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May 11 2024
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Pro-Palestine student protesters interrupt UC Berkeley commencement
UC Berkeley’s graduation on Saturday was interrupted by pro-Palestinian protesters’ chants, which began with a small group rising in the bleachers in the student section and ended with hundreds of students occupying an entire section of bleachers just behind the ceremonial stage. During Chancellor Carol Christ’s welcome address, a few protesters stood up in the student section, waving
East Bay TimesMay 11 2024
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Swedish Police Push Back Protesters Outside Eurovision Arena
Police were pushing back pro-Palestinian demonstrators around the Malmo Arena in southern Sweden on Saturday, where the Eurovision Song Contest final was taking place, AFP reporters saw. More than a hundred demonstrators waved flags and chanted "Free Palestine". Some wore keffiyeh, the Arab headdress associated with the Palestinian cause, including some wrapping them around their faces.
Barron'sMay 11 2024
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VCU students walk out of commencement protesting Youngkin speech
Students at the Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) walked out of their commencement ceremony to protest an address by Gov. Glenn Younkin (R-Va.). About 100 of the 1,200 graduates at the graduation ceremony Saturday quietly filed out of the Greater Richmond Convention Center, some wearing kaffiyeh scarves and signs reading “Teach Black history” and “Book bans [do not equal] respect for
The HillMay 11 2024
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Eurovision Chaos: Ten Thousand Protest Israeli Participation in Malmö
Thousands of pro-Hamas protesters took to the streets of Malmö again on Saturday in opposition to Israel’s participation in the Eurovision Song Contest being held in the multicultural Swedish city. Swedish police have estimated that between eight and 10,000 anti-Israel demonstrators gathered in the centre of Malmö to demand that Israeli Eurovision contestant Eden Golan be removed from the
Breitbart NewsMay 16 2024
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Protesters demand alderman withdraw support for Ozinga mining operation on Southeast Side
Dozens of opponents of a proposed mining operation on the Southeast Side demanded that Ald. Peter Chico (10th) withdraw his support for the project, loudly interrupting a tightly scripted town hall meeting he hosted Wednesday evening. “We are not a sacrifice zone,” around 50 opponents said in unison at the town hall at George Washington High School. Protest organizers said they were reacting
Chicago Sun-TimesMay 11 2024
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Tesla Faces Further Protests at German Plant Over Expansion
Tesla Inc. faced further protests at its factory in Germany, where activists are trying to stop an expansion of the electric-car maker’s facilities that would require razing part of the surrounding forest.
Demonstrations are expected to continue through the weekend, after at least 16 people were arrested Friday following actions including breaking into an airfield and damaging new Tesla
BloombergMay 11 2024
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As campus protests linger, parents anxiously watch from afar
For the next 30 minutes, Howard and her husband, Ben, watched live images on her computer showing police in helmets and riot gear arresting students. Molly managed to reach her dorm safely. Still, Howard replayed the video again and again for the next three hours. She saw people being thrown on the ground and dragged. Meanwhile, Molly was trying to find out whether her friends were safe. Megan
The Boston GlobeMay 11 2024
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Lucas: Hamas only ones happy about college protests
Mao would be proud of how Hamas has successfully brainwashed so many overprivileged and undereducated American college students. His notorious Red Guard of the Sixties in China could not have done a better job. In the possibility that the Hamas, anti-Israel, Jew-baiting students demonstrating in colleges across the country today missed their class on world history, it is mass murderer Mao
Boston HeraldMay 15 2024
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Anti-Israel protesters want University of California to divest $32 billion in assets
SACRAMENTO, California — Investments in weapons manufacturers and a wide array of other companies by the University of California targeted by students protesting Israel amid the war in Gaza against Hamas represent $32 billion — or nearly one-fifth — of the system’s overall assets, the system’s chief investment officer says. UC Chief Investment Officer Jagdeep Singh Bachher unveiled the
The Times of Israel