Hamilton, Halton, Niagara and area news from CHCH - Hamilton, Halton, and Niagara news.. Encampments and protests on university campuses are persisting in the U.S., even as one prominent display of Palestinian support voluntarily comes down. The movement that began stateside has since spread to universities in Canada and Europe, as students demand their educational institutions divest funds from Israeli-linked corporations
Police are responding to the campus of the University of California, Irvine, where pro-Palestinian demonstrators have overtaken a building and built a barricaded encampment. Video streamed to the I
UPDATE May 16 8:54 p.m. Officers have arrested at least 11 pro-Palestinian protesters who had been occupying a vacant building owned by UC Berkeley, KTVU reported Thursday night. May 16, 7:52 p.m. UC Berkeley police and other law enforcement officers began clearing out pro-Palestinian protesters from an abandoned building near People's Park, KTVU reported Thursday evening. According to NBC Bay Area, officers arrested protesters who had been occupying Anna Head complex near People's Park on...
The pop star has been draped in the star-spangled banner for her album. This pride in the flag is misplacedBeyoncé is coupling her album, Cowboy Carter, with Americana-themed images. She straddles a white horse and holds the US flag in the album’s cover art. In other photos, the flag is everything, everywhere, all at once – capes, boots, bomber jackets with leather frills, durags, sashes, scarves and hair beads. Unlike white artists who drape themselves in red, white and blue, Mrs Carter becomes...
A Pro-Palestinian protest at UC Irvine has escalated, prompting calls for
BNEI BRAK (VINnews) — As has been the custom for decades, the Israeli flag was flown on the roof of the Ponevezh Yeshiva, in honor of Yom Ha’atzmaut. Join our WhatsApp group Subscribe to our Daily Roundup Email The custom began at the instruction of the Ponevezher Rav, Rabbi Yosef Shlomo Kahaneman ZT’L, who would
In psychology, there is a phenomenon we refer to as “psychic numbing.” It occurs during times of staggering catastrophe, when it seems however we try, we cannot prevent a tragedy. Indifference and defeat set in. Systems of oppression rely enormously upon this kind of detachment, banking on the burnout of dissenters. The utter devastation of Gaza — and the impunity of its assailants — is a strong example of psychic numbing: six months in and 35,000 slaughtered. Nearly half of them children....
More than a dozen Northwestern University students banded together to put 1,200 Israeli and American flags steps away from the former pro-Palestinian encampment. Within hours they were vandalized.
A cadre of pro-Palestinian protesters were seen parading outside the swanky New York Met Gala, which fashion mogul Anna Wintour hosted.
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A half-dozen University of Pennsylvania students were among 19 pro-Palestinian protesters arrested during an attempt to occupy a school building, university police said Saturday. Their arrests came a week after authorities broke up a protest encampment on campus and arrested nine students — and as other colleges across the country, anxious to []
Authorities say a half-dozen University of Pennsylvania students were among 19 pro-Palestinian protesters arrested during an attempt to occupy a building on campus
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A half-dozen University of Pennsylvania students were among 19 pro-Palestinian protesters arrested during an attempt to occupy a school building, university police said Saturday. Their arrests came […]