Activists are calling for universities to sever ties with Israel in response to the war.
Dozens of helmeted police flooded Columbia University's campus in the heart of New York City on Tuesday to evict a building occupied by pro-Palestinian student protesters and detain demonstrators.The action came as university administrators around the United States have struggled for weeks to contain pro-Palestinian demonstrations on dozens of campuses.
Student demonstrators at Columbia University, the epicenter of pro-Palestinian protests that have erupted at colleges across the U.S. are being suspended after, defying requests to leave.
In January of 2009, I was entering my last semester at Marshall University, in West Virginia. I was a liberal arts major, focusing on religious studies and sociology. I had taken two years of Arabic and worked with Muslim students on campus, helping them with navigating classes and providing friendship. I honestly hadn’t thought much about Israel outside of religious terms and considered myself politically neutral. That all changed abruptly during what would be known as Operation Cast Lead, or...
Lara-Nour Walton Pro-Palestine students have taken over the same building that anti-Vietnam War and anti-gentrification protesters occupied in 1968.
Hawaii island police on Tuesday arrested an 18-year-old student at Konawaena High School in South Kona after a disturbance on campus.
Environmental science students at Holyoke Community College embarked on a unique mission during their last Friday class of the spring semester.
Macklemore released a new song in support of anti-Israel student protesters. 'Free Palestine' is incorrectly spray painted at the University of Ottawa. Critics have slammed the error saying protesters do not understand their cause
NEW YORK >> Columbia University officials today threatened academic expulsion of students who seized and occupied a classroom building as the standoff between administrators and pro-Palestinian activists on the Manhattan campus intensified.
Early Tuesday morning, Columbia student protesters took over a building on campus, pledging not to leave until their demands—for the university to divest from Israel, financial transparency from Columbia’s endowment, and amnesty for pro-Palestinian protesters—are met. The group of “autonomous protesters” took over Hamilton Hall, an academic building on the Morningside Heights campus, shortly after midnight, […]
Students continue to protest at campuses across the country, despite the risk of arrest. Some schools now threaten demonstrators with disciplinary action, while others promise the opposite.
MADISON, Wis. -- Hundreds of students took to Library Mall on the campus of the University of Wisconsin Monday, in protest of the Israel war.