Another pro-Palestinian protest closed down Harvard Yard on Sunday.
A pro-Israeli counterprotester was arrested Thursday morning by UCLA police, weeks after he allegedly assaulted occupants of a campus protest encampment with a wooden pole. According to the UCLA Police Department, detectives interviewed witnesses and victims and reviewed security camera footage from the pro-Palestinian demonstration to identify the suspect, who was not affiliated with the campus and was allegedly among a group who violently attacked students, faculty and staff April 30. The...
UCLA officials called for the dispersal of pro-Palestinian protesters Thursday after a small group of demonstrators used tables, metal fences, plywood and other objects to create a barricade that blocked off a section of campus between Kerckhoff and Moore halls.The protest came as UCLA Chancellor Gene Block was in Washington to testify before Congress about efforts to combat antisemitism at the university.By the afternoon, police and security teams were seen scuffling with protesters on...
Hamilton, Halton, Niagara and area news from CHCH - Hamilton, Halton, and Niagara news.. Just as one Ontario university reached a deal that will see pro-Palestinian protesters pack up their tents and leave campus — another has sprung up. A few dozen tents were set up overnight at the University of Guelph protesters say they’re not going anywhere until the school divests. “Looking at what’s happened in the past […]
Jerry Seinfeld's week of difficult appearances continues, this time in Virginia. As soon as Seinfeld took the stage for a stand-up comedy set at Chrysler Hall in Norfolk on Saturday night, a man in the audience jumped up and yelled, "Free Gaza," TMZ reported. The audience immediately began booing the heckler and chanting "Jerry! Jerry!" as another bystander wrestled the protester into a headlock. Security escorted the man out of the building, but the show was interrupted by other protesters...
Hamilton, Halton, Niagara and area news from CHCH - Hamilton, Halton, and Niagara news.. Pro-Palestinian protesters who have set up an encampment on the University of Toronto campus are expected to meet with school officials today. The meeting, which is scheduled for 5 p.m. local time, comes after the university issued a trespass notice to the protesters on Friday. The school has said it will take “all necessary legal […]
Pro-Palestinian protesters who have set up an encampment on the University of Toronto campus are expected to meet with school officials today. The meeting, which is scheduled for 5 p.m. local time, comes after the university issued a trespass notice to the protesters on Friday. The school has said it will take "all necessary legal steps" if the protesters don't clear out by Monday at 8 a.m. The notice threatens to seek a court order against the camp. The encampment was set up on May 2...
Hillary Clinton’s recent criticism of young pro-Palestinian protesters — that they “don’t know very much about the history of the Middle East, or frankly about history in many areas of the world, including our own country” — drew angry rebukes from the left.
German police have cleared about 150 pro-Palestinian demonstrators from a Berlin university faculty, ending one of a wave of student-led protests across Europe over Israel’s conduct of its war against Hamas
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Pro-Palestinian protesters set up a new encampment at Drexel University in Philadelphia over the weekend, prompting a lockdown of school buildings, a day after authorities thwarted an attempted occupation of a school building at the neighboring University of Pennsylvania campus. After several hundred demonstrators marched from Philadelphia’s City Hall to west Philadelphia […]
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Pro-Palestinian protesters set up a new encampment at Drexel University in Philadelphia over the weekend, prompting a lockdown of school buildings, a day after authorities thwarted an […]
Police in riot gear arrived at UCLA on Thursday afternoon in response to a new pro-Palestinian encampment that had been erected on the campus hours earlier. At least two tents had been set up on the Kerckhoff patio Thursday morning. Wood pallets surrounding the patio marked the perimeter of the encampment. Private security and UCLA police had been on site throughout the day, apparently to keep the camp from growing, students said. Police tape blocked off the entrance to the encampment and...