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David Knowles
It's been nearly two weeks since police were called in to break up a pro-Palestinian encampment at Columbia University. Since then, a movement calling for universities to divest financial support for Israel has spread to dozens of campuses across America.
The protests often feature tent cities established in green spaces and common areas, and have been largely peaceful — though not always. Hundreds of arrests have been made and skirmishes have broken out between police and demonstrators as college leaders seek to clear the spaces and quell the outcry. Commencements have been canceled, remote classes instituted and access to campus has been restricted.
In a sign of escalating tensions, police forcefully evicted protesters who had occupied Hamilton Hall on Columbia's Manhattan campus and at City College of New York in Harlem overnight, taking nearly 300 into custody. Meanwhile, at the University of California, Los Angeles, tensions between dueling groups of protesters erupted in violent clashes early Wednesday morning. There have also been signs of reconciliation, with protesters and administrators at Northwestern and Brown reaching agreements.
Despite the pressure, the protests remain active and seemingly grow by the day. Below, get the latest updates on this fast-moving story from Yahoo News:
A video posted by the New York Post showed police arriving at Fordham University at Lincoln Center to break up an encampment that protesters had set up in a campus building.
Police reportedly made as many as 15 arrests.
Officers will try and keep opposing groups apart.
Former President Trump on Friday claimed there will be a major war in the Middle East and potentially a “third world war” if he does not win November’s election. Trump met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, one day after Netanyahu met at the White House with President Biden…
French intelligence sources hinted that the massive sabotage attack on rail lines leading to Paris on Friday may have been the work of Left-wing radicals.
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Kamala Harris signaled a major shift on US Gaza policy Thursday, with the presidential hopeful telling Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to seal a peace deal and insisting she would not be "silent" on the suffering in the Palestinian enclave."As I just told Prime Minister Netanyahu, it is time to get this deal done," she said.
Free speech on campus is “in peril”, Labour was warned on Friday after it announced it would shelve a law to tackle cancel culture at universities.
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Indian soldiers and top brass gathered Friday in the remote Himalayan foothills to commemorate a battle fondly remembered among compatriots for imposing a humiliating military defeat on arch-rival Pakistan.The high-altitude confrontation began when Pakistan-backed militants crossed into Indian territory at Kargil, a remote and high-altitude outpost on the countries' shared frontier.
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“I served in many countries in the world, many friendly countries,” said Naor Gilon, Israel’s ambassador to India, in the aftermath of Hamas’s October 7 terror attacks on his home country. “This wide support, strong support is unprecedented. I am really moved and touched.”
STORY: The meeting will be closely watched for signs of how Harris, who was the first top U.S. official to call for a ceasefire, could shift U.S. policy towards Israel if she becomes President.Harris was expected to closely track the administration line in the meeting, a U.S. official said, focusing on the plight of Palestinians while also supporting Israel's right to self-defense.Harris joined Democratic and Republican leaders in condemning protesters who burned American flags and sprayed pro-Hamas graffiti outside Washington's Union Station on Wednesday, describing the acts as unpatriotic and abhorrent.The protests coincided with a speech to Congress by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Before he spoke, protesters marched near the U.S. Capitol building, condemning U.S. military aid to Israel during its war with Hamas militants in Gaza.Earlier on Thursday, U.S. President Joe Biden held a separate meeting with Netanyahu.
A group of 45 American doctors and nurses describe bloodshed in Gaza in an open letter to the White House, and demand immediate ceasefire.
Unidentified saboteurs struck France's train network in a series of pre-dawn attacks across the country on Friday, causing travel chaos and exposing security gaps just hours before the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics. Explosive devices set off fires on signalling infrastructure on three railway lines going into Paris, rail operator SNCF said. Pictures released by SNCF showed engineers repairing charred cables in signal substations.
Given barely any warning, many people fled with nothing as bombs fell and bullets flew around them
STORY: :: Netanyahu played to a Republican audience on his U.S. visit, this analyst says:: Khaled Elgindy:: Arlington, Virginia:: July 24, 2024“I think it was very much on brand and in character for Netanyahu, who after all, presides over the most right-wing government in Israel's history. So, he was speaking in very stridently, kind of stark black and white terms, there is good and there is evil. We are the forces of good. We and the United States and we are battling the forces of evil.""He did not mention the ceasefire, very notably, which, after all, the president and others in the U.S. administration have said repeatedly that this is an Israeli ceasefire proposal. And for the Israeli prime minister to make no mention of what should be his own government ceasefire proposal that has now been adopted by the U.N. Security Council is, was odd.”Also notably absent was Vice President Kamala Harris, now the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, who would normally preside over the speech in her role as vice president.While dozens of Democrats boycotted his remarks and thousands of pro-Palestinian protesters demonstrated nearby, Netanyahu dismissed criticism of an Israeli campaign that has devastated the Palestinian enclave and killed more than 39,000 of its residents, according to Gaza health officials.In his address Netanyahu sketched a vague outline of a plan for a "deradicalized" post-war Gaza and touted a potential future alliance between Israel and America's Arab allies.
Former President Trump said there should be a one-year jail sentence for anyone who desecrates the American flag in the wake of anti-Israel protests over the war in Gaza outside Union Station in Washington, D.C., that included a group burning an American flag. Trump, who has previously called for criminalizing burning the flag, scoffed at…
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Israeli strikes hit Gaza on Thursday as the military said it had recovered the bodies of five Israelis taken to Gaza by Hamas militants after they were killed on October 7.Both the military and the Hostages and Missing Families Forum said militants had taken their bodies to Gaza after killing them in the October 7 attack.
The tram lines were blocked for over an hour during a 'sit in' protest