Students set up encampments to demand Columbia divest from Israel while those at USC gathered in support of Asna TabassumTensions on Columbia University’s campus continued to rise on Thursday as the New York police department began breaking up student protests over Israel’s war on Gaza, at the direction of the school’s president, and arrests were made.Hundreds of students pitched tents and began camping out in the center of the famous central campus from early morning on Wednesday in protest,...
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Authorities arrested more than 30 protestors calling for a ceasefire in Gaza on Indiana University's campus in Bloomington Thursday afternoon. The Indiana State Police and Indiana University Police were called to Dunn Meadow Park around 11 a.m. as a contingent of protestors gathered on campus to call attention to the growing humanitarian []
Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein was reportedly among those detained by police.
INDIANAPOLIS – More than a dozen people were arrested after protesters calling for a ceasefire in Gaza blocked streets near the governor’s residence Thursday morning. The rally began around 7:30 a.m. near Tarkington Park. Jewish Voice for Peace--Indiana, Middle Eastern Student Association of IUPUI, Students for Justice in Palestine--Butler, Palestinian Youth Movement, and ANSWER Indiana []
Protesters into seventh day of hunger strike in support of Palestinians and in effort to demand university divestmentA group of students at Yale University were on Friday into the seventh day of a hunger strike in support of Palestinians in Gaza and in a protest to pressure the university to divest from any weapons manufacturing companies potentially supplying the Israeli military.The group titles itself Yale Hunger Strikers for Palestine and one protester, the graduate student Miguel Monteiro,...
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More than 100 pro-Palestinian demonstrators who had camped out on Columbia’s green were arrested last week, and similar encampments have sprouted up at universities across the U.S.
Google employees, who staged a sit-in at the California office of Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian for over eight hours to demand the company’s cessation of business ties with Israel, were arrested late on Tuesday. The employees live-streamed their protest on Twitch under the tag “notech4apartheid.” The footage depicted them being given the option to […]
By CEDAR ATTANASIO, JAKE OFFENHARTZ and JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Columbia University vowed to expel protesters who occupied a building on the New York college’s grounds Tuesday as universities nationwide grapple with intensifying campus demonstrations against the Israel-Hamas war. More than 1,000 protesters have been arrested on campuses in states including
Protests are roiling college campuses nationwide as administrators with graduation ceremonies next month face demands that schools cut financial ties to Israel against the backdrop of the Israel-Hamas war. Many campuses were largely quiet by early afternoon Sunday but about 275 people were arrested on Saturday at campuses including Indiana
Rep. Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y., has claimed that the Thursday arrest of fellow "Squad" member Rep. Ilhan Omar’s daughter at anti-Israel protests at Columbia University was political payback for the congresswoman’s probing of the institution’s leadership the day before. Bowman said Omar, D-Minn., had questioned Columbia leadership’s commitment to "free academic expression" during a fiery congressional hearing on Wednesday and the following day her daughter, Isra Hirsi, was arrested. "The day after...
Isra Hirsi, the 21-year-old daughter of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), is not happy that her actions have consequences.Last week, Hirsi was one of more than 100 students arrested for setting up and participating in the "Gaza Solidarity Encampment" on Columbia University's campus. The anti-Israel protest remains ongoing, forcing Columbia to cancel in-person classes on Monday. The protest, moreover, is reportedly threatening the safety of Jewish students. On Sunday, Rabbi Elie Buechler, a prominent...