Security forces searched four properties in the western German city of Duisburg on Thursday morning in a raid on a local group accused of supporting the Palestinian militant organization Hamas. Ahead of the raid, the Interior Ministry in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia had officially banned the organization known as Palestine Solidarity Duisburg. “A red […]
(KRON) — The encampment put up by pro-Palestine protesters at UC Berkeley will come down, Chancellor Carol Christ said in a letter on Tuesday that was acquired by KRON4. The encampment was sitting at the Savio Steps of Sproul Hall. UC Berkeley reached an agreement with the UCB Divest Coalition to take it down, a […]
Less than a week into their encampment at UC Davis, pro-Palestine protesters have experienced resistance from counterprotesters during late night and early morning encounters, a spokesperson told The Sacramento Bee on Sunday. “Some of these people are known to people in this encampment,” said UC Davis law student Stanford McConnehey, “as the same people who […]
Idaho State Police arrested an adult woman in Boise on Friday night on suspicion of resisting or obstructing officers as pro-Palestine demonstrations continued near the Idaho Capitol. State police ordered protesters to vacate the grass adjacent to the Capitol “for maintenance” by 6:30 p.m. Friday, according to Aaron Snell, ISP spokesperson. At about 9:45 p.m., […]
AUSTIN (KXAN) — A University of Texas at Austin professor was fired days after he was arrested in connection with a pro-Palestine protest on campus. An attorney representing the professor told KXAN that a specific reason for his firing was not given. Richard Douglas Heyman, a liberal arts professor, was charged with interference of public […]
Greta Thunberg has joined pro-Palestine protests in Malmo against Israel competing in the Eurovision Song Contest. The climate activist, 21, was at the Stop Israel demonstration, between Stortorget and Molleplatsen in the centre of the city on Thursday ahead of Israel singer Eden Golan performing at the second semi-final of the competition on Thursday evening. […]
Jens Büttner/picture alliance via Getty Images The European Broadcast Union (EBU) reportedly told nonbinary Irish musician Bambie Thug to remove pro-Palestine messages from their costume during Wednesday night’s Eurovision semi-final. Using the early medieval Irish alphabet Ogham, the singer-songwriter wrote the words “Ceasefire” and “Saoirse Don Phalistin,” the latter of which translates from Irish Gaelic […]
Protests continue at UNC Charlotte after arrest, pro-Palestine encampment dismantled CHARLOTTE (QUEEN CITY NEWS) – Campus protests have taken a turn at universities nationwide – from Harvard to Columbia and Chapel Hill – and now UNC Charlotte. Campus police marched into a quad and tore down an encampment Tuesday morning, May 7, amid a protest […]
Police have begun to break up a pro-Palestinian student protest at Berlin’s Free University. Around 100 activists of the Student Coalition Berlin group occupied the university courtyard with tents on Tuesday morning in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza. Police began removing individual groups of demonstrators from the site in the early afternoon. The officers had […]
AMHERST, N.Y. (WIVB) — Crackdowns on college campus protests against the war between Israel and Hamas continue. Here at home, the second protest just this week at UB North ended peacefully Friday. This comes just days after more than a dozen people were arrested at a demonstration there on Wednesday. Hundreds of pro-Palestine protestors marched […]
A shocking video revealed a white student counter-protester at the University of Mississippi racistly mocking a Black protester by making monkey noises at her during ongoing Gaza solidarity demonstrations. The confrontation caught on camera Thursday was filmed and posted on X, formerly Twitter, by Stacey J. Spiehler, who explained that the counter-protester dressed in a […]
Pro-Palestinian demonstrators who had been occupying Portland State University’s library were cleared and arrested after riot police raided the building, on Thursday, May 2. Footage released by the Portland Police Bureau shows officers pushing through barricades of stacked furniture to enter the Millar library, which was found to be vandalized, and scattered with what police […]