Israel’s disregard for the negotiations and the level of its violence can be measured based on two political realities. It does not take negotiations with the Palestinians seriously and it feels that it can bomb with impunity. This is so because, firstly, Israel is backed fully by the Global North states (mainly the United States and Europe) and secondly, it does not regard Palestinian political views as vital because it has succeeded in breaking the political unity amongst Palestinians and it...
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My classmates and school at large, like most of the west, see the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians as a far-removed problemThere has always been trauma involved in being a Palestinian. When I was only 13 years old, I saw my people in Gaza slaughtered by 150 occupation shells on evening news, as if our death was casual, replaced a few days later by false ideas of “peace talks”. And, now, for the past seven months, that trauma has been overwhelming: we’ve seen more than 30,000 Palestinians, 14,000...
LOS ANGELES >> More demonstrators were arrested Monday as classes resumed at UCLA, the site of some of the tensest moments during a wave of student activism at U.S. universities over the war in the Gaza Strip.
Montevideo, May 16 (Prensa Latina) Social and trade union organizations in Uruguay join voices to denounce the genocide committed by Israel against the Palestinian people in Gaza and demand the breaking of diplomatic relations with Tel Aviv. The post Uruguayans join voices denouncing genocide against Palestinians first appeared on Prensa Latina.
Today is the 76th anniversary of the Nakba, i.e. the Destruction of Palestine in 1948. This year the anniversary coincides with the eight-month war in the Gaza Strip. In a military campaign that began in late 1947, culminated in the 1948 war, approximately 13,000 Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces, 530 Palestinian villages were destroyed, […]
The camp at Sproul Plaza was peacefully disbanded following talks between protesters and administrators.
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
After pro-Palestinian protests and encampments this spring, a number of colleges faced disruptions of their graduation ceremonies. They included Duke University, where comedian Jerry Seinfeld gave the commencement address this weekend. Some colleges moved commencements to alternative venues to avoid disruptions. NBC News' Stephanie Gosk reports.
As the Israel-Hamas war continues, so do campus protests across the country.
Police are asking people to avoid certain areas of Lee Road Sunday