Princeton University students have been protesting in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza since 25 April, their goal being to get the US university to divest from Israel. The Guardian spoke to some of the students and faculty at the encampment to hear their reasons for being there, and how they feel they have been portrayed by the media Continue reading
A group of pro-Palestinian protesters who disrupted a University of Windsor senate meeting last week has set up an encampment on campus, requesting supplies as they dig in until administrators answer their demands. The demonstrations began Thursday with protesters calling for university administration to financially divest from organizations that benefit or support Israel. “We’re not […]
French police detained 86 people following an operation to remove students staging a pro-Palestinian occupation at the Sorbonne university in Paris, prosecutors said Wednesday.
Around ten men sought out a confrontation with demonstrators at the pro-Palestinian protest on the campus of the University of Amsterdam (UvA) on Monday evening. The men came from out of nowhere and started hitting the demonstrators, and threw fireworks and flares at them. According to a reporter at the scene, the motives of the group that turned very aggressive were unclear. One of them wore a full-face helmet, and the faces of the others were visible. After about ten minutes, the men were...
Protesters are demanding that the university sever its ties with Israeli universities.
An anti-Israel protester interrupted a commencement ceremony for Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, on Saturday evening.
Hamilton, Halton, Niagara and area news from CHCH - Hamilton, Halton, and Niagara news.. A pro-Palestinian encampment has cropped up on the grounds of McMaster University. The protest comes alongside a growing movement of demonstrations that have swept through university campuses nationwide. In the last week alone, the University of Toronto, McGill University and the University of British Columbia have all been host to similarly-styled demonstrations, to name a few. READ MORE: Pro-Palestinian...
Police in Utrecht used batons against pro-Palestinian demonstrators who blocked a city bus containing other protesters. The bus contained around 40 pro-Palestinian activists who occupied a building at Utrecht University (UU) earlier on Wednesday. They were removed from the building by the police on Wednesday evening.Just after midnight, peace had returned near the university building, according to an ANP reporter.
A group of around 60 assembled in front of the MD Anderson main library on the University of Houston campus and put up an impromptu encampment in Butler Plaza at around 4 a.m. on Wednesday.
In one instance, a graduate was wearing a T-shirt splattered with fake blood and the words "NEU Kills."
A recent survey by Ipsos I&O Research suggests the Dutch public is largely critical of the ongoing university campus protests against Israel's actions in Gaza. The survey, conducted between May 9 and 13, found only a fifth (21%) of respondents support the protests, while two-thirds (65%) agree or strongly agree with the statement, "It is good that the police intervened in the student protests against the war in Gaza."
A pro-Palestinian encampment at Queen's University in Kingston was set up on May 10. Since then, the university has called out what it says were aggressive acts.