New York, United States – AFP Columbia, the prestigious New York university at the heart of Free Palestine Movement, announced Monday that it has canceled the main ceremony for graduating students next week. The Ivy League institution said it would “forego the university-wide ceremony that is scheduled for May 15” and hold a ...
HOUSTON, US (AA) – Nearly 2,500 non-violent students staging demonstrations for a free Palestine have been arrested at US campuses, according to media outlets. In a report released Sunday by CNN, the number of arrests made since April 18 has surpassed 2,200, while the numbers released in a similar report by Fox News show the […]
Paris, France – AFP Police on Friday entered the Sciences Po university in Paris to remove dozens of students staging a pro-Gaza sit-in in the entrance hall, AFP journalists saw, as protests fired political debate about Israel’s war on Gaza. Demonstrations have struck education institutions in several French cities in recent weeks,...
Washington, United States – AFP President Joe Biden broke his virtual silence Thursday on the nationwide Gaza campus protests, saying the United States was not authoritarian but insisting “order must prevail.” In a televised address from the White House, Biden added that there was “no place” for anti-Semitism on u...
