The current pro-Palestinian student protests may influence President Biden’s policies towards Israel, but the protests may also be used by Republicans as part of their law-and-order platform. If Newton’s third law of motion states that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction, a first law of protest may be that for every More
“The big issue in ’68, it turned out, was not Vietnam - it was law and order,” says historian James Traub. And for Biden, “The electoral danger is [protesters] offending the much larger group of voters to Biden’s right.” And his “narrow path” is to “take action in regard to Israel that will show that he shares some of their concerns in a way that does not identify him with the demonstrators.”
The pro-Palestinian, antisemitic protests on university campuses across the nation are funded by President Joe Biden's own political donors -- which could explain why he hesitates to condemn them and won't investigate them.
The president’s team, and some pollsters, don’t see Gaza as the primary voting issue for the younger cohort.
Police move in to clear a recent encampment at NYU The prosecutor’s office is weighing whether to move forward with charges against students and others protesting war in Gaza. [ more › ]
I have taught at Columbia University for the better part of 25 years. Last Wednesday, I held office hours, as I do every week. I met with students and we talked about their classes, their essays on Shakespeare and Milton, their progress toward their respective degrees, and their feelings about graduation. We also spoke about […]
Joe Biden has long attributed his decision to run for president to 2017’s tragic events in Charlottesville, Va., and President Donald Trump’s response to them.
Google has fired at least 20 more workers found to be associated with protests. CEO Sundar Pichai denounced protestors for disrupting their coworkers. The tech giant has fired around 50 employees over anti-Israel demonstrations
In a video that went viral on social media, a college student protesting Israel at NYU confessed she didn't know why they were protesting at the university.
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By JOHN ANTZAK, ETHAN SWOPE, JAKE OFFENHARTZ and JOSEPH B. FREDERICK Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Counter-protesters “forcefully” attacked a pro-Palestinian encampment at UCLA early Wednesday, the university’s chancellor said, and activists clashed with police officers who destroyed their tents at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, part of a series of escalating violence
Scuffles break out between pro-Palestinian and pro-Israel activists, with no sign of student demos tailing off.