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Apr 28 2024
News
Antisemitism is rampant. Campus protests aren't helping things.
On Sunday’s episode of The Excerpt podcast: It’s now been over six months since the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7th, when more than 1100 Israelis were killed and over 200 taken hostage. These were mostly civilians. While the Israel-Hamas War has been ongoing since that day, the repercussions of that attack have also been keenly felt here in America in the form of a surge in antisemitism
"USA Today" ContributorMay 06 2024
News
Over 1,000 anti-Israel protesters march toward Met Gala
Over 1,000 anti-Israel demonstrators with flags and keffiyeh face coverings are marching through Manhattan towards the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where the star-studded Met Gala is in full swing.
A still growing crowd is marching north on Fifth Avenue, blocking traffic before cops warning they could be arrested barricaded the thoroughfare at 79th Street.
The march set out from
New York Post (News)Jan 03 2024
News
Kenosha Common Council debates approval of casino complex
KENOSHA, Wis. (CBS 58) -- An incredible turnout Wednesday night for a big vote in Kenosha, years in the making. The Common Council is expected to make a decision on whether to move forward a plan for a casino complex, and community members on both sides have packed the meeting. Nine years ago, the Kenosha casino got a lot of "yes" votes to build a casino at the old Greyhound Park. "Yes" from
CBS 58Jan 03 2024
News
Kenosha Common Council to vote on creating new casino
KENOSHA, Wis. — The Kenosha Common Council is poised to vote on plans to create a casino in the city on Wednesday. The 60-acre plot of land where the new casino would be sits southwest of I-94 and 60th Street, and project developers estimate the $350-million casino will bring 850 construction jobs and 1,000 jobs after production. The proposal has garnered fierce support and opposition among
WTMJ 4 MilwaukeeMay 06 2024
News
Conservative US judges boycott Columbia grads over campus Gaza protests
A group of 13 conservative U.S. federal judges said on Monday that they would not hire law students or undergraduates from Columbia University in response to its handling of pro-Palestinian demonstrations.
The judges, all appointees of former U.S. President Donald Trump, called the Manhattan campus an “incubator of bigotry” in a Monday letter to Columbia President Minouche Shafik and
ReutersMay 10 2024
News
Custodians’ union to sue Columbia, says didn’t protect staff from ‘bratty,’ ‘privileged’ protesters
Columbia University should expect a lawsuit soon from the union representing custodians who were inside a campus building when pro-Palestinian protesters broke in, a union representative said this week. TWU International President John Samuelsen told Fox News the New York school failed to protect its staff when protesters took over Hamilton Hall earlier this month. “Columbia should have never
The College FixMay 10 2024
News
MIT anti-Israel students look for housing off campus, next steps of protest uncertain
Students suspended for refusing to clear the MIT encampment have until next week to find housing off campus and say they’re unsure how they’ll continue to pressure the school to cut its financial ties with Israel. Dozens of protesters marched through the streets of Cambridge shortly after organizers kept their lips tight on next steps during a Friday afternoon news conference on campus, hours
Boston HeraldMay 06 2024
News
UVA professors condemn school leaders over response to ‘peaceful protest’ by students
CHARLOTTESVILLE — At least three dozen history professors at the University of Virginia signed an open letter Sunday condemning “the repression of a peaceful protest of our students” by police, a day after officers in riot gear clashed with pro-Palestinian demonstrators, spraying chemical irritants and arresting at least 25 people. In the letter, which was particularly scathing toward
Daily PressApr 27 2024
Opinion
I’m a Columbia Professor. The Protests on My Campus Are Not Justice.
Last Thursday, in the music humanities class I teach at Columbia University, two students were giving an in-class presentation on the composer John Cage. His most famous piece is “4'33",” which directs us to listen in silence to surrounding noise for exactly that amount of time.
I had to tell the students we could not listen to that piece that afternoon because the surrounding noise
New York Times (Opinion)