31 h. ago University of Michigan using undercover investigators to surveil student Gaza protesters

Revealed: security trailing students on and off campus as video shows investigator faking disability when confrontedThe University of Michigan is using private, undercover investigators to surveil pro-Palestinian campus groups, including trailing them on and off campus, furtively recording them and eavesdropping on their conversations, the Guardian has learned.The surveillance appears to largely be an intimidation tactic, five students who have been followed, recorded or eavesdropped on said. The undercover investigators have cursed at students, threatened them and in one case drove a car at a student who had to jump out of the way, according to student accounts and video footage shared with the Guardian. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Boulder attack: eight injured in Colorado after man allegedly targets rally for Israeli hostages

Police alleged the man yelled ‘Free Palestine’ as he threw an incendiary device at people gathered to show support for Israeli hostages in GazaEight people were injured in an attack in Boulder, Colorado after a man is alleged to have thrown an incendiary device into a crowd and yelled “Free Palestine”, in what the FBI is treating as an “act of terrorism”.The 45-year-old man, identified as Mohamed Sabry Soliman, is alleged to have thrown the device into a group of people who had assembled in a pedestrianised zone for a peaceful protest for Israeli hostages still held in Gaza. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Boulder attack: six injured in Colorado as man attacks protest for Israeli hostages

Police say the man yelled ‘Free Palestine’ as he threw the device at people gathered to show support for Israeli hostages in GazaSix people were injured in an attack in Boulder, Colorado when a man threw an incendiary device into a crowd and yelled “Free Palestine”, in what the FBI is treating as an “act of terrorism”.The 45-year-old man threw the device into a group of people who had assembled in a pedestrianised zone for a peaceful protest for Israeli hostages still held in Gaza. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Boulder attack: six injured in Colorado after man allegedly targets rally for Israeli hostages

Police alleged the man yelled ‘Free Palestine’ as he threw an incendiary device at people gathered to show support for Israeli hostages in GazaSix people were injured in an attack in Boulder, Colorado after a man is alleged to have thrown an incendiary device into a crowd and yelled “Free Palestine”, in what the FBI is treating as an “act of terrorism”.The 45-year-old man, identified as Mohamed Sabry Soliman, is alleged to have thrown the device into a group of people who had assembled in a pedestrianised zone for a peaceful protest for Israeli hostages still held in Gaza. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago US university scholars and international students: are you considering working or studying elsewhere?

We’d like to hear from scholars and students from abroad in light of the Trump administration’s attack on universitiesInternational students at Harvard University were ordered this week to transfer schools or lose their legal status following the Trump administration’s revocation of the university’s eligibility to enroll students from abroad.While that order was swiftly blocked by a judge, it is one of a series of events creating uncertainty on campuses across the US. It follows the US government’s revocation of hundreds of student visas on various grounds, including minor infractions or participation in protests against the war in Gaza. (Some of those visas have been reinstated.) Academics have also felt the impact of funding cuts and subsequent hiring freezes, leading to hundreds looking to leave the US to work elsewhere. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago ‘I’m willing to do it again’: The students who could lose their diplomas due to pro

Students protesting Israel and supporting Palestinians in Gaza around graduation time have been the subject of investigations, suspended diplomas and bans from campus, Josh Marcus reports

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2 w. ago Protesters at mass London demonstration denounce Israel’s Gaza genocide

Protesters at mass London demonstration denounce Israel’s Gaza genocide  World Socialist Web Site

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2 w. ago Hundreds of thousands protest in London to oppose Israel’s ethnic cleansing in Gaza

Hundreds of thousands protest in London to oppose Israel’s ethnic cleansing in Gaza  World Socialist Web Site

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3 w. ago Israel’s presence still roils Eurovision a year after major protests over the Gaza war

Israel’s Yuval Raphael is keeping a low profile at the Eurovision Song Contest

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3 w. ago Ben from Ben & Jerry’s ice cream arrested at Senate hearing protesting the killing of Gaza children with US bombs

The protest erupted as Robert F Kennedy was testifying

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3 w. ago Ben & Jerry’s Ben arrested at Senate hearing protesting the killing of Gaza children with US bombs

The protest erupted as Robert F Kennedy was testifying

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3 w. ago California State students protest aid blockade in Gaza with hunger strike

Two dozen fasting students also press university system to divest from weapon manufacturers in list of demandsAround two dozen California State University students began a hunger strike last week to protest starvation in Gaza due to Israel’s aid blockade, marking the latest act of political protest on college campuses.The strikers – students from San Jose State, Sacramento State, San Francisco State and CSU Long Beach – began their fast on 5 May Continue reading...

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last month Protesters arrested as Columbia calls in New York police to clear Gaza solidarity sit

Columbia Spectator reports protesters who staged library ‘emergency rally’ blocked from leaving by campus security officers unless they show IDColumbia University calls in police to clear pro-Palestinian protestersBritain is in “active discussions” with US officials over the extraordinary 100% tariff on all movies produced outside the US proposed by Donald Trump, as it tries to protect one of its biggest creative industries.“We are already in active discussions with the top of the US administration on this subject. We are working hard to establish what might be proposed, if anything, and to make sure our world-beating creative industries are protected,” creative industries minister Chris Bryant told parliament. Continue reading...

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