On 17 April, pro-Palestinian Columbia students began an encampment on campus to demand the university divest from Israel. More than 100 people were arrested. Since then, a wave of student activism has swept the nation in solidarity with Gaza. The Independent’s Richard Hall spoke with Columbia University students about the gravity of this movement and why it matters to them. “The people of Palestine are who we are doing this for,” one student said. “They’re the people who sparked this...
Protests are roiling college campuses nationwide as administrators with graduation ceremonies next month face demands that schools cut financial ties to Israel against the backdrop of the Israel-Hamas war. Many campuses were largely quiet by early afternoon Sunday but about 275 people were arrested on Saturday at campuses including Indiana
Lawmakers are urging President Joe Biden to send the National Guard to Columbia University as it deals with intense and sometimes violent anti-Israel protests. A dueling coalition of Democratic and Republican lawmakers visited the university to condemn the anti-Semitic, pro-Palestinian protests and called for the immediate resignation of the institution's president.The demonstrations have been ongoing since last Wednesday and have seen outbreaks of violence and arrests, including the detention...
The right to peacefully protest is enshrined in the U.S. Constitution -- but when does someone’s right to protest break the law?
Not a day goes by that Chevylyn Saniatan does not think about her daughter Sara Yara. Yara was hit by a driver over a year ago on a crosswalk on her way to school.
Doctor Who’s Ncuti Gatwa and W1A’s Hugh Skinner will star in a National Theatre revival of Oscar Wilde’s play about courtships, betrothals, and confused identities. The Importance of Being Earnest also stars three-time Olivier Award winner Sharon D. Clarke playing the imperious Lady Bracknell. Director Max Webster, making his NT debut, told Deadline exclusively that casting Gatwa and […]
NEW YORK CITY—“There is only one solution: Intifada revolution!” That was one of many chants and slogans yelled into a bullhorn at a pro-Palestinian rally Read More
Kerry Kennedy is brushing off her brother, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s, independent presidential bid, arguing it is clear only President Biden or former President Trump will be able to secure the Oval Office in November. Kennedy was speaking with CNN anchor John King Thursday night when he noted she only refers to Trump and Biden
A scheme to allow British under-30s to live and work in the EU has been flatly rejected. Why punish them for older voters’ mistakes?Only those born before 1998 could vote on Brexit, so there is no conceivable way of knowing which way today’s 18- to 30-year-olds would have felt about it. Oh, except there is: 70% of 18- to 24-year-olds think leaving the EU was a bad idea. Of the 25- to 49-year-olds, 66% also think we were wrong to leave. If you can bear to drag your mind back to the immediate...
Star Wars: The Bad Batch Season 3 has officially come to an end -- so here's an explanation of the ending.
MRC Free Speech America Vice President Dan Schneider made clear that Columbia University’s limp-wristed response to protestors is a choice to surrender to the pro-Hamas mob. On the April 27 edition of Newsmax’s Saturday Report Schneider blasted Columbia University President Nemat (Minouche) Shafik for her response to anti-Semitic protests on her campus. “Look, this president has made it very clear that she is on the side of these Hamas protesters,” Schneider told Newsmax anchor Rita Cosby. “I...
MRC Free Speech America Vice President Dan Schneider made clear that Columbia University’s limp-wristed response to protestors is a choice to surrender to the pro-Hamas mob. On the April 27 edition of Newsmax’s Saturday Report Schneider blasted Columbia University President Nemat (Minouche) Shafik for her response to anti-Semitic protests on her campus. “Look, this president has made it very clear that she is on the side of these Hamas protesters,” Schneider told Newsmax anchor Rita Cosby. “I...