Protesters against the Israel-Gaza war took to the stage to disrupt the University of Sheffield’s education awards today (May 8). The group demanded that the university directs research projects away from arms-related work, and “cuts ties with the arms trade” as well as universities in Israel. Parts of their speech after they had taken to the stage were met with cheers. A number of university staff members at the event joined the protesters on the stage, while vice-chancellor Professor Koen...
Dozens of protesters locked arms and lay on the ground outside the venue draped in Palestine flags - and struggled with Swedish riot police who tried to remove them.
"The bitterness and vitriol we now see from those defending the Palestinians they have boomeranged," writes Chuck Ludlam '67, who previously led campus protests against the Vietnam War.
Helicopters have been throbbing overhead for days now. Nights, too. Police are swarming the streets of Broadway, many in riot gear. Police vans, some as big as a city bus, are lined up along side streets and Broadway. Outside the gates of the Columbia University campus, a penned-in group of pro-Israel demonstrators has faced off More
This week the Palestine Solidarity Campaign called for protests across the country to mark “Nakba 76” – when Palestinians remember the “Nakba” or “catastrophe” – the ethnic cleansing of Palestine in 1948. On Saturday 11, protests were held in Dorchester and at the screening of Eurovision at Weymouth Pavillion. In Dorchester Women in Black formed a […]
Esther Sun For months, thousands have flooded the country’s streets in protest. But students say that the surge of encampments in America helped increase actions at Jordanian universities.
More than 100 employees of European Union institutions gathered in front of the European Commission in Brussels on Wednesday to protest against the Gaza war. Protesters gathered outside the headquarters of the European Commission in Brussels, holding a symbolic funeral ceremony and writing slogans such as “international law,” “EU treaties,” and “genocide convention” on placards. […]
The situation in Gaza requires urgent international attention and a peaceful resolution, but it is not the only armed conflict or humanitarian crisis.
Police dismantled protest camps and arrested dozens of pro-Palestinian activists at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Pennsylvania today, in the latest crackdowns on demonstrations roiling U.S. campuses.
Two protesters, including woman hit by car, arrested and charged with criminal mischief in New York
It is ironic that the college anti-Israel protesters feel they have a right to protest and illegally occupy land they do not own.
UC Berkeley says negotiations with demonstrators have led to an agreement to expedite what it calls a new "socially responsible investment strategy."