Browsing: Middle East
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…
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…
Columbia warns protesters they face suspension if they don’t clear out tent encampments
Colleges around the U.S. implored pro-Palestinian student protesters to clear out tent encampments with rising levels of urgency Monday, including…
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warned Tuesday of potential global economic damage from rising tensions in the Middle East as the Biden administration…
Biden expresses ‘deepest condolences’ to Jose Andres after 7 of his philanthropy’s World Central Kitchen workers die in Gaza
The deaths of seven World Central Kitchen workers in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza was a tragic turn for an American homegrown…
Israel has essentially endorsed a framework of a proposed Gaza cease-fire and hostage release deal, and it is now up to Hamas…
With thousands of Gazans facing starvation, U.S. military begins making emergency food drops
U.S. military C-130 cargo planes dropped food in pallets over Gaza on Saturday in the opening stage of an emergency humanitarian assistance…
Saudi-led alliance pushes Palestinian statehood plan as war rages between Israel and Hamas
A Saudi-led group of Arab states is urging the US and allies to persuade Israel to consider a renewed plan…