The Jericho Wall men’s group aims to combat a proposed state constitutional amendment that would nullify all pro-life laws, making abortion available at all stages in South Dakota.
Communities across Australia face the possibility of heightened social unrest as supporters of Palestine call for an escalation in protest action. Activist group Disrupt Wars is urging demonstrators to “shut down your city for Palestine” on Wednesday to mark the 76th anniversary of The Catastrophe. Known in Arabic as The Nakba, the ethnic cleansing episode […]
A group of pro-Palestinian protesters who disrupted a University of Windsor senate meeting last week has set up an encampment on campus, requesting supplies as they dig in until administrators answer their demands. The demonstrations began Thursday with protesters calling for university administration to financially divest from organizations that benefit or support Israel. “We’re not […]
Several hundred demonstrators took over the main University of Amsterdam building on the Roeterseiland campus on Monday afternoon, as the pro-Palestine protests continued. The university authorities have alerted the police and called on everyone who is not part of the protest group to leave the building. They have also closed the Maagdenhuis administration offices in the city centre as a precaution. According to broadcaster NOS, mayor Femke Halsema is currently discussing the situation with...
French police detained 86 people following an operation to remove students staging a pro-Palestinian occupation at the Sorbonne university in Paris, prosecutors said Wednesday.
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Pro-Palestinian protesters set up a new encampment at Drexel University in Philadelphia over the weekend, prompting a lockdown of school buildings, a day after authorities thwarted an attempted occupation of a school building at the neighboring University of Pennsylvania campus. After several hundred demonstrators marched from Philadelphia’s City Hall to west Philadelphia […]
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Pro-Palestinian protesters set up a new encampment at Drexel University in Philadelphia over the weekend, prompting a lockdown of school buildings, a day after authorities thwarted an […]
Police in Utrecht used batons against pro-Palestinian demonstrators who blocked a city bus containing other protesters. The bus contained around 40 pro-Palestinian activists who occupied a building at Utrecht University (UU) earlier on Wednesday. They were removed from the building by the police on Wednesday evening.Just after midnight, peace had returned near the university building, according to an ANP reporter.
A group of around 60 assembled in front of the MD Anderson main library on the University of Houston campus and put up an impromptu encampment in Butler Plaza at around 4 a.m. on Wednesday.
Graduate students at the University of California, Santa Cruz walked off their jobs and went on strike Monday
A recent survey by Ipsos I&O Research suggests the Dutch public is largely critical of the ongoing university campus protests against Israel's actions in Gaza. The survey, conducted between May 9 and 13, found only a fifth (21%) of respondents support the protests, while two-thirds (65%) agree or strongly agree with the statement, "It is good that the police intervened in the student protests against the war in Gaza."
A pro-Palestinian encampment at Queen's University in Kingston was set up on May 10. Since then, the university has called out what it says were aggressive acts.