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Joe Biden offers most direct recognition to U.S. students about campus protests over Gaza, telling Morehouse graduates ‘your voices should be heard’
President Joe Biden on Sunday told the graduating class at Morehouse College that he heard their voices of protest over…
Benny Gantz threatens to leave Israel’s war cabinet if Netanyahu doesn’t meet demands, warning against ‘path of fanatics’ that will lead to the ‘abyss’
Benny Gantz, an Israeli opposition leader in the country’s three-man war cabinet, said Saturday that if Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu…
Some NYU students being disciplined for protests must reflect on a ‘Simpsons’ episode: ‘What, if anything, could Lisa have done or thought about to make better decisions?’
Would Lisa Simpson set up a tent at New York University to protest the war in Gaza? How would Principal…
Social media users are ‘blocking out’ celebrities on TikTok, Instagram and X over inaction around Israel-Hamas war
Some social media users are calling out celebrities for what they say is inaction in the face of a humanitarian crisis in…
Secretary of State Antony Blinken says Israel should get out of Gaza and ‘acted in ways that are not consistent’ with international law
Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Sunday delivered some of the Biden administration’s strongest public criticism yet of Israel’s conduct of the war…
U.S. is one of just 9 countries to vote against granting new ‘rights and privileges’ to Palestine in UN General Assembly
The U.N. General Assembly voted by a wide margin on Friday to grant new “rights and privileges” to Palestine and…
Universities are at the epicenter of a broad debate about the use of boycotts and divestments as a social change…
13 Trump-appointed US federal judges say they won’t hire Columbia University students because of school protests
As student protests continue at schools across the country highlighting the situation in the Middle East, a baker’s dozen of…
Columbia created new rules after historic 1968 protests. Its administration just broke them to authorize police on campus, university report concludes
Columbia University’s South Lawn, where students built two “Gaza Solidarity Encampments,” is now empty, after police equipped with military-grade weapons…
Biden condemns antisemitism, says people are forgetting that ‘Hamas unleashed this terror’
President Joe Biden condemned the “ferocious surge of antisemitism in America and around the world” during a Tuesday ceremony to…