The backlash against Palestine in education isn’t just happening in universities. There have also been dozens of educators disciplined at primary and secondary schools across the U.S. for teaching about the Israeli attack on Gaza.
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah gives a speech on Friday as world fears escalation on the Lebanese front. Meanwhile, Israeli military and government officials fight over future plans for Gaza and an investigation into the events of October 7.
Nothing can hide the determination and courage of those young people who returned to their land on October 7. I could have been one of them had I been much younger and still living in the concentration camp called Gaza.
Claudine Gay stepped down at Harvard after being targeted by an anti-DEI, pro-Israel campaign. Palestinian American Tariq Habash quit the Dept of Education over the Biden administration’s support for “ethnic cleansing by the Israeli government.”
Anti-Black racism and Zionism are two cornerstones of Harvard’s flawed foundation. We should mourn Claudine Gay’s tenure at Harvard because she was both a victim and an agent of white supremacy.
As worries of a regional war intensify, UNICEF says the children of Gaza are running out of time to be saved as they face “severe acute malnutrition” amid Israel’s ongoing siege.
Jodi Rudoren, the editor of the Forward, offers a frank rationale for Zionism, stating that it is opposed to equal rights in the American tradition.
A New York Times story claiming a pattern of gender-based violence on October 7 hinged on the story of Gal Abdush. But the Abdush family says there is no proof she was raped, and that Times reporters interviewed them under false pretenses.
Israeli spokesperson says the assassination of Hamas leader Saleh Al-Aruri was “not an attack on the Lebanese state” while Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and Hezbollah pledge resistance will continue.
Hamas deputy head Saleh al-Aruri and leaders in the Qassam Brigades have been assassinated in Beirut’s southern Dahiya neighborhood. Hamas says the “cowardly assassination” will not undermine the continuation of the Palestinian resistance.