In the United States, hundreds of protesters packed the US House of Representatives office building, calling for a ceasefire between Israel and Palestine and leading to arrests by the police. Protesters rally in support of Palestine during a march to the White House, organized by Jewish Americans...
support for Israel was "ironclad", while also calling for an immediate ceasefire. "What's happening in Gaza is not genocide. We reject that," Biden said at a Jewish American Heritage Month event at the White House. The United States has seen months of protests over I...
Thousands chanted "ceasefire now," and "long live Palestine" on Thursday evening while carrying Palestinian flags and banners that read "End US aid to Israel" and "DNC silences Palestinian voices," surrounded by a heavy police presence. About a dozen delegates from the Uncommitted National Moveme...
In his message to mark one year of the Palestine-Israel conflict, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said it is "time to silence the guns" and "stop the suffering that has engulfed the region". "Time for peace, international law and justice," he said. The UN Office for the...
TheColumbia UniversityApartheid Divest coalition and Students for Justice in Palestine, which was the progenitor of the encampments that have destabilized campuses across the US, issued a statement of support for alleged serial arsonist Casey Goonan on Thursday. Goonan was arrested last Monday for his...
US blast for Israel over its Palestine strategy.Adams, Bob
Lara Alqasem, a 22-year-old U.S. citizen with Palestinian grandparents, landed at Ben-Gurion Airport last Tuesday with a valid student visa. But she was barred from entering the country and ordered deported, based on suspicions she is a boycott supporter
Athletes and sports teams across the United States have shown support to Israel as it reels from Hamas attacks and an ongoing war.
While the public shift in the discourse surrounding Israel-Palestine is monumental, this tug-and-pull between “rogue” U.S. politicians going against the grain of unconditional support for Israel, bulwarked in great part by Israel lobby groups, is not necessarily new. The first public stand-of...
comments to donors, elsewhere he has continued to voice staunch support for Israel’s military operation. During a White House event to mark the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah on Monday, he told attendees “I am a Zionist” while reiterating Washington’s “unshakable” commitment to Israel’s ...