Students at the American University of Cairo (AUC) staged demonstrations on 22 April urging the university administration to sever ties with corporations accused of supporting the Israeli occupation, a joint Instagram post by the Egyptian Boycott, Divest, and Sanction (BDS) movement and the Anthropology Sociology Egyptology Association (ASE) explains. The two companies in question are information and technology company Hewlett-Packard (HP) and insurance company AXA, the post reveals. The...
The university is to hold virtual classes after protests on campus culminated in the arrest of more than 100 studentsOver 100 students at Columbia were arrested last week after refusing to leave a pro-Palestine protest encampment set up on the university’s main campus. The arrests have since set off a chain of events, including the re-establishing of the encampment and solidarity protests on other US college campuses.On Monday, Columbia announced it will hold classes virtually to try to “reset”...
The Harvard Undergraduate Palestine Solidarity Committee, an anti-Israel student group, passed a petition on Tuesday that started the wheels turning toward a student referendum on whether Harvard University should divest from Israel. The student behind the effort is a Pakistani national who was recently named a Rhodes Scholar.
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Two delegations of Congressional lawmakers plan to visit Columbia University. A group of Jewish Democrats announced they will walk with Jewish Students. The visits come while anti-Israel protests have engulfed the Ivy League school. Progressive 'Squad' member Ilhan Omar's daughter. about
Hundreds of anti-Israel protesters gathered outside of Sen. Chuck Schumer's (D-NY) home in Brooklyn, calling for the United States to "stop arming Israel."
Students rallied on the steps of City Hall, calling for broader access to journalism in city public schools. Student journalism opportunities at New York City’s public schools tend to be limited to whiter and more affluent schools – and a group of kids wants to change that. [ more › ]
Columbia University on Thursday arrested and suspended anti-Israel students in connection to the encampment protest that started Wednesday morning, two weeks after the university suspended four students due to anti-Semitism.
The U.S. Palestinian Community Network National Coordinating Committee was meeting in Chicago when word came of the Iranian drone and missile strike on Israel.
Hyderabad, Apr 12 (IANS): AIMIM President Asaduddin Owaisi on Friday
A Niger Delta activist and Programme Coordinator of Social and Economic Justice Advocacy, Comrade Jerome-Mario Utomi, has lauded the “rancor-free relationship” between the present Barrister Chedu Ebie-led governing board of the Niger Delta Development Commission and the Samuel Oguku-led management of the interventionist agency, just as he called on the Federal Government to further support Read More
An Indiana State University student’s racist comments, ISU community members — and those who found the video after it went viral — are speaking out.