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Several hundred people turned out Sunday in Toronto for yet another weekend of protests calling for the Canadian government to stop supporting Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

Experts discuss recent trends in repressing Palestine activism, strategies for defending the rights of dissenters, and expected future measures to silence Palestine sympathizers.

Marshall Ganz started at Harvard but took some time off — about three decades — to become Civil Rights, labor, political organizer, and finally scholar, mentor.

Rep. Virginia Foxx, the Republican chairwoman of the House Education Committee, said Tuesday that Harvard University has failed to comply with her unprecedented subpoena for documents on campus antisemitism.

The legal warning claims that a professor at Harvard University discriminated against three Jewish Israeli students who were in his class. The post Brandeis Center calls out Harvard for professor’s alleged antisemetic bias appeared first on Boston.com.

In government and as an outsider, Kenneth Marcus has tried to douse what he says is rising bias against Jews. Some see a crackdown on pro-Palestinian speech.

Here’s what Republicans are really trying to do on American college campuses.

The role of the Kohelet Policy Forum in Israel's controversial judicial overhaul has shown the far-reaching political influence of the once obscure think tank.

As worldwide protest escalates over Israel’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza, academic freedom and free speech are under all-out attack on university

The default feature comes ahead of the 2024 Presidential election and amid mounting international political crises.

Security staffers told Ju-Hyun Park that they could not enter with the white-and-black Palestinian headscarf.

Facebook and Instagram’s parent company Meta dodged questions from Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders about censorship of posts about Gaza.

Instagram never directly told users it was limiting political content by default.

Demonstration by anti-Zionist protesters cut short the annual Honors Convocation event

The board advises Meta to end its 'blanket ban' on the Arabic word for 'martyr' across Facebook, Instagram and Threads

Meta had confirmed earlier this year that it would let users choose to see less politics-related content on Instagram and...

Hindu writer says Israel invoking Holocaust to cover up Gaza genocide

Fault Lines investigates the suppression of Palestine advocacy on college campuses in the United States.

The default setting for an update to the app limits content 'likely to mention governments, elections, or social topics that affect a large group of people'

Rep. Jason Smith appeared to question Cornell, Harvard, MIT and Penn’s tax exempt status in letters to the schools’ leaders

The state government in Berlin intends to strengthen the Higher Education Act in order to reintroduce “the possibility of exmatriculation of students,” i.e., expelling them from the university.

The Labor governments in NSW and Victoria are going on a rampage in a bid to stamp out mass opposition to the Gaza genocide and the federal government’s complicity in the Israeli onslaught.

The suspension of Prof. Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian empties all meaning from the university’s proclaimed values of pluralism and equality.

For all the periodic meltdowns about foreign interference in US elections and politics by countries like Russia, it’s actually Israel, a nominal ally, that has done far more meddling in American politics — with far more influence.

A major Israeli news site says Israel’s foreign affairs and diaspora affairs ministries are behind the operation.