Columbia University President Minouche Shafik says university leaders across the country need to do some “serious soul searching.”
ATLANTA — President Joe Biden said Sunday he heard the voice of Gaza war protesters as some students turned their backs on his graduation ceremony speech at the former university of civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr.A small number of graduates carried out the silent protest, with some holding Palestinian flags and one holding up a fist as Biden spoke at Morehouse College, a historically Black university in Atlanta, Georgia.Others wore keffiyeh scarves over their gowns in a sign of...
Shafik had a chance to strike a blow for free speech at English universities in the country’s House of Lords — and failed.
The group argues the school has become ‘ground zero’ for antisemitism and ‘hatred’ of diverse viewpoints
Yesterday I visited the camp, which is spread out on a large expanse of grass at Oxford University. It has become boggy, and is littered with folded black bin bags, which may have contained excrement.
Sir Keir Starmer is “not prepared to face up to the dangers” facing the UK, Lord Howard has claimed as he backed Rishi Sunak’s attack on the Labour leader. ]]>
Protesters against the Israel-Gaza war took to the stage to disrupt the University of Sheffield’s education awards today (May 8). The group demanded that the university directs research projects away from arms-related work, and “cuts ties with the arms trade” as well as universities in Israel. Parts of their speech after they had taken to the stage were met with cheers. A number of university staff members at the event joined the protesters on the stage, while vice-chancellor Professor Koen...
Residents in the seaside town of Brixham have today been urged to boil their tap water due to a suspected outbreak of cryptosporidium, which can be caught by drinking contaminated water.
Dozens of protesters locked arms and lay on the ground outside the venue draped in Palestine flags - and struggled with Swedish riot police who tried to remove them.
"The bitterness and vitriol we now see from those defending the Palestinians they have boomeranged," writes Chuck Ludlam '67, who previously led campus protests against the Vietnam War.
Helicopters have been throbbing overhead for days now. Nights, too. Police are swarming the streets of Broadway, many in riot gear. Police vans, some as big as a city bus, are lined up along side streets and Broadway. Outside the gates of the Columbia University campus, a penned-in group of pro-Israel demonstrators has faced off More
President Joe Biden was met with silent protests as he delivered the