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The Student Protesters Are Demonstrating Their Bravery, Not Antisemitism

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May 10, 2024

The real threat to American Jews comes not from students but from the MAGA Republicans who are shouting about antisemitism the loudest.

The Gaza Solidarity Encampment on the South Lawn of Columbia University. (Lara-Nour Walton)

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Helicopters have been throbbing overhead for days now. Nights, too. Police are swarming the streets of

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Eurovision 2024 semi-finals: Fan favourites Malta and Belgium exit the competition in shock result as Israel defies pro-Palestinian crowds and goes through to the final

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Eurovision fans expressed shock as fan favourites Malta and Belgium failed to make it through Thursday’s semi-final show in a shock result.

Israel’s Eden Golan defied thousands of protestors demonstrating in Malmo calling for her to be excluded from the competition as she made it through to the final.

Latvia, Austria, Netherlands, Norway, Greece, Estonia, Switzerland, Georgia and Armenia were the other countries who made it through to Saturday’s final.

Malta was represented by Sarah Bonnici with the song Loop

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The Israeli singer targeted by the furious pro-Palestine crowd held under constant protection: Eurovision’s Eden Golan, 20, has been ordered to stay in her hotel room and has round the clock bodyguard watching over her

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Israel’s Eurovision singer Eden Golan has been ordered to stay in her hotel room and is under constant protection after thousands of pro-Palestine protesters gathered in Malmo, Sweden.

Israel’s national security agency Shin Bet warned Golan not to leave her hotel room except for performances after receiving death threats and amid terror-attack fears.

There have been calls from protesters to throw Israel out of the singing competition because of the war in Gaza following Hamas’ terror attacks on October 7.

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Rafah Is in Panic as the Israeli Invasion Begins

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Israel’s long-threatened invasion of Rafah has begun. Under cover of intense aerial bombardment Tuesday morning, Israeli forces moved into Gaza’s southernmost city, which has become a shelter for 1.5 million Palestinians with nowhere else to go. This is the moment they most feared, carrying the potential for a catastrophe greater than anything we’ve seen so far. Gazans counted on the world to stop this invasion, and the world let them down.

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Kim Kardashian is interrupted by free Palestine protester as she speaks at OMR business festival in Hamburg where she received ‘€1,000,000 fee’ just hours after her shock appearance Met Gala red carpet

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Kim Kardashian was interrupted by a protester campaigning for a free Palestine during her talk at the OMR business festival in Hamburg on Tuesday afternoon. 

The businesswoman, 43, visited the German city to speak at the OMR digital and marketing trade fair just hours after her shock appearance at the Met Gala in New York on Monday night. 

According to German publication Bild, the US star’s appearance at the festival, which is described as an event for ‘information, inspiration

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A Year Under the Palestine Exception at Columbia University

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Each year, every incoming undergraduate in Columbia College—and many in the College of General Studies—begins their year with Homer’s Iliad. For years, the Iliad has held pride of place in the course we call Literature Humanities, or Lit Hum, our required year-long general-education literature seminar. This is not an easy text to read, and it is not an easy way to start one’s time in college. But students don’t come here for things to be easy.

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Why climate change ISN’T going to end the world and why we need to stop obsessing about net-zero, according to Cambridge University professor

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Young people are terrified that climate change will destroy Earth by the time they grow up, but the world is not actually ending, argues Cambridge professor Mike Hulme.

Humanity is not teetering on a cliff’s edge, he says, at risk of imminent catastrophe if we don’t reach net-zero carbon emissions by a certain date. 

And he has made it his mission to call out the people who claim we are.

In his most recent book, Climate Change Isn’t Everything,

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War, Genocide, Violence, and the Gospel’s Response

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The following sermon by Bishop William J. Barber, II was delivered on April 26 at the Pullen Memorial Baptist Church in Raleigh, North Carolina.

As we are gathered together on the edge of a university campus this evening, protests are interrupting the end of the school year at colleges and universities across the country.

As scenes of conflict in places we’re familiar with fill our screens, people are arguing about tactics, about the responses from administrators and local law enforcement, … Read more

How Israel’s Eurovision contestant has faced death threats and fears of a terror attack, but declares: ‘I’m not worried – but I am prepared’

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With her high cheekbones and aubergine dye streaking her chestnut hair, Eden Golan looked every bit the Euro­vision starlet as she rehearsed her country’s entry ahead of this week’s song contest.

Holding the hopes of a nation is burden enough for any 20-year-old, but since Eden won her ticket to Malmo – the Swedish host city of this year’s competition – she has endured a barrage of death threats. As Israel’s entrant, she has become a lightning rod for hate

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Chaos at UCLA as ‘horrific acts of violence’ break out between pro-Palestinian and pro-Israel activists with ‘all-out brawls’ and fireworks hurled into crowds hours after cops cleared protesters from Columbia University in dramatic raid

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Chaos ensued deep into the night on campus at UCLA as pro and anti-Israel protesters clashed in scenes of ‘horrific acts of violence’ that devolved into ‘all-out brawls’ which also saw a firework thrown into a crowd of people. 

This mayhem mirrored scenes seen at college campuses across the country, including at Columbia University in New York City, where after activists ignored pleas to dismantle their camps, the police were forced to move in and arrest students. 

The violence at

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