(2024-05-12). Blinken: U.S. only halting delivery of 'high payload bombs,' warns Israel may face 'enduring insurgency' in Gaza. haaretz.com Secretary of State Blinken tells CBS the U.S. hasn't seen plan from Israel to prevent Hamas resurgence ‚ñ Hezbollah decides to withdraw combatants from Lebanese border with Israel, report says ‚ñ Egypt joins South Africa's genocide petition against Israel at World Court following Rafah offensive ‚ñ Sirens activated in northern Israel, Gaza border communities…
(2024-05-12). Over 130 Arrested At Gaza Solidarity Demonstration. popularresistance.org At 1 p.m. on Tuesday, May 7, protesters set up an encampment on the Student Union South Lawn. Protesters were advocating for the University of Massachusetts to divest from war-profiteering companies involved in Israel's bombardment of Gaza and to drop the charges of the students arrested at the Whitmore demonstration in October. As the day progressed, dozens of police officers, many in riot gear, arrived on the scene and arrested over 130 undergraduates, graduate students, professors and community members. | The protest was led by the UMass chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP).
(2024-05-12). USC President And Provost Censured After Faculty Senate Vote. popularresistance.org After a three hour meeting of the University of Southern California (USC) academic senate with President Carol Folt and Provost Andrew Guzman, the faculty decisively passed a resolution with 21-7 majority, censuring both Folt and Guzman. | USC has garnered local and national attention recently sparked by the cancellation of valedictorian Asna Tabassum's commencement address. The attention has intensified after the university's brutal crackdown on student divestment protests, which included the arrest of 93 protestors by LAPD, and overall cancellation of this year's commencement ceremony.
(2024-05-12). US police tear-gas students, arrest dozens as Gaza war protests spread. presstv.ir Police at Pennsylvania University cleared a student encampment that was in place for more than two weeks.
Press Release from organizers of SAGE @ MIT | Published Thursday, May 9 @ 11PM MIT suspends, evicts, and arrests their…
A New York real estate developer was charged with felony assault after police said he hit a woman with his car during a pro-Palestine demonstration led by students connected to the Reuven Kahane, 57, was arrested Tuesday morning after driving his car into a 55-year-old safety marshal for the protest, according to witnesses and a New York police department spokesperson. | The woman, who was treated at a hospital for minor injuries, was also arrested, but charges of criminal mis…
Most people, reasonably fearing arrest and its potential consequences, are then less likely to protest, less likely even to speak out. They look away from the violence, foreign and domestic, carried out by their government. They avoid asking how universities, supposedly society's institutional stewards of humane values, might be complicit in the violence. Later, after many innocents have been murdered, they will claim ignorance about what was going on. 
Gaza solidarity protests continue at college campuses across the nation — as does the police crackdown. This comes as more than 50 chapters of the American Association of University Professors have issued a statement condemning the violent arrests by police at campus protests. At Dartmouth College last week, police body-slammed professor and former chair of Jewish studies Annelise Orleck to the ground as she tried to protect her students. She was charged with criminal trespass and temporarily banned from portions of Dartmouth's campus. She joins us to describe her ordeal and respond to claims conflati…
Around 250 The protesters blocked traffic in Latrun, a small illegal settlement close to Jerusalem, before breaking into the trucks and throwing their contents on the floor despite attempts by the police to reopen the road. | Six people were arrested, the Israeli police announced on Tuesday. | A group called the "Order 9 movement" had announc…
Dozens of Hundreds of protesters marched through the city in a rally named 'The Day of Rage', called for by the pro-Palestinian group Within Our Lifetime, starting at Hunter College to the Metropolitan Art Museum where the high-profile charity event was held. | A…
Dutch police arrested around 125 Police said the crackdown was "necessary to restore order" at the Netherlands' elite university, which follows a wave of campus protests in the US last month. | Videos from the protest in Amsterdam show p…