who charged exorbitant fees and high interest. He borrowed at the height of the cotton boom of the 1860s, when the US North had blockaded the South and caused a world cotton famine that Egypt’s fertile Nile Valley helped remedy. But then the war ended and the South gradually...
“The silence from Harvard’s leadership, so far, coupled with a vocal and widely reported student groups’ statement blaming Israel solely, has allowed Harvard to appear at best neutral towards acts of terror against the Jewish state of Israel,” the former US treasury secretary said. Harvard ...
Diplomats struggled to ease an escalating humanitarian crisis in Gaza and get foreigners out of the blockaded enclave as intensifying clashes along Israel’s border with Lebanon and Israeli airstrikes inside Syria stoked fears of a wider conflict in the region. With senior Israeli military officers s...
The message from the students in encampments has been simple: they want their universities to stop doing business with Israel - or any companies that support its ongoing war in Gaza. The demand has its roots in the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, a decades-old campaign against Israe...