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 […]
Small demonstrations held on Saturday, including at Virginia Commonwealth University and University of Wisconsin-MadisonSmall pro-Palestinian protests popped up sporadically on Saturday as colleges and universities from North Carolina to California held commencement ceremonies, including dozens of graduating students at Virginia Commonwealth University who walked out on an address by Republican governor Glenn Youngkin.While some of the estimated 100 students and family members who left during...
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.
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Pro-Palestinian protesters set up a new encampment at Drexel University in Philadelphia over the weekend, prompting a lockdown of school buildings, a day after authorities thwarted an attempted occupation of a school building at the neighboring University of Pennsylvania campus. After several hundred demonstrators marched from Philadelphia’s City Hall to west Philadelphia […]
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Pro-Palestinian protesters set up a new encampment at Drexel University in Philadelphia over the weekend, prompting a lockdown of school buildings, a day after authorities thwarted an […]
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.
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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.
Arrests, suspensions, canceled commencements. What should have been a season for celebrating the waning academic year is being overshadowed by a tug-of-war between college students who oppose Israel’s military actions in Gaza and university administrators cracking down on widespread protests. More than 2,600 students have been arrested across the U.S. in recent weeks, The Associated Press reported, as universities that were once havens for free speech contend with escalating campus unrest,...
Graduate students at the University of California, Santa Cruz walked off their jobs and went on strike Monday
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.