Three American Muslim organizations have initiated the “Student-Lawyer Campus Legal Defense Initiative”. The move comes in response to mass arrests and blowback for students involved in activism for the Free Palestine movement across the United States. The online database connects willing criminal defense attorneys with affected s...
PRAGUE (AA) – For over two weeks, hundreds of students have been encamped at the University of Copenhagen, one of hundreds of similar protests sweeping the entire globe. Their demands are centered on divestment from companies linked to Israel, while also pressing the university administration to declare Israel’s ongoing assault on Gaza genocid...
ANKARA/LONDON (AA) – Police stormed the Free Palestine Movement camp at the University of Geneva and violently dispersed the protesting students. The protests had started on the campus last week, according to the daily Le Temps. Cleaning work started in the building after police broke up the protest camp. The students started protesting ...
GENEVA (AA) – Dozens of students from Switzerland’s Fribourg and Basel universities have joined protests in solidarity with Palestine. Occupying the Perolles 21 building in Fribourg and the Bernouillanum building in Basel, students called for the suspension of all collaborations with Israeli institutions. The student protests origi...
GENEVA (AA) – Students from the global Free Palestine Movement at the University of Geneva, who have been staging demonstrations for the liberation of Palestine since May 7, have demanded their university call for a cease-fire and condemn the Israeli genocide in Gaza. Swiss student Elisabetta, who asked not to give her surname, told the ...
Senator Bernie Sanders has introduced a resolution condemning antisemitism, Islamophobia, and all forms of bigotry on college campuses. It responds to a previous resolution that a number of observers say fell short in protecting students’ rights. Sanders’s resolution seeks to address broader issues of bigotry and violence on campus...
Malmö, Sweden – – AFP After a run-up in the shadow of Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza, the Eurovision Song Contest final gets underway on Saturday in Sweden’s Malmo, where representatives from 26 countries will compete. Up to 30,000 demonstrators from the Free Palestine Movement are expected to protest against IsraelR...
Many academic groups of Georgetown University stand united in solidarity with students advocating for Palestinian rights. The Center for Muslim Christian Understanding (ACMCU), The Bridge Initiative and the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies (CCAS) at Georgetown University have condemned the use of force to suppress peaceful protests. They h...
WASHINGTON (AA) – A Palestinian-American professor who was injured while being held to the ground by police officers during his arrest at a student-led Free Palestine Movement campus protest says action against him was racially motivated. “There were three faculty that were detained, and violently a little bit, and three of us were...
ANKARA (AA) – Student-led Free Palestine Movement protests against Israel’s genocidal offensive on Gaza which started last month at New York’s Columbia University have since spread to universities across the world. In France, demonstrations in support of Palestine continue at many universities, often met with harsh police intervention. In Pari...
