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Some protesters have threatened Jewish students and expressed support for Hamas. A cause celebre is ringing out across Harvard Yard, Columbia’s South Lawn, Yale’s Beinecke Plaza and UC Berkeley’s Sproul Plaza: Disclose and divest. And university students say they won’t stop protesting against Israel until that demand is met. “We’re willing to risk suspension, expulsion…
Palestinian baby girl, Sabreen Jouda, who was delivered prematurely after her mother was killed in an Israeli strike along with her husband and daughter, lies in an incubator in the Emirati hospital in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip on April 21, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP A premature Palestinian infant, rescued from her mother’s womb shortly…
Police in riot gear were deployed to face off with students at the University of Texas. Pro-Palestine protests have spread to more college campuses in the US, denouncing the mounting deaths in Gaza. Over a hundred students have been arrested for campus occupation, which Jewish students claim to be antisemitic. Here are the top 10…
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Israel launched its war against Hamas after its October 7 attack Israel on Wednesday said it was “moving ahead” with its planned operation in the southern Gaza city of Rafah to target Hamas, drawing a stern warning from neighbour Egypt. Here Are 10 Points On Israel-Hamas War A spokesperson for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government…
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More than 130 people were arrested at a pro-Palestinian protest at New York University Monday night. Washington: Increasingly confrontational pro-Palestinian rallies by students protesting the death count from the Israel-Hamas conflict erupted across US college campuses Wednesday, triggering tense faceoffs with police in Texas and California. At New York’s Columbia University — the epicenter of…
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Students from several other universities in the US are holding rallies Pro-Palestine encampments at Columbia University in the US are still going strong, despite 108 students being arrested and three suspended last week. Contrary to what the police’s sweep of the encampments had hoped to achieve, the crackdown has simply stoked the fires of dissent….
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Students across the US universities and colleges have been protesting for a few weeks now It has been 200 days since Israel launched its brutal war in Gaza, retaliating against the October 7 attack carried out by Hamas. As the calls for the ceasefire grow in different parts of the world, university and college students in…
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A member of the Lebanese intelligence service stands at the site of an Israeli strike on a vehicle in the Adloun plain area, between Lebanon’s southern cities of Sidon and Tyre, on April 23, 2024. | Photo Credit: AFP Lebanon’s Iran-backed Hezbollah movement said it launched drone attacks on two north Israel bases on April…
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Columbia canceled in-person classes, dozens of protesters were arrested at New York University and Yale, and the gates to Harvard Yard were closed to the public on April 22 as some of the most prestigious U.S. universities sought to defuse campus tensions over Israel’s war with Hamas. More than 100 pro-Palestinian demonstrators who had camped…
Jewish people marked April 22 the start of Passover, a celebration of freedom, and around many holiday tables in Israel chairs stood empty for hostages still held captive in Gaza. The week-long Jewish festival, also known in Hebrew as the “holiday of freedom”, celebrates the Israelites’ liberation from Egyptian slavery, as told in the Bible….
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