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 […]
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...
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.
(JNS) — Martha E. Pollack, the president of Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., has announced her plans to retire on June 30. Join our WhatsApp group Subscribe to our Daily Roundup Email “It is only after extensive reflection that I have determined that this is the right decision,” she wrote in a letter published on
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 […]
BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution. Stephen Hawking on the Big Bang. Millions of students for civil rights and against the Vietnam War. They were provocative in their times, products of an ideal that holds universities as sacrosanct spaces for debate, innovation — and even revolution. But Hamas’ deadly Oct. 7 attack […]
To the editor: Like Hala Alyan, who wonders if recent protests signify a turning point in support for the Palestinians, I mourn the loss of innocent lives in Gaza. I have some questions for her: Could the war and death of innocent Palestinians have been avoided completely if Hamas had not entered Israel and murdered and captured so many Israelis on Oct. 7? What would Palestinian life be like in the Gaza Strip if Hamas, instead of building an extensive tunnel and weapons system, had spent that...
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Cornell University President Martha E. Pollack will retire this June after serving for more than seven years as the university's 14th president.Pollack took off
After weeks of defending pro-hams campus protests, the media are now panicking that those same protests might hurt biden’s re-election chances. In the past week, a slew of political commentators have written articles comparing the current situation on college campuses to the anti-war protests of 1968, and warning that a summer of radical leftism may clinch the 2024 election for Donald Trump. CNN’s Jake Tapper put it best during the April 29 edition of The Lead: When you look at these...
After weeks of defending pro-hams campus protests, the media are now panicking that those same protests might hurt biden’s re-election chances. In the past week, a slew of political commentators have written articles comparing the current situation on college campuses to the anti-war protests of 1968, and warning that a summer of radical leftism may clinch the 2024 election for Donald Trump. CNN’s Jake Tapper put it best during the April 29 edition of The Lead: When you look at these...
President Martha Pollack has announced her resignation after seven years. She said her decision had nothing to do with mishandling campus anti-Semitism. READ MORE: Major Cornell donor calls for president to be fired