Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) called for the U.S. government to revoke the visas given to international students who are Hamas sympathizers and deport them as college protests continue nationwide. “You cannot go around yelling ‘I am Hamas’ or ‘We are Hamas’ or ‘River to the sea’ and pushing out Jewish students and have the University not
Virginia Senator Mark Warner is weighing in as students at Virginia Tech become the first at a major university in the Commonwealth to set up an encampment to protest Israel's military action in Gaza.
UC Riverside students have joined campuses across the country by staging a
In a video that went viral on social media, a college student protesting Israel at NYU confessed she didn't know why they were protesting at the university.
University of Iowa students filtered through the hallways on the second floor of the Iowa Memorial Union Wednesday for a sit-in following the university’s decision to dissolve the Rape Victim Advocacy Program and transition it to the Domestic Violence Intervention Program. The several dozen students who participated in the sit-in called for the program to
The Education Department said Wednesday it'll automatically erase loans for 317,000 people who attended any Art Institute campus between Jan. 1, 2004, and Oct. 16, 2017.
The Indiana Daily Student has been covering the Israel-Gaza war and campus protests since October, in the face of harsh pushback, a recalcitrant administration, and severe budget cuts. IUSampleGates.JPG by McAnt is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0. Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF) Deputy Director of Advocacy Caitlin Vogus speaks to IDS co-editor-in-chief Salomé Cloteaux and the Student Press Law Center’s Mike Hiestand about the challenges facing student...
In January of 2009, I was entering my last semester at Marshall University, in West Virginia. I was a liberal arts major, focusing on religious studies and sociology. I had taken two years of Arabic and worked with Muslim students on campus, helping them with navigating classes and providing friendship. I honestly hadn’t thought much about Israel outside of religious terms and considered myself politically neutral. That all changed abruptly during what would be known as Operation Cast Lead, or...
Arrest them. Remove them. Expel them. What we see happening on college campuses across the country is not about free speech.
Away from the back-and-forth of the campaign trail, thousands of students are taking part in pro-Palestinian encampment-style protests at more than 50 university campuses across the USSign up for The Stakes: a free newsletter on the 2024 US presidential electionHello, and welcome to the Guardian’s brand new US election newsletter.I moved to the US from the UK as a keen but inexperienced reporter in 2011, and was immediately plunged into covering the 2012 presidential election, despite having...
If history proves anything, it shows that if civil rights, human rights, equality and even the right to live are to be denied to a class of people, they must first be stripped of their inherent value as human beings.
Dozens of college campuses across the US have been taken over by students