Yahoo News WATCH: Pro-Palestinian protests at universities across the world
Students on university campuses across the US continue to show their support in favour of Palestinians in Gaza.
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CNNArizona State University dismisses scholar after video shows him verbally attacking a woman in a hijab
A video showing a confrontation between a man and a woman wearing a hijab during a pro-Israel rally at Arizona State University is further highlighting the roiling tensions on college campuses across the US over the Israel-Hamas war. Here are the latest developments:
- The Telegraph
Western students can’t mask their vile anti-Semitism
A tragic state of affairs has gripped what are supposed to be our strongest bastions of liberal values. Fuelled by culture wars and misguided self-righteousness, students are shutting down debate in the name of free speech and re-writing the story of a people to suit their own ends.
- Evening Standard
‘Our universities are complicit in Gaza — that must stop’: inside London's student protest camps
Following last month’s crackdowns on pro-Palestine student protests in America, a new wave of student campus occupations are springing up across the UK. We met activists at UCL, SOAS and Goldsmiths
- The Telegraph
Cambridge won’t move pro-Palestinian protesters as PM warns over anti-Semitism
The University of Cambridge will not move pro-Palestinian protesters on from a college lawn, its vice-chancellor has said as Rishi Sunak prepares to warn university leaders that they must not tolerate anti-Semitism.
- My London
Coroner sounds alarm over suicide risk at London university after student falls to his death
Chanyang Li tragically fell to his death after climbing through an unsecured window
- Liverpool Echo
Fuming mum says 'it's wrong' as daughter, 15, banned from her school prom
The mum said her daughter is heartbroken at the school's decision
- PA Media: UK News
Students’ hunger strike is ‘last resort’ to get university to listen on Gaza
It is part of a wider protest against the war in Gaza.
- Liverpool Echo
Liverpool students 'rename' square in Gaza protest
University of Liverpool students are camping in Abercromby Square
- Yahoo News Canada
In photos: Inside the University of Toronto encampment protest for Palestine
A University of Toronto encampment holding hundreds of students calling for the university to disclose ties with Israel, has entered it's seventh day. The protest is drawing both scrutiny and praise from the public and officials.
- The Telegraph
Columbia University department to hold vote of no confidence in president
A Columbia University department will hold a vote of no confidence in president Baroness Shafik after her handling of last month’s pro-Palestine protests sparked outrage.
- The Guardian
US students blast cancellation of commencements: ‘A slap in the face’
Universities across the US are dropping or shrinking graduation ceremonies as pro-Palestinian protests continue
- PA Media: UK News
Inciting violence has ‘no place’ on university campuses, student leader says
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak called for universities to remain ‘bastions of tolerance’ during the roundtable with vice-chancellors.
- The Hill
Why labor unions are backing pro-Palestine protesters after mass campus arrests
Several major labor unions have criticized the mass arrests of students and faculty at pro-Palestinian campus protests across the country, following their own calls for a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war. The unions’ support for pro-Palestinian protesters, as well as their calls for cease-fire, draws on a long history of antiwar activism in the labor…
- Sky video
Jewish students call for swift action to tackle antisemitism after Sunak meets university chancellors
Rishi Sunak has told university leaders to take "personal responsibility" for the safety of Jewish students amid a “growing rise of antisemitism on our campuses”.
- CNN
‘Blast-furnace heat every day’: Record temperatures cancel classes, widening learning gaps across Southeast Asia
When temperatures in Cambodia hit a staggering 38 degrees Celsius (100.4 degrees Fahrenheit) in April, Sek Seila, an 11-year-old student studying in the capital Phnom Penh, was promptly sent home from school.
- The Telegraph
Vice-chancellors warn Rishi Sunak over non-student ‘agitators’
Leading universities have raised concerns that non-student “agitators” are infiltrating on-campus protests over Gaza to “stir division”.
- Associated Press
Police clear pro-Palestinian protest camp and arrest 33 at DC campus as mayor's hearing is canceled
Police used pepper spray to clear a pro-Palestinian tent encampment at George Washington University and arrested dozens of demonstrators on Wednesday just as city officials were set to appear before hostile lawmakers in Congress to account for their handling of the 2-week-old protest. The House Committee on Oversight and Accountability canceled the hearing after the crackdown, with its chairman and other Republicans welcoming the police action. House Speaker Mike Johnson said, “it should not require threatening to haul D.C.’s mayor before Congress to keep Jewish students at George Washington University safe.”
- The Guardian
US public school officials push back in congressional hearing on antisemitism
Administrators from New York City, Maryland and California disavow accusations of tolerating hate on their campuses
- The Guardian
Peter Dutton compares ‘river to the sea’ chants at pro-Palestinian protests to Hitler
Opposition leader’s comments ‘a very bad faith’ reading of protestors’ chant, Jewish Council of Australia says
- Time
U.S. Student Photojournalists Capture Campus Protests
Following weeks of demonstrations, photographers from schools across the country share their images and reflections