A few hours after a group of around 30 pro-Palestinian demonstrators gathered in the atrium of Bobst Library, placing signs reading “Hands off Rafah” and “Welcome to the Popular University,” Campus Safety officers told students to clear the library’s floors. Bobst is now open, according to NYU. Protesters initially relocated, with some having moved to This story Campus Safety clears Bobst amid pro-Palestinian demonstrations appeared first on Washington Square News.
What started as dozens gathered at Monroe Park quickly grew to a crowd of nearly 100 people who took the streets of downtown Richmond, marching towards the Virginia Capitol, where they delivered a list of demands to U.S. Senators Mark Warner and Tim Kaine.
Activists had entered fire-damaged building once home to girls’ school
A Pro-Palestinian protest at UC Irvine has escalated, prompting calls for
AMSTERDAM (AP) — German police on Tuesday broke up a protest by several hundred pro-Palestinian activists who had occupied a courtyard at Berlin’s Free University earlier in the day, the latest such action by authorities as protests that have roiled campuses in the United States spread across Europe. Some demonstrators have even called for a […]
German police on Tuesday broke up a protest by several hundred pro-Palestinian activists who had occupied a courtyard at Berlin’s Free University earlier in the day, the latest such action by authorities as protests that have roiled campuses in the United States spread across Europe.
Around 5,000 protesters descended on Number 10 with placards from the Socialist Worker and the Palestinian Forum in Britain, which reportedly has links to Hamas.
WASHINGTON >> Weeks after attending a pro-Palestinian demonstration, Egyptian-American student Layla Sayed received a text message from a friend drawing her attention to a website dedicated to exposing people it says promote hatred of Jews and Israel.
President Joe Biden‘s shock announcement that he would condition U.S. military support of Israel on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu‘s decision to invade the Gazan city of Rafah to end Hamas has been criticized by pro-Israel Democrats and Republicans. But many pro-Palestinian Democrats are also skeptical of Biden’s words and actions. The longer the war between […]
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.
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