Palestinians articles
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Police Break up Pro-palestinian Camp at the University of Michigan
ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — Police broke up a pro-Palestinian encampment at the University of Michigan before dawn Tuesday, citing a threat to public safety and coming less than a week after demonstrators stepped up pressure by placing fake body bags on the lawn of a school official. Officers wearing helmets with face shields cleared […]
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Would pro-Palestinian demonstrators have disrupted a 2024 L.A. Olympics?
Los Angeles might have dodged at least one Olympic-sized headache by agreeing to wait until 2028 to host the Summer Games. The reason? If L.A. had won the right to host this summer — which almost happened — it might be scrambling to deal with more pro-Palestinian demonstrations and counter-demonstrations. “It’s likely we would be seeing protests,” said Mike Duignan, a professor at Universite Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne. “We have seen how events, particularly large-scale major events, serve as...
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Yale graduates stage pro-Palestinian walkout of commencement
The walkout draws a chorus of cheers from fellow students in the crowd, but the protest is otherwise peaceful, without disruption