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11:39 a.m. ET, May 23, 2024 Republican committee member calls Northwestern president’s testimony “embarrassing” in another tense exchange From CNN’s Matt Meyer Rep. Jim Banks addresses Northwestern University President Michael Schill at the House Committee on Education and the Workforce hearing on antisemitism on college campuses today. From House Committee on Education & the Workforce […]
Republicans have identified recent college protests against Israel’s war in Gaza as the core of an election campaign narrative of chaos that they hope can be used to sink Joe Biden’s presidency. The approach was bluntly crystallised by Tom Cotton, the Republican senator from Arkansas, in a recent television interview when he mocked the encampments […]
A great, novel experiment in political physics is under way in the United States, as the unstoppable moral force of youth-led protests against Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza runs into the immovable object of the American power elite’s support for it. In this clash, two critical forces have been weaponised: the US mainstream media that heavily […]
4:42 p.m. ET, May 5, 2024 USC protesters chose to “break the law,” university president says after police clear encampment From CNN’s Cindy Von Quednow Demonstrators who rebuilt an encampment on the University of Southern California campus in Los Angeles “repeatedly chose to ignore university policies designed to benefit everyone, and to break the law,” the school’s President […]
In the tented camps and crowded streets of Rafah, the pro-Palestinian campus protests in the US have been followed closely. “We hear a lot of news about students’ demonstrations in American universities … When I saw that, I was very happy that there are still those who stand beside us and in support of us,” […]
By Brandon Drenon BBC News 2 hours ago Image source, Getty Images Image caption, Protesters gather on the University of California, Los Angeles In January 2020, they were seniors in high school. Graduation was just around the corner. But so was a deadly pandemic. By mid-March, Covid had upended daily life . . .
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Former President Trump posted a campaign ad on his Truth Social site praising various counter protesters on college campuses, including students who held up the U.S. flag. “While campuses struggle to get control of their students, at UNC Chapel Hill, they are bringing order back,” the video begins. The ad shows clips of pro-Palestinian students […]
The world is watching what is happening on American campuses with shock, pride, relish and alarm. Scenes from the protests — and of the arrests of protesters — have been top news around the world from Bogotá to Berlin, Tehran to Paris. In some countries, including France, students have staged protests of their own, though […]
An article on a fake online news outlet that Meta has linked to Russia’s information operations attributed the clashes unfolding on American college campuses to the failures of the Biden administration. A newspaper controlled by the Communist Party of China said the police crackdowns exposed the “double standards and hypocrisy” in the United States when […]