Police made dozens of arrests as pro-Palestinian protest encampments were dismantled Friday at the University of Pennsylvania and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, hours after police tear-gassed demonstrators and took down a similar camp at the University of Arizona. Philadelphia and campus police at Penn took action around daybreak to remove protesters from an encampment []
Youth Demand and Palestine Action carried out the stunt as part of its campaign demanding that both the Conservative Party and Labour pledge to impose a ban on selling arms to Israel.
Riot police were again drafted in to disperse some 2,000 pro-Palestine demonstrators who had gathered on the Spui in the city centre on Thursday evening after marching through town. However, the demonstration ended peacefully after the organisers urged the protestors themselves to go home, following two-minutes silence for the victims of the war in Gaza, local broadcaster AT5 reported. “This was a peaceful demonstration,” the spokesman said. “We want our demonstrations to be peaceful we are not...
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.
Students have set up encampments in universities across continent as they call for ceasefire in Israel-Gaza warSee all our Middle East crisis coverageStudent protests demanding that universities sever ties with Israel over the Gaza war have spread across Europe, sparking clashes and arrests as new demonstrations broke out in the Netherlands, Germany, France, Switzerland and Austria.Students at various European universities, inspired by ongoing demonstrations at US campuses, have been occupying...
Pro-Palestinian protesters at UC Berkeley took down all but a few tents on a central campus plaza Tuesday, in an agreement that appeared to end one of the largest and longest student encampments in the country as Chancellor Carol Christ said she would initiate a discussion about the university's investments in weapons companies and the possible divestment from them. The move to dismantle the encampment, which swelled to more than 180 tents and hundreds of students at its peak, notably included...
Despite pro-Palestinian protests roiling some U.S. college campuses this spring, graduation ceremonies are going off largely peacefully so far
A tiny contingent of Duke University graduates opposed pro-Israel comedian Jerry Seinfeld speaking at their commencement in North Carolina Sunday, with about 30 of the 7,000 students leaving their seats and chanting “free Palestine” amid a mix of boos and cheers. Some waved the red, green, black and white Palestinian flag. Seinfeld, whose namesake sitcom []
By MORIAH BALINGIT Associated Press A tiny contingent of Duke University graduates opposed pro-Israel comedian Jerry Seinfeld speaking at their commencement in North Carolina Sunday, with about 30 of the 7,000 students leaving their seats and chanting “free Palestine” amid a mix of boos and cheers. Some waved the red, green, black and white Palestinian
By MORIAH BALINGIT Associated Press A tiny contingent of Duke University graduates opposed pro-Israel comedian Jerry Seinfeld speaking at their commencement in North Carolina Sunday, with about 30 of the 7,000 students leaving their seats and chanting “free Palestine” amid a mix of boos and cheers. Some waved the red, green, black and white Palestinian
By MORIAH BALINGIT Associated Press A tiny contingent of Duke University graduates opposed pro-Israel comedian Jerry Seinfeld speaking at their commencement in North Carolina Sunday, with about 30 of the 7,000 students leaving their seats and chanting “free Palestine” amid a mix of boos and cheers. Some waved the red, green, black and white Palestinian
Swedish activist was seen being escorted away by officers