple of days, we've seen the protests there. But what we started to see is that these are not just protests, sort of in support or against the death toll inside Gaza," Hall, who was severely wounded in 2022 while covering the Russia-Ukraine war, argued.

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"These are really shifting towards antisemitism. They are really shifting into a sense of anti-Jews."

The protest cited by Hall in the segment occurred at California State University in Los Angeles on Wednesday night. A large group of anti-Israel protesters took over and barricaded a campus building, trapping school employees inside, including the university president.

To date, there have been thousands of Israel-Hamas related protests around the world, most of which have been dubbed anti-Israel.

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"I think almost what was more terrifying and hurtful than the attacks themselves was coming home to the U.S. and seeing the world's reaction to what happened on Oct. 7," said Natalie Sanandaji in the Fox Nation special. Sanandaji, from Great Neck, New York, was a survivor of the Supernova music festival near kibbutz Re'im in southern Israel.

In his special, Hall investigates the unique role social media has played in the unprecedented antisemitic wave, referencing former Harvard President Claudine Gay's shocking congressional testimony during which she did not give a clear answer when asked if calling for the genocide of Jews was against Harvard policy.

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Following intense backlash, she subsequently issued a statement clarifying that the university has a staunch position against calls for violence against the Jewish community. 

Hall further explored the alarming correlation between the rise of antisemitism and anti-Americanism. 

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"Alongside those burning Israeli flags, we so often see burning American flags as well. So, a real concern about the direction that it's going," he warned.

In the exclusive special, the Fox News correspondent speaks with Holocaust survivor Tova Friedman, talk-show host Dennis Prager, reverend Franklin Graham, former White House Press Secretary Ari Fleisher and more to gain a better perspective on the growing issue.

"Antisemitism in America" is available now for Fox Nation subscribers.

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Fox News' Brian Flood contributed to this report. 

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