On today's show: Kate Hidalgo Bellows, staff reporter covering campus health and safety at The Chronicle, reports on how administrations at colleges here in New York and across the country are struggling to respond to ongoing, and growing protests over the Israel-Hamas War. Jane McAlevey, labor organizer, columnist for The Nation and the author of several books, including (with Abby Lawlor) Rules to Win By: Power and Participation in Union Negotiations (Oxford University Press, 2023), reflects...
It just added fuel to the fire. The decision by Columbia University’s president, Nemat “Minouche” Shafik, to call in the New York Police Department to clear pro-Palestinian protesters from the campus last week appears to have sparked the spate of increasingly strident demonstrations that have erupted at universities in New York City and across the country in recent days, students and faculty members said. Since Thursday, when police arrested 108 Columbia University demonstrators, including Rep....
Shas chairman Aryeh Deri has accused Minister of War Benny Gantz of obstructing any potential agreements regarding the enlistment of Yeshiva Bochrim into the IDF. In an interview with the Shas-affiliated HaDerech newspaper, Deri criticized Gantz for proposing legislation that he claims would undermine the Torah world, asserting that such a law stands no chance […]
Protesters demanding Yale University divest from military manufacturers and expressing "solidarity with Gaza" amid the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas were arrested Monday after officials said they refused to disband an encampment on campus. Demonstrations then spilled out into the streets of New Haven, Connecticut.For the last several days, a pro-Palestinian protest group called "Occupy Beinecke" erected a 24-tent encampment outside of Yale's Beinecke Plaza. In a statement on Instagram,...
Google fired over two dozen employees for holding sit-in protests over the company’s $1.2 billion contract with Israel. Protesters occupied multiple offices in Seattle, New York, and Read More
Protesters rallying against Israel's actions in Gaza have caused
At least a half of dozen protesters were arrested. The Palestine Solidarity Committee in Austin is calling on the university administration to "divest from death."
Los Angeles police officers arrived in riot gear at USC on Wednesday evening, arresting at least 35 people as they moved to clear an encampment at the center of campus formed in protest against the Israel-Hamas war. "Shame on you! Shame on you!" demonstrators chanted as police took away students and off-campus activists. The encampment in Alumni Park — where the university's main-stage commencement is scheduled to take place next month — went up before sunrise and grew by afternoon as students,...
More than 60 people, including a journalist, arrested at University of Southern California and University of Texas at Austin. This blog is now closed.Campus protests: full storyMike Johnson, the Republican House speaker, will visit Columbia University today to speak to Jewish students and hold a press conference “regarding the troubling rise of virulent antisemitism on America’s college campuses”, his office has said.New York House Republicans have called on Columbia’s president, Minouche...
NEW YORK -- Protests at Columbia University over the Israel-Hamas war are expected to continue for a fifth straight day Sunday. More than 100 people have been arrested since protests started Wednesday on the campus in Upper Manhattan.The pro-Palestinian demonstrators are calling for a cease-fire in Gaza and have also been critical of Columbia's response to the conflict. Protesters have called on the university to divest from Israel. On Saturday, a large group of protesters gathered outside the...
New York police have disbanded a pro-Palestinian protest encampment at Columbia University and arrested more than 100 protesters, including the daughter of a prominent Minnesota congresswoman
Legislation is seen as similar to an anti-democratic Russian law and Brussels has said it would undermine hopes of EU membershipGeorgian lawmakers have agreed an early draft of a controversial “foreign influence” bill, sparking fresh street protests against the legislation criticised for mirroring a repressive Russian law.The bill has sparked outrage in Georgia and concern in the west, with many arguing it undermines Georgia’s bid for EU membership. Continue reading