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College protesters seek amnesty to keep arrests and suspensions from trailing them
Maryam Alwan figured the worst was over after New York City police in riot gear arrested her and other protesters on the Columbia University campus, loaded them onto buses and held them in custody for hours. But the next evening, the college junior received an email from the university. Alwan and other students were being suspended after their arrests at the “Gaza Solidarity Encampment,” a tactic colleges across the country have deployed to calm growing campus protests against the Israel-Hamas war. The students’ plight has become a central part of protests, with students and a growing number of faculty demanding their amnesty. At...
Biden administration faces pressure to step up its response to antisemitic incidents on college campuses
NEW YORK, N.Y. — As antisemitic incidents mushroom on college campuses, some Jewish leaders and lawmakers from both parties are accusing President Joe Biden’s administration of taking a lax approach toward enforcement of civil rights laws, exposing Jewish students to continued harassment. They point to a surge of...
Campus anti-war protesters dig in from New York to California as universities and police take action
From New York to California, students protesting the Israel-Hamas war slept in tents at college campuses, as some universities moved to shut down encampments and arrested dozens of demonstrators after reports of antisemitic activity.With the death toll mounting in the war in Gaza, protesters nationwide are demanding schools cut financial ties to Israel and divest from companies they say enable the conflict. Some Jewish students say the protests have veered into antisemitism and made them afraid to set foot on campus.At Columbia University in New York City, where early protests sparked pro-Palestinian demonstrations across the country, students and administrators...
Rishi Sunak defends spending £75 billion on defence over NHS and schools
Rishi Sunak has explained why he chose to spend £75 billion on the UK’s defence, rather than use it to fund the NHS and schools.The prime minister appeared on Sunday Morning with Trevor Phillips, where he spoke of a “more dangerous world” and the need to stand up to “assertive” countries.“The right thing for me to do as prime minister, given that the security of our people is my first responsibility, is to ensure that we invest to keep the country safe”, he said.“The defence industry supports hundreds of thousands of jobs across the UK.”
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