An old video of a protest involving supporters of a political party in southern India that has joined Prime Minister Narendra Modi‘s coalition government has recirculated in posts. It misleadingly claimed they were “jihadists” opposed to their leader joining forces with Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). In fact, the clip circulated in news reports before […]
CHICAGO — Hundreds of pro-Palestinian students and faculty walked out of the University of Chicago’s convocation Saturday morning, marching around campus before a tense confrontation with police, which led to an arrest. The demonstration came after U. of C. withheld the degrees of four seniors involved with the university’s pro-Palestinian encampment last month. It’s the […]
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Trains in Argentina’s capital Buenos Aires slowed to a crawl on Thursday, doubling passengers’ commute time, according to union rail workers who held an unusual protest demanding better wages after talks with company officials failed to resolve the situation. La Fraternidad (The Brotherhood) railway workers’ union said it had decided to […]
A video of police and security guards dragging away student protesters at Delhi University has been shared by Bangladeshi social media users who misleadingly claimed it showed Muslim women being beaten up by Hindu extremists in India. The claim circulated in the Muslim-majority country ahead of its neighbour’s six-week-long general election, with Hindu nationalist Prime […]
(Reuters) -Dozens of students walked out of Duke University’s commencement ceremony on Sunday as some chanted “free Palestine” to protest its guest speaker, comedian Jerry Seinfeld, who has supported Israel throughout the war in Gaza, according to a video posted on social media. Figures in robes and caps, some waving Palestinian flags, were seen filing […]
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 Swedish city ahead of a performance by singer Eden Golan who is representing Israel in the second semi-final on Thursday […]
It might be a good idea for Arizona’s three state universities to offer a course in the history of protests in the United States. Not just for students born and raised in the narcissistic demands of the internet age, who would find it illuminating, but for the university administration, for whom it seems absolutely necessary. […]
CHICAGO — University of Chicago police cleared out anti-war encampments set up by students protesting Israel’s war on Gaza on the school’s main quad early Tuesday morning. On what would have been the ninth day of encampment, university police took down tents, tore down anti-war signs and began to block off many entrances to the […]
Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) mocked the students protesting on college campuses after a report was released stating a Houthi-run university in Yemen will offer slots to those suspended at U.S. universities. “If a homicidal, Iranian-funded, terrorism proxy wants to pick up your college education tab, you really, really might want to reevaluate things,” Fetterman posted […]
Pro-Palestine demonstrators are disrupting open days at Cambridge as Britain’s leading Jewish student group calls on universities to do more to tackle “antisemitic hatred” on campuses. Activists are telling prospective undergraduates and their families they will be “complicit in Israel’s genocide” in Gaza if they apply to Trinity College, which is said to have invested […]
Five West Virginia middle school girls banned from participating in track and field meets after they protested against a trans athlete last week are allowed to compete again, a judge ruled Thursday night. Judge Thomas A. Bedell issued a preliminary injunction that prevents the Harrison Board of Education and its schools from penalizing student-athletes for […]
“Disclose, divest. We will not slow, we will not rest.” This chant in recent days has echoed across Columbia University, the epicenter of a nationwide campus protest movement that has led to more than 2,000 arrests and roiled universities in the midst of graduation season. Protesters at these pro-Palestinian encampments have made it clear they […]