To the editor: The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is that good people do nothing. Students peacefully protesting have been arrested by the busload and risk academic and professional consequences. ("To find masked mob members who attacked UCLA camp, police are using Jan. 6 tactics," May 7) Conversely, masked "agitators" were given a hall pass to violently attack people for hours with zero arrests. Students peacefully protesting are reacting to the heartbreaking images of this horrific...
Iman Jodeh While we may not agree on everything, we must remain focused on our central goals: saving lives in Gaza, ending weapons funding for Israel, and advancing freedom for Palestinians.
Helen Benedict The real threat to American Jews comes not from students but from the MAGA Republicans who are shouting about antisemitism the loudest.
Protesters angry at the lack of progress in the case of the 43 missing students threw firecrackers.
On Sept. 23, 1957, President Dwight Eisenhower signed an executive order to enforce a federal court order that the schools of Little Rock, Arkansas, be integrated immediately.
Dutch universities have agreed not to negotiate with students who cover their faces and will ban students from sleeping on the premises, pending the finalisation of a new protocol to deal with pro-Palestine protests. Protests have been ongoing at several universities for more than a week and riot police were drafted in to break up demonstrations in Amsterdam and Utrecht. The University of Amsterdam’s rector Peter-Paul Verbeek had earlier complained that negotiations with students had been made...
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.
The police were active in both Amsterdam and Utrecht on Tuesday evening as several hundred demonstrators took to the streets to show their support for Palestine and to call for an end to the hostilities. In Utrecht, the police broke up a gathering of around 150 students next to the university’s main library who had set up tents and erected barricades in the late afternoon. Some of them refused to leave and around 50 people were arrested shortly after midnight.
Pro-Palestinian students were attempting to take over a university hall to protest school’s refusal to negotiate in ‘good faith’More than a dozen pro-Palestinian activists, including six students at the University of Pennsylvania, were arrested after attempting to occupy a hall on the university campus late Friday.The protesters were arrested around 9pm after trying to take over Fisher-Bennett Hall but had been met with a response from university and Philadelphia police, according to reports....
The college has not dropped the fine against the SU however.
As the Israel-Hamas conflict continues, students are calling for their universities to cut financial and institutional ties with Israel.
We asked Jewish students at US universities what they think about pro-Palestinian demonstrations. Our panel respondsI was in California for Passover when the encampment first came up. I was excited because I want to see an end to what Human Rights Watch calls a system of apartheid, which refers to the fact that there are over 65 laws discriminating against Palestinian citizens of Israel, roads in the West Bank are segregated, Israelis have civil law while Palestinians have military law, water...