Rashid Khalidi, history professor at Columbia, said 2024's anti-war student protesters were also “on the right side of history.”
Some student protesters at Columbia University have had to sue to regain access to their dorms. A lawyer for the students likened Columbia to a bad New York City landlord egregiously violating tenants’ rights. [ more › ]
By: Christian Wade | The Center Square Brown University has caved to the demands of pro-Palestinian protesters by agreeing to vote to divest its financial holdings from Israel in response to the war in Gaza. The private Rhode Island Ivy League school said it reached a deal on Tuesday with students protesting the war in
Columbia Law students want their final exams canceled in the name of Palestine.
Saturday Night Live's Kenan Thompson played a Columbia University father
More than 1,000 campus protesters in the US have been arrested in recent weeks in opposition to Israel’s attacks on the embattled territory
The student editors of the Columbia Law Review demanded that exams be cancelled over their trauma from witnessing and experience police "violence" against anti-Israel protesters. The students made their demand in a letter sent out on Thursday after police liberated the college's Hamilton Hall from pro-Hamas protesters on Tuesday and arrested about a hundred people. "As the Administrative Board of student editors of the Columbia Law Review, we urge the Law School to cancel exams and give...
Republicans are launching a probe into the federal response to 'pro-Hamas' college protests that have 'failed' to prevent threats and violence against Jewish students.
Divestment can mean different things depending on the nature of the institution’s financial ties. But the idea behind it is simple: It means removing all financial ties, such as withdrawing investments, and therefore ending direct complicity in criminal and unjust actions. American institutions of higher learning are economic powerhouses with massive endowments, and ultimately can be described as “big businesses.” Many of them use their funds to directly or indirectly invest in Israel. Harvard...
Esther Sun For months, thousands have flooded the country’s streets in protest. But students say that the surge of encampments in America helped increase actions at Jordanian universities.
With some demonstrating in solidarity with Gaza and others with Israel, students waved flags and chanted slogansStudents demonstrating in solidarity with Gaza waved Palestinian flags and keffiyehs and chanted anti-war slogans during the University of Michigan’s commencement ceremony on Saturday.Videos on social media showed students donning their graduation gowns as they appeared to chant: “Israel bombs, UMich pays!” and “How many kids have you killed today?” One photo showed a plane appearing...
Please, listen to us – not political figures, radical fringes and misguided mediaOn Tuesday night, we watched in horror as hundreds of riot police flooded our beloved campus and brutalized our classmates. The next day, students awoke with swollen faces, bruised wrists and lacerations – all results of inhumane police treatment. The past two weeks have been tumultuous, marked with mass arrests of student demonstrators, an encampment on our lawns, national media attention and vile acts of hatred....