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...Democrats have come under pressure from many younger and Muslim voters for continued US support for Israel....
...Republican politicians led by House Speaker Mike Johnson, who appeared on campus after meeting Shafik on Wednesday, are calling for her removal for failing to adequately tackle antisemitism on campus....
...Brandeis Center for Human Rights and former president Donald Trump’s assistant secretary for civil rights at the Department of Education, said he was also preparing a lawsuit in the courts and “a handful...
...But for many secular Israelis, the military exemption is a lightning rod for broader resentment about the position the Haredim enjoy in Israeli society, with generous subsidies allowing about half their...
...They called for “further accountability with complete transparency for all of Columbia’s financial investments”....
...He criticised the programme for having funded civil society organisations that were promoting extremist views and for “ignoring the contribution of non-violent Islamist narratives and networks to terrorism...
...How else might humanistic psychologists suggest we improve health and happiness? Danny Galbraith, St Bartholomew’s School...
...Guido FranzinettiHistory Lecturer, Department of Humanistic Studies, University of Eastern Piedmont, Vercelli, Italy...
...Critics say that has become the pretext for unconditional support. “The Staatsräson idea should mean that you support those parts of Israeli society that share your own values,” says Mendel....
...Alan Garber, Harvard’s provost and chief academic officer for the past 12 years, has been named interim president until a new leader is identified....
...But even before the war with Hamas, the arrangement — and the state subsidies for yeshiva students that financed it — had become a source of deep frustration for the rest of Jewish Israeli society, as the...
...Dowden’s intervention came after Tom Tugendhat, security minister, said that Remembrance Day was a “day of grief” for military veterans and not an “appropriate” time for a demonstration....
...Afterwards, the spokesperson said: “There is no board plan for an imminent leadership change.”...
...Sawsan Zaher, legal adviser at the Emergency Coalition for Arab Society, says her organisation has recorded more than 200 arrests, most for social media posts expressing solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza...
...Israeli authorities have bolstered their security presence around the compound, revered as the holiest in Judaism and known as the Temple Mount....
...Israel has controlled access to the al-Aqsa compound, the third holiest in Islam and the holiest in Judaism, after gaining control of the old city of Jerusalem in the 1967 war....
...“I was not focused on — but I should have been — the irrefutable fact that a call for genocide of Jewish people is a call for some of the most terrible violence human beings can perpetrate....
...“That’s a skillset we want students to have as they move into the workplace, and a foundation of citizenship in a pluralistic, diverse society.”...
...“If Netanyahu doesn’t come up with a solution in the next couple of days that protects the yeshiva students and appeases the Haredim, the government will fall,” said Moshe Roth, an MP for United Torah Judaism...
...President Emmanuel Macron has called for national unity....
...The compound, known to Jews as the Temple Mount and the holiest site in Judaism, is a constant flashpoint in the protracted Israeli-Palestinian conflict....
...“It shows we now have parallel societies emerging here in Germany and integration has, in some respects, failed,” he said. Additional reporting by Amy Kazmin in Rome and Marton Dunai in Budapest...
...Antisemitism had been rising in US society prior to October 7, she said, and “no place” was immune....
...High-profile donors are also withdrawing millions of dollars in planned funding to punish US universities for their responses to Hamas’s attack on Israel....
...This is a backhanded tribute to the success of European societies. Much though western Europeans like to whine, their region may be the safest and most liveable in history....
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