No arrests as Los Angeles police clear USC pro-Palestinian encampment | Israel War on Gaza News

No arrests as Los Angeles police clear USC pro-Palestinian encampment | Israel War on Gaza News

Students and other protesters have called for universities to divest their financial ties to Israel. Protests against Israel’s war on Gaza continue across university campuses in the United States as graduation season gets under way, with police in Los Angeles making no arrests as they cleared a pro-Palestinian encampment at…

Protests in the US have long been celebrated, condemned, welcomed, muzzled | Protests

Protests in the US have long been celebrated, condemned, welcomed, muzzled | Protests

Protests, rallies, sit-ins, marches, and disruptions date from the early days of what would become the United States. They have continued to the sights and sounds echoing across the landscapes of US colleges and universities today. Protest camps have sprung up and been forced down over Israel’s war on Gaza,…

‘No to the Russian law!’ Georgia protesters demand a ‘European future’ | Protests News

‘No to the Russian law!’ Georgia protesters demand a ‘European future’ | Protests News

Tbilisi, Georgia – Crowds of protesters have been braving tear gas and water canons after more than two weeks of protest against the Georgian government’s draft law targeting civil society. The new law would require non-profit entities (NGOs and media outlets) receiving more than 20 percent of their funding from…

‘We won’t stop’: How Columbia’s students etched a new Gaza protest legacy | Israel War on Gaza News

‘We won’t stop’: How Columbia’s students etched a new Gaza protest legacy | Israel War on Gaza News

New York, United States — At about 10pm on Monday, April 29, I thought I would call it a night. My student journalist colleagues and I had stayed late into the night on Columbia University’s campus the previous couple of days, reporting on a story that had grabbed the world’s…

In Texas, pro-Palestine university protesters clash with state leaders | Israel War on Gaza News

In Texas, pro-Palestine university protesters clash with state leaders | Israel War on Gaza News

Austin, Texas – “It didn’t feel real.” That’s how Alishba Javaid, a student at the University of Texas at Austin, describes the moment when she saw roughly 30 state troopers walk onto the campus lawn. Javaid and hundreds of her classmates had gathered on the grass, in the shadow of…

Police remove pro-Palestinian students from Paris’s Sciences Po university | Israel War on Gaza News

Police remove pro-Palestinian students from Paris’s Sciences Po university | Israel War on Gaza News

French police officers entered the Paris Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po) in Paris and removed pro-Palestinian student activists who had occupied its buildings to protest Israel’s war on Gaza. Reporting from the French capital, Al Jazeera’s Natacha Butler said that police on Friday “moved in” into one of the…

Australia’s Albanese declares ‘national crisis’ after killings of women | Women News

Australia’s Albanese declares ‘national crisis’ after killings of women | Women News

Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has branded domestic violence a “national crisis” amid an outcry over the rise in the number of killings of women by their intimate partners, and pledged action to tackle the issue, including new funding to help survivors as well as a crackdown on misogynistic online…