Pro-Palestine protesters are ignoring demands to remove university encampments, with 150 classes cancelled at one campus and claims another institution threatened students with expulsion. Camps have been set up at five universities in Victoria, one in every other state and the ACT. The University of Melbourne has insisted protesters leave its Parkville campus after more […]
Authorities were seen putting protesters in zip-ties and escorting them
Protesters entered the Physical Sciences Lecture Hall on the UC Irvine campus on Wednesday.
Police using pepper spray cleared a pro-Palestinian tent encampment at George Washington University and arrested dozens of demonstrators on Wednesday just as city officials were set to appear before hostile lawmakers in Congress to account for their handling of the 2-week-old protest. The House Committee on Oversight and Accountability canceled
WASHINGTON (AP) — Police used pepper spray to clear a pro-Palestinian tent encampment at George Washington University and arrested dozens of demonstrators on Wednesday just as city officials were set to appear before hostile lawmakers in Congress to account for their handling of the 2-week-old protest. The House Committee on Oversight and Accountability canceled the []
WASHINGTON (AP) — Police used pepper spray to clear a pro-Palestinian tent encampment at George Washington University and arrested dozens of demonstrators on Wednesday just as city officials were set to appear before hostile lawmakers in Congress to account for their handling of the 2-week-old protest. The House Committee on Oversight and Accountability canceled the []
Republicans are welcoming a police crackdown that cleared a pro-Palestinian tent encampment at George Washington University and led to the arrests of 33 protesters. But one of the students arrested in Washington, Moataz Salim, says authorities merely “destroyed a beautiful community space that was all about love." Police broke up the gathering Wednesday. House Speaker Mike Johnson said it should not have required “threatening to haul D.C.’s mayor before Congress" for police to end the protest....
Colin Bailey, president and principal of Queen Mary University of London , was confronted by students from QMUL Students for Palestine who have pitched tents at the institution in east London.
Pro-Palestine students occupying a Melbourne university building have been ordered to remove their belongings and move on, as protesters at other campuses defy orders to disband their encampments. Monday marks the sixth day students have occupied the Arts West building at the University of Melbourne in Parkville. More than 15,000 students across 474 classes have […]
Mike Lee told students that Sonoma State would become first US university to refuse to work with Israeli academic institutionsA public university in California has placed its president on leave for “insubordination” after he agreed to student demands for an academic boycott of Israel.Mike Lee was suspended from Sonoma State University following an announcement on Tuesday that the liberal arts college north of San Francisco had agreed with Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) to become the...
From the column: "This is the environment these protests have created. (The encampments) are anti-semitic at their core, and they need to be dismantled immediately."
The Universities UK president says lines must be drawn between acceptable and unacceptable behaviour.