UCLA Chancellor Gene Block found himself in the nation’s culture wars hot seat this past week, interrogated by members of Congress about his handling of complaints of campus antisemitism, amid student protests over the Israel-Hamas war.
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The United Nations peacekeeping chief argued against the latest calls for international troops to deploy in Gaza, saying the post-war state of affairs was too uncertain and that any operation would require agreement from Israel, which has been highly critical of the U.N.’s work in Palestinian territories.
Relations between the European Union and Israel took a nosedive Monday, with Madrid insisting that sanctions should be considered against Israel for its continued deadly attacks in southern Gaza’s city of Rafah.
All eighth-graders in New York City public schools will have the opportunity to learn about the Holocaust through field trips to the Museum of Jewish Heritage in lower Manhattan.
Over 70 initiatives are set to receive funding from the county after commissioners voted to award $1.5 million in grants.
In each of the past three years, more than 100 fatalities have occurred on Nevada roads during the three full months in the span between the two holiday weekends.
Businesses increasingly have chosen to stay open on the holiday, leading to what is now one of the biggest retail sales and travel weekends of the year.
A group called Brown Alumni for Palestine said in a news release Sunday that it led the disruption at the ceremony, where Paxson and the Brown Corporation were conferring diplomas to the graduating class.
The coalition of students leading the encampment took down their tents and canopies on Wednesday night around 7:30 p.m. It was the most recent encampment at a Bay Area university to be disbanded after such camps began popping up last month.
Police arrested eight Pro-Palestinian protesters blocking an entrance to Cal Poly San Luis Obispo this past week, the university told the the San Luis Obispo Tribune after the demonstration.
Hamas fired a barrage of rockets from Gaza on Sunday that set off air raid sirens as far away as Tel Aviv for the first time in months. There were no immediate reports of casualties in what appeared to be the first long-range rocket attack from Gaza since January.
Scuffles between Israeli police and protesters erupted in Tel Aviv on Saturday after thousands gathered to demonstrate against the government and demand that it bring back the hostages being held by Hamas in Gaza.
Early voters on Saturday touted the convenience of not having to wait in line Election Day.
Nearly a month after counterprotesters attacked a pro-Palestinian encampment at the University of California, Los Angeles, police have made their first arrest.
A bomb attached to a car exploded early Saturday in the western part of the Syrian capital that is home to several diplomatic missions.