Honest, paywall-free news is rare. Please support our boldly independent journalism with a donation of any size. A leading press freedom advocate on Tuesday condemned the United States’ “disturbing pattern” of screening and expelling international visitors for their political viewpoints following the detention and removal of an Australian journalist who criticized the Trump administration’s targeting...
It was all the way back in January of 2024 that Harvard President Alan M. Garber announced a presidential task force on antisemitism and Islamophobia. Yesterday, more than a year later, those two reports were finally released. This comes at a somewhat inconvenient time for Harvard which has taken the lead among US universities in...
Harvard University President Alan Garber has apologised following the release of internal reports into antisemitic and anti-Muslim prejudice at America’s oldest university. The reports included testimony from students who described feeling alienated and pressured to conceal their identity from their peers and educators. In response to the findings, Harvard pledged to review its academic offerings...
Yesterday we learned that pro-Hamas extremists at Columbia are planning to erect a new encampment on the school’s campus sometime today. Planning for the new encampment has been taking place in secret. The coordinating meeting took place at a community center on Tuesday night in Brooklyn’s Bushwick neighborhood, approximately 12 miles from campus, according to...
*checks notes* Yup. That’s what it says right here. How bad is California’s housing crisis? A first-in-the-nation bill would let students live in cars. So…what in the wide, wide world of sports would compel someone to bring that up as a suggestion on any given campus, less mind introducing it as a legislative act? Well,...
As conditions in the United States grow increasingly unstable — with federal agencies unraveling and Trump unleashing reckless economic chaos — many have turned their attention away from Palestine and the Palestine solidarity movement. Meanwhile, the situation in Gaza is deteriorating rapidly. On March 2, Israel broke a two-month-old ceasefire agreement, resuming its bombardment of...
Christopher Eisgruber is the President of Princeton and seems to be the Ivy League leader who is stepping up to resist moves made by the Trump administration at other leading colleges and universities. He wrote a piece about it for the Atlantic and recently gave an interview about it to the NY Times. I want...
This story was originally published by Florida Phoenix. Florida Atlantic University’s police department has a pending agreement with the federal government that would allow campus officers to question and detain people they suspect are in the country without authorization. The public university in Boca Raton could be the first to enter such an agreement with...
The new documentary The Encampments, produced by Watermelon Pictures and BreakThrough News, is an insider’s look at the student protest movement to demand divestment from the U.S. and Israeli weapons industry and an end to the genocide in Gaza. The film focuses on last year’s student encampment at Columbia University and features student leaders including...
Part of the Series Struggle and Solidarity: Writing Toward Palestinian Liberation Universities have long been pivotal hubs of the global solidarity movement with Palestine. During Israel’s genocidal siege of Gaza and its annihilation campaign against Palestinian educational institutions, students across the world transformed universities into sites of protests and encampments. A central demand united this...
Along with multi-year suspensions and expulsions, it’s unclear how many students and graduates are impacted. As the Trump administration’s effort to deport Mahmoud Khalil sparks legal battles and demonstrations, Columbia University announced Thursday that it has revoked degrees from some other pro-Palestinian campus protesters. A campuswide email reported by The Associated Press and shared on...