Tag: pro-Palestinian
NYU: Over half arrested for anti-Israel riots not tied to school
Less than half of the pro-Hamas protesters arrested at New York University last week after refusing to vacate the campus were members of the academic institution, the university said on Wednesday.
Of the 133 protesters...
Police arrest anti-Israel activists on Emory campus, including faculty members
Gregory L. Fenves, president of Emory University in Atlanta, released a statement on Friday about campus protests the day before that resulted in 28 arrests, placing the blame on outside agitators for a demonstration that ended...
House Appropriations Committee member warns schools about inaction on Jew-hatred
Rep. Susie Lee (D-Nev.), a member of the House Appropriations Committee, issued a statement on Tuesday about the “sharp increase in antisemitism on college campuses nationwide.”
“I respect the right to assemble and free speech....
Columbia’s war on Jewish speech
A recent incident at Columbia University sheds light on the insidious tactics employed by universities to stifle dissenting voices, especially Jewish voices. The administration’s actions regarding a Hasbara Fellowships speech I recently delivered revealed...
‘What I said was wrong,’ says Columbia protest leader who said Zionists don’t deserve...
A Columbia University student and a leader of the antisemitic protests on campus is seeking to provide “context” to a statement he made that Zionists don’t deserve to live.
“Zionists don’t deserve to live,” Khymani James said....
Yale police arrest 47 anti-Israel protesters as ‘Gaza solidarity encampments’ spread
Yale University police arrested 47 anti-Israel protesters for trespassing on Monday morning, as “Gaza solidarity encampments” continue to disrupt college campuses across the country.
After the arrests in New Haven, hundreds of students continued to...
Brooklyn legislator’s Jewish constituents feel ‘abandoned, betrayed, endangered’
Shahana Hanif, a New York City Council member and co-chair of its Taskforce to Combat Hate, is ignoring antisemitism and leaving her Jewish constituents in Brooklyn’s 39th District feeling unsafe, according to an op-ed in the New York...
Why the left united around hatred of Israel
Something curious has happened in American politics in the last six months. Liberal activist groups on a host of disparate topics ranging from the economy, labor-union organizing, homelessness and housing shortages, “anti-racism,” climate change...
Pro-Israel Americans need to stop cowering and start protesting
The debate going on in the United States about Israel’s war against Hamas took a new and disturbing turn in the last week. But there was one thing missing from the discussion. Many of...
Denouncing anti-Israel views ‘at the highest level’ would risk our jobs, Jewish UN staffers...
ome 18 days before thousands of Hamas terrorists attacked Israel on Oct. 7, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “demanded” that António Guterres, secretary-general of the United Nations, “change the attitude of the organization’s institutions...