On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” Professor of Marketing at NYU Stern School of Business Scott Galloway stated that there’s a “striking” “double standard” in the treatment of campus demonstrations over the past week and stated that if he
In a video that went viral on social media, a college student protesting Israel at NYU confessed she didn't know why they were protesting at the university.
An Orthodox Jewish professor wrote a scathing letter to the administration of Rutgers University for letting the campus turn into a hotbed of bigotry, the New York Post reported over the weekend. Rebecca Cypess, a music professor, is leaving Rutgers to become the dean of the undergraduate college at Yeshiva University after the “toxic culture” […]
In January of 2009, I was entering my last semester at Marshall University, in West Virginia. I was a liberal arts major, focusing on religious studies and sociology. I had taken two years of Arabic and worked with Muslim students on campus, helping them with navigating classes and providing friendship. I honestly hadn’t thought much about Israel outside of religious terms and considered myself politically neutral. That all changed abruptly during what would be known as Operation Cast Lead, or...
DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) -- As encampments cover university lawns across the country, many protest sites are erupting as campus officials call in police. This Saturday is the 54th anniversary of Kent State University's mass shooting where Ohio National Guard members killed four unarmed college students and wounded nine others protesting the Vietnam War. 2 NEWS []
PM backs action in case of disorder on campuses after claims that pro-Palestinian protests create hostile atmosphereThe prime minister has backed a police crackdown on any outbreak of disorder on university campuses after Jewish students said pro-Palestinian encampments were creating a “hostile and toxic atmosphere”.In recent days, new encampments have been set up at the universities of Manchester, Sheffield, Bristol and Newcastle, among others, after violent scenes on US campuses resulted in...
There's been jarring imagery coming out of college campuses embroiled in pro-Palestine protests -- including Jewish students being blocked off, which Brett Gelman finds disgusting. We got the 'Stranger Things' star at LAX Tuesday, where he weighed…
Education Secretary Miguel Cardona on Tuesday said his department has opened an investigation into Columbia University for potential violations of civil rights laws amid pro-Palestinian protests and danger to Jewish students.
Around 15 students at NYU London held a sit-in at the study away site’s academic center Wednesday to call for the university to divest from Israel and express solidarity with students and faculty taking part in the Gaza Solidarity Encampment outside the Paulson Center. Students put up posters reading “FREE PALESTINE” and “NYU FUNDS GENOCIDE” This story Students organize sit-in at NYU London in solidarity with protesters arrested across the US appeared first on Washington Square News.
Columbia University humanities professor Bruce Robbins said student protesters at the school have not called for the "destruction of civilian lives"—just two days after a video surfaced showing a student protest leader calling for the death of "Zionists."
"It's a reflection of how much the war is upsetting students and the idea that the United States should be more cautious with what it does with its military aid," says NYU history professor Robert Cohen.
Mumia Abu-Jamal tells New York City students they’re on the right side of history by deciding ‘not to be silent and to speak out’In a powerful and rousing live address to students at the City University of New York (CUNY) on Friday night, the incarcerated Black political activist Mumia Abu-Jamal praised the pro-Palestinian movement growing at US colleges as being on the right side of history.“It is a wonderful thing that you have decided not to be silent and decided to speak out against the...