Protesters on campuses nationwide have called on universities to divest from Israel due to the war in Gaza. Here's how divestment would actually work.
Students and community members rally for Michigan State University to divest from Israel.
Hamilton, Halton, Niagara and area news from CHCH - Hamilton, Halton, and Niagara news.. An organization that represents Jewish communities on university campuses in the province says the encampment protests are intimidating for Jewish students. But an encampment in solidarity with Palestinian human rights at McMaster University says everything is peaceful. The protesters are calling on the university to divest from any Israeli organizations with ties to the war […]
Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA) dismissed the idea that the countless campus protests happening across the United States are influencing President Joe Biden’s handling of the war in Gaza, calling such a notion “ridiculous.” Biden signaled on Wednesday the United States would not provide Israel with bombs and artillery shells if Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu […]
An on-campus sit-in at the university on Friday called for the end of any ties with Israel amid ongoing violence in the Gaza Strip.
Former President Donald Trump urged President Joe Biden and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) to return donations from the “antisemites” and “financiers of chaos” supporting and funding anti-Israel protests on college campuses. Trump made the demand during a rally in Wildwood, New Jersey, on Saturday. According to research by NGO Monitor and other organizations, prominent […]
There was pushing and shoving as students clashed with police outside a parking garage on the MIT campus.
Pro-Palestinian protesters have tried to force the hands of universities by occupying campuses with tent cities. California Congressman Kevin Kiley wants to put an end to that.
The ongoing pro-Palestinian protests at American universities are more than just youthful expressions of speech freedom. Rather they exemplify the informed views of students repulsed by the genocide in Gaza, which they see every day on television and in the social media. They are motivated by a desire to end the continuing complicity of their More
One feature of the recent rash of campus demonstrations that has received only sporadic attention but needs more attention: A large and maybe preponderant proportion of those demonstrating are women.
Helicopters have been throbbing overhead for days now. Nights, too. Police are swarming the streets of Broadway, many in riot gear. Police vans, some as big as a city bus, are lined up along side streets and Broadway. Outside the gates of the Columbia University campus, a penned-in group of pro-Israel demonstrators has faced off More
Photojournalist Joseph Rushmore was violently arrested while covering a pro-Palestinian protest at the University of Texas at Austin. His case is one of many press freedom violations documented by the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker related to campus protests in recent days. Courtesy of Eli Hartman/The Texas Tribune. Press freedom violations have soared in recent weeks, as a nationwide protest movement over the Israel-Gaza war has spread across...